Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2019

Alan Taylor
October 21, 2019
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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.

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First Place: Turtle embryo imaged with fluorescence and stereo microscopy #

Teresa Zgoda and Teresa Kugler, Campbell Hall, New York

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Thirteenth 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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Sixth Place: Small white-hair spider #

Javier Rupérez, Almáchar, Málaga, Spain

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Image of Distinction: The surface of an unknown seed seen under a 20x objective lens #

Johann Swanepoel, Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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Fifteenth Place: A pregnant Daphnia magna, a small planktonic crustacean #

Marek Miś, Suwalki, Podlaskie, Poland

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Image of Distinction: Papilio ulysses (blue emperor butterfly) scales #

Daniel Han, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Honorable Mention: Crystallized amino acids L-glutamine and beta-alanine #

Justin Zoll, Ithaca, New York

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Fourth Place: A close view of a male mosquito #

Jan Rosenboom, Rostock, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany

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Sixteenth Place: Housefly compound-eye pattern #

Dr. Razvan Cornel Constantin, Bucharest, Romania

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Third Place: Alligator embryo developing nerves and skeleton #

Daniel Smith Paredes and Dr. Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar, New Haven, Connecticut

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Eighteenth 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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Image 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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Image of Distinction: Antennae of a Haplomalachius flabellatus, a type of beetle #

Can Tunçer, Izmir, Aliaga, Turkey

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Image of Distinction: Campanula (bellflower) stigma #

Dr. Guillermo López López, Alicante, Spain

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Image of Distinction: Phantom midge larva #

Christopher Algar, Hounslow, Middlesex, United Kingdom

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Image of Distinction: Bryozoan zooids—aquatic invertebrate animals #

Charles Krebs, Issaquah, Washington

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Ninth Place: Tulip-bud cross section #

Andrei Savitsky, Cherkassy, Ukraine

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Image of Distinction: Stomoxys calcitrans (stable fly) #

Özgür Kerem Bulur, Istanbul, Turkey

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Image of Distinction: A close view of a dying leaf #

Can Tunçer, Izmir, Aliaga, Turkey

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Honorable Mention: The heart of a geranium dissectum #

Frederic Labaune, Auxonne, Burgundy, France

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Image of Distinction: Daphnia (water flea) #

Michael Landgrebe, Berlin, Germany

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