2008年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
2008年のイグノーベル賞は、アルマジロが遺跡の出土層をかき乱すことの測定、犬のノミは猫のノミより高く跳ぶという発見、コカ・コーラの殺精子作用をめぐる相反する研究、粘菌が迷路を解けるという発見など全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
アルマジロが遺跡の出土層をかき乱すことの測定
Astolfo G. Mello Araujo and José Carlos Marcelino of Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, for measuring how the course of history, or at least the contents of an archaeological dig site, can be scrambled by the actions of a live armadillo.
- 受賞者
- Astolfo G. Mello Araujo and José Carlos Marcelino of Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- 分野
- 考古学部門
犬のノミは猫のノミより高く跳ぶという発見
Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc of Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse, France for discovering that the fleas that live on a dog can jump higher than the fleas that live on a cat.
- 受賞者
- Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc of Ecole Nationale Veterinaire de Toulouse, France
- 分野
- 生物学部門
コカ・コーラの殺精子作用をめぐる相反する研究
Sharee A. Umpierre of the University of Puerto Rico, Joseph A. Hill of The Fertility Centers of New England (USA), Deborah J. Anderson of Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School (USA), for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and to Chuang-Ye Hong of Taipei Medical University (Taiwan), C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang (all of Taiwan) for discovering that it is not.
- 受賞者
- Sharee A. Umpierre of the University of Puerto Rico, Joseph A. Hill of The Fertility Centers of New England (USA), Deborah J. Anderson of Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School (USA)
- 分野
- 化学部門
粘菌が迷路を解けるという発見
Toshiyuki Nakagaki of Hokkaido University, Japan, Hiroyasu Yamada of Nagoya, Japan, Ryo Kobayashi of Hiroshima University, Atsushi Tero of Presto JST, Akio Ishiguro of Tohoku University, and Ágotá Tóth of the University of Szeged, Hungary, for discovering that slime molds can solve puzzles.
- 受賞者
- Toshiyuki Nakagaki of Hokkaido University, Japan, Hiroyasu Yamada of Nagoya, Japan, Ryo Kobayashi of Hiroshima University, Atsushi Tero of Presto JST, Akio Ishiguro of Tohoku University, and Ágotá Tóth of the University of Szeged, Hungary
- 分野
- 認知科学部門
ラップダンサーの収入は排卵期に増えるという発見
Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan of the University of New Mexico, USA, for discovering that professional lap dancers earn higher tips when they are ovulating.
- 受賞者
- Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan of the University of New Mexico, USA
- 分野
- 経済学部門
組織の中で感じる憤りを物語として探究した研究
David Sims of Cass Business School. London, UK, for his lovingly written study “You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations.”
- 受賞者
- David Sims of Cass Business School. London, UK
- 分野
- 文学部門
高価な偽薬は安価な偽薬より効くという実証
Dan Ariely of Duke University (USA), Rebecca L. Waber of MIT (USA), Baba Shiv of Stanford University (USA), and Ziv Carmon of INSEAD (Singapore) for demonstrating that high-priced fake medicine is more effective than low-priced fake medicine.
- 受賞者
- Dan Ariely of Duke University (USA), Rebecca L. Waber of MIT (USA), Baba Shiv of Stanford University (USA), and Ziv Carmon of INSEAD (Singapore)
- 分野
- 医学部門
ポテトチップスの音を加工して食感を変えた実験
Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, UK, for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip believe it to be crisper and fresher than it really is.
- 受賞者
- Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, UK
- 分野
- 栄養学部門
植物にも尊厳があるという法原則の採用
The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) and the citizens of Switzerland for adopting the legal principle that plants have dignity.
- 受賞者
- The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) and the citizens of Switzerland
- 分野
- 平和部門
紐や髪は必ず絡まって結び目を作るという数学的証明
Dorian Raymer of the Ocean Observatories Initiative at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, and Douglas Smith of the University of California, San Diego, USA, for proving mathematically that heaps of string or hair or almost anything else will inevitably tangle themselves up in knots.
- 受賞者
- Dorian Raymer of the Ocean Observatories Initiative at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, and Douglas Smith of the University of California, San Diego, USA
- 分野
- 物理学部門