1998年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
1998年のイグノーベル賞は、アサリにプロザックを与えて幸せにしたこと、水の記憶は電話回線で送れるとする主張、自分自身のクローンで経済を活性化する試み、言い難い恐怖への防御としてのおならの研究など全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
アサリにプロザックを与えて幸せにしたこと
Peter Fong of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for contributing to the happiness of clams by giving them Prozac.
- 受賞者
- Peter Fong of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- 分野
- 生物学部門
水の記憶は電話回線で送れるとする主張
Jacques Benveniste of France, for his homeopathic discovery that not only does water have memory, but that the information can be transmitted over telephone lines and the Internet. [NOTE: Benveniste also won the 1991 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize.]
- 受賞者
- Jacques Benveniste of France
- 分野
- 化学部門
自分自身のクローンで経済を活性化する試み
Richard Seed of Chicago for his efforts to stoke up the world economy by cloning himself and other human beings.
- 受賞者
- Richard Seed of Chicago
- 分野
- 経済学部門
言い難い恐怖への防御としてのおならの研究
Dr. Mara Sidoli of Washington, DC, for her illuminating report, “Farting as a Defence Against Unspeakable Dread.”
- 受賞者
- Dr. Mara Sidoli of Washington, DC
- 分野
- 文学部門
指を刺してから5年間腐臭を放った男性の症例
To Patient Y and to his doctors, Caroline Mills, Meirion Llewelyn, David Kelly, and Peter Holt, of Royal Gwent Hospital, in Newport, Wales, for the cautionary medical report, “A Man Who Pricked His Finger and Smelled Putrid for 5 Years.” [Published in “The Lancet,” vol. 348, November 9, 1996, p. 1282.]
- 受賞者
- To Patient Y and to his doctors, Caroline Mills, Meirion Llewelyn, David Kelly, and Peter Holt, of Royal Gwent Hospital, in Newport, Wales
- 分野
- 医学部門
積極的に平和的な核爆発実験
Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan, for their aggressively peaceful explosions of atomic bombs.
- 受賞者
- Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan
- 分野
- 平和部門
量子物理学を生命と経済的幸福に当てはめた解釈
Deepak Chopra of The Chopra Center for Well Being, La Jolla, California, for his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness.
- 受賞者
- Deepak Chopra of The Chopra Center for Well Being, La Jolla, California
- 分野
- 物理学部門
ハイイログマに耐える鎧を自作して自ら試験
Troy Hurtubise, of North Bay, Ontario, for developing, and personally testing a suit of armor that is impervious to grizzly bears. [REFERENCE: “Project Grizzly“, produced by the “National Film Board of Canada. ALSO: Bear Man: The Troy Hurtubise Saga, by Troy Hurtubise, Raven House Publishing, Westbrook, ME, USA, 2011.]
- 受賞者
- Troy Hurtubise, of North Bay, Ontario
- 分野
- 安全工学部門
患者に触れずに気を操作するセラピューティックタッチ
Dolores Krieger, Professor Emerita, New York University, for demonstrating the merits of therapeutic touch, a method by which nurses manipulate the energy fields of ailing patients by carefully avoiding physical contact with those patients.
- 受賞者
- Dolores Krieger, Professor Emerita, New York University
- 分野
- 科学教育部門
身長・陰茎の長さ・足のサイズの関係
Jerald Bain of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto and Kerry Siminoski of the University of Alberta for their carefully measured report, “The Relationships Among Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size.”
- 受賞者
- Jerald Bain of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto and Kerry Siminoski of the University of Alberta
- 分野
- 統計学部門