Blow‐Up: Making Sense of the Image in the Nanoworld

A perspective on perspective: Readers of Small, and indeed science journals per se, will be familiar with the visualization of a plethora of physical, chemical, and biological (and other) entities whose dimensions are at or towards the nanoscale. But what do these images mean, scientifically and/or otherwise? The 1981 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry shares his thoughts on what such images conjure up personally.