Saturday September 25, 2004 Small World Competition
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No, it's not a competition to see how many times you can go on a certain ride at Disneyland without going completely insane (our record is five times in a row when Duncan was 3 - I recommend ear plugs). It's a competition run by Nikon every year, to recognize excellence in photographs of things, as seen through an optical microscope. |
There is an article in the October 2004 edition of the Smithsonian magazine that briefly describes the history of the microscope (which was invented over 300 years ago). It concludes with a mention that the results of the 2004 Small World competition will occur later this month (presumably later in October). Note the Smithsonian article will eventually turn up under this web page, but at the time of writing this, they are still showing their current issue as September.
It you'd like to see the past years winners (and the competition has been going for 29 years now), then checkout this site. As well as picture and movie galleries, there are interactive Java and Flash tutorials showing how a microscope works, basic concepts, articles on different types of microscopy DIC, Stereo and Confocal and screensavers you can freely download.
( Sep 25 2004, 10:48:26 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink
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