2005年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
2005年のイグノーベル賞は、農夫のズボンが爆発した事件の学術的研究、ストレス下のカエル131種のにおいの分類、水とシロップではどちらが速く泳げるかの実験、逃げて隠れる目覚まし時計の発明など全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
農夫のズボンが爆発した事件の学術的研究
James Watson of Massey University, New Zealand, for his scholarly study, “The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley’s Exploding Trousers. ”
- 受賞者
- James Watson of Massey University, New Zealand
- 分野
- 農業史部門
ストレス下のカエル131種のにおいの分類
Benjamin Smith of the University of Adelaide, Australia and the University of Toronto, Canada and the Firmenich perfume company, Geneva, Switzerland, and ChemComm Enterprises, Archamps, France; Craig Williams of James Cook University and the University of South Australia; Michael Tyler of the University of Adelaide; Brian Williams of the University of Adelaide; and Yoji Hayasaka of the Australian Wine Research Institute; for painstakingly smelling and cataloging the peculiar odors produced by 131 different species of frogs when the frogs were feeling stressed.
- 受賞者
- Benjamin Smith of the University of Adelaide, Australia and the University of Toronto, Canada and the Firmenich perfume company, Geneva, Switzerland, and ChemComm Enterprises, Archamps, France; Craig Williams of James Cook University and the University of South Australia; Michael Tyler of the University of Adelaide; Brian Williams of the University of Adelaide; and Yoji Hayasaka of the Australian Wine Research Institute;
- 分野
- 生物学部門
水とシロップではどちらが速く泳げるかの実験
Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin, for conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: can people swim faster in syrup or in water?
- 受賞者
- Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin
- 分野
- 化学部門
逃げて隠れる目覚まし時計の発明
Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday.
- 受賞者
- Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 分野
- 経済学部門
排便時にペンギン体内にかかる圧力の計算
Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu, Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, for using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as detailed in their report “Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh — Calculations on Avian Defaecation.”
- 受賞者
- Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu, Finland; and Jozsef Gal of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary
- 分野
- 流体力学部門
ナイジェリアの詐欺メールが生んだ登場人物群
The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters — General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others — each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them.
- 受賞者
- The Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria
- 分野
- 文学部門
犬用の人工睾丸ニューティクルズの発明
Gregg A. Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri, for inventing Neuticles — artificial replacement testicles for dogs, which are available in three sizes, and three degrees of firmness.
- 受賞者
- Gregg A. Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri
- 分野
- 医学部門
34年間の全食事を撮影して事後分析したこと
Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats of Tokyo, Japan, for photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting).[See the movie “The Invention of Dr. Nakamats“, 2009]
- 受賞者
- Dr. Yoshiro Nakamats of Tokyo, Japan
- 分野
- 栄養学部門
映画スター・ウォーズを見せたバッタの脳細胞の記録
Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University, in the U.K., for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie “Star Wars.”
- 受賞者
- Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of Newcastle University, in the U.K.
- 分野
- 平和部門
1927年から続く歴青の滴下実験
John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year 1927 — in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.
- 受賞者
- John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia
- 分野
- 物理学部門