“There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts.”* *Vladimir Nabokov in an interview published in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature,

““There is no science without There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts.”*fancy, and no art without facts.”*

*Vladimir Nabokov in an interview published in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, vol. VIII, no. 2, spring 1967.

A potpourri of images copied from open sources on the Internet.

These images were made using various kinds of microscopes for subjects viewed under a variety of illumination conditions and preparative methods.

The color in most of the images is called false color. The color is there in most cases, but it is not an intrinsic

property of the substance.

Think about a soap bubble or oil slick on water. The color originates from the way the substance and its physical form bend and pass light through it.

Enjoy and be stimulated!

ARTFUL SCIENCEARTFUL SCIENCE

Assembled by M.R. Kantz, Ph.D.


Dew on a spider web by Massimo Brizzi, Italian photographer.

Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition, 2013


Battery leakage, magnified 25 times. Zhang Chao, a researcher with the National Astronomical Observatories at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition, 2013.


Adhesive pad on the foreleg of a ladybird beetle, magnified 20 times. Jan Michels, of the Institute of Zoology at Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel Germany. Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition, 2013.


Crocus pollen resting on the stigma of a flower, magnified 40 times. Frederic Labaune, French photographer. Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition, 2013.

Calf thymus DNA recrystallized from the melt


DNA liquid crystals recrystallized from the melt

http://www.microscopyu.com/articles/polarized/polymers.html


A multiple (4) exposure of sulfur crystallites (the foreground), the microscope field diaphragm defocused with a yellow filter (the moon), liquid crystalline polybenzyl-L-glutamate spherulites (the stars), and a blue filter (the sky). This photomicrograph utilizes both brightfield and polarized light photomicrography.

Source: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/microscapes/pages/sulfur.html


Vitamin C recrystallized from the melt

(http://www.akasha.de/~aton/C2JPG.JPG


Vitamin C recrystallized from the melt


Niacin (a member of the B complex) recrystallized from the melt


www.nsf.gov/.../chemistry/interactive.jsp

Melt-crystallized polymer spherulites


Scanning electron microscope image of a tiny piece of metal melted by a laser onto a silicon chip. "Easter Bonnet," the third-place entry in the "Art of Science" exhibition, is a photograph by Qiangfei Xia, a graduate student in electrical engineering at Princeton University.

www.princeton.edu/.../index.xml?section=featured


Scanning electron micrograph of semi-layered steps in lanthanum cobaltite


A droplet of water sitting on a nanostructured gold surface

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/85/8520sci2.html


Cadmium sulfide flowers (crystals)

www.mrs.org/s_mrs/doc.asp?CID=1803&DID=171434


The amino acid arginine recrystallized from its melt

Source: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/aminoacid/aminoacid.html


The antibiotic erythromycin recrystallized from its melt

Source: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/pharm/antibiotic/antibiotic.html


Stained rat brain hippocampus neurons

Source: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/brain/brain.html


Blue Triangle butterfly wing

Source:http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympusmicd/galleries/butterfly/bluetriangleb5.html


Cholesterol recrystallized from its melt


More cholesterol recrystallized from its melt


Oleic acid-a fatty acid in olive oil and butter recrystallized from its melt


Mallard Duck Feather

micro.magnet.fsu.edu


Glucose recrystallized from its melt )


Stachybotrys mold (A toxic spore)


Breast cancer pathology slide


Licmophora flabellata (marine diatom) (160x)

www.microscopy-uk.org.uk


A pennate diatom


A centrate diatom


Uniaxial (Maltese Cross) conoscopic figure for calcite, a mineral form of calcium carbonate.


Biaxial conoscopic figure in muscovite mica, a mineral.


A multiple (5) exposure photomicrograph of melt-recrystallized ascorbic acid (the wheat field), xanthan gum base (the mountains), the microscope field diaphragm defocused with a yellow filter (the moon), and liquid crystalline polybenzyl-L-glutamate spherulites (the stars) with a blue filter to simulate the sky. This photomicrograph utilizes both brightfield and polarized light photomicrography.

Source: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/microscapes/pages/aaidaho.html


Adenocarcinoma of the retinal pigment epithelium with focal invasion of the choroid.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.eyecancer.com/Resources/200594155620.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.eyecancer.com/Doctor/Gallery.aspx%3FnID%3D14%26Category%3DPathology%2BSlides&h=426&w=360&sz=198&hl=en&start=17&um=1&tbnid=6RNumhrwrRExaM:&tbnh=126&tbnw=106&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpathology%2Bslides%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN


A lysozyme crystal grown in orbit The colors are caused by polarizing filters.

Credit: NASA/Marshall.


Intergranular and transgranular cracking in Zircaloy during straining in 1 M KBr solution


http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/file.php/2980/T839_1_091i.jpg

Brittle fracture in glass


http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/docs/images/2005-Science-As-Art-7.jpg

A color enhanced scanning electron micrograph of ZnOgrown in aqueous solution. (Magnification: 15,000x)


Dandelion Pollen



ConvolvulaceaePollen

: remf.dartmouth.edu/.../source/4.html

Rosalind Franklin’s x-ray diffraction pattern that helped to prove Watson’s and Crick’s model of the DNA protein double helix.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/stories/defiant_modernism/01.ST.02/img/IM.0228_zl.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/stories/defiant_modernism/01.ST.02/%3Fscene%3D5&h=634&w=550&sz=76&hl=en&start=16&um=1&tbnid=7VWb789d-9lDPM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=119&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfranklin%2Bdna%2Bx%2Bray%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DX


“There is no science without fancy, and no art without facts.”* *Vladimir Nabokov in an interview published in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature,

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