List of scientific priority disputes
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
Astronomy
Chemistry
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)
- First successful powered flight: Gustave Whitehead, Wright brothers
See also
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