The woman who discovered the greenhouse effect Eunice Newton Foote honored by google doodle

Eunice Newton Foote, who discovered the greenhouse effect and was a pivotal figure in women’s rights movements, is the focus of today’s Google doodle. Monday's Google Doodle celebrates the 204th birthday of U.S. scientist and women's voting rights activist Eunice Newton Foote.

The colorful drawing shows Foote smiling as she writes in a book, surrounded by thermometers and molecules

The discovery of the greenhouse effect is often attributed to physicist John Tyndall, who carried out a series of experiments in 1859 looking at how heat affected air. However, in 2011, amateur historian Raymond Sorenson discovered a record of a presentation of Foote’s work at the 10th annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1856, two years before Tyndall’s experiments started

Google Doodle has marked the day — which is the anniversary of her birth 204 years ago —with the animated picture of a brown-haired woman scribbling in a notepad inside a laboratory. Google says beneath the image: “Today’s slideshow Doodle celebrates the 204th birthday of American scientist and women’s rights activist Eunice Newton Foote. Foote was the first person to discover the greenhouse effect and its role in the warming of Earth’s climate.

“Today, scientists all over the world are advancing climate science thanks to the foundation that Newton Foote laid.

Born in 1819 in Connecticut, Foote attended the Troy Female Seminary in New York, a school that encouraged girl students to attend science lectures and participate in chemistry labs. By the time she was a teenager she had developed what would be a lifelong passion for science.

Her journey towards making her own groundbreaking contributions began in the early 1850s, when she became curious about the effect of sunlight on different gasses.

Experimenting with glass bell jars filled with different fumes, she discovered that the cylinder containing carbon dioxide experienced the most significant heating effect in the sun.

Though Foote wasn’t hugely active in scientific research for much longer after her 1856 experiments, she did perform experiments a couple of years later looking at which gases could produce static electricity. She also filed a number of patents, such as a thermostatically controlled cooking stove, before she died in 1888.

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