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	Ig Nobel Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The awards are sometimes veiled criticism — as in the two awards given for homeopathy research, or prizes in "science education" to Kansas and Colorado state boards of education for their stance regarding the teaching of evolution — but more often they draw attention to scientific articles that have some funny or unexpected aspect.
		The first Ig Nobels were awarded in 1991, when they were described as discoveries "that cannot, or should not, be reproduced." The name is a pun on the word "ignoble" and the name Nobel Prize.
		With the exception of three prizes in the first year (see Administratium, Josiah Carberry, and Paul DeFanti), most Ig Nobel Prizes have been for genuine achievements.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IgNobel_prize (457 words)

	Ig Nobel Prize
		The prizes are presented at a gala ceremony in Harvard University's Sanders Theatre, and are sponsored by the scientific humour journal Annals of Improbable Research (AIR).
		Though they are a parody of the Nobel Prizes, genuine Nobel Laureates are on hand to award the winners with their honours.
		The prizes are similar in terms of dignity and scope to the Darwin Awards.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/ig_nobel_prize (351 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The IgNobel Prize - A973677
		Other prizes are awarded to hold a mirror up to the scientific world as a whole, as a general excuse to have a good laugh and dispel the myth that scientists are all really boring people.
		The annual IgNobel Prize ceremony is held in October at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University.
		The 2002 Ignobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to Theodore Gray of Champaign, Illinois, USA, for building the first periodic table.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/classic/A973677 (1634 words)

	"The 2002 IgNobel Prizes" by Edward Willett
		In a similar vein, the IgNobel for Hygiene went to Eduardo Segura, of Lavakan de Aste, in Tarragona, Spain, for inventing a washing machine for cats and dogs: you put the animal in a box, press a button, and the pet is gently washed and dried.
		The IgNobel Prize in Biology went to Norma E. Bubier, Charles G.M. Paxton, Phil Bowers, and D. Charles Deeming of the United Kingdom, for their report "Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches Towards Humans Under Farming Conditions in Britain." At least amorous ostriches are one problem Saskatchewan's troubled wheat farmers don't have to contend with.
		The IgNobel Prize in physics went to Arnd Leike of the University of Munich, for demonstrating that beer froth obeys the mathematical Law of Exponential Decay.
	www.edwardwillett.com /Columns/ignobels2002.htm (544 words)

	Nobel Prize - Wikipedia
		The first ceremony to award the Nobel Prize was held at the Old Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm in 1901; beginning in 1902, the prizes have been formally awarded by the King of Sweden.
		A large monetary award is included with the Nobel Prize, currently 10 million Swedish kronor (slightly more than one million euro), and is intended to allow the person to continue working/researching without the pressures of raising money for the research/work.
		For other disciplines, there are prizes that are deemed equivalent to the Nobel Prize, such as the Fields Medal in mathematics.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/NobelPrize (246 words)

	Nobel Prize : Nobel prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The first ceremony to award the Nobel Prizes in literature, physics, chemistry, and medicine was held at the Old Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm in 1901; beginning in 1902, the prizes have been formally awarded by the King of Sweden.
		Some fields without a Nobel prize have instituted prizes of their own which are not as well-known: the Polar Prize[?] in music, the Fields Medal in mathematics, the Wollaston Medal[?] in geology, the Schock Prizes in logic and philosophy, mathematics, visual arts and musical arts[?].
		The humorous IgNobel Prize is a parody which annually honors research "that cannot or should not be repeated".
	www.termsdefined.net /no/nobel-prize.html (647 words)

	Ig Nobels Laugh at Science
		The annual ceremony, which includes a handful of real Nobel Prize winners, is one of the few events where scientists laugh at themselves (at least in public).
		The much sought-after Prize for Science Education was presented to Dolores Krieger, professor emerita at New York University, for her studies of therapeutic touch.
		The Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine went to "patient Y" and his doctors at Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, Wales, for their odious report, "A Man Who Pricked His Finger and Smelled Putrid for 5 years." A cousin of one of the doctors accepted the award and announced that the story has a happy ending.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1998/10.15/IgNobelsLaughat.html (940 words)

	NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
		The Prizes are awarded at a formal ceremony held annually on December 10, the date that Alfred Nobel passed away.
		Since this prize has no foundation in Nobel's will, and is not paid by his money, it is technically not a Nobel prize (and the present Nobel family does not accept it as such).
		Some fields without a Nobel prize have instituted prizes of their own which are not as well-known: the Polar Prize in music, the Fields Medal in mathematics, the Turing Award in computing, the Wollaston Medal in geology, the Schock Prizes in logic and philosophy, mathematics, visual arts and musical arts.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/NOBEL+PRIZE+FOR+LITERATURE (672 words)

	IgNobel Prize - Wikipedia
		The annual IgNobel Prize awards honor people whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced." Ten prizes are given to people who have done remarkably goofy things -- some of them admirable, some perhaps otherwise.
		The prizes are presented at Harvard University, and are sponsored by the scientific humour journal Annals of Improbable Research.
		They are a parody of the Nobel Prizes.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/IgNobel_Prize (115 words)

	No. 1171: The Ignobel Prizes
		1996 IgNobel Prizes, recently held in Memorial Hall on the Harvard Campus.
		An IgNobel Prize recognizes a research result that cannot (or should not) be reproduced.
		The IgNobel Peace Prize went to the President of France, who observed the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb with a series of A-bomb tests in the Pacific.
	www.uh.edu /admin/engines/epi1171.htm (504 words)

	The Science Show: 8 October 2005 - IgNobel Prizes 2005
		Suddenly we have nearly half of the slate of the new IgNobel prize winners are coming from one corner of the world and there is going to be a lot of jealousy in England, I’ll tell you.
		Claire Rind won the IgNobel for Peace and her winning study was involved in electronically monitoring a brain cell, a single brain cell, in a locust while that locust was watching selected scenes from the movie Star Wars, that was her work.
		Hey Robyn before I go the IgNobel for Literature went to all those wonderful entrepreneurs, internet entrepreneurs in Nigeria that send you all those special little spam message, those rich short stories with a cast of characters from the likes of widows who are seeking your help in retrieving their inheritance.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s1474083.htm (2809 words)

	Bulletin - Battle of the bull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Welcome to the 2003 IgNobel Prize ceremony, where people and achievements that will never win a real Nobel Prize are both celebrated and exposed.
		The inaugural IgNobel prize for economics went to infamous junk bond king Michael Milken, with the peace prize awarded to Edward Teller, inventor of the hydrogen bomb.
		Other prizes are awarded in areas that spoof traditional Nobel prizes, such as physics and medicine.
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/eddesk.nsf/printing/0EF637C86F3E902CCA256DB80029995D (609 words)

	Comedy Gags Jokes - the ignobel prizes
		The Ignobel Prizes is a collection of short funny stories about weird experiments, bizarre research projects, highly questionable human endeavors, and just plain stupid scientists and governments spending loads of money to research the obvious or the totally irrelevant.
		The Ignobel Prizes is fascinating yet not taxing so it is not as if you have to concentrate to understand the funny story or funny event.
		The Ignobel Prizes is definitely the kind of gag gift you can easily give to the scientifically minded in your family or at your office.
	www.comedy-gags-jokes.com /the_ignobel_prizes.htm (635 words)

	News in Science - Honouring the IgNobel - 08/10/2001
		Australian lawyer John Keogh, of Melbourne, is one of the proud winners of this year's IgNobel Prizes.
		The IgNobels are designed to honour people whose achievements, according to the organisers, "cannot or should not be reproduced".
		The one catch is that he shares his award with the Australian Patent Office, which granted him patent #2001100012.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s384876.htm (498 words)

