codiscoverer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of codiscoverer
First recorded in 1870–75; co- + discoverer
Example Sentences
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The discrepancy was first pointed out in 1859 by Urbain Le Verrier, the codiscoverer of Neptune.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
Integral notation goes back to the late seventeenth century and is one of the contributions of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who is often considered to be the codiscoverer of calculus, along with Isaac Newton.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
But last week, Glenn T. Seaborg, codiscoverer of plutonium, and leading chemist of the Manhattan Project, released a gob of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Joe McCormick was the chief of the Special Pathogens Branch of the C.D.C., the branch that had been run by Karl Johnson, another codiscoverer of Ebola virus.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
The meeting began with Peter Jahrling, the codiscoverer of the strain that burned in the monkeys.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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