Ig Nobel Prize
Organizer	The Annals of Improbable Research
Country	United States
Creation Date	1991
Official site	(In) http://improbable.com/

The Ig Nobel Prize is a parody prize awarded to individuals whose "discovery" or "achievements" may appear unnecessary, ridiculous and harmful.

This frog was levitated by a magnetic device has been the subject of the Ig Nobel prize in physics 2000.

The official statement said that the award is given to people whose achievements "can not or should not .

The term includes the name of an irreverent review of the 1960 , The Journal of unreproducible Results, the magazine Planet had known then in France. Ten award is given annually to a few people who have done remarkably stupid things - sometimes admirable, but sometimes not. The awards are presented at the Harvard University with the sponsorship of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research.

The name is a pun referring to the Nobel Prize : in English, "Ig Nobel" is pronounced roughly like the word "despicable".

The first awards were given Ig Nobel in 1991.

In 2010 , newspapers are popular for the first time, a former winner of the Ig Nobel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics ( Andre Geim , price IgNobel to levitate a frog, a Nobel laureate for his work on graphene ).

Criteria

The prize is awarded once a year, but the fields are variable. Possible areas are all branches of science, or any areas near those for which there is a Nobel Prize. This includes the psychology , and mathematics (absent notable Nobel Prize) or computer science. The prize is awarded each year in areas selected by the jury following the news that was provided.

We can distinguish different types of work likely to receive an Ig Nobel prize. First conclusive research, but answering a question that seems to have little interest or even be laughable, compared to the effort. This is the most common situation for genuine researchers receiving a prize. In this case, the winners receive their prizes are sometimes as Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch Basile in 2006. The price may also reward humor voluntary.

In other cases, the price is rather a critique vis--vis the winner. On a humorous, a prize may be awarded for a remarkable event, in an ironic way: Ig Nobel prize for peace in 1996 to President Jacques Chirac for its resumption of nuclear weapons testing; Ig Nobel prize for economics for executives ' Enron 's lies to their accounts. Finally, the prize may be awarded to research with a significant announcement effect but ultimately not confirmed when they initially announced spectacular results (as the prize for the "discovery" of the memory of water ).

List of Ig Nobel prize awarded since 1991

1 991 - 1 992 - one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three - in 1994 - in 1995 - one thousand nine hundred ninety-six - in 1997 - one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight - in 1999 - 2000 - 2 001 - two thousand and two - 2003 - two thousand and four - 2005 - two thousand and six - two thousand and seven - 2008 - 2009 - two thousand and ten

Awards in 1991

Chemistry: Jacques Benveniste , a French researcher at INSERM and permanent correspondent of for his stubborn belief that water is a liquid intelligent, the memory of water , and to have satisfactorily established (for him) that the water is capable of holding events well after the disappearance of any trace of these events.

Medicine: Alan Kligerman , the inventor of reliefs digestive eraser steam, inventor of Beano, for his pioneering work on anti-gas liquids that prevent swelling, gas, discomfort and embarrassment.

Education: J. Danforth Quayle , user time and occupying space for demonstrating better than anyone the need for science education.

Biology: Robert Klark Graham , selector of seeds and prophet of propagation theory for the development of a bank's choice of seed, a sperm bank that accepts only Nobel Prize winners and Olympic champions.

Economy: Michael Milken , titan of Wall Street and father of junk bonds , with which the world is indebted.

Literature: Erich von Daniken , visionary raconteur and author of for explaining how human civilization was influenced by ancient alien astronauts.

Peace: Edward Teller , father of the hydrogen bomb and first fan of the weapon system "Star Wars", for devoting his life to change the meaning of the word "peace."

Physics: Mr. Thomas Kyle , authentic joker, for his discovery of the heaviest element of the universe, the Administratium , which includes a neutron, eight assistant neutrons, 35 deputy neutrons and 256 assistant deputy neutrons,.

Awards in 1992

Medicine: F. Kanda, E. Yagi, M. Fukuda, K. Nakajima, T. Ohta and O. Nakata Shisedo research center in Yokohama, for their pioneering study "Discovery of the chemical components responsible for the stench of feet", and especially for their conclusion that people who think smelling feet smell, and feel that others do not.

Archaeology: the Scouts de France Scouts , cleaners thoroughly clean of graffiti , for erasing the rock paintings in the cave Mayrire top , near the village of Bruniquel.

Economics: Investors in Lloyd's of London , heirs of 300 years of prudent management, for their outstanding effort to ensure the disaster by refusing to pay the losses of their company.

Biology: Dr. Cecil Jacobson , generous donor sperm and prolific patriarch of sperm banking , for having developed a simple method for quality control of a hand.

