1999年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
1999年のイグノーベル賞は、辛くないハラペーニョの育種、夫の下着に使う浮気検知スプレー、自分で香りを出すビジネススーツの発明、紅茶の正しい淹れ方を定めた6ページの規格など全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
辛くないハラペーニョの育種
Dr. Paul Bosland, director of The Chile Pepper Institute, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, for breeding a spiceless jalapeno chile pepper.
- 受賞者
- Dr. Paul Bosland, director of The Chile Pepper Institute, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
- 分野
- 生物学部門
夫の下着に使う浮気検知スプレー
Takeshi Makino, president of The Safety Detective Agency in Osaka, Japan, for his involvement with S-Check, an infidelity detection spray that wives can apply to their husbands’ underwear.
- 受賞者
- Takeshi Makino, president of The Safety Detective Agency in Osaka, Japan
- 分野
- 化学部門
自分で香りを出すビジネススーツの発明
Hyuk-ho Kwon of Kolon Company of Seoul, Korea, for inventing the self-perfuming business suit.
- 受賞者
- Hyuk-ho Kwon of Kolon Company of Seoul, Korea
- 分野
- 環境保護部門
紅茶の正しい淹れ方を定めた6ページの規格
The British Standards Institution for its six-page specification (BS-6008) of the proper way to make a cup of tea.
- 受賞者
- The British Standards Institution
- 分野
- 文学部門
回転する台で遠心力を使う出産補助装置
The late George and Charlotte Blonsky of New York City and San Jose, California, for inventing a device (US Patent #3,216,423) to aid women in giving birth — the woman is strapped onto a circular table, and the table is then rotated at high speed.
- 受賞者
- The late George and Charlotte Blonsky of New York City and San Jose, California
患者が尿検体に選ぶ容器の収集と分類
Dr. Arvid Vatle of Stord, Norway, for carefully collecting, classifying, and contemplating which kinds of containers his patients chose when submitting urine samples. (REFERENCE: “Unyttig om urinprøver,” Arvid Vatle, Tidsskift for Den norske laegeforening [The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association], no. 8, March 20, 1999, p. 1178.)
- 受賞者
- Dr. Arvid Vatle of Stord, Norway
- 分野
- 医学部門
火炎放射器を備えた自動車盗難防止装置
Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong of Johannesburg, South Africa, for inventing an automobile burglar alarm consisting of a detection circuit and a flamethrower. (Patent WO/1999/032331, “A Security System for a Vehicle“)
- 受賞者
- Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong of Johannesburg, South Africa
- 分野
- 平和部門
ビスケットを紅茶に浸す最適な方法の計算
Len Fisher [UK and Australia] for calculating the optimal way to dunk a biscuit, and Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck of the [UK and Belgium], and Joseph Keller [USA] for calculating how to make a teapot spout that does not drip.
- 受賞者
- Len Fisher [UK and Australia]
- 分野
- 物理学部門
進化論を重力理論以上に信じるなという指導
The Kansas State Board of Education and the Colorado State Board of Education, for mandating that children should not believe in Darwin‘s theory of evolution any more than they believe in Newton‘s theory of gravitation, Faraday‘s and Maxwell‘s theory of electromagnetism, or Pasteur‘s theory that germs cause disease.
- 受賞者
- The Kansas State Board of Education and the Colorado State Board of Education
- 分野
- 科学教育部門
カナダのドーナツ店の社会学で博士論文
Steve Penfold, of York University in Toronto, for doing his PhD thesis on the sociology of Canadian donut shops.
- 受賞者
- Steve Penfold, of York University in Toronto
- 分野
- 社会学部門