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Picture Competition – A Year in the Lab: The Chemist's View

Best 12 pictures will receive prizes and will be published in 2014 calendar

02.05.2013 - he JungChemikerForum (JCF), ChemistryViews.org, and the Vereinigung für Chemie und Wirtschaft (VCW) invite chemists to submit a picture showing in a creative way the beautiful and fascinating things one can find in a chemistry lab.

TPictures, for example, might show an experimantal setup from an unusual angel, vividly illustrate concepts, like basic chemical principles, or show the beauty of chemistry with outstanding pictures created with imaging technology.

The best 12 pictures will receive an award (total prizes worth €3,000) and will have the privilege to appear in a calendar for 2014.

The deadline for entries is July 28, 2013.

The images must be genuine work and the participant must own the rights to each picture. They must be submitted as jpeg files with at least 300 dpi with 3 megapixels or a resolution of 2016 × 1512.

12 winners will be chosen from all submitted photos by a panel of judges. Winning pictures will be announced on September 1, 2013.

All pictures will be posted on ChemistryViews.org for everyone to admire. The best 12 pictures will receive an award (total prizes worth €3,000) and will have the privilege to appear in a calendar for 2014.

The calendar will be presented at the Wissenschaftsforum 2013 and will also be offered for sale online.

1. Prize: €125 and books for up to €125 from Wiley's blue&white or For Dummies brand
Prizes 2-12: €125 and books for up to €79 from Wiley's blue&white or For Dummies brand
The picture receiving most "Likes": Book prize: Molecules That Changed The World by K. C. Nicolaou and T. Montagnon

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