1993年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
1993年のイグノーベル賞は、乗り回されたブタのサルモネラ排出、雑誌に香水をつける「香りシート」の発明、ベジオマチックなど珍発明で産業革命を再定義、著書を売りまくって世界経済崩壊を防いだことなど全11部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
乗り回されたブタのサルモネラ排出
Paul Williams Jr. of the Oregon State Health Division and Kenneth W. Newell of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, bold biological detectives, for their pioneering study, “Salmonella Excretion in Joy-Riding Pigs.” [Published in American Journal of Public Health and the Nation’s Health, vol. 60, no. 5, May 1970, pp. 926-9.]
- 受賞者
- Paul Williams Jr. of the Oregon State Health Division and Kenneth W. Newell of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, bold biological detectives
- 分野
- 生物学部門
雑誌に香水をつける「香りシート」の発明
James Campbell and Gaines Campbell of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, dedicated deliverers of fragrance, for inventing scent strips, the odious method by which perfume is applied to magazine pages.
- 受賞者
- James Campbell and Gaines Campbell of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, dedicated deliverers of fragrance
- 分野
- 化学部門
ベジオマチックなど珍発明で産業革命を再定義
Ron Popeil, incessant inventor and perpetual pitchman of late night television, for redefining the industrial revolution with such devices as the Veg-O-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman, Mr. Microphone, and the Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler. [REFERENCE: “The Salesman of the Century : Inventing, Marketing, and Selling on TV: How I Did It and How You Can Too!“]
- 受賞者
- Ron Popeil, incessant inventor and perpetual pitchman of late night television
- 分野
- 消費者工学部門
著書を売りまくって世界経済崩壊を防いだこと
Ravi Batra of Southern Methodist University, shrewd economist and best-selling author of “The Great Depression of 1990” ($17.95) and “Surviving the Great Depression of 1990” ($18.95), for selling enough copies of his books to single-handedly prevent worldwide economic collapse.
- 受賞者
- Ravi Batra of Southern Methodist University, shrewd economist and best-selling author of “The Great Depression of 1990” ($17.95) and “Surviving the Great Depression of 1990” ($18.95)
- 分野
- 経済学部門
ページ数の100倍の著者を並べた医学論文
Eric Topol, R. Califf, F. Van de Werf, P. W. Armstrong, and their 972 co-authors, for publishing a medical research paper which has one hundred times as many authors as pages. [REFERENCE: “An International Randomized Trial Comparing Four Thrombolytic Strategies for Acute Myocardial Infarction,” Eric Topol, R. Califf, F. Van de Werf, P. W. Armstrong, and the GUSTO Investigators, The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 329, no. 10, September 2, 1993, pp. 673-82. The authors are from the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.] [Click here for additional details.]
- 受賞者
- Eric Topol, R. Califf, F. Van de Werf, P. W. Armstrong, and their 972 co-authors
- 分野
- 文学部門
ゴルバチョフが反キリストである確率の計算
Robert Faid of Greenville, South Carolina, farsighted and faithful seer of statistics, for calculating the exact odds (710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1) that Mikhail Gorbachev is the Antichrist. [REFERENCE: “Gorbachev! Has the Real Antichrist Come?“]
- 受賞者
- Robert Faid of Greenville, South Carolina, farsighted and faithful seer of statistics
- 分野
- 数学部門
ファスナーに挟まった陰茎の緊急処置
James F. Nolan, Thomas J. Stillwell, and John P. Sands, Jr., medical men of mercy, for their painstaking research report, “Acute Management of the Zipper-Entrapped Penis.” [Published in Journal of Emergency Medicine, vol. 8, no. 3, May/June 1990, pp. 305-7.]
- 受賞者
- James F. Nolan, Thomas J. Stillwell, and John P. Sands, Jr., medical men of mercy
- 分野
- 医学部門
当選番号を間違えて80万人を熱狂させた懸賞
The Pepsi-Cola Company of the Phillipines, suppliers of sugary hopes and dreams, for sponsoring a contest to create a millionaire, and then announcing the wrong winning number, thereby inciting and uniting 800,000 riotously expectant winners, and bringing many warring factions together for the first time in their nation’s history.
- 受賞者
- The Pepsi-Cola Company of the Phillipines, suppliers of sugary hopes and dreams
- 分野
- 平和部門
卵の殻のカルシウムは常温核融合で生じる説
Louis Kervran of France, ardent admirer of alchemy, for his conclusion that the calcium in chickens’ eggshells is created by a process of cold fusion. REFERENCE: “Biological Transmutations and their applications in: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Ecology, Medicine, Nutrition, Agronomy, Geology“]
- 受賞者
- Louis Kervran of France, ardent admirer of alchemy
- 分野
- 物理学部門
宇宙人に誘拐されたと信じる人は実際にされた説
John Mack of Harvard Medical School and David Jacobs of Temple University, mental visionaries, for their leaping conclusion that people who believe they were kidnapped by aliens from outer space, probably were — and especially for their conclusion “the focus of the abduction is the production of children. [REFERENCE: “Secret Life : Firsthand, Documented Accounts of UFO Abductions“]
- 受賞者
- John Mack of Harvard Medical School and David Jacobs of Temple University, mental visionaries
- 分野
- 心理学部門
それを合法化した特許
Presented jointly to Jay Schiffman of Farmington Hills, Michigan, crack inventor of AutoVision, an image projection device that makes it possible to drive a car and watch television at the same time, and to the Michigan state legislature, for making it legal to do so. REFERENCE: US patent #5061996A.
- 受賞者
- Presented jointly to Jay Schiffman of Farmington Hills, Michigan, crack inventor of AutoVision, an image projection device that makes it possible to drive a car and watch television at the same time, and to the Michigan state legislature
- 分野
- 先見的技術部門