Being just over 51% nerd, I noticed what you may have in the google widget thingy/doodle ( www.google.com ). Har Gobind Khorana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har_Gobind_Khorana is part of today's science birthday one as of the Nobel Prize winners who deciphered the "genetic code" that all cells use to translate DNA sequences into proteins, and later helped create the first synthetic gene.
Pretty geeky but fantastic stuff. Helps to know phenominal people are quietly doing great things while we mostly hear about the genius in the white house and such http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-met-trump-genius-mueller-russia-huppke-20180108-story.html