Winners of the Ignobelev Prize 2007
The winners of the Ignobele Prize 2007 (Ig Nobel 2007 or the Schnebel Prize), which is awarded annually for the most incredible, amazing and useless scientific studies published in the official scientific press, have become known recently. By analogy with the Nobel Prize, its humorous counterpart is awarded in the same nominations: physics, chemistry, biology, etc.
For example, the winner in the category "medicine" was the study "Swallowing the sword and its side effects" , published in the British medical journal. One of the authors of the scientific work demonstrated the subject of research right during the ceremony.
The prize for biology was received by a Dutch professor who spent years of her life studying all the living creatures that live in our beds. If anyone is interested, then these are ticks, spiders, pseudoscorpions, bacteria, crustaceans, algae, some types of fern and mold.
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The most ridiculous research in physics recognized the work “Wrinkling of elastic surfaces under pressure,” in which scientists tried to understand the laws that create folds on curtains.
The best chemist of the year was Mayu Yamamoto from the Japanese Medical Center. She found a way to extract the flavoring flavor vanillin from cow dung. In honor of this amazing discovery of Yamamoto, one American company even released a new sort of vanilla ice cream Yum-a-Moto, which was treated to all scientists at the Ignobele conference.
The Basque philologist became the laureate of Ignobel in linguistics, who found that rats cannot distinguish between Japanese and Dutch, if you say the words back to front. Moreover, rats cannot do this even after three weeks of training ( article in the Journal of Experimental Psychology ).
The prize in literature was awarded to an Australian researcher for a detailed analysis of the problems of indexing information caused by the existence of the article “the” in English.
The Peace Prize went to military engineers from the Dayton Laboratory of the United States Air Force, who after ten years of research began developing a new type of chemical weapon, codenamed "Gay Bomb . " This bomb sprays a special gas, which leads to increased sexual activity of enemy soldiers.
The main dietary prize went to a group of American scientists who discovered the stunning effect of the endless gluttony of man . It turned out that if you feed a person from a self-replenishing bowl, a person eats up 73% more soup.
The prize in economics was received by the Thai genius, who patented a system for instantly catching bank robbers with the help of a network that is thrown over their heads.
The prize for aviation recognized the group of Argentine scientists. They found that after taking Viagra in hamsters, biorhythms and the ability to determine cycles of light and darkness are disturbed . In this regard, scientists suggest that the drug can be used to help passengers who suffer from jet lag after transcontinental flights.
For example, the winner in the category "medicine" was the study "Swallowing the sword and its side effects" , published in the British medical journal. One of the authors of the scientific work demonstrated the subject of research right during the ceremony.
The prize for biology was received by a Dutch professor who spent years of her life studying all the living creatures that live in our beds. If anyone is interested, then these are ticks, spiders, pseudoscorpions, bacteria, crustaceans, algae, some types of fern and mold.
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The most ridiculous research in physics recognized the work “Wrinkling of elastic surfaces under pressure,” in which scientists tried to understand the laws that create folds on curtains.The best chemist of the year was Mayu Yamamoto from the Japanese Medical Center. She found a way to extract the flavoring flavor vanillin from cow dung. In honor of this amazing discovery of Yamamoto, one American company even released a new sort of vanilla ice cream Yum-a-Moto, which was treated to all scientists at the Ignobele conference.
The Basque philologist became the laureate of Ignobel in linguistics, who found that rats cannot distinguish between Japanese and Dutch, if you say the words back to front. Moreover, rats cannot do this even after three weeks of training ( article in the Journal of Experimental Psychology ).
The prize in literature was awarded to an Australian researcher for a detailed analysis of the problems of indexing information caused by the existence of the article “the” in English.
The Peace Prize went to military engineers from the Dayton Laboratory of the United States Air Force, who after ten years of research began developing a new type of chemical weapon, codenamed "Gay Bomb . " This bomb sprays a special gas, which leads to increased sexual activity of enemy soldiers.
The main dietary prize went to a group of American scientists who discovered the stunning effect of the endless gluttony of man . It turned out that if you feed a person from a self-replenishing bowl, a person eats up 73% more soup.
The prize in economics was received by the Thai genius, who patented a system for instantly catching bank robbers with the help of a network that is thrown over their heads.
The prize for aviation recognized the group of Argentine scientists. They found that after taking Viagra in hamsters, biorhythms and the ability to determine cycles of light and darkness are disturbed . In this regard, scientists suggest that the drug can be used to help passengers who suffer from jet lag after transcontinental flights.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/14825/
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