EXCLUSIVE - Pr. Athene Donald, United Kingdom, laureate 2009. For Women in Science Award, LOreal-UNESCO, Europe. 'For her work in unravelling the mysteries of the physics of messy materials ranging from cement to starch.' Professor Athene Donald and student Juliette MacGregor measuring the environment in the growth cabinet for plants. Growing healthy plants is crucial to being able to examine them in their natural state subsequently in the environmental scanning electron microscope in Cambridge, UK on November 4, 2008. Photo by Micheline Pelletier/ABACAPRESS.COM