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  List of Ig Nobel Prize winners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day.
However, all prizes were awarded for real achievements (except for three in 1991 and one in 1994 due to an erroneous press release) and are mainly intended to increase interest in science.
Footnote: It is worth noting that Ig Nobel stalwart and 'Keeper of the Broom' Roy Glauber was unable to attend the 2005 Ig Nobel ceremony, having just won the (genuine) Nobel Prize for Physics.
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The peace prize ceremony was held at the Norwegian Nobel Institute from 1905 until 1946, later at the Aula of the University of Oslo, and since 1990 at the Oslo City Hall.
For example, in 2002, a Prize was awarded to Koichi Tanaka and John Fenn for the development of mass spectrometry in protein chemistry, failing to recognise the achievements of Franz Hillenkamp and Michael Karas of the Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Frankfurt.
Criticism was levied towards the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics, specifically the recognition of Roy Glauber and not George Sudarshan for the award.
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 Ig Nobel Prize Winners [rec.humor.funny]
Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded to individuals whose achievements cannot or should not be reproduced.
The Prizes are a legacy from the legendary Ignatius ("Ig") Nobel, the inventor of excelsior (packing material) and co-inventor of soda pop.
The 1991 Ig Nobel Laureates: Chemistry: Jacques Benveniste, prolific proselytizer and dedicated correspondent of Nature, for his persistent discovery that water, H2O, is an intelligent liquid, and for demonstrating to his satisfaction that water is able to remember events long after all trace of those events has vanished.
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 Ig nobel, nobel prize in medicine, ig nobel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Ig nobel "Ig Nobel Prizes of 2000" by Edward Willett.
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The Ig Nobel Prizes are a (Humorous or satirical mimicry) parody of the (An.
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 Nobel Prize - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Image:Nobel medal dsc06171.jpg Image:Nobel prize medal.jpg The Nobel Prizes are prizes instituted by the will of Alfred Nobel, awarded to people (and also to organizations in the case of the Nobel Peace Prize) who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society.
Although Nobel's will established the prizes, because his plan was incomplete and due to various other hurdles, it took five years before the Nobel Foundation could be established and the first prizes awarded in 1901.
Nobel's will speaks of prizes for those inventions or discoveries of greatest practical benefit to mankind, possibly having in mind more practical than theoretical works.The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Mathematics was not considered a practical science from which humanity could benefit (a key purpose for the Nobel Foundation).
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 Ig nobel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
List of Ig Nobel Prize winners This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to present day ig nobel.
The prize for achievement in public health at the Ig Nobel awards went to theauthors of an article entitled 'The collapse of toilets in Glasgow' (Scottish.
The Ig prizes are presented annually as a spoof of the Nobel by the science humor ig nobel.
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 List Nobel Prize Winners Website, News And Data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Nobel e museum the nobel prize in physics laureates nobel e museum the nobel prize in physics laureates.
Stockholm, sweden, oct 07, 2003 list of the winners of the nobel prize in physics, established.
The Nobel Committee recognised their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.
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 University of Cambridge Nobel Prize winners
The Nobel Prize was established in accordance with the will of Swede, Alfred Nobel - inventor of dynamite and holder of more than 350 patents.
Nobel prizes have been awarded to members of Cambridge University for significant advances as diverse as the discovery of the structure of DNA, the development of a national income accounting system, the mastery of an epic and narrative psychological art and the discovery of penicillin.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the structure of the insulin molecule
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The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the
Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early fall — a week or two before the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced — for ten achievements that "cannot, or should not, be reproduced".
The name is a pun on the word "ignoble" and the name Nobel Prize.
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 Ig Nobel Prize
The awards are sometimes veiled criticism — as in the two awards given for homeopathy research — but more often they draw attention to scientific articles that have some funny or unexpected aspect.
Prizes have been awarded annually since 1991 for achievements in many categories.
They include the Nobel Prize areas of physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, literature, and peace but also other categories such as public health, engineering, biology, and interdisciplinary research.
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 Nobel Prize Winners List Portal And Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
For academics and institutions, a nobel prize is used to attract.
Nobel prize centennial 1901 2001 university of chicago news resources university of chicago nobel laureates seventy eight nobel laureates have been faculty members, students or researchers at.
This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine worth about pounds 700,000 has been awarded to the three scientists for their pioneering insights into how a relatively complex organism develops from a single fertilised egg.
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 DPL: News and Events - DPL News - Nobel Prize 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Nobel Prize is the first international award given yearly since 1901 for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace.
In 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden) instituted the Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize.
Learn about the Nobel Prize foundation, who can nominate, play games and simulations, peruse the list of all winners and much more.
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 Ig nobel, carter nobel, nobel speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Ig Nobel Prizes is an entertaining exhibition of brains and determination ig nobel..
The Ig Nobel Peace Prize went to the inventor of a device aimed at.
This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day ig nobel..
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 The Mini-Journal of Irreproducible Results
---------------------------------------------- 1993-01-04 List of 1993 Ig Nobel Prize Winners The winners of the 1993 Ig Nobel Prizes were announced in a ceremony held on October 7 at MIT.
