Julius Richard Petri: Google Doodle honours Petri dish inventor

Today's Doodle represents the latter, and is celebrating the 161st birthday of the inventor of the Petri dish, Julius Richard Petri. Rather than some stoic science scene, though, Google went down a more interesting route.On the 161st anniversary of the birth of Julius Richard Petri, the inventor of the Petri dish used to cultivate bacteria, the Google Doodle shows six dishes with different bacterial cultures in them. You can watch the bacteria grow and form differentPetri was working in a Berlin hospital in the 1870s when he made his discovery. He was an assistant to Robert Koch - the father of modern bacteriology - at the time. The interactive doodle has the letters of the word 'Google' replaced with petri dishesOn the 161st anniversary of the birth of Julius Richard Petri, the inventor of the Petri dish used to cultivate bacteria, the Google Doodle shows six dishes with

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