Google Doodle for Karl Landsteiner’s 148th birthday

Google is celebrating Karl Landsteiner’s 148th birthday with an animated doodle.

Karl Landsteiner, ForMemRS, was an Austrian and American biologist and physician.

He is noted for having first distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and having identified, with Alexander S. Wiener, the Rhesus factor, in 1937.With Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper, he discovered the polio virus in 1909.

Karl Landsteiner was born in Vienna on June 14, 1868. Landsteiner studied medicine at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1891.

From 1908 to 1920 Landsteiner was prosector at the Wilhelminenspital in Vienna and in 1911 he was sworn in as an associate professor of pathological anatomy. During that time he discovered – in co-operation with Erwin Popper – the infectious character of Poliomyelitis and isolated the polio virus.

Phoebe Snetsinger Google Doodle. 85th birthday of "Birder" Phoebe Snetsinger

The Search Engine Google is showing an animated doodle in few countries for celebrating Phoebe Snetsinger’s 85th birthday.

Phoebe Snetsinger was an American birder famous for having seen over 8,398 species by the time of her death, at the time more than anyone else in history. 

As the daughter of advertising magnate Leo Burnett, she inherited a small fortune which she used to fund numerous trips in pursuit of her hobby.

Inspired to begin birding after seeing a Blackburnian warbler in 1965, Phoebe did not follow the hobby ardently until a doctor diagnosed her with terminal melanoma in 1981. 

Instead of convalescence at home, she took a trip to Alaska to watch birds, and returned home to find the cancer in remission. From then on, she would travel to often remote areas, sometimes under dangerous environmental and political conditions, in order to add to her growing life list. 

As an amateur ornithologist, she took copious field notes, especially regarding distinctive subspecies, many of which have since been reclassified as full species.

While on a birding trip in Madagascar in 1999, the van she was riding in overturned, killing her instantly. Her final life bird, after almost two decades as a "terminal cancer patient," was the red-shouldered vanga, a species which had been described as new to science only two years before in 1997.

Snetsinger's memoir, titled Birding on Borrowed Time, was published posthumously in 2003 by the American Birding Association (ABA).

The ABA describes this work as "More than merely a travel narrative, the book is also a profoundly moving human document, as it details how Phoebe Snetsinger's obsession with birds became a way of coping with terminal illness."

Lotte Reiniger’s 117th Birthday Google Doodle. Lotte Reiniger was pioneer of Silhouette Animation

The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle in few countries for the Lotte Reiniger’s 117th birthday.

Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation, anticipating Walt Disney by over ten years. Reiniger made over 40 films over her career, all using her invention. 

Her most well known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed and Papageno.Lotte Reininger created visually stunning and fantastical films using black cardboard, scissors, and boundless imagination. 

Pre-dating Walt Disney by nearly a decade, Reiniger pioneered a style of #animation that relied on thousands of photos of paper cut-out silhouettes arranged to tell a story. 

It was a painstaking process that involved moving paper characters ever so slightly and snapping a photo of each movement.Nearly a century later, Reiniger continues to inspire animators and artists.