1995年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
1995年のイグノーベル賞は、DNAを含まない「DNA香水」の商品化、ワックス付きとワックスなしのデンタルフロスの選好、微分で金融機関にも限界があることを示したこと、直腸内異物の症例と世界文献の網羅的reviewなど全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
DNAを含まない「DNA香水」の商品化
Bijan Pakzad of Beverly Hills, for creating DNA Cologne and DNA PERFUME, neither of which contain deoxyribonucleic acid, and both of which come in a triple helix bottle.
- 受賞者
- Bijan Pakzad of Beverly Hills
- 分野
- 化学部門
ワックス付きとワックスなしのデンタルフロスの選好
Robert H. Beaumont, of Shoreview, Minnesota, for his incisive study “Patient Preference for Waxed or Unwaxed Dental Floss.”
- 受賞者
- Robert H. Beaumont, of Shoreview, Minnesota
- 分野
- 歯学部門
微分で金融機関にも限界があることを示したこと
Awarded jointly to Nick Leeson and his superiors at Barings Bank and to Robert Citron of Orange County, California, for using the calculus of derivatives to demonstrate that every financial institution has its limits.
- 受賞者
- Awarded jointly to Nick Leeson and his superiors at Barings Bank and to Robert Citron of Orange County, California
- 分野
- 経済学部門
直腸内異物の症例と世界文献の網羅的review
David B. Busch and James R. Starling, of Madison Wisconsin, for their deeply penetrating research report, “Rectal foreign bodies: Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World’s Literature.” The citations include reports of, among other items: seven light bulbs; a knife sharpener; two flashlights; a wire spring; a snuff box; an oil can with potato stopper; eleven different forms of fruits, vegetables and other foodstuffs; a jeweler’s saw; a frozen pig’s tail; a tin cup; a beer glass; and one patient’s remarkable ensemble collection consisting of spectacles, a suitcase key, a tobacco pouch and a magazine.
- 受賞者
- David B. Busch and James R. Starling, of Madison Wisconsin
- 分野
- 文学部門
片方の鼻孔だけで強制呼吸したときの認知への影響
Marcia E. Buebel, David S. Shannahoff-Khalsa, and Michael R. Boyle, for their invigorating study entitled “The Effects of Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing on Cognition.”
- 受賞者
- Marcia E. Buebel, David S. Shannahoff-Khalsa, and Michael R. Boyle
- 分野
- 医学部門
ジャコウネコの糞から作る世界一高価なコーヒー
John Martinez of J. Martinez & Company in Atlanta, Georgia, for educating the world about Luak Coffee, the world’s most expensive coffee, which is made from coffee beans ingested and excreted by the luak (aka, the palm civet), a bobcat-like animal native to Indonesia.
- 受賞者
- John Martinez of J. Martinez & Company in Atlanta, Georgia
- 分野
- 栄養学部門
戦争より殴り合う方が政治家は得をするという実証
The Taiwan National Parliament, for demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations.
- 受賞者
- The Taiwan National Parliament
- 分野
- 平和部門
ふやけた朝食シリアルの圧縮挙動の解析
D.M.R. Georget, R. Parker, and A.C. Smith, of the Institute of Food Research, Norwich, England, for their rigorous analysis of soggy breakfast cereal, published in the report entitled “A Study of the Effects of Water Content on the Compaction Behaviour of Breakfast Cereal Flakes.”
- 受賞者
- D.M.R. Georget, R. Parker, and A.C. Smith, of the Institute of Food Research, Norwich, England
- 分野
- 物理学部門
ハトにピカソとモネの絵を見分けさせた訓練
Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita, of Keio University, for their success in training pigeons to discriminate between the paintings of Picasso and those of Monet.
- 受賞者
- Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita, of Keio University
- 分野
- 心理学部門
濡れた下着が寒冷下の体温調節に与える影響
Martha Kold Bakkevig of Sintef Unimed in Trondheim, Norway, and Ruth Nielsen of the Technical University of Denmark, for their exhaustive study, “Impact of Wet Underwear on Thermoregulatory Responses and Thermal Comfort in the Cold.”
- 受賞者
- Martha Kold Bakkevig of Sintef Unimed in Trondheim, Norway, and Ruth Nielsen of the Technical University of Denmark
- 分野
- 公衆衛生部門