Lennart Nilsson
Lennart Nilsson
Lennart Nilssonis a Swedish photographer and scientist. He is noted for his photographs of human embryos and other medical subjects once considered unphotographable, and more generally for his extreme macro photography. He is also considered to be among Sweden’s first modern photojournalists...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPhotographer
CountrySweden
dream maybe
So, maybe we can do something in the future, but you know, I have to do one thing and concentrate on it. But this is a dream I have.
decided institute medical school
Yes, you know, I decided, I think it was '58, to go to the Karolinska Institute - in the medical school here. And I had decided it, me and my family.
maybe medical wrong
I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.
came
For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here.
coat fixing layer liquid thin
You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.
enemy hold increase light poor specimen work
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
editors fetus inside picture sharp witness
And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.
cell five high information reached survive
That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.
close enormous fiber high thousand tiny
There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter.
chemistry extremely hope love next planned start
The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year.
chemistry love miracle start television
And then we are going to start a new television film about the miracle of love - the chemistry of love. Everything before the kiss.
angle call degrees extremely gives revolution sharp wide
This is a wide angle endoscope - about 100 degrees - a new way which gives an extremely sharp image. This is what I call a revolution in endoscopy.
cover human life magazine published sixteen spring twelve worked
In the spring of '65, Life Magazine published a story about human reproduction - a cover and sixteen pages. I worked for twelve years on this story.
country together united-states
I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.