Today's (29th February 2016) Google Doodle celebrates Leap Day! Why is there a Leap Day? Google Shows Doodle for Leap Year 2016
The 29th of February only happens every four years. This is to keep our calendar in sync with the rotation of the Earth around the sun. Without Leap Day, we'd be out of sync by about six hours per year.
Leap Day happens every four years unless that year is divisible by 100. If you were around in 1900, you would have missed out on the magic of February 29.
Anyone born on Leap Day, will not get chance to celebrate their birthday every year.
Today (8th February, 2016) the Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle for the 182nd Birthday of Dmitri Mendeleev in many countries.
Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created his own version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered.
Around 400 BC, the ancient Greeks organized the worldly elements into four groups: air, water, earth, and fire. In the seventeenth century, Robert Boyle explained the material world in terms of elements, mixtures, and compounds. And in 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev made sense of the 56 elements known at the time, showing how they related to each other in a distinct pattern. His periodic table let elements fall into "periods" according to atomic mass and valence (the power that determines how they combine).
Scholars had attempted to organize the elements into a table before, but Mendeleev's work extended beyond mere chart-making. Mendeleev used the logic of his table to argue for the existence of yet-to-be discovered elements (like gallium and germanium), and even to predict their behaviors. Some of these predictions were wrong, but the basic principles behind his periodic organization continue to stand at the foundation of modern chemistry. The periodic table of the elements (now with 118 elements and counting) adorns science classrooms worldwide.
Today's (30 January, 2016) Google Doodle honors Amrita Sher-Gil on her 103rd Birthday.Amrita Sher-Gil was an eminent Indian painter born to a Punjabi Sikh father and a Hungarian Jewish mother, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important woman painter of 20th century in India.
The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle for the 75th Birthday of Beatrice Tinsley, in few countries.
Beatrice Tinsley was a British born - New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve with time.
Tinsley completed pioneering theoretical studies of how populations of stars age and affect the observable qualities of galaxies.
She also collaborated on basic research into models investigating whether the universe is closed or open. Her galaxy models led to the first approximation of what protogalaxies should look like.She died at the young age of 40.
Wilbur Lincoln Scoville was an American pharmacist best known for his creation of the "Scoville Organoleptic Test", now standardized as the Scoville scale.
He devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company to measure piquancy, or "hotness", of various chille peppers.
The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle for the 388th Birthday of Charles Perrault. The man who invented the modern fairytale has been chosen by google to be celebrated in the Jan 12 Doodle.The Doodle image is getting changed whenever refreshing the Google Home page. It seems it is showing 3 different versions of Doodle images randomly.
Charles Perrault was a French author. Perrault was born in Paris as the seventh child. Perrault is best known for his Mother Goose fairy stories.He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales.Charles Perrault began his life as a lawyer and tax collector.Watch this video below
