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 Donald and students Danielle Cannon and Adam Corrigan in the laboratory, surrounded by different types of systems she has looked at during her career using a variety of microscopy techniques - plastics, carrot (vegetable) and potato (starch). They are looking at a fluorescent image of a stained mammalian cell (fibroblast) in Cambridge, UK on November 4, 2008. Photo by Micheline Pelletier/ABACAPRESS.COM