List of Ig Nobel Prize winners

This list introduces the Ig Nobel Prize winners and their excellent work.

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1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 •2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021

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1991

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
education	Dan Quayle	United States	Vice President of the United States , publicly accused of lacking linguistic and intellectual skills. The jury's reasoning was: "consumer of time and occupier of space, for demonstrating, better than anyone else, the need for science education."
biology	Robert Klark Graham	United States	for his establishment of the "Repository for Germinal Choice" (German analogous repository for germ choice ), a seed bank that only accepts donations from Nobel Prize winners and Olympic participants .
chemistry	Jacques Benveniste	France	for his discovery that water is an intelligent liquid; and for the demonstration, which he found satisfactory, that water was able to remember events - long after all traces of these events had disappeared.
peace	Edward Teller	Hungary United States	Father of the hydrogen bomb and first proponent of the Star Wars weapon system , for his lifelong commitment to changing the meaning of the word " peace ".
literature	Erich von Däniken	Switzerland	visionary narrator and writer of memories of the future , for explaining how human civilization was influenced by astronauts from space (see pre-astronautics ).
medicine	Alan E. Kligerman	United States	Developers digestive-related redemption, rescuers in case of fumes and inventor of Beano for his pioneering work with anti-gas liquids flatulence , nausea and avoid annoyance.
business	Michael Milken	United States	Titan of Wall Street - and father of the junk bond to which the world owes a lot.
Prices for fictitious achievements by fictitious people who are no longer officially listed
Pedestrian technology	Paul DeFanti	(fictitious)	for the invention of the "bucky bonnet", a Buckminster fulleresque that pedestrians wear to protect their heads and keep their calm.
Interdisciplinary research	Josiah S. Carberry	United States (fictional)	fictitious professor at Brown University , "bold explorer and eclectic seeker of knowledge, for his pioneering work in the field of psycho-ceramics, the study of people with jump in the dish (English Crackpot )."
physics	Thomas Kyle ( pseudonym of William DeBuvitz)	United States (fictional)	Detector of atoms and original man of knowledge for his discovery of the most inert element in the universe, Administratium.

1992

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
archeology	Éclaireuses Éclaireurs de France	France	a French scout association whose local group damaged two prehistoric wall paintings in the Grotte de Mayrière supérieure near Bruniquel during an action against modern graffiti .
biology	Cecil Jacobson	United States	Relentlessly generous sperm donor and rich patriarch of the sperm banks for devising a simple, one-handed method of quality control.
chemistry	Ivette Bassa	United States	Designer of the colorful colloids , for her role in the crowning achievement of 20th century chemistry, the synthesis of light blue jelly .
nourishment	SPAM consumers	worldwide	courageous consumers of canned foods, for 54 years of undemanding digestion.
peace	Daryl Gates	United States	Former Los Angeles City Police Chief for his unique irresistible ways of bringing people together .
Arts	Jim Knowlton	United States	modern polymath , for his classic anatomy -Poster " penises of the animal kingdom"
	National Endowment for the Arts	United States	for encouraging Knowlton to add a pop-up book to his work.
literature	Yuri Struchkov	Russia	Tireless author from the Institute for Organic Compounds in Moscow , for the 948 scientific papers that he published from 1981 to 1990 - an average of one every 3.9 days.
medicine	Fujihiro Kanda, Eiichiro Yagi, Minoru Fukuda, Keisuke Nakajima, Tadao Ohta and Okitsugu Nakata	Japan	from the Shiseido Research Center in Yokohama , for her groundbreaking study, "Explanation of Chemical Compounds Responsible for Foot Odor ," especially for her summary that people who think they have foot odor have it and those who don't, not.
physics	David Chorley and Doug Bower	United Kingdom	Lions of deep energy physics, for their circular contributions to the field theory of the geometric destruction of English cornfields .
business	Lloyd's of London investors	United Kingdom	Heirs to 300 years of careful management for boldly attempting to insure disaster by refusing to take responsibility for the company's losses.

1993

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	Leslie P. Williams, Jr. and Kenneth W. Newell	United States	bold biological detectives, for their pioneering study Salmonella excretion in pigs on joyride .
chemistry	James Campbell and Gaines Campbell	United States	Dedicated fragrance liberators for inventing the scent strips, a method by which perfume is distributed in magazines.
peace	The Pepsi-Cola Company of the Philippines	Philippines	for promoting a millionaire contest and announcing the wrong winning number, inspiring and uniting 800,000 rampant and expectant winners and bringing together many different parties for the first time in the country's history.
literature	Eric Topol, Robert M. Califf, Frans Van de Werf, Paul W. Armstrong and their 972 co-authors	Australia Belgium Germany France Ireland Israel Canada Luxembourg New Zealand Netherlands Poland Switzerland Spain United Kingdom United States	for publishing a medical research paper that has a hundred times more authors than pages.
mathematics	Robert W. Faid	United States	Far-sighted and reliable prophet of statistics, for calculating the exact probability (710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1) that Mikhail Gorbachev is the Antichrist .
medicine	James F. Nolan, Thomas J. Stillwell, and John P. Sands, Jr.	United States	medical men of mercy, for their careful research report, Acute Management in zippers jammed penis .
physics	Corentin Louis Kervran	France	passionate admirer of alchemy , for his conclusion that calcium in chicken egg shells can be produced by cold fusion .
psychology	John E. Mack and David M. Jacobs	United States	for her conclusion that people who believe they were abducted by aliens probably were - and especially for her conclusion that "the main reason for abduction is the production of children".
Consumer technology	Ron Popeil	United States	Tireless inventor and diligent late night television salesman for redefining the Industrial Revolution with devices such as the Veg-O-Matic, Pocket Fisherman, Mr. Microphone and the Inside-the-Shell Egg Scrambler.
Visionary technology	Jay Schiffman	United States	Inventor of AutoVision, an image projection device that makes it possible to drive a car and watch TV at the same time, and the Michigan State Legislature, which legalized the same.
business	Ravi Batra	India United States	Refined scholar and best-selling author of The Great Depression of 1990 and Survival of the Great Depression of 1990 , for selling enough copies of his book to avoid global retail economic collapse.

