Dorothy Hodgkin is the subject of a Google doodle today. Hodgkin was a British biochemist, who was actually born in Cairo, Egypt.
Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1...
Google has an interesting doodle up for Earth Day. It's animated, and it shows several different animals as you click. You can click the search icon to learn more about each one. T...
Google is celebrating the life of Percy Lavon Julian with a doodle on its homepage today, his 115th birthday. He died from liver cancer in 1975 at the age of 76.
Julian is known...
Dorothy Irene Height is being remembered with a Google doodle on her 102nd birthday (she passed away in 2010).
Height was a civil rights and women's rights activist, as well as...
As usual, Google is celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a Doodle. Google has been doing this just about every year since 2000.
Here's a look at Google's past St. Patrick's Day d...
Google is celebrating the works of author John Steinbeck with a doodle today, which would have been his 112th birthday. He died in 1968 at the age of 66 from heart disease and cong...
Google's Valentine's Day doodle for the U.S. is unlike any other Doodle the company has offered before. The search engine has offered interactive doodles many times, but this one p...
Google has a doodle up on its homepage throughout the world today celebrating the Olympic Games, but also making a statement in favor of gay rights....
Google regularly features a doodle for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and that tradition continues today.
This is the tenth year that Google has run a doodle for the day, but act...
Dian Fossey, the famed zoologist and gorilla researcher known for her book, Gorillas in the Mist (which was turned into a movie starring Sigourney Weaver as Fossey), is th...
Google is celebrating the 255th anniversary of the British Museum with a doodle on its homepage in the UK.
The museum, established in 1753, opened to the public in 1759, and cu...
Zora Neale Hurston is the subject of a doodle appearing on Google's homepage today, which marks what would have been the writer and anthropologist's 123rd birthday. She was born in...