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Google honors English hematologist Lucy Wills with a doodle



NEW DELHI: Google on Friday honored English hematologist Lucy Wills which research led to the discovery of folic acid. Wills had conducted research on anemia in pregnant women in Mumbai in 1928.

She conducted seminal work in India in the late 1920s and early 1930s on macrocytic anemia during pregnancy.

The research led to widely used folic acid that helps to prevent birth defects in babies.

Publish Date : 10 May 2019 15:40 PM

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