The phrase "a landmark discovery" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or groundbreaking finding in various fields, such as science, history, or technology.
Example: "The researchers announced a landmark discovery that could change our understanding of climate change."
Alternatives: "a groundbreaking finding" or "a significant breakthrough."
If there is evidence for gravitational waves, it would be a landmark discovery that would change the face of cosmology and particle physics.
A landmark discovery into the genetic makeup of tumours has the potential to open a new front in the war on cancer, delivering potent therapies that are tailored to individual patients, scientists have said.
In the 1940's, in association with Oswald Avery and Colin MacLeod, Dr. McCarty determined that genes are made of DNA, a landmark discovery that opened the gateway to the modern era of molecular biology and molecular medicine.
It is 200 years since a young girl made a landmark discovery in Dorset.
On May 16, 2009, the Wall Street Journal, as well as numerous other newspapers around the world (see for example The Tehran Times for May 19 , 2009 http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp code=194935), ran stories about a new fossil discovered in Germany that "could prove to be a landmark discovery".
Frustrated Lewis Pairs (FLPs) is a landmark discovery to dissociate small molecules by activating strong nonpolar bonds reversibly, which is recently applied to directly polymerize three molecular AB to a cyclotriborazylene (CTB, B3N3H12, which transforms into borazine after releasing 3 equiv. H2).
Nearly a decade later, landmark discoveries occurred, identifying two major sources of such ROS, mitochondrial superoxide generation and the phagocytic respiratory burst.
However, a recent landmark discovery by Yamanaka and colleagues demonstrated that somatic cells can be reset to an embryonic-like state, termed induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), by the expression of defined factors [9,10].
In the last decade, it has undergone a major transformation, sparked by the landmark discovery of the central role of activating KIT mutations in its pathogenesis and recognition of KIT protein expression (CD 117) as a reliable diagnostic marker of disease.
The landmark discovery of H3K4me2 within the CENP-A chromatin domain (Sullivan and Karpen, 2004) inspired several models that attributed to H3K4me2 a potential key role in maintaining kinetochore function (Allshire and Karpen, 2008).
The sector generally remains depressed these days, even though researchers announced in June that they had decoded the human genome -- a landmark scientific discovery.
