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The Brain
In two issues, Lennart Nilsson presented his latest project: the brain and our senses.
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Rods and cones, 1971. Scanning electron microscopy. Svepelektronmikroskopi. ©Lennart Nilsson/SPL -
“Tree of life,” the cerebellum, 1971. ©Lennart Nilsson/SPL -
The brain photographed using fluorescent light, 1969. ©Lennart Nilsson/SPL
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Rods and cones, 1971. Scanning electron microscopy. Svepelektronmikroskopi. ©Lennart Nilsson/SPL -
“Tree of life,” the cerebellum, 1971. ©Lennart Nilsson/SPL -
The brain photographed using fluorescent light, 1969. ©Lennart Nilsson/SPL
Nilsson spent eight months working on the brain series and was forced to use almost every bit of technique in his sizable and sophisticated repertoire: special lenses, light microscopes and long fibrous light guides, only a half-millimeter in diameter, to illuminate inaccessible areas.
Ralph Graves, Managing Editor, Life Magazine
See the feature in Life Magazine 1 October 1971 and Life Magazine den 22 October 1971
