Ig Nobel Prize - Ig Nobel Prize Ig Nobel Prizes (as in "ignoble") are awarded annually to those who have made strange scientific achievements. Ten prizes are given to people who have done remarkably goofy things -- some of them admirable, some perhaps otherwise. The prizes are presented at a gala ceremony in Harvard University's Sanders Theatre, and are sponsored by the scientific humour journal Annals of Improbable Research (AIR). The first IgNobels were awarded in 1991. Explains the journal's editor Marc Abrahams, "Most scientists don't get much attention for their work. For the winners it's an opportunity for people to pay attention to them and ask them what they do." Officially the prizes are granted for 'performances that cannot or should not be repeated'. The former are usually some.
Discrimination abilities of pigeons - between cubist and impressionist paintings (cubism and impressionims being the two stylistic schools Picasso and Monet belong to). When the Monet paintings were shown upside down, the pigeons were not able to properly categorize anymore; showing the cubist works upside down did not have such an effect. In 1995, the authors won the humorous Ig Nobel Prize in psychology for this work. In a later paper, Watanabe showed that if pigeons and human college students undergo the same training, their performance in distinguishing between Van Gogh and Chagall paintings is comparable. Similar experiments had shown earlier that pigeons can be trained to distinguish between photos showing human beings and those that do not, and between photos showing trees and those that do not, among many other examples. In all these cases,.
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Incompetence - works such as the Dilbert comic strip by Scott Adams. Although it is an overwhelmingly important threat to the proper functioning of society, this phenomenon has been relatively neglected by the scientific community. However, there is room to hope that it will eventually be better understood, as the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize was awarded to David Dunning of Cornell University and Justin Kreuger of the University of Illinois, for their report, "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments." (published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 77, no. 6, December 1999, pp. 1121-1134. link here ) See also: Military incompetence.
Annals of Improbable Research - their articles concern real or fictional absurd experiments, such as a comparison of apples and oranges using gas chromatography. Other features include ratings of the cafeterias at scientific institutes. AIR is connected with the Ig Nobel Prizes, given for "results that cannot or should not be reproduced". AIR is not the first science parody magazine. The Journal of Irreproducible Results was founded by Alex Kohn and Harry Lipkin in 1955, but most of its editorial staff, including Editor Marc Abrahams, split after the magazine was bought by publisher George Scherr in 1994. Scherr filed a number of court actions against AIR, alleging that it was deceptively similar to the Journal and that it had stolen the name "Ig Nobel Prize," but these actions were unsuccessful. AIR got some unexpected attention from.
Bow-Lingual - Kogure, Executive Director, Kogure Veterinary Hospital, won an Ig Nobel Prize for promoting peace and harmony between the species. Bow-Lingual is a new invention that is only found in Japan... Unfortunetly, we are unable to get it anywhere but Japan. It may not even come out to the United States. 7th grade students are doing a project in which they are doing a fake infomercial and they have chosen the Bow-lingual to base their project upon. I will update when further information is available..... thanx! l.m.q..
Carl Bosch - 1913 developed the Haber-Bosch process together with Fritz Haber. After World War I he was working on petrol and methanol synthesis via high pressure chemistry. In 1925 one of the founders of the IG-Farben and from 1935 chairman of the board of directors. In 1931 he was awarded the Nobel prize for the introduction of high pressure chemistry. He died in Heidelberg..
Ig Nobel - Ig Nobel The Ig Nobel prizes are presented by the American Humourous Scientific Magazine, the Annals of Improbable Research, to experiments that cannot or should not be reproduced. These experiments are celebrated as a way of bringing to the public's attention experiments that make one laugh, then make one think. The prizes are similar in terms of dignity and scope to the Darwin Awards..
Kyoto Prize - Kyoto Prize The Kyoto Prize is awarded annually since 1984 in the fields of Advanced Technology, Basic Sciences and Arts and Philosophy. Within each broad category, the prize rotates among subfields, e.g. the technology prize rotates across electronics, biotechnology, materials science and engineering, and information science. The prize was endowed by the Inamori Foundation with 20 billion yen and Kyocera stock. Kazuo Inamori was the founder of Kyocera. The prize is rising in prestige as it covers fields not often awarded Nobel Prizes See also List of prizes, medals, and awards.
