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