Nikon has announced the winners of the 2020 Small World Photomicrography Competition and has once again 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. More than 2,000 entries were received from 90 countries in 2020, the 46th year of the competition.
Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2020
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Read moreImage of Distinction: A 20 million-year-old winged ant, trapped in amber resin #
Dr. Yuan Ji, Shanghai, China -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: A short-tailed fruit bat embryo (Carollia perspicillata) #
Zuzana Vavrušová & Dr. Richard R. Behringer, UCSF / Université Paris-Saclay -
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Read more12th Place Winner: A knotted human hair #
Robert Vierthaler, Pfarrwerfen, Salzburg, Austria -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: A brightfield image of cyanobacteria (Dolichospermum) #
Wim van Egmond, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid Holland, Netherlands -
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Read more5th Place: A close view of a bogong moth #
Ahmad Fauzan, Jakarta, Indonesia -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: The body of a Chaoboridae larva with nervous system and fat droplets #
Anne Gleich, Kaiserslautern, Rheinlandpfalz, Germany -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Slime mold #
Sergii Dymchenko, Bellevue, Washington, USA -
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Read moreHonorable Mention: A ship-timber beetle (Lymexylidae) #
Marco Vinicio Retana, Palmares, Alajuela, Costa Rica -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Wing scales from a butterfly (Papilio palinurus) #
Marco Jongsma, Lemmer, Friesland, Netherlands -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: The embryo of an anemone fish (Amphiprion percula) #
Daniel Knop, Oberzent-Airlenbach, Hessen, Germany -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Mouse brain cells grown within a microfluidic maze #
Esmeralda Paric & Holly Stefen, Macquarie Park, NSW, Australia -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Diatoms #
Ken Schwarz & Dr. Osamu Oku, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA -
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Read more4th Place: Multi-nucleate spores and hyphae of a soil fungus (arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus) #
Dr. Vasileios Kokkoris, Dr. Franck Stefani & Dr. Nicolas Corradi, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: The interior of an unopened camellia flower bud showing immature anther and filament #
Charles Krebs, Issaquah, Washington, USA -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: A jumping spider (Salticidae) #
Andrei Nica, Bucharest, Romania, Romania -
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Read more13th Place: Crystals formed after heating an ethanol and water solution containing L-glutamine and beta-alanine #
Justin Zoll, Ithaca, New York, USA -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Daphnia (water microorganism) #
Paweł Błachowicz, Końskie, Świętokrzyskie, Poland -
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Read more16th Place: Nylon stockings #
Alexander Klepnev, Moscow, Russian Federation -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: A moth (Ctenucha brunnea) #
Dr. Andrew Posselt, San Francisco, Mill Valley, California, USA -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Salt crystals from the Salar de Uyuni brine #
Maria Jesus Redrejo Rodriguez & Dr. Eberhardt Josue Friedrich Kernahan, Madrid, Spain -
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Read moreHonorable Mention: The tongue of a freshwater snail (Radula) #
Dr. Igor Siwanowicz, Ashburn, Virginia, USA -
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Read more6th Place: Hebe plant anther with pollen #
Dr. Robert Markus & Zsuzsa Markus, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: An agatized dinosaur bone #
Randy Fullbright, Vernal, Utah, USA -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: The structure of an insect wing #
Aigars Jukna, Riga, Latvia -
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Read moreHonorable Mention: Liquid crystals in a mobile LCD screen #
Alexey Marchenko, Gomel, Belarus -
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Read moreHonorable Mention: A beetle's leg #
Aigars Jukna, Riga, Latvia -
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Read moreImage of Distinction: Cell division in microalgae (Cosmarium) #
Rogelio Moreno, Panama, Panama -
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Read more18th Place: A close view of an atlas moth's wing #
Chris Perani, San Rafael, California, USA
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