1994

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	W. Brian Sweeney, Brian Krafte-Jacobs, Jeffrey W. Britton, and Wayne Hansen		for her seminal study The Constipated Soldier: Prevalence Among US Forces Abroad ; and especially for the numerical analysis of the frequency of movement of their intestines.
chemistry	Bob Glasgow	United States	Senator from Texas for introducing an anti-drug manufacturing bill in 1989 that requires approval for all purchases of beakers, flasks, test tubes, and other laboratory glassware.
peace	John Hagelin		from Maharishi University of Management , Fairfield, USA, and the Institute for Science, Technology, and the Public, both proponents of peaceful thought, for their experimental estimates that 4,000 trained meditators would reduce violent crime in Washington, DC by 18 percent.
Entomology	Robert A. Lopez		from Westport, New York, veterinarian and friend of all creatures, large and small, for his experiments on removing ear mites from cats, introducing them into his own ear, and then observing the results.
literature	L. Ron Hubbard	United States	Author of science fiction novels and founding father of Scientology , for the book called Dianetics , which brings humanity (or part of it) very large profits.
mathematics	Southern Baptist Church of Alabama	United States	To the very meticulous church for their effort to calculate for each district of the state what percentage of people will go to hell if they should not atone for their sins.
medicine	Patient X		former member of the US Marine Corps , honorable victim of a bite from his rattlesnake , for his novel treatment of attaching ignition cables to his lips and running the car engine at 3000 rpm for five minutes.
	Richard A. Gustafson		the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, for his well-grounded work called failure of the electric shock treatment in the event of Rattlesnake bisses .
psychology	Lee Kuan Yew	Singapore	Former Prime Minister of Singapore , advocate of the psychology of negative reinforcement , for his thirty-year study of the effects of punishing three million citizens for spitting, chewing gum or feeding pigeons.
business	Juan Pablo Davila	Chile	from Chile , tireless trader of financial products and former employee of the state-owned Codelco Company , because he has brought his computer to securities to buy if he should sell them, and for trying to compensate for the losses incurred, while still increasing the computer-based transactions . He lost 0.5 percent of the gross domestic product of Chile by hand.
Price for spurious services, no longer officially listed
physics	The Japanese Meteorological Agency		for her seven-year study of whether earthquakes are caused by catfish wiggling their tails. (The winner is no longer officially listed as their win is based on what turned out to be an erroneous press release.)

1995

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
chemistry	Bijan Pakzad		from Beverly Hills for the creation of a DNS - colognes and perfumes of a DNS - both containing no deoxyribonucleic acid - but both in a triple helix bottle ( sic sold!).
nourishment	John Martinez	United States	J. Martinez & Co. of Atlanta, Georgia, for the development of Kopi Luwak - the world's most expensive coffee - made from coffee beans previously eaten and excreted by spotted musangs ( crawling cats ).
peace	The Taiwanese National Parliament	Taiwan	for demonstrating that politicians win more by boxing, beating and beating each other than by waging wars against other nations.
literature	David B. Busch and James R. Starling		from Madison, Wisconsin for their haunting report, Foreign Bodies in the Rectum : Case Studies and Comprehensive Review of the Worldwide Literature . The appendix mentions, among other things: Seven lightbulbs; a knife sharpening stone; two flashing lights; a wire spring; a tobacco box; an oil can with a potato peeler; eleven different forms of fruits, vegetables and other foods; a jeweler's saw; a frozen pork tail, a pewter mug, a beer glass and also a patient's remarkable collection which consisted of glasses, a key, a tobacco pouch and a magazine.
medicine	Marcia E. Buebel, David S. Shannahoff-Khalsa, and Michael R. Boyle		for their invigorating study called The Effects of Forced Unilateral Nasal Breathing on Consciousness .
Public health	Martha Kold Bakkevig and Ruth Nielsen	Denmark Norway	for their exhaustive study entitled Influence of wet underwear on thermoregulation and thermal comfort in the cold .
physics	Dominique MR Georget, R. Parker, and Andrew C. Smith		from the Institute of Food Research in Norwich (England) for their rigorous analysis of moist breakfast cereals, published in its report called A study of the effects of water content on the compression behavior of breakfast cereal flakes .
psychology	Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto and Masumi Wakita		from Keiō University for their success in training pigeons so that they can distinguish between the paintings of Picasso and Monet .
business	Nick Leeson and his manager at Barings Bank		for their use of derivatives to clearly demonstrate that every financial institution has its limits . The English-language original alludes to mathematics: "... for using the calculus of derivatives to demonstrate ...", German: "for the use of the analysis of derivatives "; also “limits”.
	Robert Citron	United States
Dentistry	Robert H. Beaumont		from Shoreview, Minnesota, for his dramatic study. Do Patients Prefer Waxed or Unwaxed Floss ?

