Timeline of Ig® Nobel Prize Winners

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: Below 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.

Last year's Prizes

2002

BIOLOGY
PHYSICS
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
CHEMISTRY
MATHEMATICS
LITERATURE
PEACE
HYGIENE
ECONOMICS
MEDICINE

2001

MEDICINE
PHYSICS
BIOLOGY
ECONOMICS
LITERATURE
PSYCHOLOGY
ASTROPHYSICS
PEACE
TECHNOLOGY
PUBLIC HEALTH

2000

PSYCHOLOGY
LITERATURE
BIOLOGY
PHYSICS
CHEMISTRY
ECONOMICS
MEDICINE
COMPUTER SCIENCE
PEACE
PUBLIC HEALTH

1999

SOCIOLOGY
PHYSICS
LITERATURE
SCIENCE EDUCATION
MEDICINE
CHEMISTRY
BIOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
PEACE
MANAGED HEALTH CARE

1998

SAFETY ENGINEERING
BIOLOGY
PEACE
CHEMISTRY
SCIENCE EDUCATION
STATISTICS
PHYSICS
ECONOMICS
MEDICINE
LITERATURE

1997

BIOLOGY
ENTOMOLOGY
ASTRONOMY
COMMUNICATIONS
PHYSICS
LITERATURE
MEDICINE
ECONOMICS
PEACE
METEOROLOGY

1996

BIOLOGY
MEDICINE
PHYSICS
PEACE
PUBLIC HEALTH
CHEMISTRY
BIODIVERSITY
LITERATURE
ECONOMICS
ART

1995

NUTRITION
PHYSICS
ECONOMICS
MEDICINE
LITERATURE
PEACE
PSYCHOLOGY
PUBLIC HEALTH
DENTISTRY
CHEMISTRY

1994

BIOLOGY
PEACE
MEDICINE
ENTOMOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY
PHYSICS
LITERATURE
CHEMISTRY
ECONOMICS
MATHEMATICS

1993

PSYCHOLOGY
CONSUMER ENGINEERING
BIOLOGY
ECONOMICS
PEACE
MEDICINE
CHEMISTRY
LITERATURE
MATHEMATICS
PHYSICS

1992

MEDICINE
ARCHEOLOGY
ECONOMICS
BIOLOGY
CHEMISTRY
PHYSICS
PEACE
NUTRITION
LITERATURE
ART

1991

CHEMISTRY
MEDICINE
EDUCATION
BIOLOGY
ECONOMICS
LITERATURE
PEACE




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