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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Thorsten Naeser, Wissenschaftsjournalist

Driven by light air movements, a thin film of soap lather meanders in front of hydraulic engineer Katrin Motzet. The engineers at the Department of Hydraulics and Hydrology of Technical University Munich use this trial set-up to observe hydromechanical processes. Especially flows around obstacles can be made visible this way.

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