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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Fruit-Doodle

Today is the 118th birthday of Albert Szent Gyorgyi. Google honors him with a delicious mouth-watering fruit-doodle. Szent-Gyorgyi was not the owner of an orange-farm but a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. This is why the doodle shows fruits especcially citrus-fruits like oranges: There is a lot of vitamin C in it :-) Read on »

Freddie Mercury Doodle

Today the Google homepage shows an amazing Musik-Video-Doodle. It honors Freddie Mercury, the lead vocalist and composer of the british band „Queen“. Freddie Mercury was not his real name. He was born as „Farrokh Bulsara“ on the island Zanzibar near the east-african coast. Since his early days he was called „Freddie“. In 1970, a short time after founding Queen, he geva himself a new surname: Mercury (after the antique god Mercurius). Read on »

Jorge Luis Borges Google Doodle

Today Google honors the great argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges with a fantastc doodle on the Google homepage. The Doodle shows a wide architecture scenery. In the front stands an old man. The different architecture styles reminds on different regions with different languages. Jorge Luis Borges was born in an educated middle-class family on August, 24th 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1914 he moved with his family to Switzerland, where he began to study languages (German, French, Latin). From his early days he used to speak english. Read on »

Pierre de Fermat Doodle

Today could be the brithday of Pierre de Fermat. He was a french mathematician and lawyer. Unfortunatly he was the most time lawyer. He is best known for „Fermat’s Last Theorem„, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus‘ Arithmetica. Pierre de Fermat made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics. He is best known for Fermat’s Last Theorem, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus‘ Arithmetica. Read on »

Alexander Calder Doodle

Today ist the 113th birthday of the famous amarican artist Alexander Calder. Calder was a very playful artist and a leading exponent of kinetic art. Kinetic art is art that works with moving things. He invents the artistic (outdoor) mobile. Google honors this protagonists of abstract art with an interactive doodle on the homepage. The following video gives an idea of the interaktive moving doodle: Read on »

Gregor Mendel Doodle

[Actual: „Google honors Louis Daguerre with nice doodle„] … Today is the 189th birthday of the great pea-counter Gregor Mendel. He was born on July 20, 1822 in in Heinzendorf bei Odrau, Austrian Silesia, Austrian Empire (now Hyncice, Czech Republic). Gregor Mendel was too poor to study philosophy so he became a monk. When he was 34 years old he began to study the pea plants. Between 1856 and 1863 Mendel cultivated and tested some 29,000 pea plants (i.e., Pisum sativum). Read on »

Les PAUL doodle

Who knows Les Paul? I guess today everybody. Google shows an amazing Doodle on the homepage. It is an interactiv guitare doodle. By rolling over you can play music with. If you click on the button (small Google-„g“) you can record your music. Les Paul was an american guitare-legende. The musician developed the electronic guitare and a lot of sound effects. He was born 96 years ago, on June 9, 1915 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA. Read on »

Robert Bunsen 200. birthday

Today ist „Bunsen burner day“. 200 years ago, precisely on 30 March 1811, the later chemist Robert Bunsen was born in Göttingen, Germany. The researcher and professor gets famous with the development of a gas burner called „bunsen-burner“. The gas-powered flame could be controlled selectively. It has become the epitome of a creative chemistry laboratory. Of course Google take the chance to honor Robert Bunsen today with a nice bubbling interactive doodle. Read on »

Harry Houdini Doodle

„The great Houdini“ was born on March 24, 1874. Today is the 174th birthday of the „magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts“. Born as Erik Weisz in Budapest his parents emigrates to the USA when Erik was four years old. With 17 years he discoverd his passion for magical tricks. He gaved himself an artist name: „Harry Houdini„. He took the Harry of the magician Harry Kellar, and the lastname  of his idol Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. A friend told him that the „i“ at the end of Houdini sounds more magically. Read on »

Will Eisner Doodle (Denny Colt)

Today’s Google Homepage shows a Doodle. It honors the legendary comic-artist Will Eisner. The jewish drawer was born on March, 6th in 1917. 1933 he starts to craw comics – and in 1940 he creates Denny Colt. Nearly 12 years every weekend a new episode was published. Will Eisner developed a new kind of story-telling: the graphic novel. He didn’t wrote a concept of a story for a number of pages – he draws the story as it came. Unfortunatly in 1952 Will stops to draw comics. It took 20 years before he restarts his machine again. His style of drawing and story-tellings has a deeply influence in modern comics. Read on »