Chemistry: Ivette Bassa , maker of colorful things, for his part in the coronation of the chemistry of the twentieth century: the synthesis of the frozen food blue.

Physics: David Chorley and Doug Bower , lions of low-energy physics, for their contributions to the circular field theory based on the geometrical destruction of English crops.

Peace: Daryl Gates , former police chief of Los Angeles , for its unique method of bringing people together. (See article 1992 riots in Los Angeles )

Nutrition fans corned beef , courageous consumers of food in the box for 54 years of digestion in bulk.

Literature: Yuri Struchkov , author indestructible Institute of organo-elementary Moscow , for the 948 scientific papers he published between 1982 and 1990, averaging one every 3.9 days.

Art: Awarded jointly to Jim Knowlton , modern Renaissance man, for his classic anatomy poster "The penis of the animal kingdom, and the National Endowment for the Arts for encouraging Mr. Knowlton to continue his work as an animated book.

Awards in 1993

Psychology: John Mack of Harvard Medical School and David Michael Jacobs of Temple University, mad visionaries, for their hair-raising demonstration that people believe they have been abducted by aliens have probably been - and especially for their conclusion: "The purpose of the kidnapping is the creation of children."

Engineering consumption: Ron Popeil , inventor and indefatigable presenter of perpetual night television, for redefining the industrial revolution through tools like the Veg-o-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman, Mr. Microphone, or interfering with eggs in the shell.

Biology: Paul Williams Jr. of the health department of the State of Oregon and Kenneth W. Newell School of Tropical Medicine Liverpool, researchers in biology, for their groundbreaking study, "The excretion of Salmonella in pigs on the loose."

Economy: Ravi Batra of Southern Methodist University, insightful economist and author of bestselling and he sold enough books, in itself, prevent the collapse global economy.

Peace: the company Pepsi-Cola Philippines, for sponsoring a contest to make a millionaire, then announced a false winning number, and encouraging and uniting 800 000 winning candidates in protest, bringing together several factions for the first time in history of the country.

Futuristic technology: awarded jointly to Jay Schiffman of Farmington Hills, Michigan, brilliant inventor of AutoVision, a projection image to drive a car while watching television (in order to prevent the driver lose concentration and sleep), and the laws of the State of Michigan , which made it legal.

Chemistry: James Campbell and Gaines Campbell of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, delicate fragrance suppliers, for inventing scent strips, the odious method for applying a scent to the pages of a magazine.

Literature: E. Topol, A. Califf, F. Van de Werf, PW Armstrong, and their 972 co-authors, for publishing an article by medical research that has a hundred times as many authors as pages. (The study was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 329, Number 10, September 2, 1993, pp. 673-82. The authors are from the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Spain, United States, France, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom, Switzerland).

Mathematics: Robert Faid of Greenville, South Carolina, faithful indicator for statistics to be calculated the exact odds (710 609 175 188 282 000 against 1) that Mikhail Gorbachev is the Antichrist.

Physics: Kervran Corey Louis of France, an ardent admirer of alchemy , for his conclusion that the calcium shells of chicken eggs is created through a process of cold fusion.

Medicine: James F. Nolan, Thomas J. Stillwell, and John P. Sands, Jr., compassionate men and doctors for their pain research paper, "Proper Handling of a penis stuck in a zipper. "

Awards in 1994

Biology: W. Brian Sweeney, Brian Kraft-Jacobs, Jeffrey W. Britton, and Wayne Hansen, for their startling study, "The trooper constipated: frequency among U.S. troops, and especially for their numerical analysis of the frequency of movements of intestines.

Peace: John Hagelin of Maharishi University and the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, which promoted the peaceful thought by his experimental conclusion that 4,000 meditators trained could cause a 18% drop in crime in Washington DC.

Medicine: This award was presented in two parts.

• First, the patient X Corps veteran U.S. Marine Corps , valiant victim of a venomous bite from his home rattlesnake, for his relentless use of electroshock therapy - at his own request, the son of command a candle was attached to his lip and the engine of the car turned to 3000 revolutions per minute for five minutes.
• Then, Dr. Richard C. Dart Centre anti-poison of the Rocky Mountains and to Dr. Richard A. Gustafson's Health Centre of the University of Arizona, for their medical report particularly well informed: "The non-functioning electric shocks against the venom of rattlesnakes."

Entomology: Robert A. Lopez of Westport, NY, valiant veterinarian and friend of all creatures of God, for his series of experiments on ear mites cats, inserting them into his own ears and observing and analyzing the results carefully.

