Google Doodle Honours Lucy Wills(May 10,1888 - April 16,1964)for her on prenatal vitamins

Google on Friday May 10,2019 honoured the life and work of English haematologist Lucy Wills, whose pioneering research led to the creation of a prenatal vitamin that helps birth defects, with a doodle on what would have been her 131st birthday

Her major achievement in the field of medicine is the discovery of vitamin folic acid — a man-made form of folate, a B-vitamin found naturally in dark green vegetables and citrus fruits, which plays an important role in the creation of red blood cells. The folic acid when taken by women before and during pregnancy, helps check birth defects in the baby's brain and spinal cord.


Thus, today pregnant women around the world have Lucy Wills to thank for the crucial research that prevented birth defects.