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The Ig Nobel Prize (/ ˌɪɡnoʊˈbɛl /) is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which it parodies, and on the word "ignoble".
This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [ 1 ] A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".
Actual Nobel laureates presented the prizes to the ten IG Nobel winners who all won a now obsolete Zimbabwean ten trillion-dollar bill, available for $22 on eBay, and a “transparent box ...
Ig Nobel Prize. Troy James Hurtubise (November 23, 1963 – June 17, 2018) was a Canadian inventor, entrepreneur and conservationist, noted for creating the Ursus series of bear suits which showed the Ursus Mark VI in the 1996 film Project Grizzly directed by Peter Lynch for the National Film Board of Canada. Hurtubise starred in the 1996 film ...
The Ig Nobels were founded by a science humor magazine in 1991 to honor the imaginative and unusual in science ... “If you didn’t win an Ig Nobel Prize tonight — and especially if you did ...
The Ig Nobel Prize’s 33rd ceremony took place virtually on Thursday night, with prizes awarded by “genuine, genuinely bemused” Nobel laureates over Zoom. Each winner received a (now defunct ...
Ig Nobel Prize (2015) Justin Orvel Schmidt (March 23, 1947 – February 18, 2023) was an American entomologist, co-author of Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators, [1] author of The Sting of the Wild, [2] and creator of the Schmidt sting pain index. Schmidt studied honey bee nutrition, chemical communication ...
Marc Abrahams, in 2008. Marc Abrahams (born 1956 [citation needed]) is the editor and co-founder of Annals of Improbable Research, and the originator and master of ceremonies of the annual Ig Nobel Prize celebration. He was formerly editor of the Journal of Irreproducible Results.