Google Doodle Celebrates 101st Birthday of Inventor & Actress Hedy Lamarr

Few people in the world are deserving of the honor of a Google Doodle, but late Austrian-American film actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr can be placed squarely in this camp. Celebrating what would have been her 101st birthday today -- she passed away in 2000 -- the Google Doodle chronicles her life, from her successful film career in Austria and later Paris, to her dabbling in invention, which subsequently led to her inventing the frequency-hopping spectrum technology that prevented Allied submar...