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Google Doodle Celebrates - Eunice Newton Foote's 204th Birthday | 17 July In today's Doodle, a slideshow honor's Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist and campaigner for women's rights who was born 204 years ago. Foote was the first person to find out about the greenhouse effect and how it causes the Earth's temperature to warm. Use today's Doodle to find out how Foote made his scientific finding!  Foote was born in Connecticut on this day in 1819. She went to the Troy Female Seminary, which was a school where students were urged to go to science lectures and chemistry labs. Foote was interested in science for the rest of her life, but she also worked for women's rights. In 1848, Foote went to Seneca Falls to take part in the first Women's Rights Convention. She was the fifth person to sign the Declaration of Sentiments, which called for social and legal equality for women.  At this time, most scientists didn't want to work with women. Foote did...