discoverer:

(plural: ‘discoverers‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)

‘to discover’ = to find out something that has been there all the time but not known before, often a place or a scientific fact; and ‘discovery’, noun, = the act of finding out something or someone that has been there for the first

a person who discovers something or someone, usually very important thing or person;

a person who is the first to think of or find out something;

an artificer,

Madame Marie Curie, discoverer of two chemical elements — polonium & radium, (1898) Paris

e.g.

Columbus was the discoverer of the Americas.

Most of the discoverers in the past spent their entire lives in search of some simple thing or fact that had no value or recognition then because of traditional and/or religious beliefs, but later, however, when people have gradually become more and more aware of the scientific facts, the importance of those discoveries have become significant.

The world we live in now would have been entirely different had it not been for the brave, and crazy at times, discoverers who discovered new theories, facts and new places, even at the risk of their own lives.

Mike Brown, the discoverer of Eris, the 9th planet that is supposed to be orbiting our Sun, has changed the concept of our Solar system with his discovery!

Compare: “discover ~ invent” in Words Often Confused.

James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA in 1953

For an interesting article about the discoverer of oxygen, please click here, for an item of news about the discoverer of ‘quasi crystals’, please click here, and for an article that tells us about the discoverer of ‘Lucy’, please click here. For an article that explains what a discoverer is in the computer world, please click here. For an excellent article about the ‘Discoverer’, the American space progamme, please click here.

 

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