There are quite a number of similar coincidences in the history of science. It seems to me that at some point the necessary knowledge or techniques are just the

There are quite a number of similar coincidences in the history of science. It seems to me that at some point the necessary knowledge or techniques are just there to make some discoveries almost inevitable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries