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