ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΦΥΣΙΚΗΣ
Το βραβείο Φυσικής απονεμήθηκε στους Alessandro Corbetta, Jasper Meeusen, Chung-min Lee, Roberto Benzi, και Federico Toschi για την πειραματική τους έρευνα με τίτλο ‘Physics-based modeling and data representation of pairwise interactions among pedestrians‘, όπου επιχειρούν να εξηγήσουν γιατί οι άνθρωποι δεν συγκρούονται μεταξύ τους όταν περπατάνε στα πεζοδρόμια.
Ως ‘πειραματική διάταξη’ για την παρακολούθηση πεζών χρησιμοποιήθηκε επί 6 μήνες ο σιδηροδρομικός σταθμός του Αϊντχόφεν
ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΧΗΜΕΙΑΣ
Το Ig Nobel Χημείας έχει και ελληνικό χρώμα. Βραβεύονται οι Jörg Wicker, Nicolas Krauter, Bettina Derstroff, Christof Stönner, Efstratios Bourtsoukidis, Achim Edtbauer, Jochen Wulf, Thomas Klüpfel, Stefan Kramer, και Jonathan Williams, για τις εργασίες τους ‘Proof of Concept Study: Testing Human Volatile Organic Compounds as Tools for Age Classification of Films‘ και ‘Cinema Data Mining: The Smell of Fear‘, σχετικές με την χημική ανάλυση του αέρα μέσα στις κινηματογραφικές αίθουσες, με σκοπό τον έλεγχο των οσμών (!) που παράγονται από τους θεατές όταν η ταινία που προβάλλεται περιέχει βία, σεξ, αντικοινωνικές συμπεριφορές, χρήση ναρκωτικών και βωμολογίες.
Το BΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΒΙΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ δόθηκε στην Susanne Schötz για την ανάλυση των παραλλαγών στο γουργούρισμα, το νιαούρισμα, την γκρίνια, και άλλων τρόπων επικοινωνίας της γάτας με τον άνθρωπο. Όλα αυτά τα σημαντικά περιγράφονται στις εργασίες: ‘A Comparative Acoustic Analysis of Purring in Four Cats‘ – ‘A Phonetic Pilot Study of Vocalisations in Three Cats‘ – ‘A Phonetic Pilot Study of Chirp, Chatter, Tweet and Tweedle in Three Domestic Cats‘ – ‘A Study of Human Perception of Intonation in Domestic Cat Meows‘
Το ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΟΙΚΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ παίρνουν οι Leila Satari, Alba Guillén, Àngela Vidal-Verdú, και Manuel Porcar, για την εργασία τους με τίτλο ‘The Wasted Chewing Gum Bacteriome‘, όπου χρησιμοποιήθηκε η γενετική ανάλυση για τον εντοπισμό των διαφόρων ειδών βακτηρίων που αναπτύσσονται σε σβώλους από πεταμένες τσίχλες κολλημένες σε πεζοδρόμια σε διάφορες χώρες.
Το ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΩΝ απονεμήθηκε στον Pavlo Blavatskyy, για την εργασία του ‘Obesity of Politicians and Corruption in Post‐Soviet Countries‘, όπου δείχνει πως η παχυσαρκία των πολιτικών μιας χώρας μας δείχνει το μέγεθος της διαφθοράς σ’ αυτή τη χώρα.
Το ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ δόθηκε στους Olcay Cem Bulut, Dare Oladokun, Burkard Lippert, και Ralph Hohenberger, για την εργασία τους με τίτλο ‘Can Sex Improve Nasal Function? — An Exploration of the Link Between Sex and Nasal Function‘. Εκεί δείχνουν ότι οι οργασμοί στο σεξ είναι εξίσου αποτελεσματικοί με τα αντίστοιχα φάρμακα στη βελτίωση της ρινικής αναπνοής (ξεβούλωμα μύτης)!
Το ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΕΙΡΗΝΗΣ πάει στους Ethan Beseris, Steven Naleway, και David Carrier, για την εργασία τους ‘Impact Protection Potential of Mammalian Hair: Testing the Pugilism Hypothesis for the Evolution of Human Facial Hair‘, όπου διερευνούν την υπόθεση ότι οι άνθρωποι εξέλιξαν τα γένια για να προστατεύονται από τις γροθιές στο πρόσωπο!
Το ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΙΚΗΣ (σχετικό κατά κάποιο τρόπο με το προαναφερθέν βραβείο Φυσικής), στους Hisashi Murakami, Claudio Feliciani, Yuta Nishiyama, και Katsuhiro Nishinari, για την εργασία τους ‘Mutual Anticipation Can Contribute to Self-Organization in Human Crowds‘, όπου περιγράφονται τα πειράματα που είχαν ως στόχο την εξήγηση γιατί οι πεζοί μερικές φορές συγκρούονται με άλλους πεζούς.
