搞笑諾貝爾獎得獎者列表

本列表列出出自1991年起搞笑諾貝爾獎的得獎者：

A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October — around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced — for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think." Commenting on the 2006 awards, Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research, co-sponsor of the awards, said: "The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative - and spur people's interest in science, medicine and technology." All prizes are awarded for real achievements (except for three in 1991 and one in 1994 due to an erroneous press release).

歷屆得獎者

1991年

• Biology - Robert Klark Graham, selector of seeds and prophet of propagation, for his pioneering development of the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank that accepts donations only from Nobellians and Olympians.
• Chemistry - Jacques Benveniste, prolific proselytizer and dedicated correspondent of Nature, for his persistent discovery that water, H₂O, is an intelligent liquid, and for demonstrating to his satisfaction that water is able to remember events long after all traces of those events have vanished.
• Economics - Michael Milken, titan of Wall Street and father of the junk bond, to whom the world is indebted.
• Education - J. Danforth Quayle, consumer of time and occupier of space (as well as the U.S. Vice President from 1989-93), for demonstrating, better than anyone else, the need for science education.
• Literature - Erich von Däniken, visionary raconteur and author of Chariots of the Gods?, for explaining how human civilization was influenced by ancient astronauts from outer space.
• Medicine - Alan Kligerman, deviser of digestive deliverance, vanquisher of vapor, and inventor of Beano, for his pioneering work with anti-gas liquids that prevent bloat, gassiness, discomfort and embarrassment.
• Peace - Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and first champion of the Star Wars weapons system, for his lifelong efforts to change the meaning of peace as we know it.

虛構研究

The first nomination also featured three fictional recipients for fictional achievements.

• Interdisciplinary research: Josiah S. Carberry, for his work in psychoceramics, the study of "cracked pots."
• Pedestrian technology: Paul DeFanti, "wizard of structures and crusader for public safety, for his invention of the Buckybonnet, a geodesic fashion structure that pedestrians wear to protect their heads and preserve their composure".
• Physics: Thomas Kyle, for his discovery of "the heaviest element in the universe, Administratium"

1992年

• Archeology - Eclaireurs de France (a French Scouting organization), removers of graffiti, for damaging the prehistoric paintings of two Bisons in the Cave of Mayrière supérieure near the French village of Bruniquel.
• Art - Presented jointly to Jim Knowlton, modern Renaissance man, for his classic anatomy poster "Penises of the Animal Kingdom," and to the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, for encouraging Mr. Knowlton to extend his work in the form of a pop-up book.
• Biology - Dr. Cecil Jacobson, relentlessly generous sperm donor, and prolific patriarch of sperm banking, for devising a simple, single-handed method of quality control.
• Chemistry - Ivette Bassa, constructor of colorful colloids, for her role in the crowning achievement of twentieth century chemistry, the synthesis of bright blue Jell-O.
• Economics - The investors of Lloyd's of London, heirs to 300 years of dull prudent management, for their bold attempt to insure disaster by refusing to pay for their company's losses.
• Literature - Yuri Struchkov, unstoppable author from the Institute of Organoelement Compounds in Moscow, for the 948 scientific papers he published between the years 1981 and 1990, averaging more than one every 3.9 days.
• Medicine - F. Kanda, E. Yagi, M. Fukuda, K. Nakajima, T. Ohta, and O. Nakata of the Shiseido Research Center in Yokohama, for their pioneering research study "Elucidation of Chemical Compounds Responsible for Foot Malodour," especially for their conclusion that people who think they have foot odor do, and those who don't, don't.
• Nutrition - The utilizers of SPAM, courageous consumers of canned comestibles, for 54 years of undiscriminating digestion.
• Peace - Daryl Gates, former police chief of the City of Los Angeles, for his uniquely compelling methods of bringing people together.
• Physics - David Chorley and Doug Bower, lions of low-energy physics, for their circular contributions to field theory based on the geometrical destruction of English crops.

1993年

• Biology - Presented jointly to Paul Williams Jr. of the Oregon State Health Division and Kenneth W. Newel of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, bold biological detectives, for their pioneering study, "Salmonella Excretion in Joy-Riding Pigs".
• Chemistry - Presented jointly to James Campbell and Gaines Campbell of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, dedicated deliverers of fragrance, for inventing scent strips, the odious method by which perfume is applied to magazine pages.
• Consumer Engineering - Presented to Ron Popeil, incessant inventor and perpetual pitchman of late night television, for redefining the industrial revolution with such devices as the Veg-O-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman, Mr. Microphone, and the Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler.
• Economics - Presented to Ravi Batra of Southern Methodist University, shrewd economist and best-selling author of The Great Depression of 1990 and Surviving the Great Depression of 1990, for selling enough copies of his books to single-handedly prevent worldwide economic collapse.
• Literature - Presented to E. Topol, R. Califf, F. Van de Werf, P. W. Armstrong, and their 972 co-authors, for publishing a medical research paper which has one hundred times as many authors as pages. The authors are from the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• Mathematics - Presented to Robert W. Faid of Greenville, South Carolina, farsighted and faithful seer of statistics, for calculating the exact odds (860,609,175,188, 282,100 to 1) that Mikhail Gorbachev is the Antichrist.
• Medicine - Presented to James F. Nolan, Thomas J. Stillwell, and John P. Sands, Jr., medical men of mercy, for their painstaking research report, "Acute Management of the Zipper-Entrapped Penis."
• Peace - The Pepsi-Cola Company of the Philippines, for sponsoring a contest to create a millionaire, and then announcing the wrong winning number, thereby inciting and uniting 800,000 riotously expectant winners, and bringing many warring factions together for the first time in their nation's history.
• Physics - Presented to Corentin Louis Kervran of France, ardent admirer of alchemy, for his conclusion that the calcium in chickens' eggshells is created by a process of cold fusion.
• Psychology - Presented jointly to John Edward Mack of Harvard Medical School and David M. Jacobs of Temple University, for their conclusion that people who believe they were kidnapped by aliens from outer space, probably were — and especially for their conclusion, "the focus of the abduction is the production of children".
• Visionary Technology - Presented jointly to Jay Schiffman of Farmington Hills, Michigan, crack inventor of AutoVision, an image projection device that makes it possible to drive a car and watch television at the same time, and to the Michigan State Legislature, for making it legal to do so.

