1996年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
1996年のイグノーベル賞は、プラスチック製ピンクフラミンゴの発明、1cm未満の恐竜や姫の化石1000種以上の発見、エール・ニンニク・サワークリームとヒルの食欲、液体酸素でバーベキューに3秒で着火した記録など全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
プラスチック製ピンクフラミンゴの発明
Don Featherstone of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, for his ornamentally evolutionary invention, the plastic pink flamingo.
- 受賞者
- Don Featherstone of Fitchburg, Massachusetts
- 分野
- 芸術部門
1cm未満の恐竜や姫の化石1000種以上の発見
Chonosuke Okamura of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory in Nagoya, Japan, for discovering the fossils of dinosaurs, horses, dragons, princesses, and more than 1000 other extinct “mini-species,” each of which is less than 1/100 of an inch in length.
- 受賞者
- Chonosuke Okamura of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory in Nagoya, Japan
- 分野
- 生物多様性部門
エール・ニンニク・サワークリームとヒルの食欲
Anders Barheim and Hogne Sandvik of the University of Bergen, Norway, for their tasty and tasteful report, “Effect of Ale, Garlic, and Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches.”
- 受賞者
- Anders Barheim and Hogne Sandvik of the University of Bergen, Norway
- 分野
- 生物学部門
液体酸素でバーベキューに3秒で着火した記録
George Goble of Purdue University, for his blistering world record time for igniting a barbeque grill-three seconds, using charcoal and liquid oxygen.
- 受賞者
- George Goble of Purdue University
- 分野
- 化学部門
経済的な逼迫が歯周病の危険指標になる発見
Dr. Robert J. Genco of the University of Buffalo for his discovery that “financial strain is a risk indicator for destructive periodontal disease.
- 受賞者
- Dr. Robert J. Genco of the University of Buffalo
- 分野
- 経済学部門
著者本人が無意味だと言う論文の掲載
The editors of the journal Social Text, for eagerly publishing research that they could not understand, that the author said was meaningless, and which claimed that reality does not exist.
- 受賞者
- The editors of the journal Social Text
- 分野
- 文学部門
ニコチンに依存性はないという議会証言
James Johnston of R.J. Reynolds, Joseph Taddeo of U.S. Tobacco, Andrew Tisch of Lorillard, William Campbell of Philip Morris, Edward A. Horrigan of Liggett Group, Donald S. Johnston of American Tobacco Company, and the late Thomas E. Sandefur, Jr., chairman of Brown and Williamson Tobacco Co. for their unshakable discovery, as testified to the U.S. Congress, that nicotine is not addictive.
- 受賞者
- James Johnston of R.J. Reynolds, Joseph Taddeo of U.S. Tobacco, Andrew Tisch of Lorillard, William Campbell of Philip Morris, Edward A. Horrigan of Liggett Group, Donald S. Johnston of American Tobacco Company, and the late Thomas E. Sandefur, Jr., chairman of Brown and Williamson Tobacco Co.
- 分野
- 医学部門
広島50周年に太平洋で核実験を行ったこと
Jacques Chirac, President of France, for commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific.
- 受賞者
- Jacques Chirac, President of France
- 分野
- 平和部門
パンは高い確率でバターの面から落ちる実証
Robert Matthews of Aston University, England, for his studies of Murphy’s Law, and especially for demonstrating that toast often falls on the buttered side.
- 受賞者
- Robert Matthews of Aston University, England
- 分野
- 物理学部門
空気人形を介した淋病の感染例
Ellen Kleist of Nuuk, Greenland and Harald Moi of Oslo, Norway, for their cautionary medical report “Transmission of Gonorrhea Through an Inflatable Doll.”
- 受賞者
- Ellen Kleist of Nuuk, Greenland and Harald Moi of Oslo, Norway
- 分野
- 公衆衛生部門