Psychology: Lee Kuan Yew , former Prime Minister of Singapore, practitioner of the psychology of negative reinforcement, for his thirty years of study on the effects of punishing three million citizens of Singapore whenever they spat, chewed chewing gum, or fed pigeons.

Literature: L. Ron Hubbard , author of active science fiction and founder of Scientology , for his devilish good book, " Dianetics , "which is very useful to humanity or a portion thereof.

Chemistry: Texas Senator Bob Glasgow, wise writer of logical laws, for having promoted the Drug Control Act of 1989, which made it illegal to purchase without the authorization of beakers, flasks, test tubes or any other laboratory glassware.

Economy: Juan Pablo Davila of Chile, tireless salesman of future financial and former employee of the national company Codelco as saying on his computer when he wanted to sell to buy, then tried to recover his losses by buying even more catastrophic and ends by losing 0.5% of GNP in Chile. Davila incredible success has inspired his fellow citizens a new verb: "davilar" which means "screwed up royally."

Mathematics: the Southern Baptist Church of Alabama, mathematical measurers of morality, its estimates for county by county the number of citizens of Alabama intended to hell without repentance.

Awards in 1995

Nutrition John Martinez of J. Martinez & Co in Atlanta, Georgia, for coffee Luwak, an Indonesian coffee, the most expensive coffee in the world, who just coffee beans ingested and expelled by the luwak , cousin of the Indonesian civet cat.

Physical: DMR Georget, R. Parker and AC Smith, Institute of Food Research in Norwich, England, for their rigorous analysis of soggy breakfast cereal.

Economics: Awarded jointly to Nick Leeson and his superiors at Barings Bank and to Robert Citron of Orange County, California, for the purpose of computing products in demonstrating the limits of any financial institution.

Medicine: Marcia E. Buebel, David S. Shannahoff-Khalsa, and Michael R. Boyle, for their invigorating study entitled "The effects of forced breathing through one nostril on knowledge."

Literature: David B. Busch and James R. Starling, of Madison, Wisconsin, for their research paper captivating, "Rectal Foreign Bodies: Case study and review details of world literature." They cite in particular, among others: seven light bulbs, a sharpening steel, two flashlights, a tobacco box, a bottle of oil with a stopper potato, eleven different fruits and vegetables, a jeweler's saw, a tail Frozen pork, a tin cup, beer glass, and the remarkable collection of a patient including spectacles, a suitcase key, a tobacco pouch and a magazine.

Peace: the national parliament of Taiwan, which showed that politicians gain more by hitting, bumping and tearing eyes between them in waging war on other countries.

Psychology: Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita, Keio University, for having taught the pigeons to differentiate between the paintings of Picasso and those of Monet.

Public Health: Martha Kold Bakkevig SINTEF Unimed in Trondheim, Norway, and Ruth Nielson Technical University of Denmark, for their exhaustive study, "The Impact of wet underwear on thermoregulation and thermal comfort in the cold".

Dentistry: Robert H. Beaumont, of Shoreview, Minnesota, for his incisive study "The patient's preferences: floss waxed or unwaxed? "

Chemistry: Bijan Pakzad Beverly Hills, for creating the cologne and perfume DNA, which contain neither the one nor the other of deoxyribonucleic acid, but both are sold in a bottle double helix.

Awards in 1996

Biology: Anders Sandvik Hogne Barheim and the University of Bergen , Norway, for their study full of good taste, "The effects of beer, garlic and sour cream on the appetite of leeches. "

Medicine: James Johnston of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company , Joseph Taddeo of U.S. Tobacco , Andrew Tisch of Lorillard, William Campbell of Philip Morris , Edward A. Horrigan of Liggett Group , Donald S. Johnston of American Tobacco Company , and Thomas E. Sandefur, Jr., president of Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company for their unshakable discovery, presented at the Congress of the United States, that nicotine is not addictive.

Physics: Robert Matthews of Aston University, England for his studies of Murphy's law , and particularly for his demonstration that the toast frequently falls buttered side.

Peace: Jacques Chirac , President of the French Republic, for having celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by these dates coincide with the last two French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

Public Health: Ellen Kleist of Nuuk, Greenland and Harald Moi of Oslo, Norway for their medical study prudent "transmission of gonorrhea by inflatable dolls.

Chemistry: George Goble of Purdue University , for his astonishing world record for igniting barbecue (three seconds) using charcoal and liquid oxygen.

Biodiversity: Chonosuke Okamura Okamura Fossil Laboratory in Nagoya , Japan , for discovering fossils of dinosaurs, horses, dragons, princesses, and more than a thousand other "mini-species" extinct, all measuring less than one quarter of a millimeter in length.

