Today on Google’s home page is a special Doodle, Google logo, for Georgios Papanikolaou. Georgios Papanikolaou was born a 136 years ago today and he was a Greek pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection. He inventor of the Pap smear, Papanicolaou test, a method of cervical screening used to detect potentially precancerous and cancerous processes in the cervix.

He was born on May 13, 1883 in Kymi, Greece and passed at the age of 78 on February 19, 1962 in Miami, Florida. He migrated in 1913 to the United States after medicine studying in Greece and Germany. He first reported that uterine cancer cells could be detected in vaginal smears in 1928. In 1961, he moved to Miami, Florida, to develop the Papanicolaou Cancer Research Institute at the University of Miami, but died shortly before it officially opened.

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