	Goenchem Prize
		Yes, the name of this prize does sound rather trite, but the name is deliberately made to be so, given the nature of the cause that the prize represents.
		Goenchem Prize does not sound nearly as silly as the IgNobel Prize awarded on the Harvard University campus for scientific research and literature, not worth publishing, or the Methuselah Mouse Prize for extending the human life span, or the Golden Fleece Award for wasteful Government spending.
		This prize has been established by a committee of Goans whose bodies are separated in time and space by massive bodies of water and great masses of land, but whose minds are united in the space-time continuum of cyberspace and in common purpose.
	www.goa-world.com /goa/goenchemprize (1931 words)

	Ig Nobel Prize 2002- Popular Science Net
		The Ig Nobel Prizes 2002, announced Thursday, are awarded annually at Harvard University as a spoof of the Nobel ceremony.
		The prizes are awarded in a ceremony at Harvard, by actual Nobel laureates.
		The 2005 IG Nobel Prizes were awarded in a ceremony at Harvard University.
	www.dickran.net /nobel/ignobel2002.html (725 words)

	New Zealand rural news on Stuff.co.nz: Massey historian wins an IgNobel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		PRIZE WINNER: Winner of an IgNobel prize for his research paper on fertiliser use at exploding trousers in the 1930s, Dr James Watson.
		It is the image of exploding trousers that catches the imagination and that has won leading Massey historian James Watson the IgNobel prize in agricultural history.
		IgNobels are awarded in fields such as physics, medicine, public health, economics and peace.
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3440364a3600,00.html (418 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		The IgNobel prizes, staged by the journal the Annals of Improbable Research, have become an international institution.
		The prize for physiology and medicine went to Peter Barss of McGill University, the head of health intelligence for the Canadian Arctic, who contributed a paper to the journal Trauma entitled Injuries due to falling coconuts.
		The astrophysics prize went to Jack and Rexella van Impe, US television evangelists, "for their discovery that fl holes fulfil all the technical requirements to be the location of hell".
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4270747,00.html (595 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The IgNobel Prize
		The IgNobel prizes have been awarded each year since 1991 by the scientific community to reward research that could not, or should not be reproduced.
		In 1994, the japanese meterological agency won this prize for their seven-year study into whether or not earthquakes are caused by catfish wiggling their tails.
		The sociology prize for that year was awarded to Steve Penfold of York University in Toronto, Canada, for doing his PhD thesis on the subject of the sociology of Canadian doughnut shops.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A954380 (1488 words)

	"The 2001 IgNobel Prizes" by Edward Willett
		According to the organizers, the IgNobels (or Igs, for short) are" intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology." Not to mention provide a laugh or two.
		One can't accuse the winners of being out of touch with the concerns of the common man. For instance, the winner of the IgNobel Prize in Biology is Buck Weimer of Pueblo, Colorado, for inventing Under-Ease, airtight underwear with a replaceable charcoal filter that removes bad-smelling gases before they escape.
		The other science-related IgNobel, awarded in Technology, went jointly to John Keogh of Hawthorn, Australia, who applied for an "innovation patent" for the wheel in 2001, and to the Australian Patent Office, which granted him one, apparently not realizing that the wheel has been in everyday use for several thousand years.
	www.edwardwillett.com /Columns/ignobels2001.htm (815 words)

	'Dead' Indian bags IgNobel Prize- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		WASHINGTON: The Nobel Prize might continue to elude Indians, but for the second year running, they were nailed by an 'IgNobel Prize', a mock award given by groups at Harvard and Radcliffe, to "honour achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced."
		In 2000, the IgNobel committee awarded the Public Health Prize to Chittaranjan Andrade and B S Srihari of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.
		IgNobels have also gone to notable people such as Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan, "for their aggressively peaceful explosions of atomic bombs" in 1998.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=214995 (474 words)

