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Ig Nobel Prize Winners 2015
September 17 the most cheerful scientists from around the world gathered at Harvard University, where the ceremony was held 25th Ig Nobel Prize (Ig Nobel or Ignobelevskaya, Antinobel Prize).
It is awarded annually for the incredible, amazing and funny research, published in the official scientific press. By analogy with the Nobel Prize awarded to her humorous analogue in the same categories: physics, chemistry, biology, etc. Only ten nominations.
By tradition, the ceremony came the real Nobel Prize winners. This year there were six, including Dudley Herschbach (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986) and Frank Wilczek (Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004).
Winners of this year came as the selection. For example, scientists from the University of California conducted a study of the formation of protein in chicken egg during the boiling process, which can partially reverse the process. For the "partial splicing egg ago" Americans have received the Ig Nobel Prize for chemical Shear-Stress-Mediated Refolding of Proteins from Aggregates and Inclusion Bodies & quot ;, Journal ChemBioChem, January 2015.
for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg.- Improbable Research (improbresearch) September 17, 2015 The award for physics Duration of Urination Does Not Change With Body Size & quot ;, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014: 201402289.
Chilean scientists have shown exceptional creativity in the field of evolutionary research. To illustrate the theory of the origin of modern birds on the feathered dinosaurs, they have attached ... chickens artificial tails! Scientific work "Taking a walk like dinosaurs: hens with artificial tails" had no equal in the category of biology Walking Like Dinosaurs: Chickens with Artificial Tails Provide Clues about Non-Avian Theropod Locomotion & quot ;, PLoS ONE, vol. 9, no. 2, 2014, e88458.
Chilean researcher Bruno Grossi (Bruno Grossi) with toilet plunger on the ass shows that the offset center of gravity of the chicken because of the appearance of the tail makes it move like a dinosaur
Scientific work is accompanied by a видеоматериалом.
Just two awards - for Physiology Entomology Honey Bee Sting Pain Index by Body Location & quot ;, PeerJ, 2014 2: e338. The poor man.
Michael Smith
Ig Nobel Prize for literature Is 'Huh?' a universal word? Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items & quot ;, PLOS ONE, 2013.
It is difficult to overestimate the significance of the research, which has carried out a large team of Slovakia (and one Japanese). They conducted a series of experiments to find out how to biological consequences for the organism cause intense kissing and other "intimate interpersonal actions." It turns out that the intense activity that reduces the risk of skin allergies. The award - Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine Prevalence and Persistence of Male DNA Identified in Mixed Saliva Samples After Intense Kissing & quot ;, Forensic Science International Genetics, vol. 7, no. 1, January 2013, pp. 124-8.
Prize for economy
Special Prize for Management What Does not Kill You Will Only Make You More Risk-Loving: Early-Life Disasters and CEO Behavior & quot ;, Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) 2015 Conference Paper. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Finance. Available at SSRN 2423044.
Elizabeth Oberzauher with a colleague from the University of Vienna used mathematical methods to determine how the Moroccan Emperor Moulay became the father of at least 888 children from 1697 to 1727 years - possible? It turned out math allows for such a possibility. & quot; The Case of Moulay Ismael-Fact or Fancy? & quot ;, PLOS ONE, vol. 9, no. 2, 2014, e85292.
Ig Nobel Prize is known to be awarded for studies that lead first to laugh, then think. "Sometimes these crazy things let you understand a lot," - said Michael Smith at the award ceremony.
Each laureate Ig Nobel Prize was awarded not only the statue, but the prize money - 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars (one note), and Michael Smith received 20 trillion Zimbabwean dollars.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/262716/
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