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Google Doodle celebrates Anna Atkins 216th Birthday

India, Mon, 16 Mar 2015 NI Wire

Google Doodle is celebrating 216th Birthday of Anna Atkins. Google Doodle is displaying the picture on its search home page around the world.

Anna Atkins was an English botanist 16 March 1799 and she died on 9 June 1871. She was also a photographer. She was the first woman to create a photograph. She is considered to be the first person to publish a book with photographic images.

Life of Anna Atkins

Anna Atkins was born in Tonbridge, Kent, England in 1799. Anna Atkins' mother didn't recovered from the childbirth effect and died in 1800.

Anna Atkins received scientific education at that time.

Anna Atkins married John Pelly Atkins in 1825 and then they moved to Halstead Place.

Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions

Sir John Herschel was one of the friend of Anna Atkins and Children, who invented the photographic process in 1842. Within a year, Anna Atkins applied the photographic progress to algae and created the cyanotype photogram.

Anna Atkins produced a total of three volumes of Photographs of British Algae between 1843 and 1853. Only 17 copies of the book are known to exist, in various states of completeness.


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