In the late 1800s, Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley of Jericho, Vermont became the first person to photograph individual snow crystals. Over his lifetime, he captured more than 5,000 images of snowflakes, ...

A pioneering photography collection, now housed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, captures how early innovations in microphotography helped shape our understanding of snowflakes. Wilson Bentley ...

In 1885, Wilson Bentley, a farmer in Vermont, became the first known person to photograph a snowflake. He would document 5,000 of them in his lifetime. In a new series for the first day of each month, ...

Is it true that two snowflakes can't be identical and if not, what are the odds? The specific number of snowflake types depends on who you ask. Photographer Wilson Alwyn Bentley took pictures of ...

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We all remember the saying "no two snowflakes are alike" but who made us all believe this and why? Wilson A. Bentley was a pioneer in the field of photomicrography, the science of photographing very ...

Most of us have heard the phrase “no two snowflakes are alike.” But the idea that every snow crystal is unique traces back to ...