Integrity Score 125
No Records Found
No Records Found
No Records Found
Michiyo Tsujimura, the Japanese chemist who did in-depth research on green tea, was honoured with a Google Doodle on Friday on the occasion of her 133rd birth anniversary.
The Google Doodle celebrating Michiyo Tsujimura's 133rd birthday shows her studying and extracting the chemical components of green tea.
Michiyo Tsujimura and her colleague Seitaro Miura discovered green tea to be a natural source of vitamin C. Due to their research, the amount of green tea being exported to North America increased.
As Tsujimura further explored green tea, she was able to isolate more of its chemical composition, including catechin (a bitter ingredient of tea) and tannin. In 1932, Tsujimura published her doctoral thesis - “On the Chemical Components of Green Tea” - that included these findings and more, making her Japan's first woman doctor of agriculture. She went on to patent in 1935 a method of extracting crystallized Vitamin C from plants.
Source: https://www.timesnownews.com/the-buzz/article/michiyo-tsujimura-google-doodle-pays-tribute-to-japanese-chemist-and-green-tea-researcher/813079