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Still, the evening’s focus fell on the honorees themselves—and their improbable accomplishments—divided into categories mimicking the real Nobel Prizes. Donald J. Smith and the late Frank J. Smith received the Ig Nobel in Engineering for patenting the bald-spot comb-over...
...students, scientists and enthusiasts filed into Sanders Theatre last night for the Ig Nobel award ceremony—“honoring achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think”—a flurry of paper airplanes soared across the room. One landed between the fingers of a pianist entertaining the growing crowd with the churning of a Romantic sonata. A couple of white-haired men with ponytails in the first few rows cupped their hands around their mouths and goaded on the pianist. Then they picked up an airplane and discussed...
Some of the world’s top scientific minds—and all of their attendant eccentricities—piled into Memorial Hall for the “14th first annual” Ig Nobel ceremony, which celebrates scientific projects that “cannot or should not be reproduced,” said master of ceremonies Marc Abrahams, who edits the Cambridge-based Annals of Improbable Research. The 10 achievements honored this year ranged from Karaoke to comb-overs patents to invisible gorilla suits...
...become an object of cultish delight for audience members—showcases a dizzying sequence of mock tributes and absurd skits, monitored by its mascot Ig: a bespectacled, nearly nude bald man painted silver from head to toe who wandered around carrying a flashlight. The evening also featured genuine Nobel Laureates. Harvard chemistry laureates Dudley R. Herschbach and William N. Lipscomb, as well as physiology or medicine laureate Richard Roberts, presided over the ceremony, leading everything from a can-can dance to a Karaoke rendition of “Can’t Take My Eyes...
...Nobel award in Chemistry went to the Coca-Cola Company of Great Britain, “for using advanced technology to convert liquid from the River Thames into Dasani, a transparent form of water, which for precautionary reasons has been made unavailable to customers.” No one from the company was present to acknowledge the award, but Hershbach used his chemical expertise to explain the magnitude of the achievement. Dasani, he said, had twice the legal limit of toxic bromates...