Caroline Herschel

Caroline Herschel's Birthday Celebrated 266th Google Doodle Today, Who is He?

Google Doodle today, Wednesday (16/3) commemorate the birth of Caroline Herschel 266th shown by an animated interesting. If we open the main page of the Google search engine, we will see something different, where there is an animation that shows a woman being viewed binoculars while behind many comets falling. The female figure is Caroline Herschel. So who is he so Google to commemorate his birthday?
Caroline Herschel was a German astronomer who is also the younger brother of the famous astronomer Sir William Herschel. Astronomer This woman was born in the German city of Hanover on March 16, 1750 and is the eighth child and fourth daughter of a couple of Isaac Herschel and Anna Ilse Moritzen.
When his brother, Sir William Herschel interested in the world of Astronomy, Caroline very supportive. So finally, Caroline itself is also interested in the world of astronomy. As an astronomer famous woman in the world, Caroline Herschel discovered several comets. One of them is a periodic comet 35P / Herschel-Rigollet. Where the comet was also bears the family name, Herschel.  

In addition, the astronomer Caroline Herschel was the first woman to make the important role and contribution of science and knowledge have been paid. Not only that, Caroline has also been awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828, and was crowned the Honorary Member of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1835. By its contribution to the world of science and astronomy, so naturally if Google commemorate the anniversary Caroline Herschel 266th on his Doodle today.