Tech giant Google celebrates the 204th birth anniversary of Eunice Newton Foote on July 17, 2023 through a doodle. She was an American scientist and women’s rights activist.
Google Doodle celebrates the 204th birth anniversary of American scientist and woman’s rights activist Eunice Newton Foote. She was the first scientist who discovered the greenhouse effect and its impact on the atmosphere.
Today’s doodle is a slideshow which showcases the legacy of Foote in 11 slides. Click on the doodle and slides will start appearing on your screen. It is a beautiful slideshow which explains about Foote’s discovery of greenhouse effect.
Life Story of Eunice Newton Foote
Eunice Newton Foote was born on July 17, 1819 in Connecticut. She studied at Troy Female Seminary, a school which used to encourage students to attend science lectures and participate in chemistry labs. Since then, science had become Foote’s passion.
At that time, women had not much rights in science but unaffected of that Foote started conducting experiments on her own. When she placed mercury thermometers in glass cylinders, then she discovered that the cylinder containing carbondioxide experienced the most significant heating effect in the sun. Ultimately, she became the first scientist to make the connection between rising carbondioxide levels and the warming of atmosphere.
After publishing her findings, Foote produced her second study on atmospheric static electricity in the journal Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. These were the first two physics studies published by a woman in the US.
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Around 1856, a male scientist presented her work in the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. After that, further experiments were done, which uncovered what is known as the Greenhouse effect.
In addition to being a scientist, Eunice Newton Foote was also a women’s rights activist. She dedicated her time in campaigning for women’s rights. In 1848, she attended the first Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls. Foote was the fifth signatory of the Declaration of Sentiments—a document that demanded equality for women in social and legal status.
Google wrote, “Today, scientists all over the world are advancing climate science thanks to the foundation that Foote laid. Happy Birthday, Eunice Newton Foote!”
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