New Delhi: Google today celebrated the 138th birthday of Polish inventor, doctor, and immunologist Rudolf Weigl with a doodle.
Weigl’s work on a vaccine for typhus during World War II saved countless lives, but his life-saving skills stretched beyond the reaches of the disease.
The search engine’s doodle shows the Polish inventor holding a test tube in his gloved hands and drawings of lice on the wall on one side and a human body on the other. The illustrator has spelled out Google with a microscope, beakers on bunsen burners, and test tubes in holders all placed on a lab table.
“From studying a tiny louse to saving thousands of human lives, the impacts your tireless work had on the world are felt to this day—Happy Birthday, Rudolf Weigl!” Google wrote on its website.
Today, Rudolf Weigl is widely lauded as a remarkable scientist and a hero. His work has been honoured by two Nobel Prize nominations.
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