Google Pea Logo For Gregor Mendel

By Barry Schwartz

Published: July 20, 2011 at 9:59 am

Gregor Mendels 189th Birthday

Today on Google you will find a special logo for the 189th birthday of Gregor Mendel. Gregor Mendel discovered the science of genetics while studying the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants. Because of this discovery, Google wanted people to remember who he is, what he did for science and medicine today and simply appreciate his contribution to the world. He was born in the Austrian Empire and died on January 6, 1884 at the age of 61 in Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary.

The logo is obviously a bunch of peas forming the Google logo, but added to it are the scientific notations.

As I noted at the Search Engine Roundtable today, Bing has a special background theme for Moon Day, which is also today. Two years ago, Google had a special moon day logo but today went with a Gregor Mendel Doodle.

Here is Bing’s theme:

Bing Moon Day

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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