Word: discoverer
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In the Middle Ages, Copernicus displaced earth from its position at the center of the solar system. But Aristotle's thinking continued to dominate astronomy until 1572, when Tycho Brahe observed a bright new star (which scientists now know was a supernova, or exploding star) near the constellation Cassiopeia...
The great interstellar clouds also contain another kind of fertilizer. In 1963 a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Lincoln Laboratory used a radio telescope to discover the hydroxyl radical (two-thirds of the water molecule) in space. Since then, more than three dozen molecules...
In accord with its policy of bringing news of scholarly events to the academic public as they happen, The Crimson is pleased to publish a major find in the area of Milton scholarship, which is already beginning to rock the world of literary criticism on both sides of the Atlantic...
Brad and Janet get stranded by the Frankenstein Place and their host Frank N. Furter is just a little too effusive for the bespectacled Brad and (we discover later) lace-slipped Janet:
There are students at Harvard who regularly receive letters and phone calls from total strangers, accept compliments for work they never did and discover friends and relatives they did not know they had.