1992年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
1992年のイグノーベル賞は、洞窟の古代壁画を消してしまった作業、動物の陰茎を並べた解剖学ポスター、片手でできる品質管理法の考案、鮮やかな青いゼリーの合成など全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
洞窟の古代壁画を消してしまった作業
Eclaireurs de France, the youth group whose name means “those who show the way,” fresh-scrubbed removers of grafitti, for erasing the ancient paintings from the walls of the Meyrieres Cave near the French village of Bruniquel.
- 受賞者
- Eclaireurs de France, the youth group whose name means “those who show the way,” fresh-scrubbed removers of grafitti
- 分野
- 考古学部門
動物の陰茎を並べた解剖学ポスター
Presented jointly to Jim Knowlton, modern Renaissance man, for his classic anatomy poster “Penises of the Animal Kingdom,” and to the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for encouraging Mr. Knowlton to extend his work in the form of a pop-up book.
- 受賞者
- Presented jointly to Jim Knowlton, modern Renaissance man
- 分野
- 芸術部門
片手でできる品質管理法の考案
Dr. Cecil Jacobson, relentlessly generous sperm donor, and prolific patriarch of sperm banking, for devising a simple, single-handed method of quality control. [REFERENCE: “The Babymaker : Fertility Fraud and the Fall of Dr. Cecil Jacobson“]
- 受賞者
- Dr. Cecil Jacobson, relentlessly generous sperm donor, and prolific patriarch of sperm banking
- 分野
- 生物学部門
鮮やかな青いゼリーの合成
Ivette Bassa, constructor of colorful colloids, for her role in the crowning achievement of twentieth century chemistry, the synthesis of bright blue Jell-O.
- 受賞者
- Ivette Bassa, constructor of colorful colloids
- 分野
- 化学部門
損失の支払いを拒んで災害を保険にした試み
The investors of Lloyds of London, heirs to 300 years of dull prudent management, for their bold attempt to insure disaster by refusing to pay for their company’s losses.
- 受賞者
- The investors of Lloyds of London, heirs to 300 years of dull prudent management
- 分野
- 経済学部門
10年で948本、3.9日に1本の論文発表
Yuri Struchkov, unstoppable author from the Institute of Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds in Moscow, for the 948 scientific papers he is credited with publishing between the years 1981 and 1990, averaging more than one every 3.9 days.
- 受賞者
- Yuri Struchkov, unstoppable author from the Institute of Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds in Moscow
- 分野
- 文学部門
足のにおいの原因物質の解明
F. Kanda, E. Yagi, M. Fukuda, K. Nakajima, T. Ohta and O. Nakata of the Shisedo Research Center in Yokohama, for their pioneering research study “Elucidation of Chemical Compounds Responsible for Foot Malodour,” especially for their conclusion that people who think they have foot odor do, and those who don’t, don’t. [Published in British Journal of Dermatology, vol. 122, no. 6, June 1990, pp. 771-6.]
- 受賞者
- F. Kanda, E. Yagi, M. Fukuda, K. Nakajima, T. Ohta and O. Nakata of the Shisedo Research Center in Yokohama
- 分野
- 医学部門
54年間スパムを食べ続けた消費者たち
The utilizers of Spam, courageous consumers of canned comestibles, for 54 years of undiscriminating digestion.
- 受賞者
- The utilizers of Spam, courageous consumers of canned comestibles, for 54 years
- 分野
- 栄養学部門
人を集める独特の手法
Daryl Gates, former Police Chief of the City of Los Angeles, for his uniquely compelling methods of bringing people together.
- 受賞者
- Daryl Gates, former Police Chief of the City of Los Angeles
- 分野
- 平和部門
ミステリーサークルによる場の理論への貢献
David Chorley and Doug Bower, lions of low-energy physics, for their circular contributions to field theory based on the geometrical destruction of English crops.
- 受賞者
- David Chorley and Doug Bower, lions of low-energy physics
- 分野
- 物理学部門