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The latest Business updates from the science industry


by Heather Hobbs Celebrating the Power of Science through Photography


“These silicone oil droplets are bouncing indefi nitely above a vibrating pool of silicone oil at 15 Hz,” said winning photographer and physicist Dr Aleks Labuda, who used a petri dish set atop a loud speaker to capture the wave-particle effects. “The surface waves generated by the droplets are analogous to quantum mechanical waves that guide the dynamics of quantum particles. While the droplets ‘move’ like quantum particles, they ‘behave like quantum waves.


Quantum Droplets - Dr Aleks Labuda


The Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition celebrates the power of photography in capturing scientifi c phenomena happening all around us and the role great images play in making science accessible to a wide audience. This year however, due to diffi culties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s competition has been postponed to 2021; further information will be available in due course.


Instead ILM looks back to the winning entries of 2019 in the categories of Astronomy; Behaviour; Earth Science and Climatology; Ecology and Environmental Science; and Micro-imaging. The overall competition winner was ‘Quantum Droplets’ by Aleks Labuda in the Micro-imaging category.


The winning image captured a real-world demonstration of the pilot-wave theory, fi rst proposed in 1927 by French physicist Louis de Broglie, which theorises quantum particles are simultaneously waves and particles.


Ecology and Environmental Science: ‘Fade to White’ by Morgan Bennett-Smith. “A juvenile Red Sea clownfi sh (Amphiprion bicinctus) looks out from between the clear tentacles of a bleaching sea anemone (Entacmea quadricolor) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. While reef-building corals may be the most direct victims of coral reef bleaching events, other species can be similarly affected. Some sea anemones, for example, also expel their colourful symbionts during periods of climactic stress.”


Mudskipper Turf War - Daniel Field


Adjacent individuals would frequently engage in brief skirmishes, allowing me to select the optimal angle for illustrating their aggressive interactions.”


Astronomy: ‘Halo’ by Mikhail Kapychka. “I suddenly saw an unusual lunar halo in the night sky and hurried outside the city into the forest of Mogilev, Belarus, to take a picture of it. A halo appears in the sky when several factors are combined. Often it is observed in frosty weather in conditions of high humidity. In the air at the same time there is a large number of ice crystals. Passing through them, the lunar or solar light is refracted in a special way, forming an arc around the moon or sun.”


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Earth Science and Climatology: ‘Twister in the Yukon’ by Lauren Marchant. “This photo was taken near to Kluane Lake Research Station in the Yukon, Canada. It depicts a large, cone-shaped, funnel cloud. A funnel cloud forms when water droplets are drawn in from the surrounding area by a rotating column of wind, making a region of intense low pressure visible to the human eye. Most tornados begin as funnel clouds. However, this funnel cloud never made contact with the ground and therefore could not be classifi ed as a tornado.”


Behaviour: ‘Mudskipper Turf War’ by Daniel Field. “While photographing wading birds in the famous Mai Po wetlands, Hong Kong, I was distracted by the mesmerizing territorial displays of hundreds of bluespotted mudskippers near the shore.


Fade to White - Morgan Bennett-Smith Twister in the Yukon - Lauren Marchant


RMS Elected Fellow


Congratulations go to Professor Peter Nellist, University of Oxford, who has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.


Peter is a materials scientist who has pioneered new techniques for atomic- resolution microscopy, his work has focused on scanning transmission electron microscopy and its application across a range of functional and structural materials. He is known for the practical implementation of electron ptychography which allows light elements to be detected while reducing beam-induced damage, and to the theory underlying quantitative image interpretation. He has made fundamental contributions to the development of for the inherent aberrations of electron lenses and their use for the three-dimensional imaging of materials.


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Award Winners include RMS Hon Fellows


The RMS is delighted to report that three of its Honorary Fellows have been named as recipients of the prestigious 2020 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience


The European Microscopy Society (EMS), has named pre-eminent researchers Maximilian Haider, Ondrej Krivanek and Harald Rose for their achievements in the fi eld of design, construction and application of imaging and probe correctors in electron microscopy. They will receive the award alongside renowned German physisist Knut Urban.


Collectively, their work has established a whole new approach to electron microscopy in all its variants, and has provided a ‘quantum leap’ to more precise measurements.


The RMS would like to congratulate them for this award, which will increase recognition for their achievements beyond the electron microscopy community.


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