There are several other researchers now credited with the discovery or parallel discovery of penicillin.
The discovery of America is generally referred to Columbus.
Yet it hardly constitutes the discovery of an aqueous elixir.
The discovery of this law marked a turning point in the history of electromagnetism.
But I've never been so moved because this is the discovery of something special.
Novel laboratory approaches to the discovery of new viruses will emerge.
Gold fever reached its peak with the discovery of the largest nugget in Colorado history.
February of 2010 marks the 80th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh.
The discovery of Swastika in almost all parts of the globe has given rise to so many interpretations.
The discovery of a 'missing link' between man and apes could revolutionise our understanding of how we evolved, scientists say.
The discovery of the neuron was a milestone in brain research, and paved the way for modern neuroscience.
To settle down in one place requires a reliable food supply, so the discovery of granaries is no surprise.
Las Vegas's explosive growth has been slowed by the desert tortoise and the discovery of two rare plants.
A city of western Texas south-southwest of Lubbock. It was a small ranching town until the discovery of oil in the area. Population, 89, '99.
The discovery of these large vertebrate fossils has great significance for the redefinition of the stratigraphic Age and regional stratigraphic division and correlation of the area.
"It's the first discovery of bone soup in Chinese archaeological history," the newspaper quoted Liu Daiyun of the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology as saying.
A tip-off led to the basement of a house recently vacated by Mr Rodenstock and the discovery of piles of blank labels, corks and other counterfeiter's paraphernalia.
These results provided a basis for the rational design of specific inhibitors to the target enzyme and the discovery of novel contraceptive agents with high potency.
The dichotomy has led to decades of research in mathematics and physics, including the discovery of "fake" four-dimensional Spaces by Simon Donaldson in 1984.
Until the 1993 discovery of a ninth-century B.C. stela inscribed with "House of David, "there was no nonbiblical evidence that David actually existed.
Studying such atomic waves has led to the discovery of new states of matter—Bose-Einstein condensates and degenerate Fermi gases.
The spread of New World crops like corn and the potato, along withthe discovery of chemical fertilizers, helped banish starvation in Europe.
Research into circadian rhythms has led to the discovery of a new and unanticipated molecular cog in the human body clock.
Experts hope that the discovery of the "pacemaker gene" could lead to new drug treatments to avoid heart attacks and disease.
"A very eminent solicitor is in attendance, gentlemen." says Coy,"who, I am informed, was accidentally present, when discovery of the death was made."
"Women ought to be free — as free as we are," he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
Since the discovery of bronze masks in the 1970s, archeologists have located 100 sites that belonged to the Ba people, each considered a historical archive.
He explained that out of millions of fossils found all over the world, this is the first discovery of its kind and should serve as a warning to other palaeontologists.
Thousands of infertile couples could be spared the pain, anguish and expense of fruitless IVF treatments, thanks to the discovery of a lock-and-key mechanism between sperm and egg cells.
The discovery of a WWII bomber at the bottom of the sea marks the end of incredible 27-year journey to find out what happened to a long-lost airman.
The discovery of the expansion of our Universe was already noticed by astronomer Hubble a long time ago in 1929, forcing Einstein to revise his famous equations about space, time and masses.
Ascribing the discovery of tea to a revered former leader is a characteristically Confucian gesture-it puts power in the hands of the ancestors and links the present day to the mythic past.
One of the driest deserts in the world, the Saharan Tenere Desert, hosted at least two flourishing lakeside populations during the Stone Age, a discovery of the largest graveyard from the era reveals.
Dr Dutrieux said that the discovery of the ridge was an important piece in the jig-saw of factors that could be changing the ice dynamics in the region.
Ever since the great discovery of the immortal Newton, it has been known that all celestial bodies attract one another, and that this attraction is the greater, the greater the attracting body is.
The discovery of the camp in February was followed by a manhunt across the country in which over 100 alleged militants linked to Jemaah Islamiah and other terrorist groups were captured or killed.
Her misgiving was such that at dusk, when the milking was over, she walked in the garden alone, to continue her regrets that she had disclosed to him her discovery of his considerateness.
In fact, ever since the discovery of this phenomenon, whenever astronomers cannot measure a galaxy's distance more directly they instead give an estimate using its redshift as a proxy.
