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Photograph Of A Single Atom Taken With A DSLR - Resource

At first, this photo might not be the most impressive thing you’ve ever seen. But look a little closer– there is a tiny dot floating in the darkness like a planet in space. That little spec is the first ever photograph of an atom taken by University of Oxford graduate student David Nadlinger in a …read on

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Captured by physicist David Nadlinger, this award-winning photo shows a single Strontium atom trapped between two electrodes. The atom is blasted with lasers, causing it to absorb and re-emit light so intensely that it becomes visible without a microscope. It brings the abstract world of quantum physics into human scale, suspending a fundamental building block of the universe in a vacuum. Credit: David Nadlinger/University of Oxford [2017]

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David Nadlinger

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Remarkable Photo of a Single Atom Wins Science Photography Contest

Ever wonder what an atom looks like?

Titled Single Atom in an Ion Trap, Nadlinger's photograph shows a single positively-charged strontium atom suspended in an electric field between two metal electrodes. For scale, the two needle tips it dances in between are just two millimeters apart. A close-up crop of the image lets us see this small dot of light, and is an incredibly unique way to see this tiny particle.