Sunday, June 2, 2013

Julius Richard Petri, Microbiologist, Is Honored With Google Doodle

Petri's contribution was the invention and development of culture dish or Petri plate, a technique to culture bacteria on agar (a substance made from algae) plates that helped to identify the bacteria responsible for diseases. In the contemporary times

Ick factor of this Google Doodle aside, the petri dish was an ingeniously simple device that allowed researchers to grow and test microbes without contaminating them. The dish works by filling one side of the round, clear glass dish with agar and

German scientist Julius Richard Petri's 161st birth anniversary has inspired to Google to dedicate an interactive doodle showcasing his invention, the petri dish, in full action. The interactive doodle features coloured petri dishes replacing the

You can thank Julius Richard Petri for a lot of your high school biology fun. The inventor of the Petri dish is being honored by Google today with an awesome animated doodle. Petri was a German microbiologist who is

The Google homepage today depicts six Petri dishes colored in the familiar blue, red, green, and yellow hues of the Google logo. Click on the small play button in the center of the doodle, and a gloved hand will swab down the dishes. A few seconds

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