Internet search engine and technology giant, Google marks the Japanese educator and biochemist Michiyo Tsujimura's 133rd birthday with a sketch doodle.
Wishing "Happy Birthday, Michiyo Tsujimura!" lauds her 'groundbreaking research into the nutritional benefits of green tea' as well being the most outstanding women educator-researcher of Japan.
Google website informs, "Michiyo Tsujimura was born on this day in 1888 in Okegawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She spent her early career teaching science. In 1920, she chased her dream of becoming a scientific researcher at Hokkaido Imperial University where she began to analyze the nutritional properties of Japanese silkworms."
Furthermore, she also worked at Tokyo Imperial University and began researching the biochemistry of green tea alongside Dr. Umetaro Suzuki, famed for his discovery of vitamin B1. She researched and wrote her doctoral thesis titled “On the Chemical Components of Green Tea” to become Japan’s first woman doctor of agriculture in 1932.
"Outside of her research, Dr. Tsujimura also made history as an educator when she became the first Dean of the Faculty of Home Economics at Tokyo Women’s Higher Normal School in 1950," adds the website.
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