The microscopical world has never looked as beautiful as what has been captured by the winners and the honourable mentions of the second - everGlobal Image of the Year Life Science Light Microscopy Awardcompetition . transnational corporation Olympus is behind this competition , which make out and celebrates life skill picture taking . This is not just an important scientific endeavour to understand the world substantially , it has also unbelievable artistic value .
The competition hasfour winners : a global winner and three regional loot covering Asia , the Americas , and Europe , Middle - East , and Africa ( EMEA ) . The winner were select from almost 700 submission get from 61 country .
For this twelvemonth , the spheric victor is Werner Zuschratter from Germany . He snapped a fantastic look-alike of a whole rat embryo , entrance using a confocal microscope . The regional winner for Asia was XinPei Zhang from China , who imaged the exfoliation from the annex of over 40 mintage of butterfly one by one and then assembled them into this figure .
The trophy for the Americas cash in one’s chips to Justin Zoll from the US , who snap a beautiful image of L - glutamine and beta - alanine crystals . Grigorii Timin ( Switzerland ) aim the prize for EMEA image the collagen fiber and epidermal paint cell from African house snake embryonic skin .
“ Not only did we see a record number of submission , but the quality and creativity of those images were exceptional . It ’s awe-inspiring to see the unexpected art people seize with a microscope , ” Satoshi Nakamura , Vice President of Scientific Solutions Global Marketing at Olympus Corporation , said in astatement .
The jurist this year have also select nine images that merit honorable mentions . you may check them out on the Instagram carousel below :
" Our purpose for the competition is to manifest both the esthetic and scientific value of images capture under the microscope and further , to further people in every recession of the man to look at scientific images in a new way , appreciate their beauty , and share with each other , ” Lee Wagstaff , Vice President , Life Science Sales and Marketing , Olympus Corporation of the Americas told IFLScience .
