Posted on 10/04/2001 8:30:38 PM PDT by jerod
A list of Ig Nobel Prize winners by category, and a description of their work:
-Medicine: Peter Barss, McGill University. For the report "Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts," published in The Journal of Trauma in 1984.
-Physics: David Schmidt, the University of Massachusetts. For his partial solution to the question of why shower curtains billow inwards.
-Biology: Buck Weimer, Pueblo, Colo. For inventing Under-Ease, airtight underwear with a replaceable charcoal filter that removes bad-smelling gases.
-Economics: Joel Slemrod, of the University of Michigan Business School, and Wojciech Kopczuk, of University of British Columbia. For their conclusion that people find a way to postpone their deaths if that qualifies them for a lower inheritance tax rate.
-Literature: John Richards, Boston, England, founder of The Apostrophe Protection Society. For his efforts to protect, promote, and defend the differences between plural and possessive.
-Psychology: Lawrence W. Sherman, Miami University, Ohio. For his influential research report "An Ecological Study of Glee in Small Groups of Preschool Children."
-Astrophysics: Dr. Jack and Rexella Van Impe, Jack Van Impe Ministries, Rochester Hills, Michigan. For their discovery that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements to be the location of Hell.
-Peace: Viliumas Malinauskas of Grutas, Lithuania, for creating the amusement park known as "Stalin World."
-Technology: Awarded jointly to John Keogh of Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, for patenting the wheel in the year 2001, and to the Australian Patent Office for granting him Innovation Patent 2001100012.
-Public Health: Chittaranjan Andrade and B.S. Srihari of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India. For the discovery that nose picking is common among adolescents.
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Geez, I think my three-year-old son has Glee... a fairly advanced case.
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