discoverer
Americannoun
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a person who discovers.
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(initial capital letter) one of an early series of polar-orbiting reconnaissance satellites.
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Origin of discoverer
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French descovreur. See discover, -er 1 ( def. )
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The name gallium comes from Gaul, the ancient Latin name for France, honoring the nationality of its discoverer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker staff writer: I was a late discoverer of Taix, stumbling upon it when I moved to a bungalow just above Sunset during the pandemic from New York.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Then there is one final problem for the discoverer of a giant new successful drug.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2024
“At the time, the discoverer and collectors did not realize there were prey items preserved inside its stomach,” Zelenitsky says.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 8, 2023
The discoverer of a new strain of virus gets to name it.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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
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
Lucy will next swing past an asteroid named after one of the fossil Lucy’s discoverers: Donald Johanson.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
They were the discoverers of the strain, and it seemed that they would have the chance to give it a name, provided they could isolate it, and provided it didn’t isolate them first.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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