World News | Edited by Arun Nair | Monday March 12, 2018
Google honoured British chemist Sir William Henry Perkin with a doodle on what would have been his 180th birthday.Mr Perkin may not be a familiar name to many people - but the significance of his work lives on to this very day - he is best known for his accidental discovery of the first aniline dye: the purple mauveine.
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