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Many items of scientific knowledge are recognized, both by historians of science and the general public, to be collective scientific achievements. The knowledge in question is “collective work” in the sense that it results from discoveries and inventions that are continuously interconnected and, although independent of one another, also overlapping one another.
In the twentieth century, however, it has happened frequently in fields such as the investigation of natural substances, and biochemistry, that different investigators could attain credit for simultaneously recognized results, a situation which was expressed through the award of Nobel Prizes to several investigators for the same theme.
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Werner, P. (2009). A Purposeful Alliance in the Service of Creative Research. In: Meheus, J., Nickles, T. (eds) Models of Discovery and Creativity. Origins: Studies in the Sources of Scientific Creativity, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3421-2_11
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