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  • noun someone who is the first of two or more people to discover something

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Examples

  • I'm applying for Radiology-Imagenology residency in my country, and as a fan of Nikola Tesla, I think it's also important to mention his name as co-discoverer of X-rays.

    Boing Boing David Pescovitz 2011

  • Temperatures can be as hot as 160 degrees or as frigid as 25 degrees below zero, but in between – in the land of constant sunrise – it would be "shirt-sleeve weather," said co-discoverer Steven Vogt of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

    Gliese 581g 'Goldilocks' Planet Could Be Just Right For Life? The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Not fully accepted by Darwin himself, it led the biologist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace – acknowledged by Darwin as the co-discoverer of natural selection – to become a convert to spiritualism.

    John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality 2011

  • Take for example James Watson, genius, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, who to this day believes that African-Americans genetically have lower intelligence than European-Americans.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010

  • That it's taken two decades for the first drug to near approval provides some "important lessons" on the need to speed the development of genetic advances into treatments so that what turn out to be the nonviable compounds can be weeded out earlier on, said Francis Collins , a co-discoverer of the cystic fibrosis gene who now heads the National Institutes of Health.

    Gene Discovery Was Only First Step Jonathan D. Rockoff 2011

  • Temperatures can be as hot as 160 degrees or as frigid as 25 degrees below zero, but in between – in the land of constant sunrise – it would be "shirt-sleeve weather," said co-discoverer Steven Vogt of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

    Gliese 581g 'Goldilocks' Planet Could Be Just Right For Life? AP 2010

  • In 1979 Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, lamented the blunderbuss nature of existing technologies.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • "This really is the first Goldilocks planet," said co-discoverer R. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

    Gliese 581g 'Goldilocks' Planet Could Be Just Right For Life? The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • "This really is the first Goldilocks planet," said co-discoverer R. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

    Gliese 581g 'Goldilocks' Planet Could Be Just Right For Life? AP 2010

  • In 1979 Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, lamented the blunderbuss nature of existing technologies.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

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