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Eunice Newton Foote
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Google Doodle Honors Connecticut Native Who 'Planted Seed' Of Climate Change Awareness
Search engine giant Google paid homage to Eunice Newton Foote, a scientist, inventor, and women's rights advocate, on what would have been her 204th birthday Monday, July 17 with a Google Doodle. Foote, who was born in Connecticut (in the town of Goshen in Litchfield County), and died in Lenox, Massachusetts, was the first person to document what we now call the "greenhouse effect." Google said Foote "planted the seed" for climate change awareness more than 160 years ago. According to NewScientist, Foote described how different gases, such as oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon di…