Literature: the editors of for kindly issued research they did not understand, which the author said it meant nothing, and who said that reality does not exist.

Economics: Dr. Robert J. Genco of the University of Buffalo for his discovery that "the economic tensions are destructive periodontal disease heralding.

Art: Don Featherstone of Fitchburg, Mass., for his revolutionary invention, decorative flamingo pink plastic.

Awards in 1997

Biology: T. Yagyu and his colleagues at the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland, from Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan, Research and Technology of neuroscience Prague, Czech Republic, for their measurements of brain activity during of chewing different flavors of chewing gum.

Entomology: Mark Hostetler of the University of Florida, for his school book titled "This porridge on your car," which identifies the impacts of insects on the windshields of cars.

Astronomy: Richard Hoagland of New Jersey, for identifying artificial elements on other planets, including a human face on Mars and the skyscrapers of fifteen miles high on the Side of the Moon.

Communications: Sanford Wallace, presiding Promotion Cybernetics Philadelphia. Neither rain, nor snow, nor the darkest night have prevented this volunteer courier to send the spam on the planet.

Physics: John Bockris of the University of Texas A & M for its achievements in various fields of cold fusion , the transmutation of elements into gold, and the electrochemical incineration of domestic waste.

Literature: Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg, Israel, and Michael Drosnin , United States, for discovering statistical fetched the Bible that conceals a PIN.

Medicine: Carl J. Charnetski and Francis X. Brennan, Jr. of Wilkes University, and James F. Harrison of Muzak Ltd.. Seattle, Washington, for their discovery that listening to elevator music Muzak stimulates the production of immunoglobulin A, and therefore can help fight colds.

Economy: Akihiro Yokoi of Wiz Company in Chiba, Japan and Aki Maita of Bandai Company in Tokyo, father and mother of Tamagotchi , which has diverted millions of labor hours to the Nursery Necessities of virtual pets.

Peace: Harold Hillman of the University of Surrey, England, for his study absolutely peaceful and beautifully written, "The pain eventually felt during the execution by different methods.

Meteorology: Bernard Vonnegut of the State University of Albany, for his enlightening report, "The plumage of chickens as a measure wind speeds of tornadoes."

Awards in 1998

Engineering and safety: Troy Hurtubise, of North Bay, Canada, for having developed and tested personally armor-proof grizzlies.

Biology: Peter Fong of the technical school in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for his contribution to the welfare of clams using Prozac.

Peace: Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee , Prime Minister of India and Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan, for their peaceful explosions of atomic bombs violently.

Chemistry: Jacques Benveniste of France, for his discovery that not only negligible water has a memory, but can transmit information via the telephone and Internet. Awards in 1999

Sociology: Steve Penfold, of York University in Toronto for his doctoral thesis on the sociology of Canadian donut shops.

Physics: Dr. Len Fisher of Bath, England and Sydney, Australia for having calculated the best way to dip a biscuit, and Professor Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck of the University of East Anglia, England to have calculated how to make a teapot spout that does not drip.

Literature: British Institute of Standardization for its six-page specification (BS-6008) on the way to make a cup of tea (see ISO 3103 ).

Educational Sciences: Education Offices of the States of Kansas and Colorado , to have indicated that children should no longer believe the evolutionary theory of Darwin or the theory of gravitation of Newton , the theory the electromagnetism of Faraday and Maxwell , or the theory of Pasteur "which says" that germs cause disease.

Medicine: Dr. Arvid TLCS Stord, Norway, for having patiently collected, classified and contemplated what kind of containers his patients chose to take urine samples.

Chemistry: Takeshi Makino, president of the Detectives Agency for Security in Osaka , Japan , for his involvement in S-Check, an infidelity detection spray that women can apply on the underwear of their husbands.

Biology: Dr. Paul Bosland, director of the Institute of chili, State University of New Mexico in Las Cruces , for creating a non-spicy jalapeno.

Environmental Protection: Hyuk-ho Kwon of Kolon Company of Seoul , Korea , for inventing a suit autoparfumant.

Peace: Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong of Johannesburg , South Africa , for inventing an alarm anti-theft vehicle equipped with a flamethrower.

Hygiene: George and Charlotte Blonsky of New York and San Jose, California, for their system ( U.S. Patent No. 3,216,423 ) to assist women to give birth - the woman is strapped to a circular table, which is rotated at high speed.

Awards in 2000

Psychology: David Dunning of Cornell University and Justin Kreuger of the University of Illinois, for their modest report, "Incapable of being unconscious and how the difficulty of recognizing its own incompetence leads to an overestimation of self".

Literature: Jasmuheen (formerly known as Ellen Greve) of Australia, first lady Breatharianism ( Breatharianism ") for his book" Living Light ", which explains that although some people eat food, they did not really need.

