Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
2008: Michael J. Stringer – This exquisite image shows Pleurosigma, or marine diatoms, that were magnified 200 times. It was taken using darkfield and polarized light.
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
2003: Dr. Torsten Wittmann, The Scripps Research Institute – Serial place-getter Torsten Wittmann won with this shot in 2003 of magnified mouse cells.
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
2001: Harold Taylor – Fresh-water rotifer feeding among debris
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
2000: Daphne Zbaeren-Colbourn – Avicennia marina (mangrove) leaf
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1999: Alexey Khodjakov, Wadsworth Center – Newt lung cell in mitosis (five different structures)
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1998: Jakob Zbaeren, Insel Hospital – Endothelial cells
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1997: Barbara Danowski, Union College – Mouse fibroblasts
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1996: Lars Bech – Doxorubin in methanol and dimethylbenzenesulfonic acid
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1995: Christian Gautier, JACANA Press Agency – Larva of Pleuronectidae
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1994: Jean Rüegger-Deschenaux – Cross section of very young beech
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1993: Ron Sturm, Construction Technology Laboratories, Inc. – Fossil fusulinids in limestone
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1992: Lars Bech – 10-year old preparation of barbital, fenacetine, valium and acetic acid
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1991: Marc van Hove, Centexbel – Polyurethane elastic fiber bundle
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1990: Richard H. Lee, Argonne National Laboratory – Crystals evaporated from a solution of magnesium sulfate and tartaric acid
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1989: Marc van Hove, Centexbel – Multiple exposure of a knitting-machine needle
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1988: David A. Smith – Gold residue and gold-coated bubbles in a glassy matrix
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1987: Julie Macklin & Dr. Graeme Laver, Australian National University – Crystals of influenza virus neuraminidase isolated from terns
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1986: Dr. Stephen Lowry, University of Ulster, Department of Biology – Live water mount of Hydra viridissima capturing Daphnia pulex (water flea)
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1985: Dr. Jonathan Eisenback, North Carolina State University, Department of Plant Pathology – Formalin-fixed whole mount of a spiral nematode (multiple exposure)
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1984: John I. Koivula, Gemological Institute of America – Inclusions of goethite and hematite in Brazilian agate
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1983: Elieen Roux, Bob Hope International Heart Research Institute – Suctorian attached to a stalk of red algae, encircled by a ring of diatoms
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1982: Dr. Jonathan Eisenback, North Carolina State University, Department of Plant Pathology – Silverberry scaly hair whole mount
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1981: David Gnizak, Ferro Corporation Research Center – Collapsed bubbles from an annealed experimental electronic sealing glass
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1980: James M. King, UC Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute – Larvacean within its feeding structure, dyed with red organic carmine that the larvacean syphoned in while filter feeding
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1979: Paul W. Johnson, University of Rhode Island – Stalked protozoan attached to a filamentous green algae with bacteria on its surface
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1978: David Gnizak – Gold, vaporized in a tungsten boat, in a vacuum evaporator
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1977: James W. Smith – Crystals of rutile (titanium dioxide) and tridymite (a polymorph of quartz) in a cobalt-rich glass
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1976: Eric V. Grave – Encysted parasitic roundworm (trichinella spirals)
Nikon Small World: 40 years of winners
1975: James Dvorak – Oxalic acid crystals during precipitation