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Wellcome Trust, January 3, 2012:
The first Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize.
Winner of the professional category Penny Sarchet, Doctoral research student, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford.
Who inspires you?
I’ve done some pieces on Martin Brasier, who’s in the Oxford University Earth Sciences department. He’s interested in the origin of life, and has found one of the earliest and most complex fossils in a loch in Scotland. He’s been a real inspiration. I also enjoyed speaking to Angela Palmer, the artist behind the Ghost Forest project. She heard about the rate at which we’re losing rainforest and it completely transfixed her. She developed the idea to move several huge trees from Ghana to the UK, to show people what we’re losing. Everybody told her that there was no way that she could do it. She did it, but it sounded like a nightmare! It was amazing that she managed it, very inspiring.