Ig Nobel Prize

The 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Andre Geim, Radboud University Nijmegen, and Michael Berry, University of Bristol, UK, for the magnetic levitation of a live frog. Geim was awarded an actual Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.[1]

The Ig Nobel Prize (/ˌɪɡ noʊˈbɛl/) is a satirical prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which it parodies, and on the word "ignoble".

Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), the Ig Nobel Prizes are presented by Nobel laureates in a ceremony at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The winners also deliver public lectures.[2] The Ig Nobel Prize monetary award is given in a solitary banknote for the amount of 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars ($0.40 USD, but the banknote is worth more as a collector's item).[3]

  1. ^ "Geim becomes first Nobel & Ig Nobel winner". Improbable.com. October 5, 2010. Retrieved November 17, 2018.
  2. ^ Abrahams, Marc (September 12, 2012). "The Greatest Hits of Weird Science: What the Oscars could learn from the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony". Slate.com. Retrieved November 17, 2018.
  3. ^ Davis, Nicola (September 14, 2023). "Reanimated spiders and smart toilets triumph at Ig Nobel prizes". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved September 13, 2024.