Το ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΕΝΤΟΜΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ, στους John Mulrennan, Jr., Roger Grothaus, Charles Hammond, και Jay Lamdin, για την έρευνά τους με τίτλο ‘A New Method of Cockroach Control on Submarines‘, όπου περιγράφεται μια νέα μέθοδος εξολόθρευσης κατσαρίδων σε υποβρύχια!
Το ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ ΜΕΤΑΦΟΡΩΝ, στους Robin Radcliffe, Mark Jago, Peter Morkel, Estelle Morkel, Pierre du Preez, Piet Beytell, Birgit Kotting, Bakker Manuel, Jan Hendrik du Preez, Michele Miller, Julia Felippe, Stephen Parry, και Robin Gleed για την εργασία τους ‘The Pulmonary and Metabolic Effects of Suspension by the Feet Compared with Lateral Recumbency in Immobilized Black Rhinoceroses (Diceros bicornis) Captured by Aerial Darting‘, όπου εξετάζεται πειραματικά το αν είναι ασφαλέστερη η εναέρια μεταφορά ενός ρινόκερου όταν είναι κρεμασμένος ανάποδα:
πηγή: https://www.improbable.com/2021-ceremony/winners
The 2021 Ig Nobel Prize WinnersThe 2021 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at the 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on Thursday, September 9, 2021. The ceremony was webcast.
BIOLOGY PRIZE [SWEDEN]:
Susanne Schötz for analyzing variations in purring, chirping, chattering, trilling, tweedling, murmuring, meowing, moaning, squeaking, hissing, yowling, howling, growling, and other modes of cat–human communication.
REFERENCE: “A Comparative Acoustic Analysis of Purring in Four Cats,” Susanne Schötz and Robert Eklund, Proceedings of Fonetik 2011, Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, TMH-QPSR, 51.
REFERENCE: “A Phonetic Pilot Study of Vocalisations in Three Cats,” Susanne Schötz, Proceedings of Fonetik 2012, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
REFERENCE: “A Phonetic Pilot Study of Chirp, Chatter, Tweet and Tweedle in Three Domestic Cats,” Susanne Schötz, Proceedings of Fonetik 2013, Linköping University, Sweden, 2013, pp. 65-68.
REFERENCE: “A Study of Human Perception of Intonation in Domestic Cat Meows,” Susanne Schötz and Joost van de Weijer, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Dubin, Ireland, May 20-23, 2014.
REFERENCE: “Melody in Human–Cat Communication (Meowsic): Origins, Past, Present and Future,” Susanne Schötz, Robert Eklund, and Joost van de Weijer, 2016.
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Susanne Schötz
ECOLOGY PRIZE [SPAIN. IRAN]:
Leila Satari, Alba Guillén, Àngela Vidal-Verdú, and Manuel Porcar, for using genetic analysis to identify the different species of bacteria that reside in wads of discarded chewing gum stuck on pavements in various countries.
REFERENCE: “The Wasted Chewing Gum Bacteriome,” Leila Satari, Alba Guillén, Àngela Vidal-Verdú, and Manuel Porcar, Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 16846, 2020.
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Leila Satari, Alba Guillén, Àngela Vidal-Verdú, Manuel Porcar
CHEMISTRY PRIZE [GERMANY, UK, NEW ZEALAND, GREECE, CYPRUS, AUSTRIA]:
Jörg Wicker, Nicolas Krauter, Bettina Derstroff, Christof Stönner, Efstratios Bourtsoukidis, Achim Edtbauer, Jochen Wulf, Thomas Klüpfel, Stefan Kramer, and Jonathan Williams, for chemically analyzing the air inside movie theaters, to test whether the odors produced by an audience reliably indicate the levels of violence, sex, antisocial behavior, drug use, and bad language in the movie the audience is watching.
REFERENCE: “Proof of Concept Study: Testing Human Volatile Organic Compounds as Tools for Age Classification of Films,” Christof Stönner, Achim Edtbauer, Bettina Derstroff, Efstratios Bourtsoukidis, Thomas Klüpfel, Jörg Wicker, and Jonathan Williams, PLoS ONE, vol. 13, no. 10, 2008, p. e0203044.
REFERENCE: “Cinema Data Mining: The Smell of Fear,” Jörg Wicker, Nicolas Krauter, Bettina Derstorff, Christof Stönner, Efstratios Bourtsoukidis, Thomas Klüpfel, Jonathan Williams, and Stefan Kramer, Proceedings of the 21th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 1295-1304. 2015.
