![]() Matsumi Suzuki, President of Japan Acoustic Lab and Dr. The Peace Prize went to Keita Sato, President of Takara a major Japanese-based toy company, Dr. The Hygiene award went to Eduardo Segura, of Lavakan de Aste, in Tarragona, Spain for inventing a washing machine for cats and dogs. The prizes for hygiene and peace went out to two inventions benefiting the dog and cat world. “Though unfortunately for me it was another species.” ![]() “At no stage in my entire life have I had so many obvious passes in so short a period of time,” Paxton said. The team soon found out that the sexual behavior that the ostriches did display was directed towards humans instead. However, the ostriches refused to breed amongst themselves. The team performed the experiment during the early ’90s when Britain was having an Ostrich breeding craze. “We didn’t think it was so funny at the time,” Paxton said, who has now become a fish biologist. “I dare everyone in this room to go to their nearest research library and ask the librarian word for word in the loudest voice possible for this article,” Abraham said.Ĭharles Paxton, in collaboration with Norma Bubier, Phil Bowers, and Charles Deeming received the Biology Prize for their report on the “Courtship Behavior of Ostriches Towards Humans Under Farming Conditions in Britain.” The Medicine prize went to Chris McManus Professor of Psychology and Medical Education at the Department of Psychology at the University College, London for his report “Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture” which was featured in the front page and a section of the magazine Nature. “It’s nice to have a good laugh.”Īlthough the winners and their research and inventions generate much laughter and disbelief, their work is no lie. “Science is a very serious business,” said Chief Science Advisor to the British government David King. The achievements recognized such bizarre research and findings as the sexual attraction of ostriches to humans, the exponential decay of beer froth as well as a comprehensive survey of belly button lint. 5, where the winners were given a chance to explain “what they did and why they did it.” I’m bored.’” Two related free public lectures were held later, one at Harvard on Oct. If they exceeded their time limit an “eternally nine-year old girl would come up to them say ‘Please stop. It took 12 years to put our criteria into these few words.”ĭuring the ceremony, the winners were each given a minute for their acceptance speech. “What these people did should first make you laugh, then make you think. The criterion for Ig Nobel winners is “quite simple” said Marc Abrahams, creator, producer, and director of the ceremony as well as editor of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Nobel Prize Laureates Dudley Herschbach (Chemistry ’86), William Lipscomb (Chemistry ’76), and Richard Roberts (Physiology or Medicine ’93) personally presented the awards to the winners. ![]() Each winner received a mock trophy with chattering teeth on a metal stand, a certificate, and of course the classic handshake. The winners, representing five different countries, flew in at their own expense. 3 in Harvard University’s historic Sanders Theatre in honor of achievements that “can not and should not be reproduced.”Ī farcical spin off the Switzerland Nobel Prize Ceremony, the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, set a few days before Nobel Prize winners are announced, presented its 10 awards in the categories of biology, physics, interdisciplinary research, chemistry, mathematics, literature, peace, hygiene, economics, and medicine. The 12th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony launched its mayhem amidst a bombardment of paper airplanes last Thursday, Oct. PDF of This Issue Ig Nobel Ceremony Hails Science’s Laughable Achievements of the Year
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