Wat is Ig Nobel?
The Ig Nobel Prizes is to honor achievements that, "first make people Laugh, and thenmake them Think". The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative - the people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. It is given out in early October each year for ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research.
When and How many prizes given?
The first Ig Nobels were created in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor and co-founder of the Annals of Improbable Research. Every September, in a gala ceremony in Harvard's Sanders Theatre, 1100 splendidly eccentric spectators watch the new winners step forward to accept their Prizes. Ten prizes are awarded each year in many categories, including the Nobel Prize categories of physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, literature, and peace, but also other
categories such as public health, engineering, biology, and interdisciplinary research.
Any Tradition at the Ig Nobels?
Throwing paper planes onto the stage is a long-standing tradition at the Ig Nobels. The physics professor Roy J. Glauber swept the stage clean of the airplanes as the official "Keeper of the Broom" for years. The "Parade of Ignitaries" brings various supporting groups into the hall. Now, list below follow the 2015 winners.
The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize Winners:
Category:Chemistry
Awardees:Callum Ormonde and Colin Raston (Aus),
Tom Yuan, Stephan Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith,
William A. Brown, Kaitlin Pugliese, Tivoli Olsen,
Mariam Iftikhar, Gregory Weiss (USA).
Title:
For inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg.
Category:Physics
Awardees:Patricia Yang, David Hu (USA and TAIWAN),
and Jonathan Pham, Jerome Choo (USA).
Title:
For testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders in about 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds).
Category:Literature
Awardees:Mark Dingemanse (NET, USA),
Francisco Torreira (NET, BELGIUM, USA),
and Nick J. Enfield (AUS, NETHERLAND).Title:
For discovering that the word "huh?" (or its equivalent) seems to exist in every human language—and for not being quite sure why.
Category:Management
Awardees:Gennaro Bernile (ITALY, SING, USA),
Vineet Bhagwat (USA, INDIA),
and P. Raghavendra Rau (UK, IND, FRA, LUX, GER, JAPAN).Title:
For discovering that many business leaders developed in childhood a fondness for risk-taking, when they experienced natural disaster (such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and wildfires) that-for them-had no dire personal consequences.
Category: Economics
Awardees:The Bangkok Metropolitan Police (THAI).
Title:
For offering to pay policemen extra cash if the policemen refuse to take bribes.
Category:Medcine
Awardees:Hajime Kimata (JAPAN, CHINA)
Jaroslava Durdiaková (SLOVAKIA, US, UK)
Peter Celec (SLOVAKIA, GERMANY)
Natália Kamodyová, Tatiana Sedlácková, Gabriela Repiská,
Barbara Sviežená, and Gabriel Minárik (SLOVAKIA).
Title :
For experiments to study the biomedical benefits or biomedical consequences of intense kissing (and other intimate, interpersonal activities).
Category:Mathematics
Awardees:Elisabeth Oberzaucher (AUSTRIA, GERMANY, UK)
and Karl Grammer (AUSTRIA, GERMANY).
Title :
For trying to use mathematical techniques to determine whether and how Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty, the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed, during the years from 1697 through 1727, to father 888 children.
Category:Biology
Awardees:Bruno Grossi, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo A. Vásquez (CHILE)
and José Iriarte-Díaz (CHILE, USA).
Title:
For observing that when you attach a weighted stick to the rear end of a chicken, the chicken then walks in a manner similar to that in which dinosaurs are thought to have walked.
Category:Diagnostic Medcine
Awardees:Diallah Karim (CANADA, UK)
Anthony Harnden (NZL, UK, USA)
Nigel D'Souza (BAHRAIN, BEL, DUBAI, IND, S.AFRICA, US, UK)
Andrew Huang (CHINA, UK)
Abdel Kader Allouni (SYRIA, UK)
Helen Ashdown, Richard J. Stevens and Simon Kreckler [UK],
Title:
For determining that acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed by the amount of pain evident when the patient is driven over speed bumps.
Category:Physiology and Entomology
Awardees:Justin Schmidt (USA, CANADA)
Title:
For painstakingly creating the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, which rates the relative pain people feel when stung by various insects;
Awardees:Michael L. Smith (USA, UK, THE NETHERLANDS)
Title:
For carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly on 25 different locations on his body, to learn which locations are the least painful (the skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm) and which are the most painful (the nostril, upper lip, and penis shaft).
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