2016年 イグノーベル賞 受賞者一覧
2016年のイグノーベル賞は、アナグマやヤギとして野生で暮らした記録、排ガス検査中だけ排出を減らす自動車の仕組み、岩石の「性格」を販売の観点から評価した研究、死んだハエと生きたハエを集める楽しみを綴った自伝など全10部門を収録。
受賞者一覧
アナグマやヤギとして野生で暮らした記録
Awarded jointly to: Charles Foster, for living in the wild as, at different times, a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, and a bird; and to Thomas Thwaites, for creating prosthetic extensions of his limbs that allowed him to move in the manner of, and spend time roaming hills in the company of, goats.
- 受賞者
- Awarded jointly to: Charles Foster
- 分野
- 生物学部門
排ガス検査中だけ排出を減らす自動車の仕組み
Volkswagen, for solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested.
- 受賞者
- Volkswagen
- 分野
- 化学部門
岩石の「性格」を販売の観点から評価した研究
Mark Avis, Sarah Forbes, and Shelagh Ferguson, for assessing the perceived personalities of rocks, from a sales and marketing perspective.
- 受賞者
- Mark Avis, Sarah Forbes, and Shelagh Ferguson
- 分野
- 経済学部門
死んだハエと生きたハエを集める楽しみを綴った自伝
Fredrik Sjöberg, for his three-volume autobiographical work about the pleasures of collecting flies that are dead, and flies that are not yet dead.
- 受賞者
- Fredrik Sjöberg
- 分野
- 文学部門
左のかゆみは鏡を見て右を掻けば治まるという発見
Christoph Helmchen, Carina Palzer, Thomas Münte, Silke Anders, and Andreas Sprenger, for discovering that if you have an itch on the left side of your body, you can relieve it by looking into a mirror and scratching the right side of your body (and vice versa).
- 受賞者
- Christoph Helmchen, Carina Palzer, Thomas Münte, Silke Anders, and Andreas Sprenger
- 分野
- 医学部門
もっともらしく無意味な言葉の受容と検出の研究
Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Koehler, and Jonathan Fugelsang for their scholarly study called “On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit”.
- 受賞者
- Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Koehler, and Jonathan Fugelsang
- 分野
- 平和部門
前かがみで股の間から見ると物の見え方が変わるかの調査
Atsuki Higashiyama and Kohei Adachi, for investigating whether things look different when you bend over and view them between your legs.
- 受賞者
- Atsuki Higashiyama and Kohei Adachi
- 分野
- 知覚部門
白い馬がアブに刺されにくく、トンボが黒い墓石に集まる理由
Gábor Horváth, Miklós Blahó, György Kriska, Ramón Hegedüs, Balázs Gerics, Róbert Farkas, Susanne Åkesson, Péter Malik, and Hansruedi Wildermuth, for discovering why white-haired horses are the most horsefly-proof horses, and for discovering why dragonflies are fatally attracted to black tombstones.
- 受賞者
- Gábor Horváth, Miklós Blahó, György Kriska, Ramón Hegedüs, Balázs Gerics, Róbert Farkas, Susanne Åkesson, Péter Malik, and Hansruedi Wildermuth
- 分野
- 物理学部門
嘘つき千人に嘘をつく頻度を尋ね、その答えを信じるか決めたこと
Evelyne Debey, Maarten De Schryver, Gordon Logan, Kristina Suchotzki, and Bruno Verschuere, for asking a thousand liars how often they lie, and for deciding whether to believe those answers.
- 受賞者
- Evelyne Debey, Maarten De Schryver, Gordon Logan, Kristina Suchotzki, and Bruno Verschuere
- 分野
- 心理学部門
ポリエステルの下ばきがラットの性生活に与える影響
The late Ahmed Shafik, for studying the effects of wearing polyester, cotton, or wool trousers on the sex life of rats, and for conducting similar tests with human males.
- 受賞者
- The late Ahmed Shafik
- 分野
- 生殖部門