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The Ig Nobel Prizes: Rewarding the World's Unlikeliest Research
- Author: Abrahams, Marc
- Publisher: Plume Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2002
- ISBN-13: 9780452285736
- ISBN-10: 0452285739
The Nobel Prize recognizes the worlds most talented and innovative minds. Unfortunately, not all of the hopeful thinkers and academics around the globe can become Nobel laureates, but some are lucky enough to win the Ig Nobel Prize instead.
Drawn from the worlds wackiest actual research, "The Ig Nobel Prizes" demonstrates the extreme measures that people will take in the quest for knowledge, and pays tribute to those individuals whose achievements cannotor should notbe reproduced. Recent Ig Nobel honorees include:
The professor who proved that toast falls buttered side down more often than not
The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama which devised a formula to determine how many Alabamans will go to hell
The founder of the amusement park known as Stalin World
Featuring these endeavors and many more, "The Ig Nobel Prizes" is an entertaining exhibition of brains and determination.
Additional Book Description
The Nobel Prize recognizes the worlds most talented and innovative minds. Unfortunately, not all of the hopeful thinkers and academics around the globe can become Nobel laureates, but some are lucky enough to win the Ig Nobel Prize instead.
Drawn from the worlds wackiest actual research, "The Ig Nobel Prizes" demonstrates the extreme measures that people will take in the quest for knowledge, and pays tribute to those individuals whose achievements cannotor should notbe reproduced. Recent Ig Nobel honorees include:
The professor who proved that toast falls buttered side down more often than not
The Southern Baptist Church of Alabama which devised a formula to determine how many Alabamans will go to hell
The founder of the amusement park known as Stalin World
Featuring these endeavors and many more, "The Ig Nobel Prizes" is an entertaining exhibition of brains and determination.
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