On select Google home pages, you will see a special animated GIF Doodle, Google logo, for the 442nd birthday of the life of Johannes Kepler. Johannes Kepler was a astronomer, astrologer and mathematician who was born on December 27, 1571 in Weil der Stadt, Germany.
Here is the logo:
The logo can be found on Algeria, Austria, Bahrain, Egypt, Germany, Iraq, Ireland, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom versions of Google.
He is most well known for Kepler's laws of planetary motion and Kepler conjecture.
Johannes Kepler died at the age of 58 on November 15, 1630.
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