1994年

• Biology - Presented to W. Brian Sweeney, Brian Krafte-Jacobs, Jeffrey W. Britton, and Wayne Hansen, for their breakthrough study, "The Constipated Serviceman: Prevalence Among Deployed US Troops," and especially for their numerical analysis of bowel movement frequency.
• Chemistry - Presented to Texas State Senator Bob Glasgow, wise writer of logical legislation, for sponsoring the 1989 drug control law which makes it illegal to purchase beakers, flasks, test tubes, or other laboratory glassware without a permit.
• Economics - Presented to Juan Pablo Davila of Chile, tireless trader of financial futures and former employee of the state-owned Codelco Company, for instructing his computer to "buy" when he meant "sell." He subsequently attempted to recoup his losses by making increasingly unprofitable trades that ultimately lost 0.5 percent of Chile's gross national product. Davila's relentless achievement inspired his countrymen to coin a new verb, "davilar", meaning "to botch things up royally."
• Entomology - Presented to Robert A. Lopez of Westport, NY, valiant veterinarian and friend of all creatures great and small, for his series of experiments in obtaining ear mites from cats, inserting them into his own ear, and carefully observing and analyzing the results.
• Literature - Presented to L. Ron Hubbard, ardent author of science fiction and founding father of Scientology, for his crackling Good Book, Dianetics, which is highly profitable to mankind — or to a portion thereof.
• Mathematics - Presented to The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama, mathematical measurers of morality, for their county-by-county estimate of how many Alabama citizens will go to Hell if they don't repent.
• Medicine - Two prizes. First, to Patient X, formerly of the US Marine Corps, valiant victim of a venomous bite from his pet rattlesnake, for his determined use of electroshock therapy. At his own insistence, automobile spark plug wires were attached to his lip, and the car engine revved to 3,000 rpm for five minutes. Second, to Dr. Richard C. Dart of the Rocky Mountain Poison Center and Dr. Richard A. Gustafson of The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, for their well-grounded medical report, "Failure of Electric Shock Treatment for Rattlesnake Envenomation."
• Peace - Presented to John Hagelin of Maharishi University and The Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, for his experimental conclusion that 4,000 trained meditators caused an 18 percent decrease in violent crime in Washington, D.C.
• Psychology - Presented to Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore, for his thirty-year study of the effects of punishing three million citizens of Singapore whenever they spat, chewed gum, or fed pigeons.

虛假研究，不再於官方列表列出

• Physics - Presented to The Japanese Meteorological Agency, for its seven-year study of whether earthquakes are caused by catfish wiggling their tails. This winner is not officially listed, as it was based on what turned out to be erroneous press accounts.

1995年

• Chemistry - Presented to Bijan Pakzad of Beverly Hills, for creating DNA Cologne and DNA Perfume, neither of which contain deoxyribonucleic acid, and both of which come in a triple helix bottle.
• Dentistry - Presented to Robert H. Beaumont, of Shoreview, Minnesota, for his incisive study "Patient Preference for Waxed or Unwaxed Dental Floss."
• Economics - Presented jointly to Nick Leeson and his superiors at Barings Bank and to Robert Citron of Orange County, California for using the calculus of derivatives to demonstrate that every financial institution has its limits.
• Literature -Presented to David B. Busch and James R. Starling, of Madison, Wisconsin, for their research report, "Rectal Foreign Bodies: Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World's Literature." The citations include reports of, among other items: seven light bulbs; a knife sharpener; two flashlights; a wire spring; a snuff box; an oil can with potato stopper; eleven different forms of fruits, vegetables and other foodstuffs; a jeweler's saw; a frozen pig's tail; a tin cup; a beer glass; and one patient's remarkable ensemble collection consisting of spectacles, a suitcase key, a tobacco pouch and a magazine.
• Medicine - Presented to Marcia E. Buebel, David S. Shannahoff-Khalsa, and Michael R. Boyle, for their study entitled "The Effects of Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing on Cognition."
• Nutrition - Presented to John Martinez of J. Martinez & Company in Atlanta, for Luak Coffee, the world's most expensive coffee, which is made from coffee beans ingested and excreted by the luak, a bobcat-like animal native to Indonesia.
• 和平 - Presented to the 台灣國會, for demonstrating that politicians gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by waging war against other nations.
• Physics - Presented to Dominique M.R. Georget, R. Parker, and Andrew C. Smith of Norwich, England, for their rigorous analysis of soggy breakfast cereal. It was published in the report entitled "A Study of the Effects of Water Content on the Compaction Behaviour of Breakfast Cereal Flakes."
• Psychology - Presented to Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita, of Keio University, for their success in training pigeons to discriminate between the paintings of Picasso and those of Monet.
• Public Health - Presented to Martha Kold Bakkevig of Sintef Unimed in Trondheim, Norway, and Ruth Nielsen of the Technical University of Denmark, for their exhaustive study, "Impact of Wet Underwear on Thermoregulatory Responses and Thermal Comfort in the Cold."