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh - 12, 1842 - June 30, 1919) was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. See also Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh number Rayleigh fading.
Joseph E. Stiglitz - (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist, author and Nobel laureate (2001). He is probably the most famous contemporary left-leaning economist, a post-social-democratic answer to Milton Friedman, as it were. Stiglitz was born in Gary, Indiana. From 1960 to 1963, he studied at Amherst College, then went to MIT for his fourth year as an undergraduate and later to pursue graduate work. From 1965 to 1966, he received a Fulbright Fellowship to study at Cambridge University. In subsequent years, he taught at MIT and Yale. He currently teaches at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. In addition to making numerous influential contributions to microeconomics, Stiglitz has played number of policy roles. He served in the Clinton Administration as the chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors (1995.
Ilya Prigogine - at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. He was awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prigogine is known best for his work on dissipative structures. His main area of work was systems dynamics (especially in systems far from equilibrium) and the understanding of the role of time in physics and biology. His work is seen by many as a bridge between natural science, the studying of biological systems and social science, describing the natural laws allowing self-organisation under the rule of thermodynamics. Since 1959, Prigogine was the director of the International Solvay Institute in Brussels, Belgium. He was Regental Professor and Ashbel Smith Professor of Physics and Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas. There he founded in 1967 the Center for Statistical Mechanics, later.
International Campaign to Ban Landmines - It's biggest success was in 1999 when the Ottawa Treaty banning the production and use of anti-personnel mines came into force, though the United States, Russia and People's Republic of China has thus far refused to sign. The organisation, and its chief spokesperson Jody Williams, jointly received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts..
Karl Von Frisch - (1886-1982) was an Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. A professor of zoology at Munich, Germany, he studied the senses of bees, identified their mechanisms of communication and showed their sensitivity to ultraviolet light..
Karolinska Institute - is the largest single institution of higher education in medicine in the world. A committee of the institute appoints the laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Karolinska Hospital is associated with the university as a teaching hospital. See also Stockholm University Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm School of Economics List of universities in Sweden.
Karl Adolph Gjellerup - novelist who together with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917. In Denmark Gjellerup's award was received with little enthusiasm. He had been regarded long as a German writer. Because Sweden was neutral during World War I, the divided prize did not arouse political speculations about partial decision, but showed on the other hand allegiance between the Nordic neighbors. External Links http://www.nobel-winners.com/Literature/karl_gjellerup.html.
Kawabata Yasunari - 1972) was a Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. Kawabata was orphaned when he was two and soon long his grandparents also. While still a student at Tokyo Imperial University he joined Yokomitsu Riichi in starting Bungei Jidai (The Artistic Age), a neo-Impressionist journal. Kawabata committed suicide in 1972. Kawabata debuted with Izu no Odoriko ("The Dancer of Izu") in 1927. In 1937 appeared his novel Yukiguni ("Snow Country"), a stark tale of a love affair between a Tokyo playboy and a provincial geisha in a remote hot springs town. Yukiguni established Kawabata as one of Japan's foremost authors and became an instant classic. Senbazuru ("Thousand Cranes") continued some of the themes of Yukiguni. List of Works Snow Country (雪国, Yukiguni, 1937) Senbazuru ("Thousand Cranes", 1949-52).
Kai Manne Boerje Siegbahn - doctorate at the Univ. of Stockholm in 1944. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow for their work in spectroscopy. Siegbahn developed techniques for chemical analysis using high-resolution electron spectroscopy. External Links Kai Manne Boerje Siegbahn.
Kenneth Arrow - an American economist. He won The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1972, which he shared with John Hicks. His most significant works are his contributions to social choice theory, notably "Arrow's impossibility theorem", and his work on general equilibrium analysis. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The impossibility theorem 2 General equilibrium theory 3 See also 4.
Kenzaburo Oe - while still a student in 1957, strongly influenced by contemporary writing in France and the United States. Oe won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994. See also: Japanese literature Works in English Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (1958) A Personal Matter (1968) The Silent Cry (1974) Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness (1977) Hiroshima Notes (1982) Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma (1988) External Links http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1994/oe-bio.html http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/oe.htm\n.
