1.   His discovery was hailed as the botanical find of the century.

2.   The discovery is being hailed as The Holy Grail of astronomy.

3.   His family hailed the discovery as a victory, the key to why their son had so much difficulty in school.

4.   The achievement claimed on Thursday by both teams leaves virtually no room for doubt, however, and the discovery was hailed as a landmark in science.

5.   The discovery was hailed in some press accounts as a scientific event equal to the splitting of the atom.

6.   The Swedish award committees are also cautious to a degree, having been burned in the past by hailing hot discoveries that later turned out to be wrong.

7.   Botanists hailed the discovery as an important advance in understanding how plants evolved.

8.   NASA scientists hailed that discovery as possible evidence that primitive microbes once existed on Mars, but that interpretation has been disputed by other researchers.

9.   Scientists outside CERN also hailed the discovery but said it was the first step in a long process.

10.   The discovery was hailed as a momentous historical find.