What are the Ig Nobel Prizes?
WHAT: Every Ig Nobel Prize winner has done something that first makes people LAUGH, then makes them THINK. Technically speaking, the Igs honor people whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced."
WHO: Here is a list of all the winners.
WHY: The Igs are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology. Here are three discussions of what the Ig is and is not , and perhaps what it could mean.
THE CEREMONY: The Prizes are awarded at a gala ceremony in Harvard's Sanders Theatre. 1200 splendidly eccentric spectators watch the winners step forward to accept their Prizes. The Prizes are physically handed to the winners by genuinely bemused genuine Nobel Laureates. You are invited to attend the ceremony in person, or via broadcast.
WHENCE: The Igs are inflicted on you by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR),
and co-sponsored by:
- the Harvard Computer Society;
- the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association;
- the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Physics Students;
- the new book Ig Nobel Prizes, published by Orion, London, ISBN 0752851500.
Also brought to you by the book The Best of Annals of Improbable Research (now available in English, Italian, and German, and Chinese!)