1996

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biodiversity	Chonosuke Okamura		from the Okamura Fossil Laboratory in Nagoya for discovering the fossils of dinosaurs , horses , dragons , princesses and over a thousand other extinct "mini-species", all of which are only a few millimeters in size.
biology	Not so Barheim and Hogne Sandvik		from the University of Bergen for their tasty report Effects of ale , garlic and sour cream on the appetite of leeches .
chemistry	George Goble		from Purdue University for his world record time lighting a grill - three seconds using charcoal and liquid oxygen .
peace	Jacques Chirac	France	who carried out nuclear tests to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima in the Pacific .
Arts	Don Featherstone		from Fitchburg, Massachusetts , for his ornamental, evolutionary invention of the pink garden flamingo .
literature	The editing of Social Text		for eagerly publishing research they did not understand , which the author labeled meaningless, and which claimed that reality did not exist.
medicine	James Johnston of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company , Joseph Taddeo of US Tobacco, Andrew Tisch of Lorillard , William Campbell of Philip Morris , Edward A. Horrigan of Liggett Group, Donald S. Johnston of American Tobacco , and Thomas E. Sandefur, Jr ., late Chairman of the Board of Directors of Brown and Williamson Tobacco		for their discovery, presented to the US Congress, that nicotine is not addictive.
Public health	Ellen Kleist and Harald Moi	Greenland Norway	for their cautionary medical report gonorrhea transmission by rubber dolls .
physics	Robert Matthews		from Aston University in Birmingham for his studies of Murphy's Law , particularly for showing that slices of toast have an inherent tendency to fall on the buttered side.
business	Robert J. Genco		from the University at Buffalo for discovering that financial problems are a risk factor for periodontal disease .

1997

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
astronomy	Richard C. Hoagland	United States	from New Jersey for identifying man-made structures on the Moon and Mars , including a human face on Mars and ten miles tall buildings on the Moon.
biology	T. Yagyu and his colleagues from the University Hospital Zurich , from the Kansai Medical University in Osaka and from Neuroscience Technology Research in Prague	Japan Switzerland Czech Republic	for measuring the brainwaves of their subjects while they chewed different flavors of gum .
peace	Harold Hillman	United Kingdom	from the University of Surrey "Possible pain during different for its lovingly assembled and ultimately peaceful study of execution " (The Possible Pain Experienced During Execution by Different Methods) .
Entomology	Mark Hostetler	United States	from the University of Florida for his educational book That Gunk on Your Car , which helps identify various types of insect debris on windshields.
communication	Sanford Wallace	United States	President of Cyber ​​Promotions in Philadelphia - rain, snow, and darkness could not stop this self-styled mailman from delivering his electronic sales letters around the world.
literature	Doron Witztum , Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg from Israel and Michael Drosnin from the USA	Israel United States	for her hair-splitting statistical discovery that the Bible contains a secret, hidden code .
medicine	Carl J. Charnetski and Francis X. Brennan, Jr. of Wilkes University and James F. Harrison of Muzak Ltd. in Seattle	United States	for their discovery that listening to elevator music stimulates the production of immunoglobulin A (IgA) and thus possibly prevents colds .
meteorology	Bernard Vonnegut	United States	from the University at Albany for his revealing report, "Chicken Plucking as a Measure of Wind Speed ​​in Tornadoes ."
physics	John Bockris	South Africa United States	from Texas A&M University for his extensive work in the research areas of cold fusion , gold synthesis and the electrochemical ignition of household waste .
business	Akihiro Yokoi from Wiz in Chiba and Aki Maita from Bandai in Tokyo	Japan	Father and Mother of Tamagotchi , for redirecting millions of hours of work into caring for virtual pets.

1998

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
education	Dolores warrior	United States	Professor Emeritus at New York University for her demonstration of the benefits of therapeutic touch , a method by which nurses manipulate their patients' energy fields by carefully avoiding all contact with them.
biology	Peter Fong	United States	from Gettysburg College for contributing to the joy of life in mussels by giving them antidepressants .
chemistry	Jacques Benveniste	France	for his homeopathic discovery that water not only has a memory, but that this information can be transmitted via telephone lines or the Internet (see also Benveniste's honor 1991).
peace	The Prime Ministers of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee , and Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif	India Pakistan	for their militant peaceful nuclear explosions .
literature	Mara Sidoli	United States	of Washington, DC for her enlightening report " Farts As Defense Against Unspeakable Fear."
medicine	Patient Y and his doctors, Caroline Mills, Meirion Llewelyn, David Kelly and Peter Holt of the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport , Wales	United Kingdom	for her cautionary medical report, "A man who stabbed his finger and stank foul for five years".
physics	Deepak Chopra	India United States	from the Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla for its unique interpretation of quantum physics and its effects on life, freedom and economic success.
Security technology	Troy hurtubise	Canada	from North Bay, Ontario for developing and testing (self-testing) armor that can withstand grizzly bears .
statistics	Jerald Bain from Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto and Kerry Siminoski from the University of Alberta	Canada	for their moderate report "The relationship between body size , penis length and shoe size ".
business	Richard Seed	United States	from Chicago for his efforts to fuel the world economy by cloning himself and others.

