Darwin.
Karl Wilhem is given credit for discovering simple machines
Gilbert N. Lewis was given the credit for discovering how a covalent bond works.
J. J. Thompson was given credit for discovering the first electron.
J.J. Thomson
Captain James Cook.
they didn't document it
no one is given the credit of discovering maths
christopher Columbus and leif ericson
Amerigo Vespucci is given the credit for discovering America.
vasco nones balboa
Florida
Karl Willhelm, a Swiss Botanist