These are the amazing best microscope images of the year, the Nikon Small World 2014 winners. 1st Place 2014 Photomicrography Competition: Rogelio Moreno, Panama, Panama. Subject Matter: Rotifer showing the mouth interior and heart shaped corona (40x)
2nd Place: Alessandro Da Mommio, Università di Pisa Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Pisa, Italy Subject Matter: Rhombohedral cleavage in calcite crystal (10x)
3rd Place: Noah Fram-Schwartz, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA Subject Matter: Jumping spider eyes (20x)
4th Place: Karin Panser, The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria Subject Matter: Caterpillar proleg with circle of gripping hooks in red (20x)
5th Place: Muthugapatti K. Kandasamy, The University of Georgia, Biomedical Microscopy Core, Athens, Georgia, USA Subject Matter: Bovine pulmonary artery endothelial cells stained for actin (pink), mitochondria (green) and DNA (yellow)
6th Place; Dr. Douglas Brumley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Subject Matter: Active fluid flow around P. damicornis (coral polyp) (4x)
7th Place: Dennis Hinks, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Subject Matter: Circuitry in DVD reader (100x)
8th Place: Dr. Igor Robert Siwanowicz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia, USA Subject Matter: Appendages of a common brine shrimp (100x)
9th Place: Meritxell Vendrell, Universitat Autònoma, Servei de Microscòpia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Subject Matter: Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) ovary fixed and stained to show lectins (red) and nuclei (blue) (63x)
10th Place: Dr. Paul Joseph Rigby, The University of Western Australia, CMCA, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia Subject Matter: Daisy petal with fungal infection and pollen grains (10x)
You can see all the winners at Nikon Small World 2014 competition
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