1994年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
1994年のイグノーベル賞は、派遣された米兵の便秘の実態調査、ビーカーやフラスコの購入を許可制にした法律、誤発注を取り返そうとして損失を膨らませた取引、猫の耳ダニを自分の耳に入れて観察した実験など全9部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
派遣された米兵の便秘の実態調査
W. Brian Sweeney, Brian Krafte-Jacobs, Jeffrey W. Britton, and Wayne Hansen, for their breakthrough study, “The Constipated Serviceman: Prevalence Among Deployed US Troops,” and especially for their numerical analysis of bowel movement frequency. [Published in “Military Medicine,” vol. 158, August, 1993, pp. 346-348.]
- 受賞者
- W. Brian Sweeney, Brian Krafte-Jacobs, Jeffrey W. Britton, and Wayne Hansen
- 分野
- 生物学部門
ビーカーやフラスコの購入を許可制にした法律
Texas State Senator Bob Glasgow, wise writer of logical legislation, for sponsoring the 1989 drug control law which make it illegal to purchase beakers, flasks, test tubes, or other laboratory glassware without a permit.
- 受賞者
- Texas State Senator Bob Glasgow, wise writer of logical legislation
- 分野
- 化学部門
誤発注を取り返そうとして損失を膨らませた取引
Jan Pablo Davila of Chile, tireless trader of financial futures and former employee of the state-owned Codelco Company, for instructing his computer to “buy” when he meant “sell,” and subsequently attempting to recoup his losses by making increasingly unprofitable trades that ultimately lost .5 percent of Chile’s gross national product. Davila’s relentless achievement inspired\ his countrymen to coin a new verb: ” davilar,” meaning, “to botch things up royally.”
- 受賞者
- Jan Pablo Davila of Chile, tireless trader of financial futures and former employee of the state-owned Codelco Company
- 分野
- 経済学部門
猫の耳ダニを自分の耳に入れて観察した実験
Robert A. Lopez of Westport, NY, valiant veterinarian and friend of all creatures great and small, for his series of experiments in obtaining ear mites from cats, inserting them into his own ear, and carefully observing and analyzing the results. [Published as “Of Mites and Man,” The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, vol. 203, no. 5, Sept. 1, 1993, pp. 606-7.]
- 受賞者
- Robert A. Lopez of Westport, NY, valiant veterinarian and friend of all creatures great and small
- 分野
- 昆虫学部門
著書『ダイアネティックス』
L. Ron Hubbard, ardent author of science fiction and founding father of Scientology, for his crackling Good Book, “Dianetics,” which is highly profitable to mankind or to a portion thereof.
- 受賞者
- L. Ron Hubbard, ardent author of science fiction and founding father of Scientology
- 分野
- 文学部門
悔い改めない住民が地獄へ行く数の郡別推計
The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama, mathematical measurers of morality, for their county-by-county estimate of how many Alabama citizens will go to Hell if they don’t repent. [Click here for additional details.]
- 受賞者
- The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama, mathematical measurers of morality
- 分野
- 数学部門
自分の唇に点火プラグを繋いだ電気ショック療法
This prize is awarded in two parts. First, to Patient X, formerly of the US Marine Corps, valiant victim of a venomous bite from his pet rattlesnake, for his determined use of electroshock therapy — at his own insistence, automobile sparkplug wires were attached to his lip, and the car engine revved to 3000 rpm for five minutes. Second, to Dr. Richard C. Dart of the Rocky Mountain Poison Center and Dr. Richard A. Gustafson of The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, for their well-grounded medical report: “Failure of Electric Shock Treatment for Rattlesnake Envenomation.” [Published in Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 20, no. 6, June 1991, pp. 659-61.]
- 受賞者
- This prize is awarded in two parts. First, to Patient X, formerly of the US Marine Corps, valiant victim of a venomous bite from his pet rattlesnake
- 分野
- 医学部門
瞑想者4000人が犯罪を18%減らしたという結論
John Hagelin of Maharishi University and The Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, promulgator of peaceful thoughts, for his experimental conclusion that 4,000 trained meditators caused an 18 percent decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.C.
- 受賞者
- John Hagelin of Maharishi University and The Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, promulgator of peaceful thoughts
- 分野
- 平和部門
唾を吐いた市民を罰し続けた30年の研究
Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore, practitioner of the psychology of negative reinforcement, for his thirty-year study of the effects of punishing three million citizens of Singapore whenever they spat, chewed gum, or fed pigeons.
- 受賞者
- Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore, practitioner of the psychology of negative reinforcement
- 分野
- 心理学部門