MOST BEAUTIFUL WINNERS: 2016 NIKON SMALL WORLD COMPETITION
NIKON SMALL WORLD 2016 PHOTO MICROGRAPHY COMPETITION
NIKON’S SMALL WORLD
Check out some of our favorite award winners of the 2016 Nikon Small World Competition!
Image: by Dr. Wutian Wu, University of Hong Kong. “Hippocampal neurons.”
The Nikon International Small World Competition recognizes excellence in photography through a microscope. Since it began in 1975, Small World has become a leading showcase for photomicrographs from the widest array of scientific disciplines.
Image: by Jochen Schroeder. “Butterfly proboscis.”
The subject matter is unrestricted and any type of light microscopy technique is acceptable, including phase contrast, polarized light, fluorescence, interference contrast, darkfield, confocal, deconvolution, and mixed techniques.
Image: by Dr. Oscar Ruiz, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. “Four-day-old zebrafish embryo.”
Entries submitted to Nikon are then judged by an independent panel of experts who are recognized authorities in the area of photomicrography and photography. These entries are judged on the basis of originality, informational content, technical proficiency and visual impact.
Image: by Marek Miś. “Air bubbles formed from melted ascorbic acid (vitamin C) crystals.”
Each year, the top 20 prize-winners are exhibited at numerous museums and science centers throughout the United States and Canada.
Image: by Douglas L. Moore, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. “Polished slab of Teepee Canyon agate.”
Image: by Dr. Erdinc Sezgin, University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. “3D image of moving vesicles.”
Image: by Dr. Gist F. Croft, Lauren Pietilla, Stephanie Tse, Dr. Szilvia Galgoczi, Maria Fenner & Dr. Ali H. Brivanlou, of Brivanlou Laboratory, Rockefeller University. “Human neural rosette primordial brain cells, differentiated from embryonic stem cells in the culture dish (used to study brain development and Huntington’s disease).”
Image: by Dr. Chen-Hui Chen, Academia Sinica, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology. “Head section of a “skinbow” zebrafish larva. Epithelial cells are multi-color labeled for live imaging studies.”
Image: by Rebecca Nutbrown, of University of Oxford. “Brain cells from skin cells: Specifically, this is a culture of neurons (stained green) derived from human skin cells, and Schwann cells, a second type of brain cell (stained red), which have started to cover the neuron in the same way these cells interact in the brain.”
Image: by Francis Sneyers. “Scales of a butterfly wing underside (Vanessa atalanta).
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Image: by Samuel Silberman. “Wildflower stamens.”
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Image: by Teresa Zgoda, Rochester Institute of Technology. “Jellyfish (Aurelia Ephyra).”
IMAGE CREDITS:
All images are courtesy of Nikon Small World. 2016 Photomicrography Competition.
