The present Google Doodle observes Australian specialist and medical scientist Dame Jean Macnamara on what might have been her 121st birthday.

Born in Victoria, Australia, on April 1, 1899, Macnamara was a youngster during the First World War, which encouraged her to need “to be of some use in the world.”

In 1925, Dr. Macnamara moved on from medical school as a polio scourge struck the city of Melbourne.

She was an expert and medical official to the Poliomyelitis Committee of Victoria who concentrated on treating and investigating the conceivably fatal infection, which especially influenced youngsters.

At that point, as a team with future Nobel Prize champ Macfarlane Burnet, in 1931, Dr. Macnamara found that there was more than one strain of the poliovirus, a disclosure that was a crucial step towards the improvement of a compelling antibody, which would be made about 25 years after the fact.

Dr. Macnamara kept on working with patients who experienced polio, particularly kids, and grew new techniques for treatments and rehabilitation.

Her research additionally assumed a significant job in the acquaintance of myxomatosis with control rabbit plagues, which limited ecological harm across Australia.

In 1935, Dr. Macnamara was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). She died in 1968, aged 69.

The Google Doodle was drawn by Sydney-based artist Thomas Campi, who revealed to Google that Macnamara is a significant figure to him personally, for two main reasons: “Dame Macnamara was an important figure in the scientific field and history of Australia. As an Italian immigrant who recently became a citizen, I feel honored to celebrate such an important woman in this country.

“The second reason is more personal—my cousin has struggled with Polio all his life, so I feel a lot of appreciation and gratitude to people like Dame Jean Macnamara.”

Campi drew motivation for his Google Doodle from his exploration on the doctor: “First I read about Dame Macnamara—her life and her studies. I wanted to know not just who she was, but what she meant in the medical field.

“I then started to look for photographic references about her, but also that specific time, hospitals, medical equipment, clothing, hairstyle, and of course about people with polio.

“All these materials were an inspiration filtered through my final intention, which was giving hope to people and passion for research, with a hint of surrealism and Magritte-ish concept.

Campi wants people who see his Google Doodle to feel hopeful: “There’s always hope—at least that is how I see life. Without pain, there is no happiness. It’s a difficult balance sometimes, but it’s worth it. The best way to describe it is through a Japanese philosophical concept “wabi-sabi,” which means “perfection is in the imperfection.”