1996年

• Art - Presented to Don Featherstone of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, for his ornamentally evolutionary invention, the plastic pink flamingo.
• Biodiversity - Presented to Chonosuke Okamura of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory in Nagoya, Japan, for discovering the fossils of dinosaurs, horses, dragons, and more than one thousand other extinct "mini-species," each of which less than 0.25 mm in length.
• Biology - Presented jointly to Anders Barheim and Hogne Sandvik of the University of Bergen, Norway, for their report, "Effect of Ale, Garlic, and Soured Cream on the Appetite of Leeches."
• Chemistry - Presented to George Goble of Purdue University, for his blistering world record time for igniting a barbecue grill: three seconds, using charcoal and liquid oxygen.
• Economics - Presented to Dr. Robert J. Genco of the University at Buffalo for his discovery that "financial strain is a risk indicator for destructive periodontal disease."
• Literature - Presented to the editors of the journal Social Text for eagerly publishing research that they could not understand, that the author said was meaningless, and which claimed that reality does not exist. (see Sokal Affair for details)
• Medicine - Presented to James Johnston of R.J. Reynolds, Joseph Taddeo of U.S. Tobacco, Andrew Tisch of Lorillard, William Campbell of Philip Morris, Edward A. Horrigan of Liggett Group, Donald S. Johnston of American Tobacco Company, and Thomas E. Sandefur, Jr., chairman of Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, for their unshakable discovery, as testified to the U.S. Congress, that nicotine is not addictive.
• Peace - Presented to Jacques Chirac, President of France, for commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific.
• Physics - Presented to Robert Matthews of Aston University, England, for his studies of Murphy's Law, and especially for demonstrating that toast often falls on the buttered side.
• Public Health - Presented to Ellen Kleist of Nuuk, Greenland and Harald Moi of Oslo, Norway, for their cautionary medical report "Transmission of Gonorrhea Through an Inflatable Doll."

1997年

• Astronomy - Presented to Richard C. Hoagland of New Jersey, for identifying artificial features on the moon and on Mars, including a human face on Mars and ten-mile high buildings on the far side of the moon.
• Biology - Presented to T. Yagyu and his colleagues from the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland, the Kansai Medical University in Osaka, Japan, and the Neuroscience Technology Research in Prague, Czech Republic, for measuring people's brainwave patterns while they chewed different flavors of gum.
• Communications - Presented to Sanford Wallace, president of Cyber Promotions of Philadelphia. Nothing has stopped this self-appointed courier from delivering electronic junk mail to all the world.
• Economics - Presented to Akihiro Yokoi of Wiz Company in Chiba, Japan, and Aki Maita of Bandai Company in Tokyo, for diverting millions of person-hours of work into the husbandry of virtual pets.
• Entomology - Presented to Mark Hostetler of the University of Florida, for his book, That Gunk on Your Car, which identifies the insect splats that appear on automobile windows.
• Literature - Presented to Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips, and Yoav Rosenberg of Israel, and to Michael Drosnin of the United States, for their statistical discovery that the Bible contains a secret, hidden code.
• Medicine - Presented to Carl J. Charnetski and Francis X. Brennan, Jr. of Wilkes University, and James F. Harrison of Muzak Ltd. in Seattle, Washington, for their discovery that listening to Muzak stimulates immunity system production and thus may help prevent the common cold.
• Meteorology - Presented to Bernard Vonnegut of the State University of New York at Albany, for his report, "Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed."
• Peace - Presented to Harold Hillman of the University of Surrey, England, for his report "The Possible Pain Experienced During Execution by Different Methods."
• Physics - Presented to John Bockris of Texas A&M University, for his achievements in cold fusion, in the transmutation of base elements into gold, and in the electrochemical incineration of domestic rubbish.

1998年

• Chemistry - Presented to Jacques Benveniste of France, for his homeopathic discovery that not only does water have memory, but that the information can be transmitted over telephone lines and the Internet.
• Biology - Presented to Peter Fong of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for contributing to the happiness of clams by giving them Prozac.
• Economics - Presented to Richard Seed of Chicago for his efforts to stoke up the world economy by cloning himself and other human beings.
• Literature - Presented to Dr. Mara Sidoli of Washington, DC, for her illuminating report, "Farting as a Defence Against Unspeakable Dread".
• Medicine - Presented to Patient Y and to his doctors, Caroline Mills, Meirion Llewelyn, David Kelly, and Peter Holt, of Royal Gwent Hospital, in Newport for the cautionary medical report, "A Man Who Pricked His Finger and Smelled Putrid for 5 Years."
• Peace - Presented to Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, for their aggressively peaceful explosions of atomic bombs.
• Physics - Presented to Deepak Chopra of The Chopra Center for Well Being, La Jolla, California, for his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness.
• Safety Engineering - Presented to Troy Hurtubise, of North Bay, Ontario, for developing and personally testing a suit of armor that is impervious to grizzly bears.
• Science Education - Presented to Dolores Krieger, Professor Emerita, New York University, for demonstrating the merits of therapeutic touch, a method by which nurses manipulate the energy fields of ailing patients by carefully avoiding physical contact with those patients.
• Statistics - Presented to Jerald Bain of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto and Kerry Siminoski of the University of Alberta, for their carefully measured report, "The Relationship Among Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size".

1999年

• Biology - Presented to Dr. Paul Bosland, director of The Chili Pepper Institute, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, for breeding a spiceless jalapeño chili pepper.
• Chemistry - Presented to 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.
• Environmental Protection - Presented to Hyuk-ho Kwon of Kolon Company of Seoul, South Korea, for inventing the self-perfuming business suit.
• Literature - Presented to the British Standards Institution for its six-page specification (BS 6008) of the proper way to make a cup of tea.
• Managed Health Care - Presented to George Blonsky and Charlotte Blonsky of New York City and San Jose, California, for inventing a device (美國專利第3,216,423號) to aid women in giving birth -- the woman is strapped onto a circular table, and the table is then rotated at high speed.
• Medicine - Presented to Dr. Arvid Vatle of Stord, Norway, for carefully collecting, classifying, and contemplating which kinds of containers his patients chose when submitting urine samples.
• Peace - Presented to Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong of Johannesburg, South Africa, for inventing the Blaster, an automobile burglar alarm consisting of a detection circuit and a flamethrower.
• Physics - Presented to Dr. Len Fisher of Bath, England and Sydney, Australia for calculating the optimal way to dunk a biscuit. Also, 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.
• Science Education - Presented to the Kansas State 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.
• Sociology - Presented to Steve Penfold, of York University in Toronto, for doing his Ph.D. thesis on the history of Canadian donut shops.

2000年

青蛙磁懸浮現象

• 生物學獎

  授予加拿大Dalhousie University的生物學家瓦塞爾·薩格(Richard Wassersug)，表彰他對南美洲哥斯大黎加一種蝌蚪的味覺的比較研究。

• 物理學獎

  分別授予來自荷蘭University of Nijmegen的海姆(André Geim)和英國布里斯托大學的邁可爾·貝里爵士，以表彰他們研究磁懸浮技術來升起一隻青蛙和一位相撲摔角手。

• 化學獎

  分別授予意大利比薩大學的Donatella Marazziti, Alessandra Rossi, and Giovanni B. Cassano和美國加州大學聖地牙哥分校的Hagop S. Akiskal，表彰他們發現了熱戀中的男女與嚴重強迫症患者體內的生理化學反應一模一樣。

• 醫學獎

  授予一群荷蘭阿姆斯特丹的科學家Willibrord Weijmar Schultz、Pek van Andel、Eduard Mooyaart of Groningen, the Netherlands及Ida Sabelis，以表彰他們使用磁力共振研究男性和女性的性器官在性交的變化。

• 心理學獎

  授予美國康奈爾大學的鄧甯(David Dunning)和伊利諾大學香檳分校的克羅伊格(Justin Kreuger)，表彰他們對察覺不到自己無能的人往往容易變得自大的研究。

• 經濟學獎

  授予韓國人文鮮明，表彰他提倡的「推動集體婚禮行業，提高婚姻效率」的方法。文氏聲稱，他利用這種方法1960年僅撮合成36對新人，到1968年亦只撮合了430對新人，但1975年已撮合成1800對新人，1982年撮合成6千對新人，到1992年已撮合成3萬對新人，1995年撮合成36萬對新人，1997年已累計猛增到3600萬對。

• 文學獎

  授予澳大利亞的Jasmuheen(前稱Ellen Greve)。表彰她出版了一本描述人類如何不進食也能維持生命的專著《Living on Light,》。在這本著作中，她聲稱雖然有些人會進食，但其實他們並不需要。她亦是Breatharianism的第一夫人。

• 和平獎

  授予英國皇家海軍，表彰他們發明了以「砰！砰！」的喊聲代替真槍實彈進行集訓的方法。

• 電腦科學獎

  授予美國亞利桑那州首府Tucson的一名程式員Chris Niswander ，表彰他發明了一種能探測及防止因貓踏過電腦鍵盤而影響電腦運作的軟件PawSense。

• 公眾衛生獎

  授予蘇格蘭格拉斯哥的科學家Jonathan Wyatt、Gordon McNaughton和William Tullet ，表彰他們發表對格拉斯哥的坐廁倒塌問題。

2001年

• Astrophysics - Presented to Dr. Jack Van Impe and Rexella Van Impe of Jack Van Impe Ministries, Rochester Hills, Michigan, for their discovery that black holes fulfill all the technical requirements for the location of Hell.
• Biology - Presented to Buck Weimer of Pueblo, Colorado for inventing Under-Ease, airtight underwear with a replaceable charcoal filter that removes bad-smelling gases before they escape.
• Economics - Presented to Joel Slemrod, of the University of Michigan Business School, and Wojciech Kopczuk, of the University of British Columbia, for their conclusion that people find a way to postpone their deaths if that would qualify them for a lower rate on the inheritance tax.
• Literature - Presented to John Richards of Boston, England, founder of The Apostrophe Protection Society, for his efforts to protect, promote, and defend the differences between the plural and the possessive.
• Medicine - Presented to Peter Barss of McGill University, Canada, for his impactful medical report "Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts".
• Peace - Presented to Viliumas Malinauskas of Grutas, Lithuania, for creating the amusement park known as "Stalin World".
• Physics - Presented to David Schmidt of the University of Massachusetts, for his partial explanation of the shower-curtain effect: a shower curtain tends to billow inwards while a shower is being taken.
• Psychology - Presented to Lawrence W. Sherman of Miami University, Ohio, for his influential research report "An Ecological Study of Glee in Small Groups of Preschool Children".
• Public Health - Presented to Chittaranjan Andrade and B.S. Srihari of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India, for their probing medical discovery that nose picking is a common activity among adolescents.
• Technology - Presented jointly to John Keogh of Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia, for patenting the wheel in the year 2001, and to the Australian Patent Office for granting him Innovation Patent #2001100012.

2002年

• Biology - Presented to Norma E. Bubier, Charles G.M. Paxton, Phil Bowers, and D. Charles Deeming of the United Kingdom, for their report "Courtship Behaviour of Ostriches Towards Humans Under Farming Conditions in Britain".
• Chemistry - Presented to Theodore Gray of Wolfram Research, in Champaign, Illinois, for gathering many elements of the periodic table, and assembling them into the form of a four-legged periodic table table.
• Economics - Presented to the executives, corporate directors, and auditors of Enron, Lernaut & Hauspie (Belgium), Adelphia, Bank of Commerce and Credit International (Pakistan), Cendant, CMS Energy, Duke Energy, Dynegy, Gazprom (Russia), Global Crossing, HIH Insurance (Australia), Informix, Kmart, Maxwell Communications (UK), McKessonHBOC, Merrill Lynch, Merck, Peregrine Systems, Qwest Communications, Reliant Resources, Rent-Way, Rite Aid, Sunbeam, Tyco, Waste Management, WorldCom, Xerox, and Arthur Andersen, for adapting the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use in the business world. (All companies except for Arthur Andersen were forced to restate their financial reports due to false or incorrect accounting. Andersen was the accounting firm most identified with the scandals, having been indicted on criminal charges stemming from its actions as auditor of Enron. All companies are U.S.-based unless otherwise noted.)
• Hygiene - Presented to Eduardo Segura, of Lavakan de Aste, in Tarragona, Spain, for inventing a washing machine for cats and dogs.
• Interdisciplinary Research - Presented to Karl Kruszelnicki of The University of Sydney, Australia, for performing a comprehensive survey of human belly button fluff -- who gets it, when, what color, and how much.
• Literature - Presented jointly to Vicki L. Silvers of the University of Nevada-Reno and David S. Kreiner of Central Missouri State University, for their colorful report "The Effects of Pre-Existing Inappropriate Highlighting on Reading Comprehension".
• Mathematics - Presented to K.P. Sreekumar and G. Nirmalan of Kerala Agricultural University, India, for their analytical report "Estimation of the Total Surface Area in Indian Elephants".
• Medicine - Presented to Chris McManus of University College London, for his excruciatingly balanced report, "Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture".
• Peace - Presented to Keita Sato, President of Takara Co., Dr. Matsumi Suzuki, President of Japan Acoustic Lab, and Dr. Norio Kogure, Executive Director, Kogure Veterinary Hospital, for promoting peace and harmony between the species by inventing Bow-Lingual, a computer-based automatic dog-to-human language translation device.
• Physics - Presented to Arnd Leike of the University of Munich, for demonstrating that beer froth obeys the Mathematical Law of Exponential Decay.

2003年

• 和平獎

授予印度北方邦的男子LalBihari。Bihari有三大重要成就。第一，即使他已遭當局宣告死亡，卻仍生氣勃勃地活著；第二，『亡故』的他大力發動抗爭，對付遲鈍的官僚與貪婪的親戚；第三，他創辦了『死者協會』。來自於北方邦的Bihari在1976年遭縣政府宣布身故，他後來還發現：在印度有好幾千人陷於相同慘況，原因是官員收賄宣布地主已經身故，以便他們的地產能被繼承。Abrahams表示，印度政府一開始曾拒發護照給Bihari這個「死人」，讓他搭機前往美國劍橋參加今年搞笑諾貝爾獎頒獎典禮，最後雖然仍在上個月簽發護照。但時機已太晚，Bihari來不及取得美國簽證。

• 工程學獎

授予已身故的美國空軍上尉Edward A. Murphy, Jr.、空軍醫官John Paul Stapp及George Nichols，他們三人曾於1949年創立著名的「莫非定律」（Murphy's Law）：「如果事情有兩個或多個進行方法，而其中一個會出錯的話，則人們往往會選擇它。」換句說話就是：「凡是可能出錯的事，準會出錯。」

• 醫學獎

授予倫敦大學學院的醫學團隊，包括Eleanor Maguire, David Gadian, Ingrid Johnsrude, Catriona Good, John Ashburner, Richard Frackowiak和Christopher Frith，因為他們的研究顯示，倫敦計程車司機的大腦，相較於其他市民，教育程度遠遠較高。該篇研究發表於美國Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences，報告指出，倫敦計程車司機與空間記憶相關的大腦海馬迴特別大。因為倫敦計程司機必須背記全市詳圖，而且通過嚴苛的道路測驗。

• 心理學獎

授予羅馬大學的Gian Vittorio Caprara和Claudio Barbaranelli及史丹福大學的Philip Zimbardo，他們在1997年在嚴肅的Nature發表文章〈政客獨特的簡單人格〉指出，選民判斷政客時，只憑兩項人格特徵(How trustworthy are they? How energetic are they?)，不像大多社交場合時，判斷人格的決定因素有五個。Zimbardo認為他們的研究將幫助設計選戰策略。

• 物理學獎

授予澳洲的Jack Harvey, John Culvenor, Warren Payne, Steve Cowley, Michael Lawrance, David Stuart和Robyn Williams等人，他們研究在不同把羊隻拖過不同地形表面所費之力氣，他們發現下坡時最省力。

• 化學獎

授予日本金澤大學的廣瀨幸雄，原因是他徹底研究何以金澤市的一尊青銅像不能吸引鴿子站到上頭，因為它含有鎵。

• 文學獎

授予紐約市Zicklin School of Business的John Trinkaus，他發表了八十六篇和日常生活息息相關的機率報告，其報告內容包括反着戴棒球帽的行人比例有多少；在淺池區而非深水區游泳的泳客比例多少；汽車駕駛人未能在某個停車指示牌前完全剎車的比例有多高；還有某超市購物者因為購物件數超過許可，而無法使用超市的快速結帳櫃台，其機率有多大；討厭甘藍菜的學生比例有多少等。

• 生物學獎

授予荷蘭鹿特丹自然史博物館的C.W. Moeliker，他忠實地記錄了一隻綠頭鴨的同性戀戀屍癖。他目擊了一個雄綠頭鴨強暴另一隻在博物館草坪上死亡的雄綠頭鴨達七十五分鐘之久，最後他再也忍不住而去解救那隻死鴨，並驗屍確認牠是公的。

• 經濟學獎

授予Karl Schwarzler和列支敦士登（Liechtenstein）因出租整個國家來舉行公司會議、婚禮和宗教儀式等而勇獲經濟學獎。他們讓人可以一次租下只有三萬三千人的小國中所有四百五十家酒店。

• 跨領域研究獎

授予瑞典斯德哥爾摩大學的Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson和Magnus Enquist，他們的研究發現雞喜愛長像漂亮的人類。

2003年的頒獎典禮的重頭戲包括Edward Murphy III代創立莫非定律的父親領獎，以及MIT的基因組研究中心主任Eric Lander為人類基因組宣讀的七字真言：「Genome. Bought the book, hard to read」（基因組。買了書，好難讀。）

• Biology - Presented to C.W. Moeliker, of Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck.
• Chemistry - Presented to Yukio Hirose of Kanazawa University, for his chemical investigation of a bronze statue, in the city of Kanazawa, that fails to attract pigeons.
• Economics - Presented to Karl Schwärzler and the nation of Liechtenstein, for making it possible to rent the entire country for corporate conventions, weddings, bar mitzvahs, and other gatherings.
• Engineering - Presented to John Paul Stapp, Edward A. Murphy, Jr., and George Nichols, for jointly giving birth in 1949 to Murphy's Law, the basic engineering principle that "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, someone will do it" (or, in other words: "If anything can go wrong, it will").
• Interdisciplinary Research - Presented to Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquis of Stockholm University, for their inevitable report "Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans."
• Literature - Presented to John Trinkaus, of the Zicklin School of Business, New York City, for meticulously collecting data and publishing more than 80 detailed academic reports about things that annoyed him, such as:

What percentage of young people wear baseball caps with the peak facing to the rear rather than to the front; What percentage of pedestrians wear sport shoes that are white rather than some other color; What percentage of swimmers swim laps in the shallow end of a pool rather than the deep end; What percentage of automobile drivers almost, but not completely, come to a stop at one particular stop-sign; What percentage of commuters carry attaché cases; What percentage of shoppers exceed the number of items permitted in a supermarket's express checkout lane; and what percentage of students dislike the taste of Brussels sprouts.

• Medicine - Presented to Eleanor Maguire, David Gadian, Ingrid Johnsrude, Catriona Good, John Ashburner, Richard Frackowiak, and Christopher Frith of University College London, for presenting evidence that the hippocampi of London taxi drivers are more highly developed than those of their fellow citizens.
• Peace - Presented to Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India, for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and third, for creating the Association of Dead People. Lal Bihari overcame the handicap of being dead, and managed to obtain a passport from the Indian government so that he could travel to Harvard to accept his Prize. However, the U.S. government refused to allow him into the country. His friend Madhu Kapoor therefore came to the Ig Nobel Ceremony and accepted the Prize on behalf of Lal Bihari. Several weeks later, the Prize was presented to Lal Bihari himself in a special ceremony in India.
• Physics - Presented to Jack Harvey, John Culveno, Warren Payne, Steve Cowle, Michael Lawrance, David Stuart, and Robyn Williams of Australia, for their irresistible report "An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces".
• Psychology - Presented to Gian Vittorio Caprara and Claudio Barbaranelli of the University of Rome La Sapienza, and to Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University, for their discerning report "Politicians' Uniquely Simple Personalities".

2004年

• Biology - Presented to Ben Wilson of the University of British Columbia, Lawrence Dill of Simon Fraser University, Canada, Robert Batty of the Scottish Association for Marine Science, Magnus Whalberg of the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Håkan Westerberg of Sweden's National Board of Fisheries, for showing that herrings apparently communicate by farting.
• Chemistry - Presented 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 consumers.
• Economics - Presented to the Vatican, for outsourcing prayers to India.
• Engineering - Presented jointly to Donald J. Smith and his father, Frank J. Smith, of Orlando, Florida, for patenting the comb over (美國專利第4,022,227號)
• Literature - Presented to The American Nudist Research Library of Kissimmee, Florida, for preserving nudist history so that everyone can see it.
• Medicine - Presented jointly to Steven Stack of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, and James Gundlach of Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, for their published report "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide".
• Peace - Presented to Daisuke Inoue of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, for inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.
• Physics - Presented jointly to Ramesh Balasubramaniam of the University of Ottawa, and Michael Turvey of the University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratory, for exploring and explaining the dynamics of hula-hooping.
• Psychology - Presented jointly to Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University, for demonstrating that when people pay close attention to something, it's all too easy to overlook anything else -- even a woman in a gorilla suit. [See inattentional blindness]
• Public Health - Presented to Jillian Clarke of the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, and then Howard University, for investigating the scientific validity of the five-second rule about whether it's safe to eat food that's been dropped on the floor.

