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).
- 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, Patrick Matthew
- Radio: Jagadish Chandra Bose, Reginald Fessenden, Guglielmo Marconi, Landell de Moura, Alexander Popov, Nikola Tesla (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)
- Chemical bond: Edward Frankland, Friedrich August Kekule, Archibald Scott Couper
- 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
- Rule for solving cubic equations: Niccolò Tartaglia, Gerolamo Cardano
- Teaching a mute deaf person to speak: John Wallis, William Holder
- Life cycle of malarial parasite: Giovanni Battista Grassi, Ronald Ross
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