It's the 161st birthday of some old guy... thanks Google

So the guy above is Julius Richard Petri, he in vented the Petri dish.

While it may sound tasteful good old Julius was no chef, he was a bacteriologist from Germany.

Thus as you may imagine his discovery was involved with bacteria. The Petri dish is actually a small glass dish that is used to place bacteria and watch grow. Terrible description but consult a textbook and not the internet if you are interested in century old inventions for studying bacteria.

The Google of today goes from this (above)

To this (above)

But why are you here and not looking up your essay on Google brat. get gone already.

PS This is not a mailing service

PPS I shaare a name with this guy

PSPS His birthday is 2 days after mine.