1999

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
Apparatus medicine	George and Charlotte Blonsky from New York City and San Jose	United States	for the invention of an obstetrical device (US Patent # 3,216,423) in which the woman is strapped to a round table which then rotates at high speed .
education	Education committees of the US states of Kansas and Colorado	United States	for its policy that students of the Darwinian theory of evolution should not pay more than the faith Newtonian gravitational theory , the theory of electromagnetism of Faraday and Maxwell or Pasteur's theory that germs cause disease.
biology	Paul Bosland	United States	Director of the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University for the breeding of a jalapeño chili without spiciness .
chemistry	Takeshi Makino, President of The Safety Detective Agency in Osaka	Japan	for contributing to the development of S-Check, an infidelity detection spray that wives can use on their partners' underwear.
peace	Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong	South Africa	from Johannesburg for the invention of an alarm system for cars, consisting of a detection circuit and a flame thrower .
literature	British Standards Institution	United Kingdom	for their six-page standard BS-6008 on how to brew a cup of tea correctly .
medicine	Arvid Vatle	Norway	from Stord for carefully collecting, classifying and considering the containers in which his patients gave urine samples to him.
physics	Len Fisher	United Kingdom of Australia	from Bath and Sydney for figuring out the optimal way to dip a biscuit and
	Professor Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck from the University of East Anglia (England) from Belgium and Joseph B. Keller from the USA	United Kingdom Belgium United States	for calculating a teapot whose spout does not drip.
sociology	Steve Penfold	Canada	from York University in Toronto for a thesis on the sociology of Canadian donut shops.
environmental Protection	Hyuk-ho Kwon	South Korea	from the Kolon company in Seoul for the invention of the self-perfuming street suit.

2000

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	Richard water suction		from Dalhousie University, for his firsthand report, "On the comparable palatability of some dry-season tadpoles in Costa Rica ."
chemistry	Donatella Marazziti, Alessandra Rossi and Giovanni B. Cassano from the University of Pisa , Italy, and Hagop S. Akiskal from the University of California, San Diego	Italy United States	for her discovery that romantic love is biochemically indistinguishable from obsessive-compulsive disorder .
peace	The British Royal Navy	United Kingdom	for ordering their soldiers to stop using live ammunition , just shouting “Bang!” instead.
Bless you	Jonathan Wyatt, Gordon McNaughton and William Tullet from Glasgow	United Kingdom	for her alarming report, "The Breakdown of Toilets in Glasgow."
Computer science	Chris Niswander	United States	of Tucson , Arizona, for inventing PawSense, software that detects when a cat walks over the keyboard .
literature	Jasmuheen (formerly Ellen Greve)	Australia	Inventor of light fasting for her book Living on Light, which explains that some people eat food that they don't need to eat.
medicine	Willibrord Weijmar Schultz, Pek van Andel and Eduard Mooyaart from Groningen , Netherlands and Ida Sabelis from Amsterdam	Netherlands	for their dazzling report " Magnetic resonance tomography of male and female genitals during coitus and female sexual arousal."
physics	Andre Geim from Radboud University Nijmegen , Netherlands, and Michael Berry from University of Bristol , England		for using a magnet to make a frog levitate.
psychology	David Dunning from Cornell University and Justin Kruger from the University of Illinois		for the study “Uneducated and unaware of it. How difficulties in noticing one's own incompetence lead to excessive self-assessment . "( Dunning-Kruger effect )
business	Reverend Sun Myung Moon		for promoting the efficiency and steady growth of the mass wedding industry, with, according to one report, a 36-fold marriage in 1960, a 430-fold marriage in 1968, an 1,800-fold marriage in 1975, a 6,000-fold marriage in 1982, a 30,000-fold wedding in 1992, a 360,000-fold wedding in 1995 and a 36,000,000-fold wedding in 1997.

2001

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
astrophysics	Jack and Rexella Van Impe		of Jack Van Impe Ministries, Rochester Hills , Michigan , for discovering that black holes are all the prerequisites to be the place of Hell .
biology	Buck Weimer		from Pueblo (Colorado) for the invention of Under-Ease , an airtight underwear with a replaceable activated carbon filter that removes unpleasant odors before they can escape.
peace	Viliumas Malinauskas		from Druskininkai ( Lithuania ), for the establishment of an amusement park called " Stalin World ".
Bless you	Chittaranjan Andrade and BS Srihari		from the National Institute of Mental Diseases and Neuroscience in Bengaluru for their discovery that nose picking is common among adolescents.
literature	John Richards		from Boston, England , founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society, for his efforts to protect, promote and defend the difference between plural and genitive (in English).
medicine	Peter Barss		from McGill University for its "Injuries From Falling Coconuts " report .
physics	David Schmidt		from the University of Massachusetts for partial solution to why shower curtains roll inward.
psychology	Lawrence W. Sherman		from Miami University ( Ohio ) for his influential research report "An environmental study of Schadenfreude among small groups of preschoolers."
technology	John Keogh from Hawthorn, Victoria (Australia)	Australia	in equal parts for registering the wheel for a patent in 2001 and
	the Australian Patent Office	Australia	which issued him patent # 2001100012.
business	Joel Slemrod from Michigan Business School and Wojciech Kopczuk from the University of British Columbia		for her conclusion that people postpone their deaths if this reduces inheritance tax .

