2006年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
2006年のイグノーベル賞は、黒板を爪で引っかく音を人が嫌う理由の実験、マラリア蚊はリンバーガーチーズと足のにおいに等しく寄る、チェダーチーズ内の超音波速度と温度の関係、必要もなく難しい言葉を使うことの弊害など全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
黒板を爪で引っかく音を人が嫌う理由の実験
D. Lynn Halpern (of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, and Brandeis University, and Northwestern University), Randolph Blake (of Vanderbilt University and Northwestern University) and James Hillenbrand (of Western Michigan University and Northwestern University) for conducting experiments to learn why people dislike the sound of fingernails scraping on a blackboard.
- 受賞者
- D. Lynn Halpern (of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, and Brandeis University, and Northwestern University), Randolph Blake (of Vanderbilt University and Northwestern University) and James Hillenbrand (of Western Michigan University and Northwestern University)
- 分野
- 音響学部門
マラリア蚊はリンバーガーチーズと足のにおいに等しく寄る
Bart Knols (of Wageningen Agricultural University, in Wageningen, the Netherlands; and of the National Institute for Medical Research, in Ifakara Centre, Tanzania, and of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna Austria) and Ruurd de Jong (of Wageningen Agricultural University and of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Italy) for showing that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet.
- 受賞者
- Bart Knols (of Wageningen Agricultural University, in Wageningen, the Netherlands; and of the National Institute for Medical Research, in Ifakara Centre, Tanzania, and of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna Austria) and Ruurd de Jong (of Wageningen Agricultural University and of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Italy)
- 分野
- 生物学部門
チェダーチーズ内の超音波速度と温度の関係
Antonio Mulet, José Javier Benedito and José Bon of the University of Valencia, Spain, and Carmen Rosselló of the University of Illes Balears, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, for their study “Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature.”
- 受賞者
- Antonio Mulet, José Javier Benedito and José Bon of the University of Valencia, Spain, and Carmen Rosselló of the University of Illes Balears, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- 分野
- 化学部門
必要もなく難しい言葉を使うことの弊害
Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University for his report “Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly.”
- 受賞者
- Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University
- 分野
- 文学部門
集合写真で全員が目を開けるのに必要な撮影枚数
Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, for calculating the number of photographs you must take to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed
- 受賞者
- Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization
- 分野
- 数学部門
しつこいしゃっくりを直腸マッサージで止めた症例
Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, for his medical case report “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage“; and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, for their subsequent medical case report also titled “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage.”
- 受賞者
- Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine
- 分野
- 医学部門
フンコロガシは食べ物の好みにうるさいという証明
Wasmia Al-Houty of Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Kuwait Environment Public Authority, for showing that dung beetles are finicky eaters.
- 受賞者
- Wasmia Al-Houty of Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Kuwait Environment Public Authority
- 分野
- 栄養学部門
キツツキが頭痛にならない理由の解明
Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles, for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don’t get headaches.
- 受賞者
- Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles
- 分野
- 鳥類学部門
若者にだけ聞こえる高周波の撃退装置の発明
Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant — a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but probably not to their teachers.
- 受賞者
- Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
- 分野
- 平和部門
乾麺のスパゲッティが3つ以上に折れる理由
Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris, for their insights into why, when you bend dry spaghetti, it often breaks into more than two pieces.
- 受賞者
- Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris
- 分野
- 物理学部門