Biology: Richard Wassersug, Dalhousie University, for his groundbreaking report, "Comparing the taste of tadpoles of the dry season in Costa Rica."

Physics: Andre Geim of the University of Nijmegen (Netherlands) and Sir Michael Berry of Bristol University (United Kingdom), for using magnets to levitate a frog. Andre Geim in 2010 will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene, making him the only winning the Ig Nobel to receive a "real" Nobel Prize.

Chemistry: Donatella Marazziti, Alessandra Rossi, and Giovanni B. Cassano of the University of Pisa (Italy), and Hagop S. Akiskal of the University of California (USA), for their discovery of a biochemical point of view, romantic love can not be distinguished from obsessive compulsive disorder.

Economy: the Rev. Sun Myung Moon , for bringing efficiency and growth in the wedding industry with mass, according to its figures, the marriage of 36 couples in 1960, of 430 couples in 68 of 1800 couples 75, 6000 pairs in 82, 30 000 pairs in 92, 360 000 pairs in 95 and eventually 36 million couples in 1997.

Medicine: Willibrord Weijmar Schultz, Pek van Andel, and Eduard Mooyaart of Groningen, the Netherlands, and Ida Sabel Amsterdam, for their study of light, "Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female sexual organs during intercourse and excitement sexuelle fminine.

Informatique : Chris Niswander de Tucson, Arizona, pour l'invention de PawSense (Sensation de Patte, NdT), logiciel qui dtecte si un chat marche sur le clavier de votre ordinateur.

Paix : la Marine Royale Britannique , pour avoir ordonn ses marins de ne plus utiliser de vrais obus de canon et de se contenter de crier Bang ! "

Sant publique : Jonathan Wyatt, Gordon McNaughton, et William Tullet de Glasgow (cosse), pour leur tude alarmante, l'affaissement de toilettes Glasgow.

Prix dcerns en 2001

Mdecine : Peter Barss de l'universit McGill, pour son remarquable rapport mdical sur les blessures dues des chutes de noix de coco.

Physique : David Schmidt de l'Universit du Massachusetts pour sa rponse partielle la question : Pourquoi les rideaux de douche se gonflent-ils vers l'intrieur ? .

Biologie : Buck Weimer de Pueblo, Colorado, pour l'invention de sous-vtements tanches quips d'un charbon supprimant les mauvaises odeurs des gaz avant qu'ils ne s'chappent.

conomie : Joel Slemrod, de l'cole de commerce de l'universit du Michigan, et Wojciech Kopczuk, de l'un iversity of British Columbia, for their conclusion that people find a way to postpone their deaths if that would give them a reduction of the inheritance tax.

Literature: John Richards of Boston, England, founder of the Society for the Protection of the apostrophe , for his efforts to protect, promote and defend the differences between plural and possessive in English.

Psychology: Lawrence W. Sherman of Miami University, Ohio, for his research paper "An ecological study of glee in small groups of preschool children."

Astrophysics: Dr. Jack Van Impe and Rexella Ministry Jack Van Impe in Rochester Hills, Mich., for their discovery that black holes fulfill all the technical conditions to contain the inferno.

Peace: Viliumas Malinauskus of Grutas, Lithuania, for creating the amusement park " Stalin World ".

Technology: jointly awarded to John Keogh of Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, for patenting the wheel in 2001, and the Australian Bureau of patents which granted him the patent number 2001100012 innovation.

Public Health: Chittaranjan Andrade and BS Srihari of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India, for their discovery medical evidence that nose picking is a common activity among adolescents.

Awards in 2002

Biology: Norma E. Bubier, Charles GM Paxton, Phil Bowers, and D. Charles Deeming (England) for their study on "Conduct of the nuptial ostriches vis--vis human farming conditions in Britain. "

Physics: Arnd Leika ( Germany ) for his "demonstration of the application of the law of exponential degradation from the foam of beer."

Interdisciplinary Research: Karl Kruszelnicki ( Australia ) for his comprehensive survey of navel hair. "

Chemistry: Theo Gray ( USA ) for the assembly of several elements of the periodic table as a "periodic table to table on all fours."

Mathematics: KP Sreekumar fire G. Nirmalan ( India ) for their analytical report "estimating the total area of the elephant of India. "

Literature: David S. Kreiner (USA) for its report on the effects of highlighting inappropriate pre-existing understanding of the reading "

Peace: Keita Sato, Matsumi Suzuki, Norio Kogure ( Japan ) for the promotion of peace and harmony between species by inventing the Bow-Lingual, a machine for automatic translation between men and dogs.

