For his pioneering work to reveal the Sun in a radically new way Picture Gallery In the “spirit of Lennart Nilsson”, Göran Scharmer (b. 1951), a solar physicist, has succeeded in showing features of the Sun — which he describes as the “Rosetta stone of astrophysics ... a stone that we haven’t been able to decrypt entirely” — that were previously hidden from view. Using the Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope (Scharmer was responsible for its design in the early 1980s) and successive generations of high-resolution solar telescopes he has, for example, revealed many types of new magnetic substructures. Scharmer’s unique close-up images of the Sun combine research of outstanding quality with a strong aesthetic appeal. For more photos and additional information see the following links: Press info and special page for Nature http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/NatureNov2002 Special page for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Magazine: http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/data1/NatGeo/ http://www.lmsal.com/Press