Hans Christian Ørsted: Google Doodle
While I was browsing Google today I noticed Google had a new logo (also known as a Google Doodle) on their homepage. They made this logo to recognize 
the birthday of Hans Christian Ørsted. Ørsted was a physicist, chemist, and also a poet, but he was best known for his discovery of electromagnetism. If you want you can find out more about Hans Christian Ørsted you can go to the Google homepage and click the logo.
I wanted to make this post here to make a suggestion to Google (if anyone from Google is reading this). In the future, please make the Google Doodle logo’s available on the mobile versions of Google as well! I was visiting Google on my iPhone and the Google Doodle logo did not appear there. I had to view Google in “Classic” mode to see the logo.
Here is the Google logo for Hans Christian Ørsted, in case you miss it:
Update: Many people seem to be confusing Hans Christian Ørsted with Hans Christian Andersen. Ørsted is a scientist and Andersen is a novelist.
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I thought the picture was awesome!
And I’ve never realized that the mobile version doesn’t show the Google doodle =(
I thought the Google Doodle looked like a pipe bomb
I also thought it looked like a bomb. I should have known it was electromagnetic-related! oh wait I am not a scientist.
Gr8 scientist anyway. Its nice to see as google doodle. By this way we can cheer up our memory to contribute a tribute. hey gr8 man my hat’s up..
I trust Google will NOT be cluttering mobile versions with doodles! I too thought a hacker had placed a pipe-bomb there. A sad reflection of the times we live in, but also perhaps a comment on the vagueness and – dare I say it – poor visual quality, of the doodle.
Hate to say this, but if you knew anything about electromagnets, you would know what was depicted in the doodle.
i really like the google doodle, it is very useful to learn and remember important things, i always wait for a new doodle to come.
I was quite impressed with the doodle myself today and clicked on the link . . . my father was a physicist with an interest in James Clarke Maxwell (a physicist one who worked with electromagnetic theory) so I was pleased to read the biography composed from various sources (about the third link down on Google just now)
really happy to know about this scientist
great job! I came to know about great scientist Tesla through this only. It is a great tribute by Google. Please include Indian Scientists also.
This post reeeeally makes me realize the huge amount of time that I waste on the internet. That would mean something if I wasn’t such a fellow loser such as yourselves, gents.
I was also startled to find a pipe bomb or IED on google this a.m.
Of course I had to investigate to find the explanation for such a posting by google. Hans Christian Ørsted? Really? Seriously? And this was the doodle they could come up with for the guy?
The Google Marketing and PR folks should not be required to consider further doodle suggestions from the nerds who work over in google web development.
Oh crap…wen i first saw this google doodle i thought its abt the person who made FIRST TIME BOMB…n i was lmao wen i dug in.
Too bad that everyone thought it was a pipe bomb. Orsted discovered Electro Magnetic Induction – THe fact that electric current can induce magnetic fields (an important concept in Electro magnetism). The Doodle is actually perfect – Current passes through the copper wire, induces magnetism in the Nail and you use the compass to show that the nail is now magnetised.
I used a similar circuit to demonstrate to my daughter several months ago although I used a Pin instead of a Nail.
I was quite horrified when I first saw it, I thought it was the mark of the globe trotting league of mad knitters. I then clicked on it and got a nice history lesson, some of you people need to relax, take a deep breath and quit being that 40 year old guy living in his mom’s basement.
I love when google “doodles” – I am “made in America with Danish parts” – my parents are right off the boat from Denmark, so I take pride in the many Danes who have made huge contributions to our lives……
I’m absolutely shocked everyone thought that was a pipe bomb.
The picture is of the experiment most children do in about 3rd grade, where you tape copper wire to the 2 ends of a battery, coil it around a nail and use it as an electro-magnet. No crazy science degree required.
Do we seriously not teach this shit in public school anymore?!
I also thought it was a bomb of some sort…
telltale signs: the timer, the wires and the pipe looking capacitor or coil
I would’ve definitely used something else to depict this concept as the majority of people would obviously not see it.
Happy Bday Ørsted!!!
Why are you up at 3 in the morning, looking at google’s doodles? Take an Ambien and go back to sleep!
it’s really gr8 2 see this google doodle.But u should have to mention the reson for this kind of artistic doodles.
Umm Fredo did you miss that day in 4th grade science where everyone learned how to make an electromagnet? This is how groups of people become dangerous and we end up with very stupid laws. Look at the doodle again read up on how to make a basic electromagnet and stop with the knee jerk reactions. Maybe next time common sense could engage first, we can only hope.
I have to agree with John Christopher’s comment about NOT cluttering mobile with images – bandwidth must be saved for important information NOT photos; for now anyway.