Nikon has announced the winners of the 2019 Small World Photomicrography Competition, and has once more shared some of the winning and honored images with us. The contest invites photographers and scientists to submit images of all things visible under a microscope. This year, first place was awarded to Teresa Zgoda and Teresa Kugler for their painstakingly prepared photo of a turtle embryo, using fluorescence and stereo microscopy. More than 2,000 entries were received from 100 countries in 2019, the 45th year of the competition.
Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2019
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Read moreFirst Place: Turtle embryo imaged with fluorescence and stereo microscopy #
Teresa Zgoda and Teresa Kugler, Campbell Hall, New York -
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Read moreThirteenth Place: Crystals of cuprite (a mineral composed of copper oxide) imaged with a 20x objective lens #
Dr. Emilio Carabajal Márquez, Madrid, Spain -
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Read moreSixth Place: Small white-hair spider #
Javier Rupérez, Almáchar, Málaga, Spain -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: The surface of an unknown seed seen under a 20x objective lens #
Johann Swanepoel, Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa -
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Read moreFifteenth Place: A pregnant Daphnia magna, a small planktonic crustacean #
Marek Miś, Suwalki, Podlaskie, Poland -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Papilio ulysses (blue emperor butterfly) scales #
Daniel Han, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia -
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Read moreHonorable Mention: Crystallized amino acids L-glutamine and beta-alanine #
Justin Zoll, Ithaca, New York -
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Read moreFourth Place: A close view of a male mosquito #
Jan Rosenboom, Rostock, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany -
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Read moreSixteenth Place: Housefly compound-eye pattern #
Dr. Razvan Cornel Constantin, Bucharest, Romania -
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Read moreThird Place: Alligator embryo developing nerves and skeleton #
Daniel Smith Paredes and Dr. Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar, New Haven, Connecticut -
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Read moreEighteenth Place: A cristobalite crystal suspended in its quartz mineral host. The field of view contained in this image is six millimeters across. #
E. Billie Hughes, Bangkok, Thailand -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Genetically engineered zebrafish embryos expressing green and red fluorescent proteins #
Norm Barker and Dr. Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, Baltimore, Maryland -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Antennae of a Haplomalachius flabellatus, a type of beetle #
Can Tunçer, Izmir, Aliaga, Turkey -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Campanula (bellflower) stigma #
Dr. Guillermo López López, Alicante, Spain -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Phantom midge larva #
Christopher Algar, Hounslow, Middlesex, United Kingdom -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Bryozoan zooids—aquatic invertebrate animals #
Charles Krebs, Issaquah, Washington -
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Read moreNinth Place: Tulip-bud cross section #
Andrei Savitsky, Cherkassy, Ukraine -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Stomoxys calcitrans (stable fly) #
Özgür Kerem Bulur, Istanbul, Turkey -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: A close view of a dying leaf #
Can Tunçer, Izmir, Aliaga, Turkey -
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Read moreHonorable Mention: The heart of a geranium dissectum #
Frederic Labaune, Auxonne, Burgundy, France -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Daphnia (water flea) #
Michael Landgrebe, Berlin, Germany
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