Nikon / Wistar Popular Vote
Nikon Instruments and the Wistar Institute recently reached out to the schools of Philadelphia to see which of this year's top 20 Small World images they liked the best. The voting recently concluded, and the top 5 finishers are presented below. Finishing first was Stephen Nagy's beautiful image of diseased ivory, which placed 10th in the official competition.
- Description
- Antique microscope slide featuring thin section of diseased ivory (15x)
- Technique
- Polarized Light
- Official Place
- 10th Place, 2007
First Place - Stephen Nagy
3.6076
- Description
- Erpobdella octoculata (fresh water leech) (25x)
- Technique
- Confocal
- Official Place
- 8th Place, 2007
Second Place - Vera Hunnekuhl
3.3775
- Description
- Double transgenic mouse embryo, 18.5 days (17x)
- Technique
- Brightfield, Darkfield, Fluorescence (GFP and RFP)
- Official Place
- 1st Place, 2007
Third Place - Gloria Kwon
3.1974
- Description
- Marine diatoms attached to Polysiphonia (red algae) (100x)
- Technique
- Differential Interference Contrast
- Official Place
- 4th Place, 2007
Fourth Place - Charles Krebs
3.1883
- Description
- Kaleidofly of a Halloween Pennant (dragonfly) (1x)
- Technique
- Stereomicroscopy
- Official Place
- 17th Place, 2007
Fifth Place - Jeffery Bowen
3.0000
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