Google Doodle: Who Was Irene Bernasconi?

Most of you have knowledge of Google Doodles and what they are being used for on the platform but just for the sake of the few people who have no idea about it, permit us to enlighten you about what Google Doodles means and all you need to know about them.

A Google Doodle is a unique, momentary change to the Google logo that appears on the company’s homepages to honor special occasions, accomplishments, and prominent historical personalities.

The first Google Doodle, created by the platform’s co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 to mark the long-running annual Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada, informed users of their absence if their servers crashed and they were able to recover it.

Up until 2000, when Page and Brin asked public relations specialist Dennis Hwang to create a logo for Bastille Day, Google Doodles were created by an independent contractor. Since then, the Doodles have been compiled and distributed by a group of employees known as “Doodlers.”

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Before Doodles were advanced to animations and hyperlinks, they were just mere images expressing holiday greetings to their users or describing a particular subject.

Why is Google Doodle celebrating Argentine Marine Biologist, Irene Bernasconi?

Today, Google Doodle is celebrating the Argentine Marine Biologist, Irene Bernasconi who was also Argentina’s first Echinoderm Specialist.

Irene Bernasconi spent about fifty years(50 years) of her life studying marine creatures, especially, star creatures in the ocean and other water bodies. Irene is known to have been the first woman in Argentina to lead a marine biology expedition in Antarctica.

Born on September 29th, 1896 in La Plata in Argentina, she worked as a teacher in 1981 with a focus on natural sciences, and in the early 1920s, she started working at the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences. In 1925, she published her first piece of original research on mollusks and other marine invertebrates.

Leading a marine biology expedition to Antarctica at the age of 72, Irene together with three other brilliant females set off to explore the continent’s biodiversity near the South Pole. They managed to collect more than 2000 echinoderm specimens, plant life, and other samples in Antarctica’s ecosystem.

The team received a memorial medal in 1969 from the Embassy of Women in America. The National Directorate for Antarctica, the Argentine Antarctic Institute, and the Naval Hydrographic Service also honored Bernasconi and her crew for their accomplishments on International Women’s Day in 2018, which also occurred to be the 50th anniversary of the polar expedition in Antarctica’s ecosystem.

Who was Irene Bernasconi?

Irene Bernasconi was a Marine Biologist from Argentina. She was born on September 29th, 1896 in La Plata, Argentina.