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
- Radio: Nikola Tesla, Alexander Popov, Guglielmo Marconi, Reginald Fessenden
- HIV: Robert Gallo, Luc Montagnier
- Electronic Television: Philo T. Farnsworth, Vladimir Zworykin
- Telephone: Johann Philipp Reis, Antonio Meucci, Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray (see Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell controversy)
- Opiate Receptor: Candace Pert, Solomon H. Snyder
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Paul Lauterbur, Peter Mansfield, Raymond Vahan Damadian, and others (see controversy)
- Incandescent light bulb: Thomas Edison, Joseph Swan
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