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Google’s new Doodle celebrates the 100th birthday of Indian chemist Asima Chatterjee
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Posted on November 03, 2017
For the latest Google Doodle, the search giant is honoring an award-winning chemist whose
research in organic chemistry had a profound impact on how plants are used for medicinal purposes.
This award-winning chemist also happened to be a woman. Asima Chatterjee was the first female scientist to earn a doctorate in science from an Indian University. (Because women can do science too, Google memo dude.)
The design of the Google Doodle is striking. It’s been transformed into a skeletal formula, a series of hexagons with single and double bond lines between them, commonly used to represent carbon and hydrogen atoms in organic chemistry. Chatterjee herself is represented as a modest, bespectacled woman with green leaves for hair, a nod to her work in Indian medicinal plants. https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/23/16352868/who-is-asima-chatterjee-google-doodle
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