2009 Winners

Winners: 2009 Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize winner Felicia Ullstad, 17, receives the medal from Nobel Prize winner and Molecular Frontiers member Roderick MacKinnonWinners: 2009 Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize winner Felicia Ullstad, 17, receives the medal from Nobel Prize winner and Molecular Frontiers member Roderick MacKinnon

The 2009 Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize winners were selected by judges from the Molecular Frontiers Scientific Advisory Board on 4th June 2009 at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden.

2009 winners
We have had a large number of excellent entries for the competition this year and the Jury had a tremendously difficult job selecting the eventual winners - five boys and five girls, just like last year .

Vladmir Leopards: Winner of the 2008 Molecular Frontiers Inquiry PrizeVladmir Leopards: Winner of the 2008 Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize

 

The winners were announced by Vladimir Leopards, winner of last year's Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize, who was invited to participate in the Molecular Frontiers Symposium this year.

Congratulations!
Winners receive the Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize Medal, a certificate and an Apple iPod Touch!

 

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Girls

Chloe Lim, 15, Singapore:
“Where does conscience come from?"

Felicia Ullstad, 17, Sweden:
“What is the origin of chemical chirality?”

Katerina Donta, 16, Greece:
"Some animals can reproduce an amputated part of their body, why can’t we?”

Rei-En Tang, 15, Singapore:
“How does our imagination work?”

Tove Lagström, 17,Sweden:
“What are the properties of water that make it the keystone of life?”



Boys

Alec Wilkens, 16, USA:
“How are memories stored?”

Daniel Tong, 15, Brazil:
“What are the molecular differences between living and non-living things?”

Fabian Fernandez-Han, 11, USA:
“Why does listening to cats purr make you feel calm and relaxed??”

Homan Mohammadi,17, Canada:
“What makes a cell alive if it is simply a collection of inanimate atoms?”

Max Wallack, 13, USA:
“Why does water expand when it freezes?”