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Google’s doodles: Who's behind them?
The occasional artistic "doodles" that replace the Google logo are seen by hundreds of millions of people. But who are the brains behind them?
A playable Les Paul guitar, a Pac-Man game and a keyboard in celebration of Robert Moog. These are just some of the many doodles that Google has displayed on its home page.
What started in 1998 as a stick figure drawing behind the letter "o" to show the team were out of the office, has now developed into intricate designs, games and artistic representations of famous figures and events.
There have been more than 1,000 doodles. They depict both the famous and the less well-known, they feature anniversaries and some more idiosyncratic tributes, and are increasingly becoming interactive and shareable ...
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Niels Bohr's 125th Birthday ..
In atomic physics, the Bohr model, introduced by Niels Bohr in 1913, depicts the atom as a small, positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons that travel in circular orbits around the nucleus—similar in structure to the solar system, but with electrostatic forces providing attraction, rather than gravity.
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Ada Lovelace, the mathematician known as the world's first computer programmer, is celebrated today in a Google Doodle on the anniversary of her birth.