2019 搞笑诺贝尔奖 (Ig Nobel Prize)获奖资料整理

Announcing the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

The 2019 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded at the 29th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, on Thursday, September 12, 2019, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The ceremony was webcast.

The 2019 Ig Nobel Prize winners

MEDICINE PRIZE [ITALY, THE NETHERLANDS] 医学奖

Silvano Gallus, for collecting evidence that pizza might protect against illness and death, if the pizza is made and eaten in Italy.

⚫REFERENCE: “Does Pizza Protect Against Cancer?“, Silvano Gallus, Cristina Bosetti, Eva Negri, Renato Talamini, Maurizio Montella, Ettore Conti, Silvia Franceschi, and Carlo La

Vecchia, International Journal of Cancer, vol. 107, no. 2, November 1, 2003, pp. 283-284.

⚫REFERENCE: “Pizza and Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction,” Silvano Gallus, A. Tavani, and

C. La Vecchia, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 58, no. 11, November 2004, pp.

1543-1546.

⚫REFERENCE: “Pizza Consumption and the Risk of Breast, Ovarian and Prostate Cancer,”

Silvano Gallus, Renato Talamini, Cristina Bosetti, Eva Negri, Maurizio Montella, Silvia

Franceschi, Attilio Giacosa, and Carlo La Vecchia, European Journal of Cancer Prevention, vol.

15, no. 1, February 2006, pp. 74-76.

WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Sylvano Gallus.

MEDICAL EDUCATION PRIZE [USA] 医学教育奖

Karen Pryor and Theresa McKeon, for using a simple animal-training technique— called “clicker training” —to train surgeons to perform orthopedic surgery.

⚫REFERENCE: “Is Teaching Simple Surgical Skills Using an Operant Learning Program More Effective Than Teaching by Demonstration,” I. Martin Levy, Karen W. Pryor, and Theresa R.

McKeon, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, vol. 474, no. 4, April 2016, pp. 945–955. BIOLOGY PRIZE [SINGAPORE, CHINA, AUSTRALIA, POLAND, USA, BULGARIA] 生物学奖

Ling-Jun Kong, Herbert Crepaz, Agnieszka Górecka, Aleksandra Urbanek, Rainer Dumke,

and Tomasz Paterek, for discovering that dead magnetized cockroaches behave differently than living magnetized cockroaches.

⚫REFERENCE: “In-Vivo Biomagnetic Characterisation of the American Cockroach,” Ling-Jun Kong, Herbert Crepaz, Agnieszka Górecka, Aleksandra Urbanek, Rainer Dumke, Tomasz

Paterek, Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 1, 2018: 5140.

WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Tomasz Paterek, Herbert Crepaz, Rainer Dumke.

ANATOMY PRIZE [FRANCE] 解剖学奖

Roger Mieusset and Bourras Bengoudifa, for measuring scrotal temperature asymmetry in naked and clothed postmen in France.

⚫REFERENCE: “Thermal Asymmetry of the Human Scrotum,” Bourras Bengoudifa and Roger Mieusset, Human Reproduction, vol. 22, no. 8, 2007, pp. 2178-2182.

CHEMISTRY PRIZE [JAPAN] 化学奖

Shigeru Watanabe, Mineko Ohnishi, Kaori Imai, Eiji Kawano, and Seiji Igarashi, for estimating the total saliva volume produced per day by a typical five-year-old child

⚫REFERENCE: “Estimation of the Total Saliva Volume Produced Per Day in Five-Year-Old Children,” Shigeru Watanabe, M. Ohnishi, K. Imai, E. Kawano, and S. Igarashi,Archives of Oral Biology, vol. 40, no. 8, August 1995, pp. 781-782.

WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Shiguru Watanabe [and his adult sons, who were some of the subjects of the study when they were children 35 years ago]

ENGINEERING PRIZE [IRAN] 工程学奖

Iman Farahbakhsh, for inventing a diaper-changing machine for use on human infants.

⚫REFERENCE: “Infant Washer and Diaper-Changer Apparatus and Method,” US patent 10034582, granted to Iman Farahbakhsh, July 31, 2018.