This is a list of priority disputes in history of science and science-related fields (such as mathematics).
Astronomy
Biology and medicine
- 1652 discovery of the lymphatic system: Olof Rudbeck, Thomas Bartholin
- c. 1660 teaching a deaf-mute person to speak: John Wallis, William Holder
- c. 1667 first human blood transfusion: Richard Lower, Henry Oldenburg, Jean-Baptiste Denys
- c. 1859 development of the theory of evolution: Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Patrick Matthew
- 1877âÂÂ1892 Bone Wars: Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh.
- 1882âÂÂ1889: KochâÂÂPasteur rivalry: Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch.
- 1899âÂÂ1902 discovery of the life cycle of malarial parasite: Giovanni Battista Grassi, Ronald Ross
- 1953âÂÂ1962 discovery of the DNA structure: Francis Crick, James D. Watson, Rosalind Franklin, Erwin Chargaff, Oswald Avery
- 1971âÂÂ1973 discovery of opiate receptors: Candace Pert, Solomon H. Snyder1971âÂÂ1975 invention of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Paul Lauterbur, Peter Mansfield, Raymond Vahan Damadian, and others (see 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
- 1983 discovery of HIV: Robert Gallo, Luc Montagnier (see 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
Chemistry
Mathematics
Physics
- 1679âÂÂ1680 NewtonâÂÂHooke priority controversy for the inverse square law: Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke.
- 1739âÂÂ1740 development of the Bernoulli's principle between Johann Bernoulli and his son Daniel Bernoulli.
- 1741âÂÂ1751 development of the stationary-action principle: Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- 1842âÂÂ1845 discovery of mechanical equivalent of heat: James Prescott Joule, Julius von Mayer
- 1864âÂÂ1890 discovery of radio waves: James Clerk Maxwell, Oliver Lodge, Heinrich Hertz, David Edward Hughes
- 1889âÂÂ1905 special relativity priority dispute: Albert Einstein, Henri Poincaré, Hendrik Lorentz
- 1915 general relativity priority dispute: Albert Einstein, David Hilbert
- 1930âÂÂ1935 development of the Chandrasekhar limit: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Edmund Clifton Stoner, Wilhelm Anderson
- 1961 development of the Eightfold Way: Murray Gell-Mann, Yuval Ne'eman
- 1998 discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe: High-Z Supernova Search Team, Supernova Cosmology Project.
Technology
Notes
See also
References