The 2006 competition

Here you find the winning photographs of the 2006 "Images of Research" competition in the categories "Fascination of Research", "Faces of Research", the winner of the audience prize and the shortlist, a selection of the best photos submitted in 2006. To view a larger version of the photographs, please click on the picture in question.


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Category "Additional nominations":

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Jürgen Berger, Physikalisch-Technischer Assistent

To prepare small samples for the electron microscope, they are frozen under high pressure. This way, whole organisms or small pieces of tissue are immobilized at high pressure and low temperatures in fractions of a second. Since the procedure of high-pressure freezing is very noisy, scientists Dr. Heinz Schwarz and Dr. Bernard Moussian at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen have to cover their ears.

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