>>13302389This is pretty standard stuff in the sciences. People describe Turing as the inventor of the computer. That's kind of true and kind of false. The computer wasn't invented by one person. There were basically multiple computer-like devices/concepts that were independently invented in the 18th/19th/20th century, and those various ideas and devices converged on the modern computer. You had Leibniz, Charle Babbage, Church, Godel, Von Neumann, Turing, Claude Shannon, Konrad Zuse, and others, all of whom made significant contributions. Some sources will say Turing invented the computer. Some will say Shannon. Some sources will list another one of those names.
Similarly, to take an example from biology,there are multiple people credited with "inventing" evolutionary game theory. Sometimes they say it was Ronald Fisher, sometime Robert Lewontin, sometimes John Maynard Smith.
People say Newton invented calculus, but sometime Archimedes is cited as having worked on calculus, and that way 2000 years before Newton. Or if you want to be really technical, The Egyptians and Babylonians used iterative approximation methods that a modern cornerstone of numerical analysis.
In other words, there is always going to be a debate about who invented or discovered an idea (Special Relativity is another example). If Malone discovered a biochemical mechanism that is a key step in mRNA vaccine delivery, then I think that qualifies him as (one of) the inventors of mRNA technology.
