Virginia Biochemist Camille Schrier Is Crowned Miss America

Virginia biochemist Camille Schrier won the Miss America crown just minutes after wowing the crowd with science.
Virginia Biochemist Camille Schrier Is Crowned Miss America
Camille Schrier, of Virginia, reacts reacts as she is crowned after winning the Miss America competition at the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn., on Dec. 19, 2019. Charles Krupa/AP Photo
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UNCASVILLE, Conn.—Organizers wanted to make it clear the 99th Miss America competition isn’t your grandmother’s beauty pageant, and their winner did just that on Thursday.

Virginia biochemist Camille Schrier won the crown just minutes after wowing the crowd with science. Dressed in a lab coat, she gave a colorful chemistry demonstration of the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide.