The Ig Nobel Prizes

副标题: The Annals of Improbable Research

ISBN: 9780752842615

出版社: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

出版年: 2003-09-04

页数: 432

定价: USD 10.05

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

WHAT: The Ig Nobel Prize honours individuals whose achievements in science cannot or should not be reproduced. 10 prizes are given to people who have done remarkably bizarre things in science over the previous year. WHY: The 'Igs' are intended to celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative and shine a spotlight onto the weird corners of laboratories around the world. PAST WINNERS: Peter Fong's experiment in which he fed Prozac to clams on the basis that if they chilled out more they'd taste better. Harold Hillman's report on 'The Possible Pain Experienced during Execution by Different Methods'...

作者简介

马克?亚伯拉罕斯（Marc Abrahams）：

“搞笑诺贝尔奖”之父。他也是科学幽默杂志《不大可能的研究年报》（Annals of Improbable Research）的主编。

搞笑诺贝尔奖（IG Noble Prizes）：

为了奖励“伟大的困惑”，将Ignoble（不光彩的）和Noble Prizes（诺贝尔奖）组合而成的科学奖项，奖励那些“乍看之下很好笑，实则发人深省”的“不大可能”的科学研究。

由《不大可能的研究年报》主办，每年十月在哈佛大学桑德斯剧场举办。颁奖嘉宾为真正的诺贝尔奖得主，这个活动如今已经成为科学界的盛会。

搞笑诺贝尔奖网址：http://improbable.com/

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