2002

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	Norma E. Bubier, Charles GM Paxton, Phil Bowers, and D. Charles Deeming	United Kingdom	for their report, The Ostrich's Courtship Behavior to People in Rural Conditions in the UK.
chemistry	Theodore Gray		from the Wolfram Research Laboratory in Champaign (Illinois) , for the collection of many elements of the periodic table and the construction of a "four-legged" periodic table table.
peace	Keita Sato, President of Takara Co., Matsumi Suzuki, President of Japan Acoustic Lab and Norio Kogure, Executive Director of Kogure Veterinary Hospital		for her commitment to peace and harmony between species through the development of the Bow-Lingual language , a computer-based translation aid for the dog's language.
hygiene	Eduardo Segura	Spain	from Tarragona in Catalonia ( Spain ) for the development of a washing machine for dogs and cats.
Interdisciplinary research	Karl Kruszelnicki		from the University of Sydney for its comprehensive study of navel lint .
literature	Vicki L. Silvers from the University of Nevada; Reno and David S. Kreiner from Central Missouri State University		for their colorful report of existing The effects of improper text markers on the reading comprehension (The Effects of Pre-Existing Inappropriate Highlighting on Reading Comprehension).
mathematics	KP Sreekumar and G. Nirmalan		from the Kerala Agricultural University in India for their analytical presentation of assessments of the total surface area of Indian elephants .
medicine	Chris McManus		from the University of London for his balanced report on testicular asymmetry in humans and ancient sculpture .
physics	Arnd Leike	Germany	from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich for demonstrating that beer foam is subject to the laws of exponential decay .
business	The executors, corporate directors and auditors from Enron , Lernout & Hauspie ( Belgium ), Adelphia, Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) ( Pakistan ), Cendant, CMS Energy, Duke Energy , Dynegy , Gazprom , Global Crossing , HIH Insurance ( Australia ), Informix , Kmart , Maxwell Communications, McKessonHBOC, Merrill Lynch , Merck & Co. , Peregrine Systems, Qwest Communications , Reliant Resources, Rent-Way, Rite Aid , Sunbeam Products, Tyco International , Waste Management, MCI Worldcom , Xerox and Arthur Andersen	Belgium United States Pakistan Russia Bermuda Australia United Kingdom Ireland	for the use of imaginary numbers in the business world.

2003

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	CW Moeliker	Netherlands	from the Natural History Museum Rotterdam , for the first scientifically documented case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
chemistry	Yukio Hirose	Japan	from Kanazawa University for researching a statue in downtown Kanazawa and, based on the results, developing a bronze alloy that discourages pigeons due to its high arsenic content .
peace	Lal Bihari	India	from Uttar Pradesh ( India ) for a triple achievement. 1. For the fact that he lived actively, although he was officially declared dead, 2. For his lively and posthumous campaign against bureaucratic indolence and greed of relatives and 3. for the establishment of the Mritak Sangh (Association for Dead People).
engineering	John Paul Stapp , Edward A. Murphy, and George Nichols		for the development of Murphy's law : If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, someone will do it (in German: " If there are two or more ways to do something , and one of the paths leads to a catastrophe, then someone will take exactly that path. ”Often this is also translated as:“ If anything can go wrong, it will. ”).
Interdisciplinary research	Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson and Magnus Enquist		from Stockholm University for their report Chickens prefer beautiful people.
literature	John Trinkaus from the Zicklin School of Business, New York		for the collection and publication of more than 80 disorders and anomalies in daily life. As examples, he published the percentage of teenagers who put their baseball caps on the wrong way round, what percentage of swimmers at the wrong end of the pool swim their curves and what percentage of motorists do not quite stop at a certain stop sign.
medicine	Eleanor Maguire , David Gadian, Ingrid Johnsrude, Catriona Good, John Ashburner, Richard Frackowiak and Christopher Frith		from London for providing evidence that the brains of London taxi drivers are better developed than those of their roommates.
physics	Jack Harvey, John Culvenor, Warren Payne, Steve Cowley, Michael Lawrance, David Stuart and Robyn Williams	Australia	for their incredible report, An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag sheep across various surfaces.
psychology	Gian Vittorio Caprara and Claudio Barbaranelli from La Sapienza University , Rome , and Philip Zimbardo from Stanford University	Italy United States	for her report The Uniquely Simple Personality of Politicians.
business	Karl Schwärzler and the State of Liechtenstein	Liechtenstein	for making it possible to rent the whole country for events such as birthdays, weddings or bar mitzvahs .

