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
- Alan Taylor
- October 13, 2020
- 28 Photos
- In Focus
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Image of Distinction: A 20 million-year-old winged ant, trapped in amber resin #
Dr. Yuan Ji, Shanghai, China -
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Image of Distinction: A short-tailed fruit bat embryo (Carollia perspicillata) #
Zuzana Vavrušová & Dr. Richard R. Behringer, UCSF / Université Paris-Saclay -
12th Place Winner: A knotted human hair #
Robert Vierthaler, Pfarrwerfen, Salzburg, Austria -
Image of Distinction: A brightfield image of cyanobacteria (Dolichospermum) #
Wim van Egmond, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid Holland, Netherlands -
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5th Place: A close view of a bogong moth #
Ahmad Fauzan, Jakarta, Indonesia -
Image of Distinction: The body of a Chaoboridae larva with nervous system and fat droplets #
Anne Gleich, Kaiserslautern, Rheinlandpfalz, Germany -
Image of Distinction: Slime mold #
Sergii Dymchenko, Bellevue, Washington, USA -
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Honorable Mention: A ship-timber beetle (Lymexylidae) #
Marco Vinicio Retana, Palmares, Alajuela, Costa Rica -
Image of Distinction: Wing scales from a butterfly (Papilio palinurus) #
Marco Jongsma, Lemmer, Friesland, Netherlands -
Image of Distinction: The embryo of an anemone fish (Amphiprion percula) #
Daniel Knop, Oberzent-Airlenbach, Hessen, Germany -
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Image of Distinction: Mouse brain cells grown within a microfluidic maze #
Esmeralda Paric & Holly Stefen, Macquarie Park, NSW, Australia -
Image of Distinction: Diatoms #
Ken Schwarz & Dr. Osamu Oku, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA -
4th 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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Image of Distinction: The interior of an unopened camellia flower bud showing immature anther and filament #
Charles Krebs, Issaquah, Washington, USA -
Image of Distinction: A jumping spider (Salticidae) #
Andrei Nica, Bucharest, Romania, Romania -
13th 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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Image of Distinction: Daphnia (water microorganism) #
Paweł Błachowicz, Końskie, Świętokrzyskie, Poland -
16th Place: Nylon stockings #
Alexander Klepnev, Moscow, Russian Federation -
Image of Distinction: A moth (Ctenucha brunnea) #
Dr. Andrew Posselt, San Francisco, Mill Valley, California, USA -
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Image of Distinction: Salt crystals from the Salar de Uyuni brine #
Maria Jesus Redrejo Rodriguez & Dr. Eberhardt Josue Friedrich Kernahan, Madrid, Spain -
Honorable Mention: The tongue of a freshwater snail (Radula) #
Dr. Igor Siwanowicz, Ashburn, Virginia, USA -
6th Place: Hebe plant anther with pollen #
Dr. Robert Markus & Zsuzsa Markus, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom -
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Image of Distinction: An agatized dinosaur bone #
Randy Fullbright, Vernal, Utah, USA -
Image of Distinction: The structure of an insect wing #
Aigars Jukna, Riga, Latvia -
Honorable Mention: Liquid crystals in a mobile LCD screen #
Alexey Marchenko, Gomel, Belarus -
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Honorable Mention: A beetle's leg #
Aigars Jukna, Riga, Latvia -
Image of Distinction: Cell division in microalgae (Cosmarium) #
Rogelio Moreno, Panama, Panama -
18th Place: A close view of an atlas moth's wing #
Chris Perani, San Rafael, California, USA -
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