25 Images That Won At The 2024 Nikon Small World Competition
The 2024 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition celebrated its 50th year by focusing on the beauty and science behind the smallest details of our world. Every year, scientists and artists from around the world show their submissions of unique perspectives on life through microscopic images.
This year’s finalists gave us fascinating insights with their material and the winning image was awarded to Dr. Bruno Cisterna for his incredible image of mouse brain tumor cells. Scroll below to see it and other mesmerizing images that were submitted in the competition.
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#1 Image Of Distinction – Zhang Chao
National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China
“Beach sand.”
#2 Honorable Mention – Dr. Igor Robert Siwanowicz
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Janelia Research Campus Ashburn, Virginia, USA
“Antenna of a mole crab.”
#3 5th Place – Thomas Barlow And Connor Gibbons
Columbia University Department of Neurobiology and Behavior New York, New York, USA
“Cluster of octopus (Octopus hummelincki) eggs.”
#4 2nd Place – Dr. Marcel Clemens
Verona, Veneto, Italy
“Electrical arc between a pin and a wire.”
#5 9th Place – John-Oliver Dum
Medienbunker Produktion Bendorf, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany
“Pollen in a garden spider (Araneus) web.”
#6 Image Of Distinction – Dr. Laurent Formery And Dr. Nathaniel Clarke
Stanford University Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Pacific Grove, California, USA
“Nervous system of a young sea star.”
#7 Image Of Distinction – Ted Kinsman
Rochester Institute of Technology Photosciences Department Rochester, New York, USA
“A common house cat claw.”
#8 Honorable Mention – Dr. Bruce Douglas Taubert
Glendale, Arizona, USA
“Ocelli between the compound eyes of a yellow jacket.”
#9 Honorable Mention – Daniel Evrard
Aywaille, Liege, Belgium
“Vinyl player needle on scratched vinyl disk.”
#10 11th Place – Dr. Ferenc Halmos
Bánd, Veszprém, Hungary
“Slime mold on a rotten twig with water droplets.”
#11 12th Place – Daniel Knop
Oberzent-Airlenbach, Hessen, Germany
“Wing scales of a butterfly (Papilio ulysses) on a medical syringe needle.”
#12 Image Of Distinction – Uwe Lange
Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany
“Pollen on the compound eyes of a fly.”
#13 Honorable Mention – Jochen Stern
Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
“Golden bug eggs on a sage leaf.”
#14 Image Of Distinction – Elkhan Yusifov And Dr. Martina Schaettin
University of Zurich Department of Molecular Life Sciences Zurich, Switzerland
“Developing nervous system in the eye of a 7-day-old chick embryo.”
#15 7th Place – Gerhard Vlcek
Maria Enzersdorf, Austria
“Cross section of European beach grass (Ammophila arenaria) leaf.”
#16 Image Of Distinction – Timothy Boomer
Vacaville, California, USA
“Slime mold (Prototrichia metallica).”
#17 3rd Place – Chris Romaine
Port Townsend, Washington, USA
“Leaf of a cannabis plant. The bulbous glands are trichomes. The bubbles inside are cannabinoid vesicles.”
#18 Honorable Mention – Randy Fullbright
Vernal, Utah, USA
“Agatized dinosaur bone.”
#19 6th Place – Henri Koskinen
Helsinki University Helsinki, Uudenmaan lääni, Finland
“Slime mold (Cribraria cancellata).”
#20 Image Of Distinction – Jacek Myslowski
Wloclawek, Kujawko-Pomorskie, Poland
“Water mite (Arrenurus).”
#21 Image Of Distinction – Dr. Håkan Kvarnström
Bromma, Sweden
“Peacock plume feather.”
#22 13th Place – Paweł Błachowicz
Bedlno, Świętokrzyskie, Poland
“Eyes of green crab spider (Diaea dorsata).”
#23 Image Of Distinction – Thomas Neumann
Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
“Ink dot on Japanese washi paper.”
#24 Image Of Distinction – Joshua Coogler
Dallas, North Carolina, USA
“Moss sporophyte with spores (green).”
#25 16th Place – Marek Miś
Suwalki, Podlaskie, Poland
“Two water fleas (Daphnia sp.) with embryos (left) and eggs (right).”
Shanilou Perera
Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.
