1997年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
1997年のイグノーベル賞は、月と火星に人工物と人面を見つけたとする主張、ガムの味と脳波パターンの関係の測定、迷惑メールを大量送信し続けた業者、仮想ペットの世話に費やされた膨大な労働時間など全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
月と火星に人工物と人面を見つけたとする主張
Richard Hoagland of New Jersey, for identifying artificial features on the moon and on Mars, including a human face on Mars and ten-mile high buildings on the far side of the moon. [REFERENCE: “The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever,” by Richard C. Hoagland, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA,1996.]
- 受賞者
- Richard Hoagland of New Jersey
- 分野
- 天文学部門
ガムの味と脳波パターンの関係の測定
T. Yagyu, J. Wackermann, T. Kinoshita, T. Hirota, K. Kochi, I. Kondakor, Thomas König, and Dietrich Lehmann, from the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland, from Kansai Medical University in Osaka, Japan, and from Neuroscience Technology Research in Prague, Czech Republic, for measuring people’s brainwave patterns while they chewed different flavors of gum. [Published as “Chewing gum flavor affects measures of global complexity of multichannel EEG,” T. Yagyu, et al., Neuropsychobiology, vol. 35, 1997, pp. 46-50.]
- 受賞者
- T. Yagyu, J. Wackermann, T. Kinoshita, T. Hirota, K. Kochi, I. Kondakor, Thomas König, and Dietrich Lehmann, from the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland, from Kansai Medical University in Osaka, Japan, and from Neuroscience Technology Research in Prague, Czech Republic
- 分野
- 生物学部門
迷惑メールを大量送信し続けた業者
Sanford Wallace, president of Cyber Promotions of Philadelphia — neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night have stayed this self-appointed courier from delivering electronic junk mail to all the world.
- 受賞者
- Sanford Wallace, president of Cyber Promotions of Philadelphia — neither rain no
仮想ペットの世話に費やされた膨大な労働時間
Akihiro Yokoi of Wiz Company in Chiba, Japan and Aki Maita of Bandai Company in Tokyo, the father and mother of Tamagotchi, for diverting millions of person-hours of work into the husbandry of virtual pets.
- 受賞者
- Akihiro Yokoi of Wiz Company in Chiba, Japan and Aki Maita of Bandai Company in Tokyo, the father and mother of Tamagotchi
- 分野
- 経済学部門
車につく虫の跡から種類を特定する図鑑
Mark Hostetler of the University of Florida, for his scholarly book, “That Gunk on Your Car,” which identifies the insect splats that appear on automobile windows. [The book is published by Ten Speed Press.]
- 受賞者
- Mark Hostetler of the University of Florida
- 分野
- 昆虫学部門
聖書に隠された暗号があるとする統計的発見
Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg of Israel, and Michael Drosnin of the United States, for their hairsplitting statistical discovery that the bible contains a secret, hidden code.[REFERENCE: Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg,’s original research was published as”Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis,” “Statistical Science,” Vol. 9, No. 3, 1994, pp. 429-38. Drosnin’s popular book, “The Bible Code,” was published by Simon & Schuster.]
- 受賞者
- Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg of Israel, and Michael Drosnin of the United States
- 分野
- 文学部門
エレベーター音楽が免疫グロブリンAを増やす発見
Carl J. Charnetski and Francis X. Brennan, Jr. of Wilkes University, and James F. Harrison of Muzak Ltd. in Seattle, Washington, for their discovery that listening to elevator Muzak stimulates immunoblobulin A (IgA) production, and thus may help prevent the common cold.
- 受賞者
- Carl J. Charnetski and Francis X. Brennan, Jr. of Wilkes University, and James F. Harrison of Muzak Ltd. in Seattle, Washington
- 分野
- 医学部門
鶏の羽のむしれ方から竜巻の風速を測る手法
Bernard Vonnegut of the State University of Albany, for his revealing report, “Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed.” [Published in “Weatherwise,” October 1975, p. 217.]
- 受賞者
- Bernard Vonnegut of the State University of Albany
- 分野
- 気象学部門
処刑方法ごとの苦痛の大きさの比較
Harold Hillman of the University of Surrey, England for his lovingly rendered and ultimately peaceful report “The Possible Pain Experienced During Execution by Different Methods.” [Published in Perception 1993, vol 22, pp. 745-53.]
- 受賞者
- Harold Hillman of the University of Surrey, England
- 分野
- 平和部門
常温核融合と卑金属から金への変換の主張
John Bockris of Texas A&M University, for his wide-ranging achievements in cold fusion, in the transmutation of base elements into gold, and in the electrochemical incineration of domestic rubbish.
- 受賞者
- John Bockris of Texas A&M University
- 分野
- 物理学部門