Buckyball Google Doodle: Brief history of Buckyball discovery
Google celebrated the 25th birthday of Buckyball today which was discovered by a group of scientists in the Rice University in 1985. The university will also honor the discovery in October. To understand the Buckyball, we have provided some background of Fullerene.
The fullerene, a chemical often formed only by carbon atoms in a stable manner, the example of diamond and graphite, was discovered on September 04, 1985. The molecule was found by chemists Richard Errett Smalley and Harold Walter Kroto, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery in 1996. Scientists named the fullerene in honor of Richard Buckminster Fuller, American architect who created the Geodesic Dome, a rounded construction that stands out for its lightness and strength.
The buckyball is a form of structurally ball-shaped fullerene of 60 carbon atoms. The molecule looks like a soccer ball. The fullerene can also assume a cylindrical shape, which is known as buckytubes.
Back to Buckyball Google Doodle, the animated Google logo was responding on the mouse pointer movement over it. The Mountain View base company used JavaScript scripting language to get the functionally. According to ZDNet UK, the JavaScript code was using good percentage of CPU usage.