Ernst Abbe Award Recipients (1973-2019)
The Ernst Abbe Award of the New York Microscopical Society is bestowed upon an individual for outstanding achievement in microscopy or for some outstanding contribution to that science.
2019
Fran Adar
Developer and innovator of Raman microscopy
2018
Peter R. De Forest
Educator, significant contributions to forensic microscopy
2014
Alexandre Dazzi
Invented and led the combination of atomic force microscopy with infrared spectroscopy, the first to resolve molecular composition to lateral resolutions less than 100 nm
2012
Skip Palenik
Achievement innovating and teaching advanced microscopical Forensic analysis
2011
E. Neil Lewis
Principal developer of molecular spectral imaging technology
2010
Dale E. Newbury
Dedicated researcher and developer of electron beam microanalysis and compositional mapping of materials
2009
Gerd Binning & Heinrich RohrerGerd Binning & Heinrich Rohrer
Co-inventors of the scanning tunneling microscope and the first to record atomic resolution of surface topography
2007
Watt W. Webb
Innovator of multiphoton microscopy, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and nanoscopic molecular tracking
2006
John C. Russ
Developer of digital image processing and computer assisted microscopy
2005
Brad Amos
Innovator and developer of scanning laser confocal microscopy
2004
John A. Reffner
Innovator and developer of Infrared microprobe analysis
2003
Gerasimos D. Danilatos
Developer of the environmental scanning electron microscope
2002
Mortimer Abramowitz, Jan Hinsch and H. Ernst Keller
Educators; counselors, and educators of light microscopy
2001
Joseph I. Goldstein
Innovative educator in electron microscopy and microbeam analysis
2000
Maria Kuhnert-Brandstatter
Innovative developer of solid-state characterization of pharmaceuticals
1998
Johann S. Ploem
Developer of epi-fluoresce and reflection-contrast microscopy
1997
Shinya Inoue
Pioneer in video microscopy and researcher in architectural dynamics of living cells
1996
Charles Koester
Developer of rectified optics for polarized light and ophthalmic confocal microscopes
1988
F. Donald Bloss
Developer of the spindle stage and leader in microscopy education
1985
Robert Hoffman
Inventor of the modulation contrast technique
1983
Edwin H. Land
Advanced imaging science and created Polaroid polarizing filters
1981
Roger P. Loveland
Advancing photomicrography and industrial microscopy
1979
Albert V. Crew
Pioneering development of field emission scanning transmission electron microscope
1977
Walter C. McCrone
Numerous contributions to polarized light microscopy and education
1973
Georges Nomarsky
Developer of differential interference contrast microscopy