Word: discoverer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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1991 Tourists hiking in the Tyrolean Alps discover, protruding from a glacier, the freeze-dried remains of a man who died about 3300 B.C.
1961 American astronomers Allan Sandage and Thomas Matthews discover quasars
1965 American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson accidentally discover cosmic background radiation, which bolsters the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe
1974 Farmers discover an army of life-size terra-cotta human figures in a 3rd century B.C. Chinese emperor's tomb near Xian
1975 Scientists discover a natural opiate, now known as an endorphin (endogenous morphine), in the brain