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Nettie Stevens Google Doodle

Google honors Nettie Maria Stevens. She was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal basis of sex. It’s Nettie Stevens 155 birthday. The doodle designer shows her in front of a microscope. She looks at a „XY-chromosome. Read on »

Phoebe Snetsinger doodle

Have you ever heard before about Phoebe Snetsinger? Me not. But Google honors her today with a relally nice Google on the homepage. So now Millions of people know her. She war an american birder. That is a „bird watcher“. Phoebe has seen more than 8000 birds – at the time more than anyone else in history. She died on Novemebr 23, 1999. She was born on June 9, 1931. Today it’s her 85th birthday. Read on »

First modern Olympic Games Doodle

Google celebrates the 120th anniversary of the first modern olympic games. On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, King Georgios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed athletes from 13 nations to the international competition. Doodle designer Olivia Huynh created 4 drawings in an old fashion drawing style. Nice. Read on »

First Day of Spring 2016

Google celebrates the spring equinox – the first day of spring – with a nice doodle on the homepage. As every jear Google uses this date (march 20th or 21st) to remind the users that summer is coming soon. But of course not from day to day. So the doodle-animation shows a stone that is ill. It sneezes the flowers from the tree. But – of course – spring will come … Read on »

George Boole 200. birthday

Google honors the English mathematician, educator, philosopher and logician George Boole with an animated doodle on the homepage. It seems to be difficult to understand, but after reading this article you will agree: it’s quite simple. George Boole was born on November 2nd, 1815 – 200 years ago. So here is what the doodle shows: Read on »

Eiffel Tower Doodle

„When did the eiffel tower open to the public?“ 126 years ago, on March 31th 1889, the Eiffel Tower in Paris was opened to the public. It was most tallest building in the world. Build with steal, designd by french Gustave Eiffel und build by his company, it is one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower is the most-visited paid monument in the world – it received its 250 millionth visitor in 2010. Amazing! Read on »

Halloween witch doodle 2013

Halloween Witch 2013 – a usual Google celebrates it with a nice interactive doddle. Start the doodle an help the witch and combine the ingredients. By throwing two a new stage opens where you could have some Halloween fun. Together there are 6 Halloween stages. Nice one, I think. Btw: if you search for ghost, witch or skeleton you will find some nice easter eggs in the Google knowledge graph (on the rigth side). Funny… Read on »

André-Jacques Garnerin, the first parachute jump

Have you ever thougth about the first parachute jump? Google did. Today (Oct. 22nd, 2013) is the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump (Oct. 22, 1797). Google honors the inventor of the parachute – André-Jacques Garnerin – with an interactive doodle on the homepage. You can navigate the parachute by using the left an right key. By this the jumper changes the direction – and you land on very different place. The balloonist was born on Jan. 31, 1769. Garnerin was appointed „Official Aeronaut of France“. Garnerin began experiments with early parachutes based on umbrella-shaped devices. The first flight with a silk parachute on October 22, 1797 at Parc Monceau, Paris. Read on »

Claude Debussy Doodle

The french composer Claude Debussy was born on August 22nd, 1862 – 151 years ago. Google honors him with an amazing doodle. It’s a kind of music-video animation. It’s 2:12 min long – and in a french and romantic was it feels impressionistic. The song is: „Clair du lune“ („Moonlight“, 1890). It’s the third movement of Suite bergamasque – a piano depiction of a Paul Verlaine poem. First the doodle as a youtube-video and then the complete poem: Read on »

Rosalind Franklin Doodle

Google honors Rosalind Franklin with a nice doodle. It shows a microscope and a piece of DNA. Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 — 16 April 1958) was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer. She is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix. Franklin was never nominated for a Nobel Prize. She had died in 1958 and was ineligible for nomination to the Nobel Prize in 1962 which was subsequently awarded to Crick, Watson, and Wilkins in 1962. Read on »