Microscopic World Calendar

This beautiful calendar features images from the microscopic world, along with quotations by scientists who marvel at the complexity of even the smallest cell. Featured scientists: January: W. H. Thorpe quoted in W. R. Bird, The Origin of Species Revisited February: Bruce Alberts, “The Cell as a Collection of Protein Machines,” Cell March: Peter Ward, Life as We Do Not Know It April: Shin‐Ichi Aizawa, What Is Essential for Flagellar Assembly May: Harold P. Klein quoted in John Horgan, “In the Beginning,” Scientific American June: Paul Davies, The Fifth Miracle July: Michael J. Katz, Templets and the Explanation of Complex Patterns August: Pierre Grasse, Evolution of Living Organisms September: Werner Gitt, In the Beginning Was Information October: Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker November: Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis December: Gene Myers quoted in Tom Abate, “Human Genome Map Has Scientists Talking About the Divine,” The San Francisco Chronicle All images are public domain. With the exception of April, which came from the CDC, all images and the accompanying information came from cellimagelibrary.org. Image credits: January: D.L. Price, M.H. Ellisman, M. Martone, G.A. Johnson, E. Masliah February: Klaus Hahn March: Louisa Howard April: Alissa Eckert, CDC May: Michael Shribak, Irina Arkhipova June: Gregory Antipa July: Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Kathryn Loesser August: Linda Parysek, Trudy Aebig September: Margaret I. Davis October: Richard Allen November: Hongchang Cui, Philip Benfey December: Ashwin Inala, Eileen Shiuan Sources for the quotations and images are also given on the back of the calendar.