Who Is Eunice Newton Foote? Google Celebrates 204th B'day Of Scientist

Google Doodle paid tribute to American scientist Eunice Newton Foote on her 240th birthday. Google celebrated American scientist Eunice Newton's birthday, highlighting her discoveries in a fun way. Google honoured Newton's legacy through 11 informative slides explaining the greenhouse effect, and it makes us happy. 

Eunice Newton was the first scientist who brought to light the "greenhouse effect" and its impact on global warming in the year 1856, a time when women were denied even basic rights to education. 

Who Is Eunice Newton Foote?

The earliest known scientist, researcher, inventor, and women's rights campaigner, Eunice Newton Foote was one of the first climate scientists who discovered heat absorbing nature of carbon dioxide and water vapours that can harm the climate. 

In times when women were considered to have no relevance in science and shunned to contribute, Foote conducted research in 1856 that shaped the climate study that makes sense even today. In her research, she placed mercury thermometers in glass cylinders and discovered the cylinder with carbon dioxide experienced a significant effect of heat due to the sun. She then landed on the discovery of the connection between carbon dioxide and the warming up of weather conditions. 

Eunice Newton Foote's achievements include a study on atmospheric static electricity published in the journal of the American Association for Advancement of Science. She became the first woman scientist in the US to produce two physics studies. However, her work remained unrecognised for over a century. Her work was acknowledged only when a male scientist presented her study which later led to an experiment that discovered understanding of "The Greenhouse Effect."

Eunice Newton Foote was born in 1819 in Connecticut. She studied at Troy Female Seminary, which encouraged young girls to study science and even participate in chemistry labs for experiments. Initially, the seminary influenced her interest in science. 

Eunice Newton Foote also fought for women's rights and attended the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls in 1848. She was also the fifth signatory signing the Declaration of Sentiments, a document demanding equal rights for women socially and legally. 

Even after Newton Foote's unrecognised contribution to science, she participated in various scientific societies and women's rights campaigns and went on to contribute to society's welfare.

She died in 1888, leaving significant contributions to the study and understanding of climate change that are finally acknowledged and celebrated today. 

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