From Harvard University and the Journal of Improbable Research, September 14, 2023:
The 2023 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at the 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on Thursday, September 14, 2023. The ceremony was webcast.
CHEMISTRY and GEOLOGY PRIZE [POLAND, UK]
Jan Zalasiewicz, for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks.
REFERENCE: “Eating Fossils,” Jan Zalasiewicz, The Paleontological Association Newsletter, no. 96, November 2017. Eating fossils | The Palaeontological Association (palass.org)
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Jan ZalasiewiczLITERATURE PRIZE [FRANCE, UK, MALAYSIA, FINLAND]
Chris Moulin, Nicole Bell, Merita Turunen, Arina Baharin, and Akira O’Connor for studying the sensations people feel when they repeat a single word many, many, many, many, many, many, many times.
REFERENCE: “The The The The Induction of Jamais Vu in the Laboratory: Word Alienation and Semantic Satiation,” Chris J. A. Moulin, Nicole Bell, Merita Turunen, Arina Baharin, and Akira R. O’Connor, Memory, vol. 29, no. 7, 2021, pp. 933-942. doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1727519
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Chris Moulin, Akira O’Connor...
This year's presenters:
- Presenters — A gaggle of genuine, genuinely bemused
Nobel laureates handed the Ig Nobel Prizes to the new Ig Nobel winners.
Here are this year’s prize presenters:
- Frances Arnold (chemistry, 2018)
- Marty Chalfie (chemistry 2008)
- Peter Doherty (physiology or medicine 1996)
- Esther Duflo (economics 2019)
- Jerry Friedman (physics 1990)
- Wolfgang Ketterle (physics, 2001)
- Eric Maskin (economics 2007)
- Ardem Patapoutian (physiology or medicine, 2021)
- Al Roth (economics 2012)
- Rich Roberts (physiology or medicine 1993)
- Barry Sharpless (chemistry 2001 and chemistry 2022)
https://improbable.com/ig/2023-ceremony/
The Journal of Improbable Research homepage
Among the many ceremonies we've linked to, the 2013 event stands out as especially far-seeing/borderline psychic:
"Announcing: The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize winners"
Public Health prize demonstration Ig Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Elena Bodnar demonstrates her invention (a brassiere that can quickly convert into a pair of protective face masks) assisted by Nobel laureates Wolfgang Ketterle (left), Orhan Pamuk, and Paul Krugman (right). Photo credit: Alexey Eliseev, 2009 Ig Nobel Ceremony ....
If memory serves, Andre Geim is still the only person to be awarded both the Nobel (2010) and the Ig Nobel (2000) prizes:
The folks at Improbable Research (on blogroll at left) must be saying "We're so proud".Nobelprize.org interviews Physics Laureate Geim about his Ig Nobel
They recognized Mr. Geim's genius back in 2000 for his pioneering work in in the field of frog levitation.
The awards celebrate achievements that "cannot or should not be reproduced."
Here is the ref. for other scholars who wish to follow his path:
PHYSICSRadboud University Nijmegen's High Field Magnet Laboratory devotes a page of their website to the subject...
Andre Geim of the University of Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and Sir Michael Berry of Bristol University (UK), for using magnets to levitate a frog. [REFERENCE: "Of Flying Frogs and Levitrons" by M.V. Berry and A.K. Geim, European Journal of Physics, v. 18, 1997, p. 307-13.]