2004

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	Ben Wilson from the University of British Columbia , Lawrence Dill from Simon Fraser University , Canada, Robert Batty from the Scottish Association for Marine Science, Magnus Whalberg from Aarhus University , Denmark, and Hakan Westerberg from Sweden's National Board of Fisheries		for showing that herring apparently communicate with one another by means of farts .
chemistry	Coca-Cola Company Great Britain		for the use of high technology to turn liquid from the Thames into a clear form of water that had to be removed from the market as a precaution because it contained bromates .
peace	Daisuke Inoue	Japan	from Hyogo Prefecture , Japan , for inventing karaoke , while creating an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate one another.
literature	American Nudist Research Library of Kissimmee, Florida	United States	for preserving the history of nudists so that everyone can see it.
medicine	Steven Stack from Wayne State University , Detroit, USA and James Gundlach from Auburn University , USA		for her report on the effects of country music on suicides.
Public health	Jillian Clarke		from the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, later Howard University, for experimentally refuting the 5-second rule, which states that you can still eat things that have not been on the floor for five seconds.
physics	Ramesh Balasubramaniam from the University of Ottawa and Michael Turvey from the University of Connecticut and the Haskins Laboratory		for explaining and researching the different factors involved in the hula hoop .
psychology	Daniel Simons from the University of Illinois and Christopher Chabris from Harvard University		for demonstrating that if people pay close attention, they can overlook almost anything - even a man in a gorilla costume .
technology	Donald J. Smith and his father, the late Frank J. Smith		for the patent for a technique that conceals a half-bald head in the event of hair loss with several strands , later referred to as comb-over .
business	Vatican		for outsourcing prayers to India .

2005

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	Benjamin Smith of the University of Adelaide and the University of Toronto and perfume manufacturers Firmenich , Geneva , and ChemComm Enterprises , Archamps (France); Craig Williams of James Cook University and the University of South Australia; Michael Tyler from the University of Adelaide; Brian Williams from the University of Adelaide; and Yoji Hayasaka from the Australian Wine Research Institute	Canada Switzerland France Australia	for studying the smells of 131 different frog species under stress.
chemistry	Edward Cussler from the University of Minnesota and Brian Gettelfinger from the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin – Madison		for a series of experiments to compare the human swimming speed in water and syrup .
nourishment	Nakamatsu Yoshirō	Japan	from Tokyo for the idea of ​​photographing and analyzing meals every day and carrying them out for 34 years now.
peace	Claire Rind and Peter Simmons	United Kingdom	from Newcastle University for the study of brain activity of locusts in the Star Wars -Betrachten.
Agricultural history	James Watson	New Zealand	from Massey University (New Zealand) for examining the significance of Mr. Richard Buckley's exploding pants .
literature	A group of Nigerian start-ups	Nigeria	for writing heartbreaking stories whose main characters only need a small amount to assert their claims to unbelievable riches, and distributing these stories via email .
medicine	Gregg A. Miller	United States	from Oak Grove, Missouri, for the invention of Neuticles (in German about "castrodes"), d. H. Prostheses for dog testicles in three sizes and three degrees of hardness.
physics	John Mainstone and Thomas Parnell		from the University of Queensland for the continuous observation of dripping tar since 1927 - one drop per nine years, nine drops so far, the last one fell in 2014.
Fluid mechanics	Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow from Jacobs University Bremen (formerly International University Bremen) and the University of Oulu ; and Jozsef Gal from Loránd Eötvös University , Hungary	Germany Finland Hungary	for the application of physical laws to calculate the pressure conditions in penguins who feces .
business	Gauri Nanda		from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for inventing a rolling and repeatedly self-hiding alarm clock . ( Clocky )

2006

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
Acoustics	D. Lynn Halpern of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Brandeis University and Northwestern University , Randolph Blake of Vanderbilt University and Northwestern University, and James Hillenbrand of Western Michigan University and Northwestern University		for experiments to elucidate the reasons why people do not like to hear the sound of fingernails scratching over blackboards .
biology	Bart Knols from Wageningen University , Netherlands and the National Institute for Medical Research in Ifakara , Tanzania and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, and Ruurd de Jong from Wageningen University and Santa Maria degli Angeli, Italy		for the proof that female mosquitoes ( Anopheles gambiae) which transmit malaria are attracted to Limburg cheese in the same way as to the smell of human feet.
chemistry	Antonio Mulet, José Javier Benedito and José Bon from the Polytechnic University of Valencia , Spain and Carmen Rosselló from the University of the Balearic Islands in Palma , Spain	Spain	for their study Speed ​​of Ultrasonic Waves in Cheddar Cheese under the Influence of Temperature.
nourishment	Wasmia Al-Houty from Kuwait University and Faten Al-Mussalam from the Kuwait Environment Public Authority		for proof that dung beetles are foodies.
peace	Howard Stapleton		of Merthyr Tydfil , Wales, for inventing a device that emits high-frequency tones that can only be heard by young people, not adults, and for later using this technology to generate telephone ring tones , also only used by young people, not their teachers be heard.
literature	Daniel Oppenheimer		from Princeton University for his report Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly on problems with unnecessarily using long words.
mathematics	Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes		by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, for calculating the number of photos that must be taken to ensure that (almost) nobody in a group has their eyes closed.
medicine	Francis M. Fesmire		from the University of Tennessee , College of Medicine, for its medical case report, Ending Untreatable Hiccups with Rectal Finger Massage, and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Olives of Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa , Israel , for their subsequent case report, which is under the same title appeared.
Ornithology	Ivan R. Schwab from the University of California, Davis and Philip RA May d. Ä. from the University of California, Los Angeles		for answering the important question why woodpeckers don't get headaches.
physics	Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch		from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris , for their insights into the phenomenon that when bent , dry spaghetti usually breaks into more than two pieces.

2007

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	Johanna van Bronswijk	Netherlands	for carrying out a census of all mites, insects, spiders, ferns and fungi that (so the title of the study) inhabit "our beds" ( for doing a census of all the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae , ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds each night. )
chemistry	Mayu Yamamoto	Japan	for developing a method for extracting vanilla scent from cow dung.
nourishment	Brian Wansink		from Cornell University for exploring the limits of human appetite by feeding volunteers with a self-refilling, bottomless soup bowl.
peace	Wright Laboratory of the US Air Force		because it had stimulated research into chemical weapons that would make opposing troops gay (see also Sex Bomb ).
linguistics	A team from the University of Barcelona		for demonstrating that rats are unable to distinguish a person who speaks Japanese backwards from a person who speaks Dutch backwards.
literature	Glenda Browne		from Blaxland ( Blue Mountains , Australia) for her study of the word " the " and how it confuses people to put things in alphabetical order.
aviation	A team from the University of Quilmes , Argentina		for discovering that Viagra is helping hamsters recover from jet lag .
medicine	Brian Witcombe of the Gloucestershire Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Dan Meyer		for their exploratory work on the health consequences of swallowing a saber .
physics	A US-Chilean team		which examined the problem of how sheets are wrinkled.
business	Kuo Cheng Hsieh	Taiwan	for the development of an apparatus which catches bank robbers by dropping a net over them.

2008

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
archeology	Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino		for their experimental evidence that armadillos can mess up archaeological sites.
biology	Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert and Michel Franc		for discovering that dog fleas jump higher than fleas that live on cats.
chemistry	Sheree Umpierre, Joseph Hill and Deborah Anderson		for her discovery that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide , and
	CY Hong, CC Shieh, P. Wu, and BN Chiang		for their proof that it isn't.
nourishment	Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence		for suggesting that potato chips appear fresher and crisper if they sound more appealing or louder when chewed.
peace	Swiss Ethics Commission on Biotechnology and the Citizens of Switzerland	Switzerland	for the development of a legal principle that says that plants have dignity .
Cognitive sciences	Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, Ryo Kobayashi, Atsushi Tero, Akio Ishiguro and Agota Toth		for pointing out that slime molds can cross a maze.
literature	David Sims		for his study: Du Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of Outrage in Organizations.
medicine	Dan Ariely	Israel United States	for demonstrating that expensive placebos work better than cheap ones.
physics	Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith		for their proof that piles of thread or hair get tangled one way or another.
business	Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan		because they showed that the tips of erotic dancers depend on the menstrual cycle and that they are highest when the dancer is most fertile.

2009

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu and Zhang Guanglei	Japan	from Kitasato University in Sagamihara (Japan) for demonstrating that the use of bacteria from the feces of giant pandas can reduce the mass of kitchen waste by more than 90%.
chemistry	Javier Morales, Miguel Apatiga and Victor M. Castano		of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) for the production of diamonds from liquids, especially from tequila.
peace	Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl		of the University of Bern (Switzerland) for the experimental investigation of the question of whether it is better to have a full or an empty beer bottle smashed on the head. The result: you get head trauma in both cases, but the full bottle is less serious for your health, as it breaks earlier.
Bless you	Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee and Sandra Marijan	United States	from Chicago (USA) for the development of a bra that can be converted into two breathing masks in an emergency so that they are always at hand.
literature	Irish Police	Ireland	for issuing more than 50 tickets for Mr. Prawo Jazdy, the country's biggest traffic offender, whose name is the Polish term for “driver's license”.
mathematics	Gideon Gono	Zimbabwe	Director of the Central Bank of Zimbabwe, for an "easy and everyday way" to practice using numbers from a wide range of numbers, by issuing notes from one cent ($ 0.01) to one hundred trillion Zimbabwean dollars ( $ 100,000,000,000).
medicine	Donald L. Unger	United States	from California (USA) for the investigation of whether daily finger-cracking for 60 years causes arthritis in the hand. For 60 years he regularly cracked the fingers of his left hand, but not his right hand. He didn't get arthritis in either hand.
physics	Katherine K. Whitcome from the University of Cincinnati , Daniel E. Lieberman from Harvard University, and Liza J. Shapiro from the University of Texas	United States	for the arithmetic reason why pregnant women do not tip over in front.
Veterinary medicine	Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson	United Kingdom	from Newcastle University (United Kingdom) for demonstrating that cows with individual names produce an average of 250 liters more milk per year than cows without names.
business	The management of the four Icelandic banks ( Kaupthing Bank , Landsbanki , Glitnir and Icelandic Central Bank )	Iceland	for their demonstration that small financial institutions can be converted into large financial institutions very quickly, that this process is reversible and that the same applies to entire economies.

