2004年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
2004年のイグノーベル賞は、ニシンはおならで意思疎通しているらしいという発見、水道水を透明な水「ダサニ」に変える技術、祈りをインドへ外注したこと、バーコードヘアの特許取得など全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
ニシンはおならで意思疎通しているらしいという発見
Ben Wilson of the University of British Columbia, Lawrence Dill of Simon Fraser University [Canada], Robert Batty of the Scottish Association for Marine Science, Magnus Whalberg of the University of Aarhus [Denmark], and Hakan Westerberg of Sweden’s National Board of Fisheries, for showing that herrings apparently communicate by farting.
- 受賞者
- Ben Wilson of the University of British Columbia, Lawrence Dill of Simon Fraser University [Canada], Robert Batty of the Scottish Association for Marine Science, Magnus Whalberg of the University of Aarhus [Denmark], and Hakan Westerberg of Sweden’s National Board of Fisheries
- 分野
- 生物学部門
水道水を透明な水「ダサニ」に変える技術
The Coca-Cola Company of Great Britain, for using advanced technology to convert ordinary tap water into Dasani, a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to consumers.
- 受賞者
- The Coca-Cola Company of Great Britain
- 分野
- 化学部門
バーコードヘアの特許取得
Donald J. Smith and his father, the late Frank J. Smith, of Orlando Florida, USA, for patenting the combover (U.S. Patent #4,022,227).
- 受賞者
- Donald J. Smith and his father, the late Frank J. Smith, of Orlando Florida, USA
- 分野
- 工学部門
ヌーディズムの歴史の保存
The American Nudist Research Library of Kissimmee, Florida, USA, for preserving nudist history so that everyone can see it.
- 受賞者
- The American Nudist Research Library of Kissimmee, Florida, USA
- 分野
- 文学部門
カントリー音楽が自殺率に与える影響
Steven Stack of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA and James Gundlach of Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA, for their published report “The Effect of Country Music on Suicide.”
- 受賞者
- Steven Stack of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA and James Gundlach of Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
- 分野
- 医学部門
カラオケの発明
Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan, for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.
- 受賞者
- Daisuke Inoue of Hyogo, Japan
- 分野
- 平和部門
フラフープの力学の解明
Ramesh Balasubramaniam of the University of Ottawa, and Michael Turvey of the University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratory, for exploring and explaining the dynamics of hula-hooping.
- 受賞者
- Ramesh Balasubramaniam of the University of Ottawa, and Michael Turvey of the University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratory
- 分野
- 物理学部門
注意を向けると目の前のゴリラすら見落とす現象
Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University, for demonstrating that when people pay close attention to something, it’s all too easy to overlook anything else — even a woman in a gorilla suit.
- 受賞者
- Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University
- 分野
- 心理学部門
落とした食べ物の「5秒ルール」の科学的検証
Jillian Clarke of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and then Howard University, for investigating the scientific validity of the Five-Second Rule about whether it’s safe to eat food that’s been dropped on the floor.
- 受賞者
- Jillian Clarke of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and then Howard University
- 分野
- 公衆衛生部門