• Source: 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
Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy: Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz
Proof of the Prime number theorem: Atle Selberg and/or Paul Erdős
Proof of the Poincaré conjecture: Grigori Perelman or Shing-Tung Yau




Physics


Mechanical equivalent of heat: James Prescott Joule, Julius von Mayer
Stationary-action principle: Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Radio waves: James Clerk Maxwell, Oliver Lodge, Heinrich Hertz, David Edward Hughes
Special relativity priority dispute: Albert Einstein, Henri Poincaré, Hendrik Lorentz
General relativity priority dispute: Albert Einstein, David Hilbert
Chandrasekhar limit: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Edmund Clifton Stoner, Wilhelm Anderson
Eightfold Way: Murray Gell-Mann, Yuval Ne'eman
Accelerating expansion of the universe: High-Z Supernova Search Team, Supernova Cosmology Project.




Astronomy


Controversy over the discovery of Haumea: José Luis Ortiz Moreno et al., Michael E. Brown et al.
Sunspots: Galileo, Christoph Scheiner
Geoheliocentric system: Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Raimarus Ursus
Galilean moons: Galileo, Simon Marius
Prediction of Neptune: Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams




Chemistry


Oxygen: Joseph Priestley, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Periodic table: Dmitri Mendeleev, Lothar Meyer




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 in Physiology or Medicine)
HIV: Robert Gallo, Luc Montagnier (see 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)
Teaching a deaf-mute person to speak: John Wallis, William Holder




Technology


Watch balance spring: Robert Hooke, Christiaan Huygens
Light bulb: Joseph Swan, Thomas Edison
Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy: Johann Philipp Reis, Antonio Meucci, Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray
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)
Claims to the first powered flight: Shivkar Bapuji Talpade in the Marutsakhā (1895), Clément Ader in the Avion III (1897), Gustave Whitehead in his No's. 21 and 22 aeroplanes (1901–1903), Richard Pearse in his monoplane (1903–1904), Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome A (1903), Karl Jatho in Jatho biplane (1903), The Wright brothers in the Wright Flyer (1903), Alberto Santos-Dumont in the 14 Bis (1906)




Notes






See also


List of examples of Stigler's law
Nobel Prize controversies
List of multiple discoveries




References

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• List of scientific priority disputes
• Scientific priority
• Relativity priority dispute
• Scientific controversy
• Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy
• General relativity priority dispute
• Invention of radio
• Timeline of fundamental physics discoveries
• Scientific literature
• Mechanical equivalent of heat