Buckyball Google Doodle: Happy 25th Birthday to the Buckyball

Buckyball Google Doodle: Happy 25th Birthday to the Buckyball Google has celebrated Buckyball 25th anniversary on September 4 by its Doodle. One of the O’S was missing from Google that day. Every Google visitor was wondering when he found a missing O on Saturday.

Google Doodles are only for special occasions and the latest doodle the 'Buckyball' marked the 25th anniversary of its discovery. It is a spherical dome of exotic molecules of carbon discoverd in 1985 by Buckminster Fuller. The special animated logo had replaced the Google logo's middle O letter with an orange ball. On Saturday every Google user was wondered when he found a missing O.

Buckyball is a form of carbon composed of 60 atoms that looks like a molecular football. According to scientists, ‘buckyball’ or fullerene is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. The official name of buckyball is "Buckminsterfullerene" because its structure resembles that of the geodesic domes designed by the late American engineer Buckminster Fuller.

When Sir Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered new carbon in 2885, they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996.

It was not the first time that Google has used its Doodle. It has used many times earlier on the special occasions. For the first time the Doodle was used August 1998 when Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the firm's founders, designed one for the Burning Man Festival.

Hallowen Doodle was produced in October 1999. It was the first after the firm switched to a new logo. There are several other occasions as well when these Doodles have been used.

Most recently the firm marked the 71st anniversary of the Judy Garland film The Wizard of Oz with a doodle of Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man and the Scarecrow walking down the Yellow Brick Road towards a landscape with "Google" on it.