1997 Small World Competition Winners
- 1st Prize - Barbara A. Danowski
Specimen: Mouse fibroblasts
- 2nd Prize - Stephen Rogers
Specimen: Xenopus melanophore
- 3rd Prize - K.G. Murti
Specimen: HeLa cells
- 4th Prize - David K. Terbush
Specimen: Ctenocephalides (flea)
- 5th Prize - Marc Van Hove
Specimen: Drop of water on reflective material
- 6th Prize - Kevin A. Edwards
Specimen: Chromosomes of Dropsophila heteroneura
- 7th Prize - Dennis Kunkel
Specimen: Vegetative stages of Valonia and Botryocladia sp.
- 8th Prize - James W. Evarts
Specimen: Paramecium feeding on Haematococcus algae
- 9th Prize - Ulrich Büttner
Specimen: Crush-lines in silicon nitride
- 10th Prize - William T. Rice
Specimen: Sodium carbonate and sodium metaborate
- 11th Prize - Marna E. Ericson, et al
Specimen: Nerves and blood vessels
- 12th Prize - Heiti Paves
Specimen: Trichomes and epidermis of a Nicotiana tabacum leaf
- 13th Prize - Sükrü Yilmaz
Specimen: Crystallized polymer
- 14th Prize - M.I. (Spike) Walker
Specimen: Rachiopteris tridentata embedded in coal
- 15th Prize - Kevin A. Edwards
Specimen: Egg chamber of Drosophila melanogaster
- 16th Prize - Christian Gautier
Specimen: Larva of Gasterophilus equi
- 17th Prize - Karl E. Deckart
Specimen: Gear-wheel of a watch
- 18th Prize - Steve Paddock
Specimen: Third instar of a Drosophila wing imaginal disc
- 19th Prize - Stefan Eberhard
Specimen: Crystallized folic acid
- 20th Prize - Norman Barker, RPB
Specimen: Microchip
