List of scientific priority disputes
This is a list of priority disputes in science and science-related fields (such as mathematics).
- Oxygen: Joseph Priestley, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
- Relativity: Albert Einstein, David Hilbert, Henri Poincaré (see relativity priority dispute)
- Calculus: Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz (see Newton v. Leibniz calculus controversy)
- Evolution: Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace
- Radio: Nikola Tesla, Alexander Popov, Guglielmo Marconi, Reginald Fessenden, Landell de Moura, Jagadish Chandra Bose (see invention of radio)
- HIV: Robert Gallo, Luc Montagnier
- Electronic Television: Philo T. Farnsworth, Vladimir Zworykin (see history of television)
- Telephone: Johann Philipp Reis, Antonio Meucci, Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray (see Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell controversy)
- Opiate Receptor: Candace Pert, Solomon H. Snyder
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Paul Lauterbur, Peter Mansfield, Raymond Vahan Damadian, and others (see 2003 Nobel Prize)
- Incandescent light bulb: Thomas Edison, Joseph Swan
- Haumea: José Luis Ortiz Moreno et al., Michael E. Brown et al.
- Quark model: Murray Gell-Mann, Yuval Ne'eman
- DNA Structure: Francis Crick, James D. Watson, Rosalind Franklin, Erwin Chargaff, Oswald Avery,
- Radio Waves: Guglielmo Marconi, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Nikola Tesla
- Sunspots: Galileo, Christoph Scheiner
- Watch balance spring: Robert Hooke, Christiaan Huygens
- Geoheliocentric system: Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Raimarus Ursus
- Lymphatic system: Olof Rudbeck, Thomas Bartholin
- Blood transfusion: Richard Lower, Henry Oldenburg, Jean-Baptiste Denis, Francesco Folli
- Rule for solving cubic equations: Niccolò Tartaglia, Geronimo Cardano
- Teaching a mute deaf person to speak: John Wallis, William Holder
See also