Hygiene: Eduardo Segura ( Spain ) for his invention of a washing machine for dogs and cats.

Economy: The presidents, directors and auditors of several companies (mostly American) such as Enron , Lernout & Hauspie , Kmart , Maxwell Communications , Merrill Lynch , Merck , WorldCom , Xerox and Arthur Andersen, for adapting the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers in service business.

Medicine: Chris McManus ( England ) for his study of "the asymmetry of the scrotum men in ancient statues.

Awards in 2003

Engineering: John Paul Stapp , Edward A. Murphy Jr. , and George Nichols, for jointly giving birth in 1949 to Murphy's Law , whose basic principle is: "if one or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can lead to a catastrophe, then someone will use it. "

Physics: Jack Harvey, John Culvenor, Warren Payne, Steve Cowley, Michael Lawrance, David Stuart, and Robyn Williams, Australia, for their irresistible report "Analysis of forces required to drag a sheep over various surfaces.

Medicine: Eleanor Maguire, David Gadian, Ingrid Johnsrude, Catriona Good, John Ashburner, Richard Frackowiak, and Christopher Frith of University of London, highlighting the brains of drivers taxis in London are more highly developed than those of their fellow citizens.

Literature: John Trinkaus, of the Zicklin School of Business, New York, for having meticulously gathered data and published more than 80 detailed reports about things that have bothered, as:

• What percentage of young people wearing caps baseball with visors at the rear rather than front;
• What percentage of pedestrians wear shoes that are white sport rather than a different color;
• What percentage of swimmers drink the cup of the shallow end of a pool rather than the deep end;
• What percentage of motorists stopped almost but not completely, at a signal stop ;
• What percentage of commuters carry attach cases;
• What percentage of customers exceed express the number of items allowed in the queue of a supermarket ;
• What percentage of students dislike the taste of Brussels sprouts.

Chemistry: Yukio Hirose of Kanazawa University, for his work on a statue of bronze , in the city of Kanazawa, which does not attract pigeons.

Economy: Karl Schwrzler and the State of Liechtenstein , for making possible the rental of the entire country for conventions, weddings and other gatherings.

Multidiscipline: Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson and Magnus Enquist of the University of Stockholm , for their report "the chickens prefer the beautiful people. "

Peace: Lal Bihari of Uttar Pradesh in India for his triple achievement: first for having led an active life as he had been recognized officially died in 1976, and secondly for having led a fierce campaign against posthumous bureaucratic inertia; finally to have established the Association of deceased persons.

Psychology: Gian Vittorio Caprara and Claudio Barbaranelli University of Rome , and Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University , for their report "simple minds of politicians."

Biology: CW Moeliker Natuurmuseum of Rotterdam, for his report on the first scientifically observed cases of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.

Awards in 2004

Medicine: Steven Stack and James Gundlach ( U.S. ) for their report on "the effect of country music on suicide. "

Physics: Ramesh Balasubramaniam ( Canada ) and Michael Turley ( U.S. ) for their exploration and explanation of the dynamics of hula hoop.

Hygiene: Jillian Clarke (United States) for its investigation of the scientific truth of the "rule of five seconds," about the issue of eating food dropped on the ground.

Chemistry: The Company Coca-Cola of Great Britain , for its use of advanced technology to convert contaminated water into the Thames Dasani , a mineral water bottled ... he finally took out the stalls for the presence of a carcinogen.

Engineering: Donald J. and Frank J. Smith (USA), for patenting the "combover" (word English designating a method of hair that allows bats to use some of their remaining hair to disguise their baldness ).

Literature: The American Nudist Research Library (Kissimmee, Florida , USA), for the preservation of history nudist "so that everyone can see it."

Psychology: Daniel Simon and Christopher Chabris, for demonstrating that when people focus their attention on something, it's easy to forget everything else - including a woman dressed as a gorilla.

Economy: The Vatican , for having contracted prayers in India.

Peace: Daisuke Inoue ( Japan ), for inventing karaoke , thereby providing a new way for people to learn to tolerate.

Biology: Ben Wilson and Lawrence Dill (Canada), Robert Batty ( Scotland ) Magnu Wahlberg ( Denmark ), Westenberg and Hakan ( Sweden ) for their demonstration of communication by means of herring fart.

Awards in 2005

History of Agriculture: James Watson of Massey University ( New Zealand ), for "the meaning of explosive pants of Mr. Richard Buckley: reflections on an aspect of daily technological changes in New Zealand between the two world wars.

Physics: John Mainstone and Thomas Parnell, University of Queensland ( Australia ), for observing the drip tar solidified into a funnel at a rate of about one drop every nine years, since 1927. This is the experience of the pitch drop.