2005年

• Agricultural History - Presented to James Watson of Massey University, New Zealand, for his scholarly study, "The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley's Exploding Trousers".
• Biology - Presented jointly to Benjamin Smith of the University of Adelaide, Australia and the University of Toronto, Canada and the Firmenich perfume company, Geneva, Switzerland, and ChemComm Enterprises, Archamps, France; Craig Williams of James Cook University and the University of South Australia; Michael Tyler of the University of Adelaide; Brian Williams of the University of Adelaide; and Yoji Hayasaka of the Australian Wine Research Institute; for painstakingly smelling and cataloging the peculiar odors produced by 131 different species of frogs when the frogs were feeling stressed.
• Chemistry - Presented jointly to Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for conducting a careful experiment to settle the longstanding scientific question: can people swim faster in syrup or in water? It was found that swimmers in the experiment reach comparable velocity in both media.
• Economics - Presented to Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing Clocky, an alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly, thus ensuring that people DO get out of bed, and thus theoretically adding many productive hours to the workday.
• Fluid Dynamics - Presented jointly to Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and the University of Oulu, Finland; and József Gál of Loránd Eötvös University, Hungary, for using basic principles of physics to calculate the pressure that builds up inside a penguin, as detailed in their report "Pressures Produced When Penguins Poo — Calculations on Avian Defecation".
• Literature - Presented to the Internet entrepreneurs of Nigeria, for creating and then using e-mail to distribute a bold series of short stories, thus introducing millions of readers to a cast of rich characters — General Sani Abacha, Mrs. Mariam Sanni Abacha, Barrister Jon A Mbeki Esq., and others — each of whom requires just a small amount of expense money so as to obtain access to the great wealth to which they are entitled and which they would like to share with the kind person who assists them. (See advance fee fraud.)
• Medicine - Presented to Gregg A. Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri, in the U.S.A., for inventing Neuticles — artificial replacement testicles for dogs, which are available in three sizes, and three degrees of firmness.
• Nutrition - Presented to Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu of Tokyo, Japan, for photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting).
• Peace - Presented jointly to Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of University of Newcastle, in the UK, for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie Star Wars.
• Physics - Presented jointly to John Mainstone and Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting the so-called pitch drop experiment that began in the year 1927 — in which a glob of congealed black tar pitch has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.

• 物理獎

授予梅史東和帕奈爾取得，他們從1927年開始架設瀝青滴漏實驗，以觀測一小坨的黏呼呼的瀝青滴落的速度，這沱瀝青平均9年才會滴下來1次，帕奈爾只觀察了兩滴就已經去世。「我堅持到了第八滴」梅史東說。

• 生物獎

授予澳洲學者史密斯獲得，他分析了青蛙在壓力下氣味的不同，研究發現，一些青蛙會發出腰果味，而另一些則會發出甘草味、薄荷味甚或臭魚味。

• 醫學獎

授予美國明尼蘇達大學的一項考證人在糖漿中是否比在水中游得快的實驗獲得。美國人米勒獲得醫學獎，他發明的公狗用矽膠、睾丸、蛋、可以幫助被閹公狗重拾自信。

• 流體力學獎

授予觀察企鵝排泄物的德國科學家維克托·梅耶和匈牙利科學家約瑟夫·《企鵝排便所產生的壓力－－鳥類排糞計算式》勇奪流體力學獎。

• 經濟獎

授予美國麻省理工學院的高里·南達，他發明了會逃跑並躲起來的鬧鐘，除非你找到它才會停止鬧鈴聲，這個發明可以有效的挽回公司因為遲到員工而減少的工作效率，所以獲得經濟獎。

• 和平獎

授予英國學者林德和希蒙斯，他們讓蝗蟲看電影《星際大戰》，以便觀測蝗蟲腦電波，得到和平獎。

• 營養學獎

授予日本東京的中松義郎博士，他34年來為他的每一餐拍照並分析計算每一餐。

• 文學獎

授予奈及利亞的一群奈及利亞騙徒網路創業家所獲得，以「讚揚」「他們短小精悍的文字，為我們提供娛樂」。

2006年

• Acoustics: D. Lynn Halpern of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, and Brandeis University, and Northwestern University, Randolph Blake of Vanderbilt University and Northwestern University and James Hillenbrand of Western Michigan University and Northwestern University for conducting experiments to learn why people dislike the sound of fingernails scraping chalkboard.
• Biology: Bart Knols of Wageningen Agricultural University, in Wageningen, the Netherlands; and of the National Institute for Medical Research / Ifakara Centre, Tanzania, and of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna, Austria) and Ruurd de Jong of Wageningen Agricultural University and of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Italy for showing that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet.
• Chemistry: Antonio Mulet, José Javier Benedito and José Bon of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and Carmen Rosselló of the University of Illes Balears, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, for their study "Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature".
• Literature: Daniel M. Oppenheimer of Princeton University for his report "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly".
• Mathematics: Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, for calculating the number of photographs must be taken to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed.
• 醫學獎

