His achievement remained unequaled until the discovery of penicillin.
Until the discovery of J. tyleri, all records were from shallow waters in the northern hemisphere.
Until the discovery of this specimen, the oldest octopus fossils were from the Jurassic period.
Federal dollars, fishing and timber sustained Alaska until the discovery of oil in the 1960s.
Few outsiders cared much about events in this Spanish-speaking backwater until the discovery of oil.
The ones about Vinland would scarcely be believed, at least not until the discovery of these ruins.
Until the discovery of oil in the late 1950s, there was little here but Bedouins and sand.
Excelsior diamond, until the discovery of the Cullinan diamond in 1905, the world's largest-known uncut diamond.
Tulsa, a former Creek Indian village in the Sandstone Hills region, grew slowly until the discovery of oil nearby.
No one lived on Christmas Island until the discovery of phosphate drew the British here a little over a century ago.
There was little organised interest in "whale falls", as they are known, until the discovery of associated chemoautotroph communities in the late 1980s.
