Polarized Light Microscopy Technique

Mr. Thomas Shearer

2008

Duluth, MN, USA

Specimen: Agatized Petrified Wood

Technique: Polarized Light

Dr. Rudolf Oldenbourg

2005

Marine Biological Laboratory

Woods Hole, MA, USA

Specimen: Primary Spermatocyte

Technique: Polarized Light, 60x Objective

Co-prizewinners: James LaFountain

Mr. David Walker

2008

Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK

Specimen: Snail Radula

Technique: Polarized Light

Mr. Ron Oldfield

2004

Biology Department, Macquarie University

Sydney, Australia

Specimen: Hairs on Tilia americana (basswood)

Technique: Polarized light, 25x Objective

Mr. Charles Krebs

2013

Issaquah, Washington, United States

Specimen: Phantom midge larva (Chaoborus) "Glassworm." Birefringent musculature that is usually clear and colorless is made visible here by specialized illumination.

Technique: Polarized light, 100X

Dr. James LaFountain

2011

State University of New York at Buffalo

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole MA

Specimen: Crane fly Nephrotoma suturalis sperm cell at metaphase of meiosis. Images were captured every 15 seconds for 35 minutes of cell division

Technique: Polarized light microscopy, 60x objective

Co-prizewinners: Rudolf Oldenbourg