The Wellcome Trust, a charitable organization known among other things for its project to host free medical and scientific images for the world to use, has just announced the winners of its Wellcome Image Awards 2016. The competition aims to bring to the forefront beautiful imagery and to celebrate its connection to science, medicine, and life.
All the photos, scans, and micrographs come from the past year’s additions to the Wellcome Images library and the judges consist of medical professionals, scientists, and scientific communication experts.
Here are some of the judges commenting on the images, the competition, and the power of beauty in science: