Ig Nobel 2009 Prize winnners announced
The winners of this year's Ig Nobel Prize were announced on October 1, at a ceremony held at Harvard’s Sanders theater.
This photo, from the Associated Press, shows Public Health Prize winner Elena Bodnar demonstrating her invention — a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander. Nobel laureates Wolfgang Ketterle (center) and Orhan Pamuk (right) assist in the demonstration.
Other notable winners:
Veterinary Medicine Prize for showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless.
Peace Prize for determining — by experiment — whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.
Physics Prize for analytically determining why pregnant women don't tip over.
…and the best,
Chemistry Prize for creating diamonds from liquid — specifically from tequila.
