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Distinguished Research Fellow Benny K.K. Chan received the 2024 Mario Markus Prize for Ludic Science from the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker - GDCh)

Dr. Benny K.K. Chan, Distinguished Research Fellow and Director of the Biodiversity Research Center, received the Mario Markus Prize for his studies on the remarkable mobility of "immotile" turtle barnacles. In his publication "Five Hundred Million Years to Mobility: Directed Locomotion and Its Ecological Function in a Turtle Barnacle" , Benny K.K. Chan and his team playfully discovered the mobility of "immotile" turtle barnacles and explored how and why these barnacles move, which impressed the jury and earned him this honor.

   

Prof. Mario Markus is the donor of the award. Prof. Markus conducted research at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main in 1974 before moving to the Max Planck Institute for Nutritional Physiology (now MPI for Molecular Physiology), where he has led his own research group since 1993. The German Chemical Society (GDCh) established this prize to recognize scientific work in the field of natural science that is "playful." The term "playful" here refers to discoveries that arise from research conducted not for a specific application but out of sheer curiosity about the natural world.

   

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