And let's not forget Virginijus Šikšnys either, who discovered CRISPR-Cas9 independently at the exact same time but whose paper got rejected repeatedly until it

And let's not forget Virginijus Šikšnys either, who discovered CRISPR-Cas9 independently at the exact same time but whose paper got rejected repeatedly until it was finally published three months later than Doudna et al. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/prestigious-prize-overshadowed-crispr-researcher-wins-spotlight https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/prestigious-prize-ov...