Molecular Frontiers Foundation
- Molecular Frontiers Foundation
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The Molecular Frontiers Foundation (MFF) was founded under the auspices of the Nobel Foundation in 2007 by Bengt Nordén, a professor of physical chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the former chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. Part of the mission of MFF according to Nordén is to counter the "increasingly bad image that chemistry has in society" and the "decreasing interest in science by the young generation." [1].
The MFF is chaired by the 1999 Chemistry Nobel Laureate Ahmed Zewail and counts eleven Nobel Laureates amongst its 29-member Scientific Advisory Board.[2]
Through its science-discussion website "MoleClues", the MFF awards the yearly "Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize" also known as the "kid Nobel" to equal numbers of girls and boys from around the world for asking the most penetrating scientific question.[3] The entries are collected online and judged by the MFF Scientific Advisory Board during the annual Spring MFF Youth Forum in the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden.
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