Dr. Elinor Barber and I find him testifying to at least 32 multiplediscoveries in which he eventually found that his independent discoveries had also been made by others.
NEWYORKER: In the Air
2.
One of the first comprehensive lists of multiples was put together by William Ogburn and Dorothy Thomas, in 1922, and they found a hundred and forty-eight major scientific discoveries that fit the multiple pattern.
NEWYORKER: In the Air
3.
We want to believe that great discoveries are in our heads and to each party in the multiple the presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion.