Internet giant, Google is marking British-Hungarian inventor and electrical engineer, Dennis Gabor’s 110th birthday with a doodle on the website. Google has changed the main image on its search engine. Denni Gabor was given a noble prize in Physics in 1971 for inventing holography. Gabor was born in on June 5th, 1900 in Budapest and he died on 9th February, 1979 in London. Gabor’s contributions are well recognized. The Hungarian government gives awards on his name to the young scientists. The government gives the award for acknowledged distinction of interdisciplinary work between the life sciences with other subjects. The holograms are used in today’s products for districting them from fakes. Holograms and holography technology are used in areas of data storage, security, art, etc.
Buckyball Google Doodle On 25th Birthday Anniversary Of The Discovery
Google Doodle spinning animated Buckyball on 25th birthday anniversary of discovery of the “buckyball”. This is not the first time when Google used an animated/interactive Google Doodle. Earlier Google had animated logos for Issac Newton, Pacman and many others.
On Saturday, September 4th if visited Google home page you will see a special Google logo. The logo is of a buckyball or fullerence, which is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube.
The best part of this Google Doodle is you spin it with your mouse and you can click on the buckyball to open a search result page for ‘Buckball’.
The buckyball, is also known as buckminsterfullerene, it was discovered on Sep 4, 1985 by Harold Kroto, Robert Curl, James Heath, Sean O’Brien and Richard Smalley at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Buckminsterfullerene was named after ‘Richard Buckminster Fuller’ an architect and designer who popularized the geodesic dome. Buckyballs have been studied extensively for use in technology including material science, electronics, and nanotechnology.
0 comments:
Post a Comment