Ig Nobel Prize
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The Ig Nobel Prizes are an American parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October for ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. The stated aim of the prizes is to "first make people laugh, and then make them think". The awards are sometimes veiled criticism (or gentle satire). Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), they are presented by a group that includes Nobel Laureates at a ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theater, and they are followed by a set of public lectures by the winners at MIT.
The name is a play on the words ignoble ("characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness") and the Nobel Prize. The pronunciation used during the ceremony is Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell, not like the word "ignoble".
See also
- List of Ig Nobel Prize winners
- Pigasus Award
- Golden Raspberry Award – A similar award for movies.
- Darwin Awards – A similar award for enriching the human gene pool by idiotic self-destruction.
- Golden Fleece Award – A similar award for conspicuous waste of public money.
