Lennart Nilsson Award
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The Lennart Nilsson Award recognizes outstanding contributions to scientific photography. It is administered by the Lennart Nilsson Foundation and awarded annually by Karolinska Institutet
. The award sum is SEK
100,000. The award was inaugurated in 1998 in honor of Professor Lennart Nilsson
.
Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska institutet is a medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area, Sweden, and one of Europe's largest medical universities...
. The award sum is SEK
Swedish krona
The krona has been the currency of Sweden since 1873. Both the ISO code "SEK" and currency sign "kr" are in common use; the former precedes or follows the value, the latter usually follows it, but especially in the past, it sometimes preceded the value...
100,000. The award was inaugurated in 1998 in honor of Professor Lennart Nilsson
Lennart Nilsson
Lennart Nilsson is a Swedish photographer and scientist. He is noted for his photographs of in vivo human embryos and other medical subjects once considered unphotographable, and more generally for his extreme macro photography...
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Award recipients
- Kenneth Libbrecht, (California Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of TechnologyThe California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
), 2010 - Carolyn PorcoCarolyn PorcoCarolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist known for her work in the exploration of the outer solar system, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She leads the imaging science team on the Cassini mission currently in...
(Space Science InstituteSpace Science InstituteThe Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, is a nonprofit, public benefit corporation formed in 1992. Its purpose is to create and maintain an environment where scientific research and education programs can flourish in an integrated fashion....
) and Babak Amin TafreshiBabak Amin TafreshiBabak Amin Tafreshi is an Iranian amateur astronomer, photographer, and science journalist. He is the creator and director of The World At Night , an international program in which photographers from around the world capture images of night skies as seen above notable landmarks of the planet...
, 2009 - Anders PerssonAnders PerssonAnders Persson is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization at Linköping University, Sweden, and Linköping University Hospital. He was recruited by Linköping University in 2002 to start the center. In 2005 he received his Ph.D. from Linköping...
(Linköping UniversityLinköping UniversityLinköping University is a state university in Linköping, Sweden. Linköping University was granted full university status in 1975 and is now one of Sweden's larger academic institutions. Education, research and PhD training are the mission of four faculties: Arts and Sciences, Educational...
), 2008 - Felice FrankelFelice FrankelFelice Frankel is a photographer of scientific images renowned for the aesthetic quality of her science photographs.-Biography:Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, science photographer Felice Frankel's images have been published in over 300 journal articles and/or covers and...
(Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
), 2007 - Satoshi KuribayashiSatoshi Kuribayashiis a renowned Japanese photographer.He received the Lennart Nilsson Award in 2006 for outstanding scientific photography.-References:...
, 2006 - Frans LantingFrans LantingFrans Lanting, is a Dutch photographer specializing in wildlife photography.Lanting was born in Rotterdam and later emigrated to the United States after being educated in the Netherlands. He now lives in Santa Cruz, California and operates a studio and gallery, as well as a stock photography...
, 2005 - Göran Scharmer (Institute for Solar PhysicsInstitute for Solar PhysicsThe Institute for Solar Physics is a Swedish research institute. It is operated as an independent institute, under the auspices of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but is associated with Stockholm University through Stockholm Observatory....
), 2004 - David Barlow (University of SouthamptonUniversity of SouthamptonThe University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...
), 2003 - Oliver Meckes and Nicole Ottawa, 2002
- David DoubiletDavid DoubiletDavid Doubilet is a well known underwater photographer known primarily for his work published in National Geographic Magazine. He was born in New York and started taking photos underwater at the young age of 12. He started with a Brownie Hawkeye in a rubber anesthesiologist's bag to keep the water...
, 2001 - David MalinDavid MalinDavid Malin is a British-Australian astronomer and photographer.Malin trained as a chemist and originally worked in England as microscopist...
(Anglo-Australian ObservatoryAnglo-Australian ObservatoryThe Australian Astronomical Observatory , formerly the Anglo-Australian Observatory, is an optical/near-infrared astronomy observatory with its headquarters in suburban Sydney, Australia...
), 2000 - James Henderson, 1999
- Nils Åslund, 1998