Robert K. Merton, a sociologist, found that 92% of cases of simultaneous discovery in the 17th century ended in dispute.

This was not a simultaneous independent discovery of F (I names as Fertility Factor until it was understood.)

Think of all the simultaneous discoveries just on Earth, on your planet.

There Garai studied simultaneous scientific discoveries (such as that of Bolyai and Lobachevsky).

An Idea Whose Time Has Come How common is simultaneous discovery in science and is it a case of convergent evolution?

The golden age of physics began with the simultaneous discovery of the principle of the conservation of energy in the mid 19th century.

But two simultaneous discoveries shattered that idea overnight.

What is it about science that throws up so many examples of simultaneous discovery, or indeed invention, from Newton and Leibniz, to Wallace and Darwin.

Kuhn, T. S., 1977: Energy conservation as an example of simultaneous discovery.

There followed his simultaneous discoveries of color with "Juliet of the Spirits" (1965), and of the power that the Cinecitta studio facilities gave him.