Google Doodle Celebrates Michiyo Tsujimura 133rd Birthday

Name	Michiyo Tsujimura
Birth Place	Saitama, Japan
Birth date	17 September 1888
Death	1 June 1969
Profession	Japanese agricultural scientist and biochemist

Do you also want to know about this image which is on Google Doodle? Recently I also noticed and after researching, her name is Michiyo Tsujimura and she is from Okegawa, Japan. She was born in 17 September 1888.

Michiyo Tsujimura was a Japanese agricultural scientist & biochemist. she chased her dream of becoming a scientific researcher at Hokkaido Imperial University where she began to analyze the nutritional properties of Japanese silkworms. Michiyo Tsujimura died at the age 80.

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The second woman to enter RIKEN,Tsujimura, was an organic chemist who worked with Umetaro Suzuki, who will be featured later as the pioneer of life science research at RIKEN. She explored chemical compounds such as catechins and tannins in green tea.

There was no smooth road to academia for women in those days so, like Kato, she studied at a teaching school and then worked as a teacher for seven years before attending university as an auditing student.

After completing her studies she began working in a medical chemistry laboratory at Tokyo Imperial University, but her laboratory was destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and she moved to Umetaro Suzuki’s laboratory at RIKEN.

Suzuki nurtured her as a scientist rather than simply as a technician, and Tsujimura went on later to become the first Japanese woman to earn a doctorate in agricultural science.

She was appointed to a research position at RIKEN and later went on to become a professor at the newly established Ochanomizu University, a national university for women.

Google Doodle Celebrates Michiyo Tsujimura 133rd Birthday

Have you ever wondered why green tea taste is bitter when steeped for so long? Thanks to Japanese biochemist and educator Michiyo Tsujimura, and her groundbreaking research on the nutritional benefits of green tea, science answers.

Today’s doodle celebrates Michiyo Tsujimura on her 133rd birthday.

She began her career as a unpaid laboratory assistant at Hokkaido Imperial University when the university did not even accept female students.

If a sip of green tea has ever made you go “why is this SO bitter?”, Japanese educator & biochemist Michiyo Tsujimura has an answer in her thesis “On the Chemical Components of Green Tea” 🍵

Our #GoogleDoodle today wishes her a happy birthday!
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A few years later, Tsujimura joined the Imperial University of Tokyo and began researching the biochemistry of green tea with Dr. Umetaro Suzuki, famous for the discovery of vitamin B1. They found out that green tea contains a lot of vitamin C – it was the first of the so-called unknown molecules in green tea that was waiting under the microscope.

Tsujimura also made a name for himself as an educator.In 1949 she became a professor at Ochanomizu University She has been a professor at Tokyo Women’s High School since 1950 and is also the first dean of the home economics. And in 1956 he was awarded the Japanese Agricultural Science Award

At the age of 80, Michiyo Tsujimura died in 1969. A memorial to his memory can still be seen in the city of Okegawa to this day.

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