Zyvex Labs organized a Lifetime Achievement Award for Frans Holthuysen of Philips Research Labs for his significant body of work in the field of Micrographs with a Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEMs).

The Award was given at the 2013 MNE Conference in London and was sponsored by FEI a leading manufacturer of SEMs. John Randall, President of Zyvex Labs has been hosting Micrograph Contests at the International Conference for Electron , Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication (EIPBN) since 1995 and the Micro Nano Engineering Conference(MNE)since 2005.

Frans Holthuysen has won more awards in the EIPBN and MNE contests than any other individual by a very large margin. His work has also been displayed at the New York Museum of Modern Art.