The Prizes honor individuals whose achievements cannot or should not be reproduced.
Eleven Ig Nobel Prizes were given this year.
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 Mini-Journal of Irreproducible Results
Ig Nobel Prizes honor "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced." A public ceremony is held at MIT, in Cambridge Massachusetts, every autumn.
The winning essayist and the worst teacher will both be invited to attend the 1994 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at their own expense.
The Prize is given for achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced.
gort.ucsd.edu /newjour/m/msg00403.html   (2695 words)

  
 Ig Nobel Award in DaynotesForum
The Ig Nobels, an annual spoof on the Nobel Prizes, recognise some of the more improbable contributions to research and discovery; "Our annual awards for achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced."
BBC News reports [6] on the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize Winners who were honored Thursday, 3 Oct 2002.
The 2001 Ig Nobel Prize Winners were honored in a gala ceremony at Harvard on Thursday, October 4.
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 Nobel Prize
...Comprehensive list of Jewish Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry, physics, economics, physiology.....This list includes only Nobel laureates who are Jewish by the strict definition of Halacha.....Jewish Nobel Prize Laureates..
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...Some fields without a Nobel prize have instituted prizes of their own which are not as well.....The humorous Ig Nobel Prize is a parody which annually honors research "that cannot or should.....In February of 1995, it was decided that the economics pri
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 Nobel Minds
This is the 100th year in which the Nobel Prize is awarded to outstanding scholars for their intellectual contributions to makind.
This monument in downtown Boston is at odds with a recent Congress resolution, granting to Antonio Meucci - not Alexander Bell - moral rights for the invention of the telephone....
The 2005 IG Nobel Prizes were awarded in a ceremony at Harvard University.
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 The 1995 Ig Nobel Prize Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
For those of you following the real Nobel prizes last week, this is a ceremony held yearly at Harvard, with awards given for actual research/papers...
The 1995 Ig Nobel Prizewinners The Fifth First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony was held at Harvard University on the evening of Friday, Oct. 6, 1995.
NUTRITION John Martinez of J. Martinez and Company in Atlanta, for Luak Coffee, the world's most expensive coffee, which is made from coffee beans ingested and excreted by the luak (aka, the palm civet), a bobcat-like animal native to Indonesia.
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 2003 Ig Nobel Prize Winners - Ex Isle Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Physics Ig Nobel was given to people who researched "the forced required to drag ship over various surfaces"
Psyhology Ig nobel was given for a research that proved that politicians have simple personalities.
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 Pleasant Morning Buzz: Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded
The winners of the 2005 Ig Nobel Prizes have been announced.
A BBC news story about the Ig Nobels says these awards are spoofs of the Nobel Prizes that are awarded for "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced." The BBC also says the four actual Nobel Prize winners gave this year's Ig Nobel awards.
Here is a list of this year's winners.
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 The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize Winners
The 2005 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on Thursday evening, October 6, at the 15th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, at Harvard's Sanders Theatre.
The Igs are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.
The Ig Nobel Prizes were handed to the winners by Nobel laureates Dudley Herschbach (1986 Chemistry), William Lipscomb (1976 Chemistry), Robert Wilson (1978 Physics) and Sheldon Glashow (1979 Physics).
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 The Binary Circumstance » Blog Archive » 2003 Ig Nobel Prize Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This complete list of the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize winners also contains winners from previous years.
The Ig Nobels are given to those who do “things that first make people laugh, then make them think.”
The 2003 Ig Nobel in Biology went to the scientists who gave us the first decribed case (in graphic detail) of homosexual necrophilia in mallard ducks, which I cited in a previous post on October 10.
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 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 1991-2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The 2001 Ig Nobel Prize Winners were honored in a gala ceremony at Harvard on October 4.
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.
PLEASE NOTE: In 1991, the first year Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded, three of the Prizes (indicated above by *) were given for apocryphal achievements.
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 B-List Archive: October 2004
Subject: B-List: 2004 Ig Nobel Prize Winners Date: Mon, 4 October 2004 8:30:06 AM 2004 Ig Nobel Prize Winners < http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-top.html > * What are the Ig Nobel Prizes?
BTW The Nobel Foundation is in the process of announcing the winners of the more widely heralded Nobel Prize for 2004.
Now that I have broadband access (and I no longer have to worry about tying up the phone line) I may post a bit more often.
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 The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
You can click on any Nobel category icon below (literature, physics, chemistry, peace, economics, or physiology and medicine) to see an annotated, hyperlinked list of all Nobel laureates in that category.
Recipients in physics and chemistry are named by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; those in economics by the Central Bank of Sweden; those in physiology and medicine by the Karolinska Institute; those in literature by the Swedish Academy; and those who contribute to peace by the Norwegian Nobel Committee appointed by Norway's Parliament.
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive is not affiliated with The Nobel Foundation.
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 winners - Webled.com
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[ winners for the John Newbery Award from 1922 to the present.
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