Sentence examples for multiple discovery from inspiring English sources

The CBAT is starting in early 2011 with a working list of several dozen registered users, compiled from contributors who have sent multiple discovery or follow-up reports to the Central Bureau in the past year.

This was an extraordinary coincidence of design efforts (known in science as "multiple discovery"), since concurrently, in Germany, Opel staff were already working on a very similar Experimental GT concept, which as we know went into production as the Opel GT in 1968.

In other words, members of a working group (i.e., unit, department, division, or center – different companies use different names) work to support multiple discovery project teams.

Wikipedia has an entire section on well-known instances of "multiple discovery," including the discovery of calculus and the theory of evolution.

The competitive edge will be with services that support multiple discovery methods, multiple filtering approaches, have flexibility, and support multiple mobile platforms.

It's called the "multiple discovery theory," which, contrary to the "heroic theory of invention," posits that discoveries are most often made by multiple people, not by lone "geniuses".

That's one reason for "multiple discoveries" – the phenomenon whereby more than one person came up with the idea for the telephone, the theory of evolution and the jet engine, within a short time of each other.

Multiple discoveries over the previous three years of multibillion-barrel reserves raised Brazil's profile as a top future oil producer and gave impetus to increased investment in ports, shipyards, naval construction, refineries, and oil and gas exploration.

"Consider the case of Kelvin, by way of illustration," Merton writes, summarizing work he had done with his Columbia colleague Elinor Barber Afterr examining some 400 of his 661 scientific communications and addresses... Dr. Elinor Barber and I find him testifying to at least 32 multiple discoveries in which he eventually found that his independent discoveries had also been made by others.

Today, there is even continuously expanding Wikipedia list of multiple inventions ("list of multiple discoveries").

A similar study by Merton in 1961 led him to conclude that "the pattern of independent multiple discoveries in science is in principle the dominant pattern, rather than a subsidiary one" (Merton 1961 p.470).