IG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
Added on: 24th Sep 2015
Nutrition: Brian Wansink,
for investigating people's appetite for mindless eating
by secretly feeding them a self-refilling bowl of soup
Linguistics: Juan Manuel Toro and Josep B. Trobalon
for determining that rats sometimes can't distinguish
between recordings of Japanese and Dutch played backward
Literature: Daniel M. Oppenheimer of Princeton University
for his report "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized
Irrespective of Necessity:
Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"
Literature – Presented to the Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria,
for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series
of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a
cast of rich characters—General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam
Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others—each
of whom requires just a small amount of expense money
so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are
entitled and which they would like to share with the kind
person who assists them
Physics – Presented to Jack Harvey and John Culvenor of Australia,
for their irresistible report
"An analysis of the forces required to drag sheep over various surfaces".
Economics – Presented to Karl Schwärzler and the nation
of Liechtenstein,
for making it possible to rent the entire
country for corporate conventions, weddings,
bar mitzvahs, and other gatherings
Mathematics – Presented to K.P. Sreekumar and G. Nirmalan
of Kerala Agricultural University, India, for their analytical report
"Estimation of the Total Surface Area in Indian Elephants"
Technology – Presented jointly to John Keogh of Hawthorn,
Victoria, Australia, for patenting the wheel in the year 2001,
and to the Australian Patent Office (IP Australia) for granting
him Innovation Patent #2001100012
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