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Stamen Grigorov, Who Discovered the Secrets of Yogurt, Is Celebrated With a Google Doodle Dr. Stamen Grigorov’s Google Doodle.  Google Throughout the extent of human history, there are numerous transcendent pioneers who’ve contributed so thoroughly to the community of the world that their brilliance is impossible to deny. Sure, you could apply this description to someone like Jonas Salk, the developer of the first effective polio vaccine. But you could also apply it to the subject of  today’s Google Doodle :  Dr. Stamen Grigorov , a Bulgarian physician and microbiologist who, in 1905, discovered the microorganism that causes the fermentation of yogurt. Grigorov made his monumental discovery because of a present he received from his wife, who gifted him Bulgarian culinary delicacies that included yogurt. Intrigued, the scientist decided to conduct thousands of experiments with the yogurt sample until he uncovered what he had been seeking, which was the rod-shaped bacterium...

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