Discoverer

On the podium of the digital revolution, he stands a few inches clear of Bill Gates of Microsoft, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, but probably on a level with Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the worldwide web actually I prefer the word discoverer because it now seems almost impossible to believe that the web was not out there waiting to be found. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He abhors the word discoverer, as applied to himself. ❋ Burton Egbert Stevenson (1917)

Burrough therefore is often called the discoverer of Novaya Zemlya, but incorrectly. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

Leng, its discoverer, is well known in the world of Isle of Wight palaeontology for finding a particularly good valdosaur specimen and for discovering Eotyrannus, so he’s a pretty significant guy. ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

The discoverer was an amateur archeologist, a former British commandant who had retired here. ❋ Davis Bunn (2009)

Accordingly, she continued her studies with Professor Albert Zanot, who was well known as the discoverer of new talent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Herschel was well known as the discoverer of many clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the largest block of text on the map, Waldseemueller writes that many things remained unknown to the ancients "in no slight degree; for instance, in the west, America, named after its discoverer, which is now known to be a fourth part of the world." ❋ Jan (2008)

Parmenides is also identified as the discoverer of the identity of the morning and evening star (Diogenes Laertius IX. 23), and Pythagoras 'claim appears to be based on a poem forged in his name, which was rejected already by Callimachus in the third century BCE (Burkert 1972a, 307). ❋ Huffman, Carl (2006)

Although he is most widely known as the discoverer of the theory of relativity, he made other vital contributions which are far less well known but which, by themselves, would have placed him in the front ranks of physicists. ❋ Peierls, Rudolf (1983)

Einthoven can thus with full justification be named the discoverer of the real electrocardiogram. ❋ Unknown (1965)

Diocles (about the end of the second century B. C.) is known as the discoverer of the _cissoid_ which was used for duplicating the cube. ❋ Various (N/A)

Perseus is known as the discoverer and investigator of the _spiric sections_, i.e. certain sections of the σπειρα {speira}, one variety of which is the _tore_. ❋ Various (N/A)

Of late years a new force has been discovered in the line of ethico-spiritual aid in the higher order of hypnotism, as discovered and practiced by Doctor Quackenbos, who may, indeed, without exaggeration, be called the discoverer of this higher phase of applied suggestion. ❋ Lilian Whiting (N/A)

All of the reward of a discoverer is his if he can herald a new worth-while writer. ❋ Charles Phelps Cushing (N/A)

The discoverer was the Rev. William Dade, rector of Barmston, in the East Riding, and a letter of great length, on the stone, from the pen of Mr J.C. Brooke, F.S.A. of the ❋ Gordon Home (1923)

Marcos de Niza is, therefore, rightly called the discoverer of New Mexico and Arizona. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

"[Emily] we [already] had this discoveration" -Corrin [Weston] ❋ Westtside (2017)

Example 1: I finally figured out how to solve [this economy] crisis! What a [discoverment]! Example 2: Me: "Tomorrow I'm getting season 2 of [Entourage] from my Netflix." Mexican, Non-native English speaking boyfriend: "Tomorrow I'm getting Season 3 of Entourage in my netflix!" Me: "Cool, we can have an Entourage marathon." Mexican, Non-native English speaking boyfriend: "Awesome, what a discoverment!" ❋ Comosedice (2010)

1. Dude, those are some awesome [discoverents]! 2. It's way too [sunny] out, bro. I need my discoverents. 3. I shall put these discoverents on. [Ahh], perfect. ❋ Lexi Lex Lex (2011)