List of scientific priority disputes
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This is a list of priority disputes in science and science-related fields (such as mathematics).
Mathematics[]
- Rule for solving cubic equations: Niccolò Tartaglia, Gerolamo Cardano
- Calculus: Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz (see Newton v. Leibniz calculus controversy)
Physics[]
- Radio waves: James Clerk Maxwell, Oliver Lodge, Heinrich Hertz, David Edward Hughes
- Relativity: Albert Einstein, David Hilbert, Henri Poincaré (see relativity priority dispute)
- Quark model: Murray Gell-Mann, Yuval Ne'eman
Astronomy[]
- Haumea: José Luis Ortiz Moreno et al., Michael E. Brown et al.
- Sunspots: Galileo, Christoph Scheiner
- Geoheliocentric system: Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Raimarus Ursus
- Galilean moons: Galileo, Simon Marius
- Prediction of Neptune: Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams
Chemistry[]
- Oxygen: Joseph Priestley, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
- Chemical bond: Edward Frankland, Friedrich August Kekule, Archibald Scott Couper
Biology and medicine[]
- Evolution: Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Patrick Matthew
- Opiate receptor: Candace Pert, Solomon H. Snyder
- DNA structure: Francis Crick, James D. Watson, Rosalind Franklin, Erwin Chargaff, Oswald Avery
- Lymphatic system: Olof Rudbeck, Thomas Bartholin
- Blood transfusion: Richard Lower, Henry Oldenburg, Jean-Baptiste Denis
- Life cycle of malarial parasite: Giovanni Battista Grassi, Ronald Ross
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Paul Lauterbur, Peter Mansfield, Raymond Vahan Damadian, and others (see 2003 Nobel Prize)
- HIV: Robert Gallo, Luc Montagnier
- Teaching a mute deaf person to speak: John Wallis, William Holder
Technology[]
- Watch balance spring: Robert Hooke, Christiaan Huygens
- Telephone: Johann Philipp Reis, Antonio Meucci, Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray (see Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell controversy)
- Incandescent light bulb: Thomas Edison, Joseph Swan
- Radio: Oliver Lodge, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Reginald Fessenden, Guglielmo Marconi, Roberto Landell de Moura, Alexander Popov, Nikola Tesla (see invention of radio)
- Electronic television: Philo T. Farnsworth, Vladimir Zworykin (see history of television)
- Claims to the first powered flight: Shivkar Bapuji Talpade in the Marutsakhā (1895), Clément Ader in the Avion III (1897), Gustave Whitehead in his No's. 21 and 22 aeroplanes (1901–1903), Richard Pearse in his monoplane (1903–1904), Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome A (1903), Karl Jatho in Jatho biplane (1903), The Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer (1903), Alberto Santos-Dumont in the 14 Bis (1906)
See also[]
Categories:
- History of science
- Science-related lists
- Discovery and invention controversies