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 "Faces of Research":

Category "Audience prize":

Category "Additional nominations":

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Dr. Joachim Schachtner, Biologe

The image shows a single nerve cell in the brain of the tobacco hawkmoth - in the area responsible for initial processing of scent information. Tobacco hawkmoths have an extremely sensitive sense of smell; they can perceive individual scent molecules. In the picture, the central appendix of the cell with its fine extensions appears as a tree-like structure.

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