The winners of the 49th annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition have been revealed. This year’s first-place prize was awarded to Hassanain Qambari, assisted by Jayden Dickson for his image of a rodent optic nerve head. The second-place winner is Ole Bielfeldt with his image of a matchstick igniting against the surface of a matchbox. Third place was awarded to Malgorzata Lisowska for her image of breast cancer cells.
In addition to the top three winners, the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition recognized 83 photos out of nearly 1,900 photo entries from 72 countries.
“The past 49 years of this competition have borne witness to many innovative and pioneering advancements in scientific imaging technology,” Eric Flem, Senior Manager, CRM and Communications at Nikon Instruments, said. “I am consistently awed by how these advancements make it possible to create art out of science for the public to enjoy,” he added.
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#1 13th Place - Satu Paavonsalo And Dr. Sinem Karaman
University of Helsinki Individualized Drug Therapy Research Program, Faculty of Medicine Helsinki, Finland "Blood and lymphatic vasculatures in the ear skin of an adult mouse."
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#2 2nd Place - Ole Bielfeldt
Macrofying Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany "Matchstick igniting by the friction surface of the box."
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#3 11th Place - Dr. Diego García
Universidad Complutense de Madrid Real Sociedad Española de Física Madrid, Spain "Crystallized sugar syrup."
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#4 14th Place - John-Oliver Dum
Medienbunker Produktion Bendorf, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany "Sunflower pollen on an acupuncture needle."
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#5 8th Place - Stefan Eberhard
The University of Georgia Athens, Georgia, USA "Caffeine crystals."
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#6 12th Place - Sherif Abdallah Ahmed
Tanta University Faculty of Science Department of Zoology Tanta, Egypt "Cuckoo wasp standing on a flower."
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#7 17th Place - Yuan Ji
World Expo Museum Shanghai, China "Chinese moon moth (Actias ningpoana) wing scales."
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#8 20th Place - Daniel Castranova And Dr. Brant M. Weinstein
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Bethesda, Maryland, USA "Adult transgenic zebrafish head showing blood vessels (blue), lymphatic vessels (yellow), and the skin and scales (magenta)."
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#9 3rd Place - Malgorzata Lisowska
Independent Value-Based Healthcare Consultant Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
"Breast cancer cells."
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#10 Image Of Distinction - Cagri Yalcin
Impressions Microscopiques Amsterdam, Noord Holland, The Netherlands "Crystals of malonic acid dissolved in ethanol."
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#11 Image Of Distinction - Walter Machielsen
Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands "Buckthorn trichomes."
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#12 Image Of Distinction - Danny J. Sanchez
Mineralien LLC Valley Village, California, USA "Golden rutile in quartz."
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#13 Image Of Distinction - Yusuf Ziya Öztürk
TCDD Teknik Müh. Müş. A.Ş. Ankara, Çankaya, Turkey "Bee"
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#14 4th Place - John-Oliver Dum
Medienbunker Produktion Bendorf, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany "Venomous fangs of a small tarantula."
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#15 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Frantisek Bednar
Svosov, Zilinsky, Slovakia "Slime mold (Trichia crateriformis)."
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#16 Image Of Distinction - Raghuram Annadana
Raghuram Annadana Photography Bangalore, Karnataka, India "Developing stamen and stigma inside a Hibiscus flower bud."
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#17 Image Of Distinction - Charles B. Krebs
Charles Krebs Photography Issaquah, Washington, USA "Mushroom gills showing sporophores (sporangiophores)."
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#18 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Håkan Kvarnström
Bromma, Stockholm, Sweden "Amoeba (Arcella)."
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#19 Honorable Mention - Dr. Amy Engevik
Medical University of South Carolina Department of Regenerative Medicine & Cell Biology Charleston, South Carolina, USA "Neonatal mouse intestinal tissue cells."
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#20 Image Of Distinction - Alison Pollack
San Anselmo, California, USA "Slime mold (Diderma tigrinum)."
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#21 Image Of Distinction - Michael Landgrebe
Weissensberg, Bavaria, Germany "Fossil diatom."
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#22 Image Of Distinction - Dr. Pichaya Lertvilai
University of California, San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, California, USA "Coral (Acropora granulosa) fluorescing under blue light."
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#23 Image Of Distinction - Timothy Boomer
WildMacro Vacaville, California, USA "Slime mold (Didymium sp.) fruiting bodies."
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#24 1st Place - Hassanain Qambari And Jayden Dickson
Lions Eye Institute Department of Physiology & Pharmacology Perth, Western Australia, Australia "Rodent optic nerve head showing astrocytes (yellow), contractile proteins (red) and retinal vasculature (green)."
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#25 Image Of Distinction - Ricardo Roberto Fernández Martínez
IES Virgen de la Luz Department of Biology and Geology Avilés, Asturias, Spain "Tail of planktonic shrimp larvae."
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#26 Honorable Mention - Ángel Navarro Gómez
Madrid, Spain "Carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea) head and antenna."
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#27 5th Place - Dr. David Maitland
Feltwell, Norfolk, United Kingdom "Auto-fluorescing defensive hairs covering the leaf surface of Eleagnus angustifolia exposed to UV light."
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#28 18th Place - Scott Peterson
New Hope, Minnesota, USA "A cryptocrystalline micrometeorite resting on a #80 testing sieve."
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#29 15th Place - Dr. Pichaya Lertvilai
University of California, San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, California, USA "Fluorescent image of an Acropora sp. showing individual polyps with symbiotic zooxanthellae."
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