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A photomicrograph is a technical document that can be of great significance to science. A one is also an object of beauty, open to several levels of appreciation. And once a year, Nikon celebrates the best of the bunch. Pictured here: a snowflake magnified 4X by Yangping Wang of the Beijing Planetarium. It received an honorable mention.![1 Igor Siwanowicz]()
1st Place -- Dr. Igor Siwanowicz Portrait of a green lacewing larva Technique: Confocal, magnified 20X![2 Donna Stolz]()
2nd Place -- Dr. Donna Stolz Blade of grass Technique: Confocal stack reconstruction, autofluorescence, magnified 200X![3 Frank Fox]()
3rd Place -- Frank Fox Melosira monoliformis (living specimen) Technique: Differential interference contrast, magnified 320X![4 Robin Young]()
4th Place -- Dr. Robin Young Liverwort Technique: Live mount, confocal microscopy, magnified 20X![5 Alfred Pasieka]()
5th Place -- Alfred Pasieka 3D reconstruction of a microchip Technique: Incident light, Normarski interference contrast, magnified 500X![6 Dennis Callahan]()
6th Place -- Dennis Callahan Cracked solar cell films Technique: Brightfield, magnified 50X![7 Gabriel Luna]()
7th Place -- Gabriel Luna Nerve fibers from the retina of a mouse Technique: Laser confocal scanning, magnified 40X![8 Bernardo Cesare]()
8th Place -- Dr. Bernardo Cesare Coarse-grained rocks bearing graphite Technique: Polarized light, magnified 2.5X![9 Jan Michels]()
9th Place -- Dr. Jan Michels The underbelly of a marine copepod Technique: Confocal, autofluorescence and congo red fluorescence, magnified 10X![10 Joan Rohl]()
10th Place -- Joan Rohl Freshwater water flea Technique: Differential interference contrast, magnified 100X![11 Jan Michels]()
11th Place -- Dr. Jan Michels Front view of an ant head Technique: Confocal, autofluorescence, magnified 10X![12 Thomas Deerinck]()
12th Place -- Thomas Deerinck "Immortal" cancer (HeLa) cells Technique: 2-Photon fluorescence, magnified 300X![13 Stephen S Nagy]()
13th Place -- Dr. Stephen S. Nagy A cross-section of a curare vine Technique: Brightfield, digitally inverted, magnified 45X![14 Yanping Wang]()
14th Place -- Yanping Wang Various grains of sand Technique: Reflected light, magnified 4X![15 James H Nicholson]()
15th -- James H. Nicholson A live specimen of lobe coral, its tissue pigmented with red fluorescence Technique: Epiflurescence with triple band (U/B/G) excitation, magnified 12X![16 Christopher Guerin]()
16th Place -- Dr. Christopher Guerin Cultured cells Technique: Confocal, magnified 63X![17 Witold Kilarski]()
17th Place -- Dr. Witold Kilarski Filaria worms inside the ear of a mouse Technique: Fluorescent confocal microscopy, magnified 150X![18 Benjamin Blonder and David Elliot]()
18th Place -- Banjamin Blonder, David Elliot The venation network of a young quaking aspen leaf Technique: Brightfield image of safranin-stained tissue, magnified 4X![19 Donna Stolz]()
19th Place -- Dr. Donna Stolz A collage of mammalian cells stained for various proteins and organelles, assembled into the shape of a wreath Technique: Single slice confocal cell mosaic, magnified 200-2000X![20 Douglas Moore]()
20th Place -- Douglas Moore Dinosaur bone cells, unpolished and over 150 million years old Technique: Stereomicroscopy, fiber optics, magnified 42XBest Microscope Photos From 2011 Nikon Small World Contest
The world as you've never seen it before: Nikon's annual Small World Competition showcases the year's best photography through the eye of a microscope. Here are the top 20 of 2011.
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- Best Microscope Photos From 2011 Nikon Small World Contest
