discoverer

I felt like the discoverer of a new world already fully inhabited and thriving but totally unknown to the rest of us.

The sense of randomness is often emphasized: the discoverer—likely some hardworking editor—merely stumbled upon greatness.

Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of the new world, died at Valladolid in Spain, aged about 70.

The seventh 'Reason' against the use of tobacco is, that the devil is the discoverer and suggester of smoking.

William Barlowe, died; celebrated as the discoverer of the nature and properties of the loadstone.

William Harvey, an English physician, died; celebrated as the discoverer of the circulation of the blood.

The Baron de Wentzel was the most famous oculist of the day, and the discoverer of operations for cataract.