Today's Google Doodle Honors an Important and Unsung Type of Scientist, the "Amateur" Scientist.

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There are scientists, very important scientists in fact, who do their science as something other as a job. Some of these are autodidacts, who teach themselves what they need to know and go on to advance their fields greatly, often in obscurity that outlives their physical lives, with fame coming after their deaths.

These kinds of people are invaluable.

Gregor Mendel was such a scientist; his job was "Monk," but he did science that survived him and helped pave the way for modern genetics.

Today's Google Doodle is about another such scientist: Ynes Mexia

I personally love the Google Doodles; they teach me things I didn't know.