Ig Nobel Prize
The Ig Nobel Prize ( englisch-/französischsprachiges pun: ignoble - unworthy, disgraceful, shameful ), sometimes referred to as anti - Nobel Prize, is a satirical award to honor scientific achievements, " make people first laugh, then thought " the (to honor achievements did first make people laugh, and then make them think). The prize is awarded by the appearing in Cambridge (USA) magazine Annals of Improbable Research. The first award ceremony took place in 1991 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology instead, now (2012 ) the prices at the Harvard University will be presented.
Conditions for nominations and election
A condition for nomination is that the discovery can not be repeated or should not be repeated. Furthermore, the research topic must be novel - one must not have previously delivered a similar scientific work. According to the science journal Nature, prices for works will be awarded that will bring a first laugh, then think.
The awards will be selected by a jury, the The Ig Nobel Board of Governors, loaned, which is known, according to the organizing magazine Annals of Improbable Research from Nobel and Ignobelpreisträgern, science writers, athletes, public officials (public Officials ) and other or lesser-known persons (other individuals of Greater or lesser eminence ) composed; extent to which the editors of the magazine itself is represented, thus remains open. Traditionally, a random passer-by is also applied load for decision-making on the last day.
Prices in the autumn, usually just before the announcement of the recipient of the conventional Nobel Prize will be awarded. The award ceremony, which receives, unsurprisingly, takes place (as of 2012) in Sanders Theatre at Harvard University at the time. The price is no longer a disgrace and is now gladly accepted by most winners receive - for several years from the hands of real Nobel Prize winners.
Award winners
Because of his efforts to develop the hydrogen bomb technology, the physicist Edward Teller in 1991 was one of the first to receive this award ( "for his lifelong commitment, the meaning of ' peace ' to sustainably change "). The physicist Robert Matthews got him for his studies of Murphy's Law, in particular for the proof that slices of toast always fall on the buttered side.
Jacques Benveniste is so far the only laureate, who received the award twice, in 1991 and 1998. Joseph B. Keller was retroactive to winners declared 2012 by 1999, so it has since also Doppellaureat. With Andre Geim there is a scientist who both Ig - Nobel ( 2000) and Nobel Prize winner (2010) is.
Others
For years, Roy Glauber acts as a broom champion representing the stage of countless paper planes freed during the ceremony with which the winners will be thrown. Glauber 2005 this office has not exercised because he has been awarded with the ( ordinary ) Nobel Prize in Physics.