  授予美國田納西州傑克遜維爾市大學醫院的弗蘭西斯克·菲斯米爾醫生，和以色列海法市錫安醫學中心的馬傑德·歐戴醫生(Majed Odeh)、Harry Bassan和Arie Oliven，因為他們發明了一種匪夷所思的「按摩直腸止嗝法」。菲斯米爾和歐戴醫生介紹了止嗝的操作步驟：「手指深入病人肛門，按摩其直腸，並進行緩慢的圓周運動。病人打嗝的頻率立即開始減慢，30秒內完全停止。」。

• Nutrition: Wasmia Al-Houty of Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam of the Kuwait Environment Public Authority, for showing that dung beetles are finicky eaters.
• Ornithology: Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California Davis, and Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles, for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches.
• Peace: Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant -- a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but probably not to their teachers.
• Physics: Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, for their analysis that explains why spaghetti breaks into several pieces when it is bent.

• 數學獎

授予澳大利亞聯邦科學和研究組織的女數學家妮克·斯文森和物理學家皮爾斯·巴內斯博士。兩人研究的課題是：在拍攝集體照時，攝影師最少要按幾次快門，才能確保照片內沒有一個人的眼睛是閉着的。

斯文森得出的解決方案是：如果集體照中的人數少於20人，且光線較好，那人數除以3就是所需拍攝的次數；但如果光線較差，曝光時間變長就會增加眨眼的幾率，因此將人數除以2才是所需拍攝次數；但如果人數大於50人時最好放棄拍照——因為這種情況下必然有一人的眼睛是閉上的。

• 鳥類學獎

授予加州戴維斯大學的鳥類學家伊萬·舒瓦布（Ivan R. Schwab）。他一直在研究為什麼啄木鳥從不會感到頭痛。

舒瓦布在論文中稱，啄木鳥大部分時間都不停地用尖嘴去啄木頭。如果換作是人，大腦和眼睛必將嚴重受損。舒瓦布研究後發現，啄木鳥進化出了一個擁有海綿狀的厚頭骨，它能像海綿一樣保護大腦。啄木鳥還進化出了自己的「安全帶」系統，在它的鳥喙啄中樹幹前1毫秒，它眼睛內的透明瞬膜會及時閉上，將眼球包裹得緊緊的，防止它們蹦出眼窩。

• 和平獎

授予英國梅瑟蒂德菲爾地區的科學家哈沃德·史泰波頓。他研製出了一種裝置，可以發出只有青少年能聽到、但大多數成年人卻聽不到的高音頻。

利用這一技術，史泰波頓發明了一種用來驅趕不良青少年的高音喇叭，這樣成年顧客可以不受干擾地在商店內購物。此外，他又用同一原理發明了只有青少年聽得到，老師卻不能發覺的手機鈴聲，避免了青少年和老師在使用手機上發生的爭論。在中國大陸內也有一種像這樣的手機鈴聲，主要原理是發出一種頻率很高的聲音，因為兒童的聽力要比成年人或是老年人要好得多，再加上這種聲音本身就很輕所以只有自己能聽到，別人卻聽不到。

• 營養學獎

授予兩名科威特科學家。經過多年研究後，他們發現「屎殼郎」（學名蜣螂）吃東西其實很「挑食」。他們更喜歡吃馬和狗的糞便，而不是駱駝和狐狸的糞便。

• 物理學獎

授予一個法國研究小組，他們一直在研究為什麼乾的意大利細麵條被掰斷時，永遠都不會只斷成2截。

• 文學獎

授予美國普林斯頓大學的丹尼·歐派恩海米爾，他進行的一系列試驗顯示，精心準備的長篇演講是一種最糟糕的取悅他人的方法，那實際上只會讓你顯得很愚蠢。

2007年

• 醫學獎

  授予英國格洛斯特的Brian Witcombe和美國田納西州的Dan Meyer，他們研究吞劍的副作用而得獎。

• 物理學獎

  授予美國哈佛大學的L. Mahadevan和智利聖地牙哥大學的Enrique Cerda Villablanca，表揚他們研究如何將床單弄皺。

• 生物學獎

  授予荷蘭恩荷芬科技大學Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk，他研究博士與人們同床同眠的各種小生物，例如：壁蝨、蜱、蟎等。

• 化學獎

  授予日本的國際醫療中心山本麻由（Mayu Yamamoto），他由母牛糞中提煉出香草精而得獎。

• 文學獎

  授予澳洲藍山布朗（Glenda Browne），他研究「The」這個字對出版社編輯作排序時造成的困撓。一般來說，這個字在排序時會省略掉，但亦有些情況需要保留。

• 語言學獎

  授予歐洲巴塞隆納大學的Juan Manuel Toro，Josep B. Trobalon與Núria Sebastián-Gallés，他們發現老鼠有時會無法分辨倒著播放的日語和荷蘭語錄音。

• 和平獎

  授予美國俄亥俄州德頓市空軍懷特實驗室，他們構想出「同性戀炸彈」，意圖軍隊士兵因為性慾而無法作戰。

• 營養學獎

  授予康乃爾大學的Brian Wansink，他透過設計了一個暗中在碗裡添加番茄湯的裝置，以研究人類食慾與肥胖的關係。

• 經濟學獎

  授予臺灣的謝國楨，他研發出「設計天羅地網銀行防盜系統」，利用一個網來捉賊，防止歹徒搶劫

• 航空學獎

  授予聖地牙哥的Patricia V. Agostino和阿根廷的Diego A. Golombek，他們發現威而鋼能幫助倉鼠克服搭飛機的時差。

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