Medicine: Gregg A. Miller, Oak Grove, Missouri , for inventing the "Neuticles" artificial replacement testicles for dogs, available in 3 sizes and 3 consistencies (see Patent No. U.S. 5,868,140 Awards in 2006

Ornithology: Ivan R. Schwab and Philip RA May, University of California , for their work explaining why woodpeckers are not prone to headaches.

Nutrition Wasmia Al-Houty of the University of Kuwait and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Environment Public Authority of Kuwait, for the study of taste preferences of the scarab beetle.

Peace: Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil ( Wales ), for inventing a device emitting an unbearable sound heard only by people under 20 years.

Acoustics: D. Lynn Halpern, Randolph Blake and James Hillenbrand of Northwestern University ( Chicago ), for explaining why the screeching of nails on a blackboard is unpleasant to the ear.

Mathematics: Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the organization Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research, for calculating the number of pictures that need to be taken to be (almost) sure that nobody in a group photo n 'will have their eyes closed.

Literature: Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University , for his report "Consequences of the misuse of erudite vernacular: the problems of using long words needlessly"

Medicine: Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee , for its clinical study report on relieving hiccups stubborn by digital rectal massage.

Physics: Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch of the Universit Pierre et Marie Curie ( Paris ), for research explaining why spaghetti dry break usually more than two pieces.

Chemistry: Antonio Mulet, Jose Javier Benedito and Jos Bon of the University of Valencia ( Spain ), Carmen Rossell of the University Isles Baleares ( Spain ), having measured the velocity of ultrasound in cheese Cheddar according to the temperature.

Biology: Bart Knols and Ruurd de Jong of Wageningen Agricultural University ( Netherlands ), for demonstrating that the mosquito Anopheles female, vector of malaria , is attracted equally to the smell of Limburger cheese as that of human feet.

Awards in 2007

Medicine: Brian Witcombe of Gloucester ( England ), and Dan Meyer of Antioch ( Tennessee , USA ), for their penetrating medical report on the ingestion of swords and side effects.

Physics: L. Mahadevan, of Harvard University ( Massachusetts , USA ) and Enrique Cerda Villablanca , of the University of Santiago de Chile , for their study of the appearance of wrinkles on the sheets.

Biology: Johanna EMH van Bronswijk Pr, of the Technical University of Eindhoven ( Netherlands ) for its census of all the mites, insects, spiders, pseudo-scorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds each night.

Chemistry: Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan, have developed a method for extraction of vanillin (vanilla aroma and flavor) from cow dung.

Linguistics: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Nria Sebastin-Galls the University of Barcelona , for showing that rats are most often unable to recognize the Japanese language of the Dutch language in a speech broadcast in reverse.

Literature: Glenda Browne of Blaxland ( Blue Mountains , Australia ) for his study of Word, and the many problems it poses for alphabetical.

Peace: The Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton , for their research and development on a chemical weapon, the " gay bomb "that makes enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to their brothers in arms.

Nutrition: Brian Wansink of Cornell University for his research on the seemingly endless appetite of human beings, by feeding them with a bottomless bowl filling automatically.

Economics: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, of Taiwan , for patenting a device in 2001 that catches bank robbers by throwing a net over.

Aviation: Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek of the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes in Argentina , for their discovery that Viagra helped hamsters to recover from jet lag.

Awards in 2008

The 18th igNobel ceremony was held October 3, 2008.

Nutrition: Massimiliano Zampini returns to, the University of Trento and Charles Spence of Oxford University for their research on the sound of food.

Peace: the prize goes to the Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology of the Swiss Confederation to be legally established that plants have dignity.

Archaeology: Astolfo G. Mello Araujo and Jos Carlos Marcelino of Universidade de So Paulo , for having measured the adverse effects of the armadillo on the content of archaeological sites.

Biology: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert and Michel Franc of the National Veterinary School of Toulouse for discovering that fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than fleas that live on a cat.

Medicine: Dan Ariely ( Duke University ) which has demonstrated a very high placebo rate was more effective than placebo at low prices.

Cognitive science: Toshiyuki Nakagaki ( Hokkaido University ), Hiroyasu Yamada (Nagoya), Ryo Kobayashi (Hiroshima), Atsushi Tero of the Japan Science and Technology (JST / Presto), Akio Ishiguro of Tohoku University and the gota Tth University of Szeged in Hungary, which found that myctozoaires could find the exit to the maze.

Economics: Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan of the University of New Mexico for discovering that the ovulation cycle of a dancer lap dance could affect the amount of tips.

