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The Prize in Medicine was

Brian Witcombe, a consultant radiologist at Gloucestershire Royal NHS Foundation Trust, has joined the pantheon of scientists whose research on "gay bombs", bottomless bowls of soup, giving jet lagged hamsters Viagra and stranger things besides have been deemed sufficiently quirky to win an "Ig Nobel".

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/333/7582/1285
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
The Prize in Medicine was

Brian Witcombe, a consultant radiologist at Gloucestershire Royal NHS Foundation Trust, has joined the pantheon of scientists whose research on "gay bombs", bottomless bowls of soup, giving jet lagged hamsters Viagra and stranger things besides have been deemed sufficiently quirky to win an "Ig Nobel".

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/333/7582/1285
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Some of these were discussed on ABC's "PM" this evening and were pretty funny. Just a great way to introduce young people to science.
 
The physics prize went to Profs Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of Harvard University and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, for studying how sheets become wrinkled.

Complementing this pioneering work was a census of all the mites, insects, spiders, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds. This earned the biology prize for Prof Johanna van Bronswijk of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
 
The linguistics prize went to Juan Manuel Toro, Josep Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés of the University of Barcelona for their remarkable discovery that rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards.
 
the peace prize went to The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, for instigating research on the so-called "gay bomb" to make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other;
 
And an Aussie got a prize.

Glenda Browne of Blaxland, Australia, won the literature prize for her study of the word "the" - and of the many ways it causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order;
 
The linguistics prize went to Juan Manuel Toro, Josep Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés of the University of Barcelona for their remarkable discovery that rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards.
 
and in 2024, a rich selection

Harvard hosted the 34th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony awarded for the wildest and craziest achievements

- The Peace Prize went to American psychologist Berres Skinner for the idea of using pigeons inside missiles as spotters.
- The Demography Prize went to Dr. Sol Newman, who discovered that many long-lived people became so because of bureaucratic errors.
- The Chemistry prize went to researchers who developed a method for separating drunken worms from sober ones.
- The Anatomy Prize went to French researchers who confirmed that hair in the southern hemisphere is more likely to curl clockwise, while in the northern hemisphere - counterclockwise.
- The Physiology prize went to Japanese scientists who found that pigs and rodents can breathe through their anus.
 
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