Friday, April 26, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
CANTON -- A Potsdam resident was honored by the Nikon company for his submission to their 40th Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. Clifford Reilly was awarded a picture of distinction …
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CANTON -- A Potsdam resident was honored by the Nikon company for his submission to their 40th Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.
Clifford Reilly was awarded a picture of distinction award for his image of the auto-fluorescent trichomes of an American witchhazel plant.
Photomicrography deals with taking pictures of microscopic subject matter.
Jill Pflugheber, a microscopy instructor at St. Lawrence University, said the photo was captured when a laser scans a sample and the emitted fluorescence light is collected by photomultiplier tubes and turned into an electronic signal which is then reconstructed on the microscope computer.
“Clifford was one of the two youngest ever to get in the top 100 of this contest. Most winners are full blown PhD scientists from around the world,” Pflugheber said. “This is a microscope valued at $280,000 that we have had the good fortune of using for classes and research for the past 13 or so years.”
