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 The 18th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
Get books about improbable research and the Ig
Nobel Prizes
The Ig® Nobel Prizes
The 2008 ceremony will happen on Thursday night, October
2, 2008. Tickets go on sale August 1, at the Harvard
Box Office.
The 2007 ceremony happened (as
you might well have guessed) in 2007, with most of the
winners taking
part. Watch video of
that ceremony online.
The Russian network NTV traveled the world to interview
Ig Nobel Prize winners. Their ten-minute report was originally broadcast in December
2007. The image here shows
the NTV reporter visiting the (Literature
Prize-winning) Nudist Research Library
in Kissimmee, Florida.
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology."Last, but not least, there are the Ig Nobel awards. These come with little cash, but much cachet, and reward those research projects that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think'" -- Nature Past winners (the complete list) Recent news (from the Ig blog) Previous ceremonies (details, video, opera librettos) Video of the 2006 ceremony. Some thoughts about the Igs, what they are, what they aren't, and what it could all mean.In a gala ceremony in Harvard's Sanders Theatre, 1200 splendidly eccentric spectators watch the winners step forward to accept their Prizes. These are physically handed out by genuinely bemused genuine Nobel Laureates.The ceremony is webcast live.The Ig Nobel Prizes are organized by the magazine Annals
of Improbable Research. The ceremony is co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe
Society of Physics Student, the Harvard-Radcliffe
Science Fiction Association, and the Harvard
Computer Society.
How to Get Involved
Nominate a candidate for an
Ig Nobel Prize
Volunteer to
help at the events
Have your organization become a sponsor
Have your school
carry the live student
cable channels broadcast
2004 Ig Nobel Peace
Prize winner
Daisuke Inoue -- the inventor of karaoke -- is serenaded by Nobel Laureates
Dudley Herschbach (left), Richard Roberts and William Lipscomb, and by Studmuffins
of Science creator Dr. Karen Hopkin. (Click on image to enlarge
it)
Other Events During the Year The Ig Nobel organizers and winners also present other events that (we hope) make people laugh and then think (For a complete list, see the schedule). Here are a few of them: Tour of the UK: Every March, to help celebrate National Science Week, the British Association for the Advancement of Science and The Guardian sponsor the Ig Nobel Tour of The UK. [Click here for info about the 2008 tour, and looks back at 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, and 2003.]
Tours elsewhere: Ig Nobel Tours also happen elsewhere. Click
here to see highlights from the 2004 Australia
tour and the 2005 tour of Tasmania (1, 2, 3).
Eventually we will post pictures from the 2007 tour. Click here to see details
from the 2006 tour
of The Netherlands.
What Is the Experience Like?
Personal reminiscences of some of the participants: Glenda
Browne, Snively, Peter
Barss, Francis
Fesmire,Victor
Benno Meyer-Rochow, Ramesh
Balasubramaniam, Yukio
Hirose, Kees Moeliker (a
large PDF file), Kees
Moeliker (again), Mark
Benecke, Theodore
Gray [with video], Annalee
Newitz, Max
Sherman, Michael
Berry, Buck Weimer, Ig
Nobel newlyweds Lisa and Will, the
Boston Mensa delegation, Ida
Sabelis, Arnd
Leike [with video], Lawrence
Nyveen, Arvid
Vatle, Karl Kruszelnicki, Gordon
McNaughton
 Viliumas Malinauskus, founder of Stalin World, accepting the 2001 Ig Nobel Peace Prize. Photo: Caroline Coffman. (Click on image to enlarge it)
Press accounts: Las
Vegas Sun, Wall
Street Journal, Upstreet, CBS
News Sunday Morning [with video],
MSN [in two parts: 1 and 2], Associated
Press, NTV [Russia,
with video], Popular
Science, El
Spectador, The
Age, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette,Quest, New
Scientist, Muy
Interesante Junior,
Nashua
Telegraph, Montreal
Gazette, Discovery
Channel's Daily Planet [video report], The
Sun, Noordelicht, Etiqueta
Negra, National
Business Review, The
Sentinel, Agence
France Presse, Wired
News, Nature, BBC, Gulf
News, Cambridge
Chronicle, Shanghai
Daily, Montreal
Gazette, Blogcritics, CNN [with
video],
The Diamondback, Asahi
Shimbun, Canadian
Medical Association Journal, Financial
Times, The
Huddersfield Daily Examiner, The
Washington Post, The
Guardian, China
Central Television [20-minute video report], Russkii Newsweek(1,2,3,4), Asia-Pacific
Perspectives, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, The
Guardian, The
Daily Yomiuri, Asahi
Shimbun, CBS News (video and commentary),the New
Zealand Herald, The New
York Stringer, The
New Indian Express, the
BBC, and The
Times of London, AND
MORE.
Books: Several Ig Nobel books have been translated into many languages.
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