The part of the sentence "momentous discovery" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when referring to a discovery that is especially important, remarkable, or meaningful. Example sentence: The scientist's momentous discovery revolutionized the field.
But Miss Leavitt never cashed in on her momentous discovery.
Sautuola had accurate drawings of the paintings prepared and published a book on this momentous discovery in 1880.
The first one, "White Tip's Journey," was inspired by the recent momentous discovery of two predators joined with interlocking claws.
But until its momentous discovery at the LHC near Geneva in 2012, it had proved impossible to track down.
Even the prospect of making the momentous discovery of some form of life on Mars is fraught with risks.
"I'm surprised we've been able to keep it under wraps for nine months," Mr. Stemm said at the news conference, calling the shipwreck "a momentous discovery".
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne Seattle, Oct. 7, 2009 The writer is the author of "Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles and Momentous Discoveries".
It was more than a tribute to the momentous discoveries and Nobel Prizes made possible by the minds and machines at SLAC.
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne is the author of numerous books, including Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries and Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World.
► Finally, in this week's Science editorial, Michael S. Turner makes a plea for curiosity-based science, pointing to scientific connections between two recent momentous discoveries, the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) detection of evidence of gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (still subject to confirmation) and the detection of the Higgs boson.
The Man Inside follows Goury on a journey inside the room in Kuwait where his father lived the last few years of his life, and places him on the path of several momentous discoveries.
