discoverers
- plural of discoverer.
Example Sentences
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One of the best known metallocenes is ferrocene, which helped earn its discoverers the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Nothing against ivermectin — if you have roundworms, it’s a fantastic drug and its discoverers won a Nobel Prize in medicine for a reason.
From Salon • May 11, 2026
Members of her species didn’t take their first upright steps in open savanna grasslands, as her discoverers thought, but walked first in a grassy woodland with deciduous trees.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024
The treatment for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia is the first to be licensed using the gene-editing tool known as Crispr, for which its discoverers were awarded the Nobel prize in 2020.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2023
Such names are themselves priority claims, made on behalf of the original discoverers by their admirers, and the implicit analogy is with the naming of America.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
