Google Doodle Celebrates Astronomer Caroline Herschel, 1st Woman to Find a Comet

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 10:20 in Mathematics & Economics

Google celebrated the legacy of famed German astronomer Caroline Herschel, the first woman ever to discover a comet, today (March 16) with an animated Google doodle gift for her 266th birthday.

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