Who Was Michiyo Tsujimura? Google Doodle Celebrates Scientist Known for Green Tea Research
  • By michael@cvcteam.com
  • |

The Google Doodle for today, September 17, celebrates Michiyo Tsujimura, the groundbreaking late Japanese biochemist known for her research on green tea and its nutritional benefits. The educator and researcher was Japan’s first woman doctor of agriculture.

Tsujimura identified different components of green tea, including vitamin C, which led to an increase in the export of green tea from Japan to North America, according to the digital archives of Ochanomizu University, a women’s university in the Japanese capital Tokyo,

Read More
×
×