Oxford Mathematicians Derek Moulton and Alain Goriely together with their colleague Régis Chirat (University of Lyon) have won the 2019 PNAS Cozzarelli Prize in the Engineering and Applied Sciences category for their paper 'Mechanics unlocks the morphogenetic puzzle of interlocking bivalved shells.'

The paper describes how two groups of animals—brachiopods and bivalve mollusks—sport interlocking shells that help guard against predators and environmental perturbations, and explains how those shells are formed.

The Cozzarelli Prize is awarded annually to six research teams whose PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) articles have made outstanding contributions to their fields. Each team represents one of the six classes of the National Academy of Sciences.

 

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