2012年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
2012年のイグノーベル賞は、自分の声を遅らせて返し発話を妨げるスピーチジャマー、チンパンジーは尻の写真で仲間を個体識別できる発見、スウェーデンのある町で住民の髪が緑になった原因の解明、コーヒーを持って歩くとこぼれる仕組みの研究など全11部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
自分の声を遅らせて返し発話を妨げるスピーチジャマー
Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada [JAPAN] for creating the SpeechJammer — a machine that disrupts a person’s speech, by making them hear their own spoken words at a very slight delay.
- 受賞者
- Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada [JAPAN]
- 分野
- 音響学部門
チンパンジーは尻の写真で仲間を個体識別できる発見
Frans de Waal [The Netherlands and USA] and Jennifer Pokorny [USA] for discovering that chimpanzees can identify other chimpanzees individually from seeing photographs of their rear ends.
- 受賞者
- Frans de Waal [The Netherlands and USA] and Jennifer Pokorny [USA]
- 分野
- 解剖学部門
スウェーデンのある町で住民の髪が緑になった原因の解明
Johan Pettersson [SWEDEN and RWANDA]. for solving the puzzle of why, in certain houses in the town of Anderslöv, Sweden, people’s hair turned green.
- 受賞者
- Johan Pettersson [SWEDEN and RWANDA].
- 分野
- 化学部門
コーヒーを持って歩くとこぼれる仕組みの研究
Rouslan Krechetnikov [USA, RUSSIA, CANADA] and Hans Mayer [USA] for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks while carrying a cup of coffee.
- 受賞者
- Rouslan Krechetnikov [USA, RUSSIA, CANADA] and Hans Mayer [USA]
- 分野
- 流体力学部門
報告書についての報告書の作成を勧める報告書
The US Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.
- 受賞者
- The US Government General Accountability Office
- 分野
- 文学部門
大腸内視鏡検査で患者が爆発しないための助言
Emmanuel Ben-Soussan and Michel Antonietti [FRANCE] for advising doctors who perform colonoscopies how to minimize the chance that their patients will explode.
- 受賞者
- Emmanuel Ben-Soussan and Michel Antonietti [FRANCE]
- 分野
- 医学部門
死んだ鮭の脳にも「有意な活動」が見えるという指摘
Craig Bennett, Abigail Baird, Michael Miller, and George Wolford [USA], for demonstrating that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and simple statistics, can see meaningful brain activity anywhere — even in a dead salmon.
- 受賞者
- Craig Bennett, Abigail Baird, Michael Miller, and George Wolford [USA]
- 分野
- 神経科学部門
旧ソ連の弾薬をダイヤモンドに変えたこと
The SKN Company [RUSSIA], for converting old Russian ammunition into new diamonds.
- 受賞者
- The SKN Company [RUSSIA]
- 分野
- 平和部門
ポニーテールの形と動きを決める力の釣り合いの計算
Joseph Keller [USA], and Raymond Goldstein [USA and UK], Patrick Warren, and Robin Ball [UK], for calculating the balance of forces that shape and move the hair in a human ponytail.
- 受賞者
- Joseph Keller [USA], and Raymond Goldstein [USA and UK], Patrick Warren, and Robin Ball [UK]
- 分野
- 物理学部門
左に傾くとエッフェル塔が小さく見えるという研究
Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan [THE NETHERLANDS] and Tulio Guadalupe [PERU, RUSSIA, and THE NETHERLANDS] for their study “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller”
- 受賞者
- Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan [THE NETHERLANDS] and Tulio Guadalupe [PERU, RUSSIA, and THE NETHERLANDS]
- 分野
- 心理学部門
1999年の受賞者名の記載漏れの訂正
We are now, in 2012, correcting an error we made in the year 1999, when we failed to include one winner’s name. We now correct that, awarding a share of the 1999 physics prize to Joseph Keller. Professor Keller is also a co-winner of the 2012 Ig Nobel physics prize, making him a two-time Ig Nobel winner.
- 受賞者
- We are now, in 2012, correcting an error we made in the year 1999, when we faile
- 分野
- 特別発表部門