Optical Illusion of The Day: Ramón y Cajal 160th Birthday

Posted: 30 May 2012 05:13 PM PDT

Google, a company (once) known for it’s “Don’t be Evil” corporate motto, has a fun practice of regularly replacing its homepage logo with various doodles.

Earlier this month, exactly 160 years have passed since birth of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Ramón y Cajal’s pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain made him the father of modern neuroscience. He was skilled at drawing, and hundreds of his illustrations of brain cells are still used for educational purposes today.

Google payed the respect to the Spanish pathologist, histologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate with the following “optical illusion” doodle. If you can remember of some other memorable illusory doodles, Google used in the past, be sure to embed them in your comments!