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This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [ 1 ] A parody of the Nobel Prizes , the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".
The Ig Nobel Prize (/ ˌ ɪ ɡ n oʊ ˈ b ɛ l /) is a satirical prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think."
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George H. Goble is a staff member at the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network and a 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner. Goble is commonly known as "ghg" since he has used that as a login id, and signature in digital communications, since the 1970s. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University.
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The awards made him the first person to win, as an individual, both a Nobel Prize and an Ig Nobel Prize. [76] On winning both the prizes, he has stated that "Frankly, I value both my Ig Nobel prize and Nobel prize at the same level and for me Ig Nobel prize was the manifestation that I can take jokes, a little bit of self-deprecation always helps."
Overlap of that category with Nobel laureates is ... Roy Glauber afaik. :-) The usual role of Nobel laureates is to sign Ig certificates, shake hands with winners, and sit onstage until called upon to take part in one of the skits. Oh, and one of them gets to be the prize in the annual "Win a date with a Nobel Prize winner" contest.
The Press Your Luck scandal was contestant Michael Larson's 1984 record-breaking win of $110,237 (equivalent to $323,296 in 2023) on the American game show Press Your Luck. An Ohio man with a penchant for get-rich-quick schemes , Larson studied the game show and discovered that its ostensibly randomized game board was actually only five ...