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 Selected awards from Improbable Research's Ig Nobel prizes:
* PIERS BARNES shared the 2006 Ig Nobel Mathematics Prize for calculating the number of photographs you must take to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed. He is a research associate in chemistry at Imperial College London.
* MELISSA BATESON and two co-researchers devised a novel way to study of the honesty of their colleagues when paying for their coffee. She is a lecturer at Newcastle University’s Institute of Neuroscience.
* MICHAEL BERRY, together with a colleague were awarded the 2000 Ig Nobel Physics Prize for using magnets to levitate a frog. He is the Melville Wills Professor of Physics at Bristol University (Emeritus).
* CLAIRE RIND and PETER SIMMONS shared the 2005 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for electrically monitoring the activity of a brain cell in a locust while that locust was watching selected highlights from the movie “Star Wars.” Each is a Reader in Neurobiology at Newcastle University. They will describe their latest research adventures.
And finally...
* DAVID SIMS, 2008 Ig Nobel Literature Prize winner for his study “You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations.”
Taken with permission from Improbable Research (http://improbable.com/)
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