Physical Science: Dorian Raymer of the Ocean Observatories of the Scripps Institution and Douglas Smith of the University of California at San Diego , for proving mathematically that heaps of hair, rope or almost anything else ended inevitably become tangled in knots.

Chemistry: Sharee A. to Umpierre of the University of Puerto Rico, Joseph A. Hill, Fertility Centers of New England and Deborah J. Anderson University School of Medicine in Boston and Harvard Medical School, for demonstrating that Coca-Cola was an effective spermicide. The award is also given to Taiwanese researchers Chuang-Ye Hong, CC Shieh, P. Wu and BN Chiang who in turn established the Coca-Cola was not an effective spermicide.

Literature: David Sims of Cass Business School (London) for his study beautifully written and called (Rough translation: You bastard! A narrative exploration of the experience of indignation within organizations).

Awards in 2009

The ^19th Ig Nobel ceremony was held on ¹ October 2009.

Veterinary Medicine: Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson, University of Newcastle , for demonstrating that the cows bearing a name produce more milk than others.

Peace: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl University of Bern , for showing that it is better to get on her head a bottle full of beer an empty bottle.

Economy: to directors, officers and auditors from four banks Icelandic ( Kaupthing , Landsbanki , Glitnir and the Central Bank of Iceland ) for demonstrating that small banks can be quickly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa (and have shown that similar things can be made for a national economy as a whole).

Chemistry: Javier Morales, Miguel Aptiga, and Victor M. Castao de la for having created diamonds from liquids, especially from tequila.

Medicine: Donald L. Unger, of Thousand Oaks , for investigating a possible cause of arthritis of the fingers, by cracking the fingers of his hand left (but not those on the right) every day for over sixty years.

Physics: Katherine K. Whitcome University of Cincinnati, Daniel E. Lieberman of Harvard University and Liza J. Shapiro of the University of Texas , having determined why pregnant women do not tilt forward.

Literature: the Irish police ( An Garda Siochana ), for having given more than fifty contraventions Prawo Jazdy, whose name means in Polish "driver's license."

Public Health: Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee and Sandra Marijan of Chicago , for having invented a bra that in case of emergency can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks.

Mathematics: to Gideon Gono, governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe , for giving people a simple and daily to deal with a wide range of numbers (from smallest to largest) by printing banknotes value ranging from a penny to one hundred trillion dollars.

Biology: Fumiaki Taguchi to, Guofu Song, and Zhang Guanglei of Sagamihara , for demonstrating that we can reduce the mass of food waste by more than 90% by using bacteria extracted ' feces of giant pandas.

Awards in 2010

The 20th ceremony was held on 30 September 2010.

Management: Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo of the University of Catania (Italy) have shown that a given organization would be more effective if the line promotions were made randomly. Their work is based on the Peter Principle that every employee rises in the hierarchy to its maximum level of incompetence.

Engineering: Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse, Agnes Rocha-Gosselin and Diane Gendron. The jury congratulated them for the small helicopter they were designed. Piloted remotely, can collect the saliva and expired gases by whales without getting dirty or wet your hands to explore seriously the plight of whales and in particular their possible infection.

Physics: Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams and Patricia Priest who have demonstrated that wearing socks outside his shoes limited the risk of falling on frozen ground.

Biology: to Libiao Zhang, Min Tan, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Hong Tiyu, Shania Zhou, Zhang Shuyi and Gareth Jones, who last year published a study remarkable about the practice of fellatio among bats.

Peace: Richard Stephens, John Atkins and Andrew Kingston showed that swearing is a good way to increase tolerance to pain. A phenomenon that had hitherto never been studied.

Public Health: Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews and Larry Taylor for their work on the germs that cling to the bearded scientist. They showed that some critters found in microbiology laboratories settled permanently in the hair of the person who manipulated.

Transport regulation: Toshiyuki Nakagaki at, Atsushi Tero, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Ito, Kenji yumika, Ryo Kobayashi, Dan Bebber and Mark Fricker for their study of the myxomycete and model railways.

Economy: the leaders of Goldman Sachs , AIG , Lehman Brothers , Bear Stearns , Merrill Lynch and Magnetar for having "created and promoted new ways of investing money in maximizing gains and minimizing financial risk to the economy World or a portion thereof. " This award is part of the category "critical" and not "reward for research voluntarily incongruous" (see # criteria ), the winners have not come to the ceremony.

Medicine: Simon Rietveld and Ilja van Beest were rewarded for their study on the influence of roller coasters on asthma.

Chemistry: Eric Adams, Scott Socolofsky Stephen Masutani and the oil company BP. They have done a great service to science by refuting the old belief that water and oil (petroleum) were not miscible. BP did not come to the ceremony, unlike the three American scientists.

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