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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Marc Steinmetz, Fotograf.

As part of the international "Universal Leonardo" project, chemist Dr. Heike Stege and restorer Jan Schmidt examine an X-ray image of the painting "Madonna with carnation" by Leonardo da Vinci at the Doerner Institute of the Bavarian State Art Collection. They discovered a heretofore unknown fingerprint on the canvas.

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