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		This year's IgNobel for medicine will go a research study at a British hospital, the names and subject a closely guarded secret until the award ceremony, when they will be revealed at the Sanders Theatre in Harvard to the traditional fusillade of paper darts.
		At the heart of the IgNobel prizes is the Annals of Improbable Research, a monthly journal dedicated to proving that there is no limit to which human ingenuity is prepared to plunge, particularly if there is a chance of a government research grant.
		Busch and Starling took the 1995 IgNobel prize for literature, demonstrating another twist to the prizes: they can be awarded in sometimes unexpected ways.
	www.improbable.com /airchives/press/1998/london_telegraph.10.04.98.html (1260 words)

	The Ig Nobel Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		2004 Ig Nobel Peace Prize winner Daisuke Inoue -- the inventor of karaoke -- is serenaded by Nobel Laureates Dudley Herschbach (left), Richard Roberts and William Lipscomb, and by Karen Hopkin.
		All Ig Nobel Prizes activities are organized by the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR).
		The ceremony is co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association (HRSFA) and the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Physics Students (SPS), and the book Ig Nobel Prizes 2, published by E.P. Dutton, New York, ISBN 0525949127.
	www.improb.com /ig/ig-top.html (303 words)

	IgNobel Awards honor 'dead' man, Murphy's Law: Weird News, Strange But True Stories, Odd Facts, Bizarre Science
		The IgNobel committee awarded him the prize "for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and third, for creating the Association of Dead People."
		The engineering prize went to three scientists the late Edward A Murphy Jr, the late John Paul Staff and George Nichols for formulating Murphy's Law in 1949.
		The IgNobel Prize for biology went to Dr Kees Moeliker, of Rotterdam's natural history museum, for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
	www.thatsweird.net /news17.shtml (378 words)

	Professor Sir Michael Berry: Ignobel Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		We are pleased to accept the Ig prize because we have always considered it a duty to make physics more understandable and bring it closer to nonscientists.
		The original idea of the founders of the Ig prize was exactly to support the above statement and, in the last years, Ig Nobel nominations have shown a clear tendency to follow this line.
		Therefore, we want to accept this prize also on behalf of the hundreds who wrote to us with their ideas and asking for details of the magnet setup.
	www.phy.bris.ac.uk /people/berry_mv/igberry.html (2935 words)

	IgNobel Prize Winners
		First, to Patient X, formerly of the US Marine Corps, valiant victim of a venomous bite from his pet rattlesnake, for his determined use of electroshock therapy -- at his own insistence, automobile sparkplug wires were attached to his lip, and the car engine revved to 3000 rpm for five minutes.
		The Annual Ig Nobel Prizes: This year's winners are, well, just as pathetic as last year's.
		Unlike the awards won by these exemplary scientists, the Ig Nobel Prizes go to individuals "whose achievements cannot or should not be reproduced," according to the official program.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Zone/7474/spignobe.html (1906 words)

	FunReports.Com: Nobel Prize for dummies! See if You qualify! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		However, after the creation of IgNobel Prize and media’s fascination with the event, all such "findings" become known to the public very fast.
		IgNobel Prize was established in 1991 by the American journal called "Annals of incredible research".
		In the meantime, take a look at some of the former years' IgNobel Prize laureates whose discoveries and research shocked the organization committee so much, that they were added to the annals of the IgNobel Prize.
	funreports.com /fun/28-09-2004/1102-0 (749 words)

	Fun_People Archive - 23 Oct - The 1998 Ig Nobel Prizes
		The first thing noted by anyone entering the 1998 edition of the Ig Nobel Prizes was James "The Amazing" Randi's flaming white beard, glowing seemingly brightly enough to light the room, beaming out from a phalanx of seated dignitaries, almost all dressed in lab coats and numbering four (real) Nobel laureates among them.
		AIR awards the Ig Nobel Prizes to individuals whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced" in a ceremony held each year, though Marc later verbally added a more accurate explanation: the awards reward the unusual in science that make you think.
		Dolores didn't show up to receive her prize, which was just as well since 11-year-old Emily Rosa, who accepted the award on her behalf, was the true focus of the honor and applause.
	www.langston.com /Fun_People/1998/1998AVZ.html (2431 words)

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