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