Munich, February 16. The bestselling author Giulia Enders receives the first Helmut Fischer Prize for Science Communication from the Deutsches Museum.
She is young, smart, knows a lot and is very entertaining: Giulia Enders. At the age of 24, she has already written a bestseller(Darm mit Charme) and anyone who has ever experienced a science slam with her knows: this woman can communicate science. The medical student was therefore awarded the "Helmut Fischer Prize for Science Communication of the Deutsches Museum" on Tuesday, February 16. The prize honors people who have rendered outstanding services to science communication - and Giulia Enders has undoubtedly done so. "She disseminates medical knowledge - and does so very wittily, without ever being trivial," said the Director General of the Deutsches Museum, Wolfgang M. Heck. He held the laudatory speech in the museum's Hall of Honor. "With Giulia Enders, you learn more in a ten-minute science slam than in many an hour and a half lecture. And she is also brilliantly entertaining. That's how science communication should be," said Heckl. The founder was in full agreement. He personally handed over the certificate, the prize money of €5,000 and the trophy, a large light bulb specially coated on the inside with echo gold by the Fischer company. The idea of science communication - and therefore the prize - is very close to Helmut Fischer's heart. Both the prizewinner and the foundation's cooperation partner are a real asset in his eyes: "There is potentially enthusiasm for research and learning in everyone. This year's prizewinner manages to bring this out, which is what the Deutsches Museum stands for as an institution. And that's what the foundation promotes."
