Ig Nobel Prize 2009 Bashny.Net

At Harvard University on Thursday, October 1 was 19 th ceremony Antinobelevskoy or Ig (IgNobel) prizes for the most dubious and absurd scientific discoveries and achievements.

1. The health prize was living in the United States Ukrainian Elena Bodnar, developed a bra that in a few seconds turns into a gas mask - protective face mask for breathing, reports BBC BBC. Notable in this discovery is the fact that one bra turns two full gas mask - one for most of its owner, the other - for the passer-by, a friend or anyone else. At the same time according to the most Bodnar, the idea of ​​creating such a bra it turned the Chernobyl accident.





2. Ig Nobel Peace Prize this year, received a group of Swiss researchers are trying to determine how best to get a beer bottle on the head - empty or full. "Empty bottles tightly complete, - said the researchers. - However, the full and empty bottles theoretically capable of damaging human skull ».

3. Prize in mathematics went to the head of the National Bank of Zimbabwe, Gideon Gono, who issued banknotes from one cent to one hundred trillion dollars. Thus the Ig Nobel Committee recognized him for what he 'gave people an easy way to practice every day with a wide range of numbers. "

4. British scientists have received the prize in the field of veterinary medicine. Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University have received awards for study, which found that cows with nicknames give more milk than their nameless relatives.

5. Prize in Economics was awarded to executives and auditors of four Icelandic banks: Kaupting bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir bank and the Central Bank of Iceland. They got him for that "have demonstrated how tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa, as well as for demonstrating that similar things can happen to the whole national economy».

6. Prize in Literature Irish police got drawn more than 50 notices of violation of traffic rules mythical "hot rod" Polish driving license, which they took for animate entities on behalf of right Yazdy (Prawo Jazdy), which in from Polish means "driver's license».

7. In the field of biology, the award went to a group of Japanese researchers who found that the volume of food waste can be reduced by 90%, thanks to the bacteria extracted from the feces pandas.

8. Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine has earned American doctor Donald Unger, who every day for 60 years crunched knuckles of his left hand (but never - right) to check whether this leads to arthritis. "And 60 years later I looked at my fingers and found no sign of arthritis - told the 83-year-old Unger newspaper Guardian. - Then I looked up at the sky and said: Mom, how did you wrong! »

9. A group of US scientists who found out the reason why pregnant women manage to keep the balance, were awarded the prize for physics. And Mexican researchers who have received diamonds from tequila, got the prize for chemistry.

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Ig Nobel prize is awarded by analogy with the Nobel Prize, that is, in the main sectors of knowledge - chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, medicine, literature and economics.

Traditionally ten Ig Nobel prize awarded in the beginning of October, that is, at a time when this is called laureates of the Nobel Prize.

A few days after the ceremony held informal Ig Nobel lecture, which may explain the winners of their research and their importance Publishing - a prerequisite for the nomination for the award of the "useless" discovery.

The award was established in 1991 by Mark Abrahams and humor magazine "Annals of Improbable Research».

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