DFG Europa-Preis awarded to 3 young winners of national 'Jugend forscht' competition
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Three young researchers had two reasons to celebrate at this year's awards ceremony for Germany's "Jugend forscht" competition in Leverkusen. Not only did the young researchers place first in their respective fields, they were also awarded the Europa-Preis of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation).
Lennart Kleinwort from the Friedrich Koenig Gymnasium in Würzburg, who is just 14 years old, Michael Laue (17) from Walter Rathenau Gymnasium in Bitterfeld and Daniel Pflüger (18), from the Johanneum School in Lüneberg, all received this twofold distinction.
Lennart Kleinwort from Würzburg was awarded the "German President's Prize for Outstanding Work" for his project "FreeGeo", software which is used to display and modify geometric shapes on smartphones and tablets, the ubiquitous communication tools of our age. Michael Laue won the national award in the field of chemistry for a process he developed to manufacture conductive layers of carbon with the chemical conversion of graphene oxide. Daniel Pflüger won the national award in the field of physics. He used lasers and digital cameras to look at the complex development of waves which arise when a drop falls onto the surface of water.
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