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Jörg Wicker, Nicolas Krauter, Bettina Derstroff, Christof Stönner, Efstratios Bourtsoukidis, Achim Edtbauer, Jochen Wulf, Thomas Klüpfel, Stefan Kramer, Jonathan Williams
ECONOMICS PRIZE [FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, UK]:
Pavlo Blavatskyy, for discovering that the obesity of a country’s politicians may be a good indicator of that country’s corruption.
REFERENCE: “Obesity of Politicians and Corruption in Post‐Soviet Countries,” Pavlo Blavatskyy, Economic of Transition and Institutional Change, vol. 29, no. 2, 2021, pp. 343-356.
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Pavlo Blavatskyy
MEDICINE PRIZE [GERMANY, TURKEY, UK]:
Olcay Cem Bulut, Dare Oladokun, Burkard Lippert, and Ralph Hohenberger, for demonstrating that sexual orgasms can be as effective as decongestant medicines at improving nasal breathing.
REFERENCE: “Can Sex Improve Nasal Function? — An Exploration of the Link Between Sex and Nasal Function,” Olcay Cem Bulut, Dare Oladokun, Burkard M. Lippert, and Ralph Hohenberger, Ear, Nose & Throat Journal, 2021, no. 0145561320981441.
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Olcay Cem Bulut, Dare Oladokun, Ralph Hohenberger
PEACE PRIZE [USA]:
Ethan Beseris, Steven Naleway, and David Carrier, for testing the hypothesis that humans evolved beards to protect themselves from punches to the face.
REFERENCE: “Impact Protection Potential of Mammalian Hair: Testing the Pugilism Hypothesis for the Evolution of Human Facial Hair,” Ethan A. Beseris, Steven E. Naleway, David R. Carrier, Integrative Organismal Biology, vol. 2, no. 1, 2020, obaa005.
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Ethan Beseris, Steven Naleway, David Carrier
PHYSICS PRIZE [THE NETHERLANDS, ITALY, TAIWAN, USA]:
Alessandro Corbetta, Jasper Meeusen, Chung-min Lee, Roberto Benzi, and Federico Toschi, for conducting experiments to learn why pedestrians do not constantly collide with other pedestrians.
REFERENCE: “Physics-based modeling and data representation of pairwise interactions among pedestrians,” Alessandro Corbetta, Jasper A. Meeusen, Chung-min Lee, Roberto Benzi, and Federico Toschi, Physical Review E, vol. 98, no. 062310, 2018.
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Alessandro Corbetta, Jasper Meeusen, Chung-min Lee, Roberto Benzi,, Federico Toschi
KINETICS PRIZE [JAPAN, SWITZERLAND, ITALY]:
Hisashi Murakami, Claudio Feliciani, Yuta Nishiyama, and Katsuhiro Nishinari, for conducting experiments to learn why pedestrians do sometimes collide with other pedestrians.
REFERENCE: “Mutual Anticipation Can Contribute to Self-Organization in Human Crowds,” Hisashi Murakami, Claudio Feliciani, Yuta Nishiyama, and Katsuhiro Nishinari, Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 12, 2021, p. eabe7758.
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Hisashi Murakami, Claudio Feliciani, Yuta Nishiyama, Katsuhiro Nishinari
ENTOMOLOGY PRIZE [USA]:
John Mulrennan, Jr., Roger Grothaus, Charles Hammond, and Jay Lamdin, for their research study “A New Method of Cockroach Control on Submarines”.
REFERENCE: “A New Method of Cockroach Control on Submarines,” John A. Mulrennan, Jr., Roger H. Grothaus, Charles L. Hammond, and Jay M. Lamdin, Journal of Economic Entomology, vol. 64, no. 5, October 1971, pp. 1196-8.
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: John Mulrennan, Jr.
TRANSPORTATION PRIZE [NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA, TANZANIA, ZIMBABWE, BRAZIL, UK, USA]:
Robin Radcliffe, Mark Jago, Peter Morkel, Estelle Morkel, Pierre du Preez, Piet Beytell, Birgit Kotting, Bakker Manuel, Jan Hendrik du Preez, Michele Miller, Julia Felippe, Stephen Parry, and Robin Gleed, for determining by experiment whether it is safer to transport an airborne rhinoceros upside-down.
REFERENCE: “The Pulmonary and Metabolic Effects of Suspension by the Feet Compared with Lateral Recumbency in Immobilized Black Rhinoceroses (Diceros bicornis) Captured by Aerial Darting,” Robin W. Radcliffe, Mark Jago, Peter vdB Morkel, Estelle Morkel, Pierre du Preez, Piet Beytell, Birgit Kotting, Bakker Manuel, Jan Hendrik du Preez, Michele A. Miller, Julia Felippe, Stephen A Parry; R.D. Gleed, Journal of Wildlife Diseases, vol. 57, no. 2, 2021, 357–367.
WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Pete Morkel, Mark Jago, Robin Gleed, Robin Radcliffe
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