Winners of 2007 Announced at Nobel Monument Inscription Ceremony, June 5

In conjunction with the Nobel Monument Inscription Ceremony on June 5, the winners of the 2007 The Laureates of Tomorrow – Nobel Essay Contest, were announced by Ambassador Ulf Hjertonsson, Consul General of Sweden in New York.

The winners of 2007 are:

Mingzhu Li
Winner Physics
High School of American Studies at Lehman College, The Bronx
Essay title: Niels Bohr and His Model of the Atom

Melanie Plaza
Winner Chemistry
Bronx High School of Science, The Bronx
Essay title: Linus Pauling: Changing Chemistry and the World

William Rifkin
Winner Physiology/Medicine
Horace Mann School, The Bronx
Essay title: Andrew Fire and the Discovery of RNA Interference: Silence is Golden

Runners-up of 2007 are: Ted Westling (2nd Runner-up, Physics, Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan); Theodora Koullias (3rd Runner-up, Physics, Staten Island Technical High School in Staten Island); Christian Junewicz (2nd Runner-up, Chemistry, Trinity School in Manhattan); Gleb Bazilevsky (3rd Runner-up, Chemistry, Brooklyn Technical High School in Brooklyn); Artem Serganov (2nd Runner-up, Medicine, Bronx High School of Science in the Bronx); Malki Biderman (3rd Runner-up, Medicine, Manhattan High School for Girls in Manhattan).

> See photos from the Nobel Monument Inscription Ceremony
> Read the bio of Mingzhu Li
> Read the essay of Mingzhu Li
> Read the bio of Melanie Plaza
> Read the essay of Melanie Plaza
> Read the bio of William Rifkin
> Read the essay of William Rifkin

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Read the press release (PFD-file)