1992 Photomicrography Competition

Thomas Hopen is executive director/senior chemical microscopist at the Atlanta-area microanalysis firm MVA, Inc. and a visiting professor with the McCrone Research Institute. His lectures and technical papers cover forensic investigation, drug and trace evidence examination, soil comparison and constituent analysis. He is a member of the New York Microscopical Society and the newly-formed Georgia Microscopical Society.

Martin Scott is a consultant in scientific imaging technology. The former director of Scientific Imaging Markets at the Eastman Kodak Company, he also lectured extensively on photomicrography. He is a past president of the Biological Photographic Association and a member of the New York Microscopical Society, The State Microscopical Society of Illinois and the Royal Microscopical Society.

David Spector is senior staff investigator and director of the microscopy laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. A cell biologist and expert in light and electron microscopy, he organizes an advanced microscopy course at the Laboratory. An author of a wide range of published articles on aspects of nuclear structure and function, he is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Cell Science.