| [ MIT ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): guest (off) <BUZZWORD-BINGO.M> 날 짜 (Date): 1999년 10월 2일 토요일 오전 03시 24분 06초 제 목(Title): [유머]1999 Ig Nobel Prizes Ig Nobel 물리학상 부문의 "calculating the optimal way to dunk a biscuit" 정말 웃기는군요... :) The 1999 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded at Harvard SEPT. 30, 1999, CAMBRIDGE, MA. The 1999 Ig Nobel Prizes, presented for achievements that "cannot or should not be reproduced", were awarded at Harvard's Sanders Theatre tonight before 1200 spectators in a ceremony filled with hijinks, paper airplanes, and tea bags. Eight of the ten new winners journeyed to Harvard -- at their own expense -- to accept their Prizes. They came from Japan, Korea, Norway, England, Canada, and the US. South Africa, Belgium, and Australia also produced winners this year. The Prizes were physically handed to the winners by genuine Nobel Laureates William Lipscomb (Chemistry '76), Dudley Herschbach (Chemistry '86), Sheldon Glashow (Physics '79), and Robert Wilson (Physics '78) before a paper-airplane-throwing audience of 1200 people. The event was produced by the science humor magazine "Annals of Improbable Research" (AIR), and co-sponsored by the Harvard Computer Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association. The evening also featured numerous tributes to the theme of "Heredity", including a parade of descendants of famous scientists, and a mini-opera opera (about human cloning) starring the Nobel Laureates and millenial mezzo-soprano Margot Button. Sheldon Glashow was the prize in the annual Win-a-Date-With-a-Nobel-Laureate Contest. Marc Abrahams, master of ceremonies (and editor of the Annals) closed the ceremony with the traditional, "If you didn't win an Ig Nobel prize tonight -- and especially if you did -- better luck next year." On Saturday, October 2, the new winners will deliver lectures at MIT, in which they attempt to explain their work. They will be joined in this by 12-year old science hero Emily Rosa and by 1998 Ig winner Troy Hurtubise and his grizzly-bear-proof suit of armor. Two days later, Medicine Prize winner Arvid Vatle will give a special lecture at Harvard Medical School, about his work. The event was televised live on the Internet, with assistance from the science web sites HMSBeagle.com and ChemWeb.com To see a video recording of the entire ceremony, go to the web site http://ignobel.org Here are the new winners. 1. SOCIOLOGY Steve Penfold, of York University in Toronto, for doing his PhD thesis on the sociology of Canadian donut shops. ACCEPTANCE: Mr. Penfold was at the ceremony to accept the Prize. REFERENCE: http://www.yorku.ca/dept/histarts/grad_cv/penfold.htm <spenfold@yorku.ca> home tel: 416-461-1435 2. PHYSICS Awarded jointly to: Dr. Len Fisher of Bath, England and Sydney, Australia for calculating the optimal way to dunk a biscuit. ACCEPTANCE: Dr. Fisher was at the ceremony to accept the Prize. REFERENCE: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_220000/220400.stm CONTACT: Dr. Len Fisher, 29 Royal Crescent, Bath, Somerset BA1 2LT, U.K. Home: +44 (0)1225 424341 Work: +44 (0)117 9289000 x8753 <Len.Fisher@bristol.ac.uk> ...and to... Professor Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck of the University of East Anglia, England, and Belgium, for calculating how to make a teapot spout that does not drip. REFERENCE: http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/people/jmvb.html CONTACT: Prof. Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck, School of Mathematics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, England, Tel: +44 (0) 1603 593869 fax: +44 (0) 1603 593868 <J.Vanden-broeck@uea.ac.uk> 3. LITERATURE The British Standards Institution for its six-page specification (BS-6008) of the proper way to make a cup of tea. ACCEPTANCE: Reginald Blake, BSI's Manager of Regulatory Affairs, was at at the ceremony to accept the Prize. CONTACT: Jeff Henriksen <jeff_henriksen@bsi-inc.org> or Reginald Blake Phone: 703-464-1931 Fax: 703-437-9001. BSI Inc, 12110 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 140, Reston, VA 20190 1-800-862-4977, Tel: +1 (703) 437-9000 Fax: +1 (703) 437-9001 http://www.bsi.org.uk/ 4. SCIENCE EDUCATION Awarded jointly to: the Kansas Board of Education and the Colorado State Board of Education, for mandating that children should not believe in Darwin's theory of evolution any more than they believe in Newton's theory of gravitation, Faraday's and Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, or Pasteur's theory that germs cause disease. ACCEPTANCE: Two people jointly accepted this Prize on behalf of the Boards of Education: a) 12-year-old Emily Rosa, a student at the Liberty Common Charter School in Fort Collins, Colorado; and b) Professor Douglas Ruden <ruden@eagle.cc.ukans.edu> of the Department of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Kansas. 5. MEDICINE Dr. Arvid Vatle of Stord, Norway, for carefully collecting, classifying, and contemplating which kinds of containers his patients chose when submitting urine samples. ACCEPTANCE: Dr. Vatle was at the ceremony to accept the Prize. REFERENCE: "Unyttig om urinprer," Arvid Vatle, Tidsskift for Den norske laegeforening The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association], no. 8, March 20, 1999, p. 1178. CONTACT: Dr. Arvid Vatle, Gillarheim legekontor, N-5410 Sagvag, Norway Telephone +47 5341 2700 Fax +47 5341 0280 (NOTE; Dr. Vatle is more easily reached by fax or email than by phone) <arvidv@online.no> 6. CHEMISTRY Takeshi Makino, president of The Safety Detective Agency in Osaka, Japan, for his involvement with S-Check, an infidelity detection spray that wives can apply to their husbands' underwear. ACCEPTANCE: Mr. Makino was at the ceremony to accept the Prize. CONTACT: Takeshi Makino, Safety Tanteisha [The Safety Detective Agency], Mansion Berukanto Part One 703, Daidou 2-8-11, Tennojiku, Osaka-shi T543-0052, Japan. Tel: 81-6-6779-2192 Fax: 81-6-6779-2193 REFERENCE: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990619/newsstory4.html 7. BIOLOGY Paul Bosland of The Chile Pepper Institute, at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, for breeding a spiceless jalapeno chile pepper. ACCEPTANCE: Professor Bosland was at the ceremony to accept the Prize. CONTACT: Paul Bosland 505-646-5171 or 505-646-3208 <pbosland@NMSU.Edu> 8. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Hyuk-ho Kwon of Kolon Company of Seoul, Korea, for inventing the self-perfuming business suit. ACCEPTANCE: Mr. Kwon was at the ceremony to accept the Prize, and presented custom-made perfumed business-suits to the Nobel Laureates. CONTACT: Hyuk-ho Kwon, Kolon B/D 5F.45,Mugyo-Dong,Jung-Gu, C.P.O. Box:1052, Seoul 100-772,Korea, TEL: 82-2-311-7173 Fax: 82-2-311-8932 CONTACT in Los Angeles: (Ms.) M.J. Oh 562-483-0263 9. PEACE Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong of Johannesburg, South Africa, for inventing an automobile burglar alarm consisting of a detection circuit and a flamethrower. REFERENCE (video): http://cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9812/11/flame.thrower.car/ REFERENCE: www.blaster.co.za CONTACTS: Charl: <charl@blaster.co.za> tel 083 452 6108 Michelle: <michelle@blaster.co.za> tel 083 452 6208 Charl mobile phone: 27 83 452 6108 Phone: +27 16 423 1791/1783 Fax: +27 16 454 9138 10. MANAGED HEALTH CARE The late George and Charlotte Blonsky of New York City and San Jose, California, for inventing a device (US Patent #3,216,423) to aid women in giving birth -- the woman is strapped onto a circular table, and the table is then rotated at high speed. REFERENCE: http://colitz.com/site/3216423/3216423.htm ACCEPTANCE: The Blonskys' niece, Gale Sturtevant, was at the ceremony to accept the Prize. CONTACT: Gale Sturtevant, Saratoga, California, 408-354-3155 <dgszmed@concentric.net> |