Lets say you are a .... treasure hunter and you have spent your life gathering clues about a particular treasure's location.
You then hire a team of minimum wage students to come with you to the location you suspect has the treasure to help with the digging and such, but once there you have a hard time finding the exact spot, when suddenly one of the young team members thinks to look under a large boulder nearby and... wala! the treasure is found!
Should the digger be given half the treasure because he thought to look under the rock at the location the treasure hunter had brought him too (and half the credit for the finding it)?
I am quite sure that nearly all famous men had hired help with them that got no or nearly no credit. Was Robert Perry alone at the North Pole? Did Edmound Hillary climb Everest without help? Heck did the Pharaoh's lift a single stone themselves building the pyramids?
And history is full of examples of greedy men who hired men that came to them with new discoveries, tricking them into believing it was a partnership and collaboration. For example Bell and Edison who stole the ideas of countless others. Tesla was one such inventor who was ripped off, after bringing his inventions to the notice of so-called famous men.