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Ig Nobel Prize

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

生物学Biology

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
化学Chemistry

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
環境保護Environmental Protection

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
文学Literature

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
医療マネジメントManaged Health Care

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
医学Medicine

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
平和Peace

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
物理学Physics

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]
科学教育Science Education

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
社会学Sociology

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