Google dedicates Doodle to Eunice Newton Foote, the first person to discover Green House Effect, on her 204th birth anniversary

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Google paid tribute to American scientist and women’s rights advocate Eunice Newton Foote on her 204th birth anniversary, through a coloured 11-slide Doodle. Newton Foote was one of the pioneers in the field of climate science. She was the first individual to discover the greenhouse effect and its role in global warming.

Foote was born on July 17, 1819, in Connecticut. On her father’s side, she was a distant relative of the legendary British scientist-astronomer and alchemist Isaac Newton. From childhood, she possessed a scientific bent of mind.

She attended the Troy Female Seminary, which inculcated a scientific temperament in its students by encouraging them to attend science and chemistry classes. At a time when women were heavily discouraged from pursuing a career in science, she dedicated herself to the cause of science and conducted several experiments. In 1856, she made a startling discovery.

After placing mercury thermometers in glass cylinders, she found that the carbon dioxide cylinder became hotter much faster than its peers. This led her to conclude that carbon dioxide correlates with Earth’s temperature levels. Foote’s second study on atmospheric state electricity was published in the journal Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement Of Science.

This made her the first woman to publish two physics studies in the US. Aside from being a renowned scientist, Foote was also an ardent women’s rights advocate. In 1848, she attended the first-ever Women’s Rights Convention that was held in Seneca Falls.