2010

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	Libiao Zhang, Min Tan, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou and Shuyi Zhang from China and Gareth Jones from the University of Bristol (United Kingdom)		for the scientific documentation of oral sex in fruit bats .
chemistry	Eric Adams from MIT , Scott Socolofsky from Texas A&M University , Stephen Masutani from the University of Hawaii, and BP		for refuting the ancient belief that oil and water do not mix .
peace	Richard Stephens, John Atkins and Andrew Kingston		from Keele University (United Kingdom) for confirming the widespread belief that swearing relieves pain.
Bless you	Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews and Larry Taylor		from the Industrial Health and Safety Office, Fort Detrick , Maryland (USA) for experimental evidence that microbes cling to bearded scientists.
engineering	Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse and Agnes Rocha-Gosselin from the London Zoological Society (United Kingdom) and Diane Gendron from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional , Baja California Sur (Mexico)		for perfecting a method of collecting whale snot with the help of a remote-controlled helicopter .
management	Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda and Cesare Garofalo		from the University of Catania (Italy) for mathematically demonstrating that organizations would be more efficient if they promoted employees at random. See: Peter Principle .
medicine	Simon Rietveld		from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Ilja van Beest from the University of Tilburg (Netherlands) for discovering that asthma symptoms can be treated with a roller coaster ride.
Economy	The executives and directors of Goldman Sachs , AIG , Lehman Brothers , Bear Stearns , Merrill Lynch and Magnetar Capital		for creating and promoting new ways to invest money - ways to maximize financial return and minimize financial risk to the world economy or part of it.
physics	Lianne Parkin, Sheila Williams and Patricia Priest		from the University of Otago (New Zealand) for the demonstration that on icy footpaths in winter people are less likely to slip and fall if they wear socks over their shoes.
Transport planning	Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Atsushi Tero, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Ito, Kenji Yumiki, Ryo Kobayashi from Japan, as well as Dan Bebber and Mark Fricker from Great Britain		for using slime mold to determine the optimal route for railroad tracks.

2011

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	Daryll Gwynne and David Rentz		for the discovery that males of the species Julodimorpha bakewelli in Australia only want to mate with brown beer bottles. They consider them to be oversized females and do not let go of them until they drop dead.
chemistry	Makoto Imai, Naoki Urushihata, Hideki Tanemura, Yukinobu Tajima, Hideaki Goto, Koichiro Mizoguchi and Junichi Murakami	Japan	for determining the ideal density of wasabi (spicy horseradish) scent to wake up sleeping people in the event of a fire or other emergency situation, and for using this knowledge to develop the wasabi alarm.
peace	Artūras Zuokas	Lithuania	the Mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, for proving that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by rolling over them with tanks.
literature	John Perry	United States	from Stanford University for his "Structured Procrastination" theory, which states, "To be a high-flyer, always work on something important to avoid doing something that is more important."
mathematics	Dorothy Martin (USA) (she predicted the world would end in 1954), Pat Robertson (USA) (he predicted the world would end in 1982), Elizabeth Clare Prophet (USA) (she predicted the world would end in 1990), Lee Jang Rim from South Korea (he predicted the world would end in 1992), Credonia Mwerinde from Uganda (she predicted the world would end in 1999) and Harold Camping (USA) (he predicted the World would end on September 6, 1994, and later predicted the world would end on October 21, 2011)	United States South Korea Uganda	for teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations.
medicine	Mirjam Tuk, Debra Trampe and Luk Warlop and together Matthew Lewis, Peter Snyder, Robert Feldman, Robert Pietrzak, David Darby and Paul Maruff		for showing that people make better decisions about some kinds of things - but worse decisions about other things - when they have a strong urge to urinate.
public safety	John Senders	Canada	from the University of Toronto, Canada, for conducting a series of safety experiments in which a person is driving a car on a freeway with a visor dropping repeatedly on their face and blocking their view.
physics	Philippe Perrin, Cyril Perrot, Dominique Deviterne, Bruno Ragaru and Herman Kingma		for trying to find out why discus throwers get dizzy and hammer throwers don't, in their paper: "Dizziness in discus throwers is related to motion sickness caused by turning".
physiology	Anna Wilkinson, Natalie Sebanz, Isabella Mandl and Ludwig Huber	United Kingdom Austria United States	for their study at the University of Harvard "No evidence of contagious yawning in the red-footed giant tortoise Geochelone carbonaria".
psychology	Karl Halvor Teigen	Norway	from the University of Oslo, Norway, for trying to understand why people sigh in everyday life.

2012

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
Acoustics	Kazutaka Kurihara and Koji Tsukada	Japan	for the development of the SpeechJammer - a machine that silences people by playing their own spoken word to them with little delay.
anatomy	Frans de Waal and Jennifer Pokorny	Netherlands United States	for their proof that chimpanzees can recognize their conspecifics by photos of their rear end.
chemistry	Johan Pettersson	Sweden Rwanda	for solving the riddle of why people's hair turned green in certain houses in Anderslöv, Sweden.
peace	The Russian SKN Company	Russia	for turning old Russian ammunition into new diamonds.
literature	The US Government General Accountability Office	United States	for the publication of a report on reports on reports recommending the preparation of a report on reports on reports.
medicine	Emmanuel Ben-Soussan and Michel Antonietti	France	for their instructions on how to have a colonoscopy to reduce the likelihood of the patient bursting during the process.
Neuroscience	Craig Bennett, Abigail Baird, Michael Miller and George Wolford	United States	for their proof that brain researchers can use complicated instruments and simple statistics to demonstrate relevant brain function everywhere - even in dead salmon.
physics	Joseph B. Keller , Raymond Goldstein, Patrick Warren and Robin Ball	United States United Kingdom	for their calculation of the balance of forces that determine the shape and movement of a human ponytail .
psychology	Anita Eerland, Rolf Zwaan and Tulio Guadalupe	Netherlands Peru Russia	for their study "The Eiffel Tower looks smaller when you lean to the left."
Fluid mechanics	Rouslan Krechetnikov and Hans Mayer	United States Russia Canada	for their work on sloshing. They discovered what happens when someone walks with a cup of coffee in hand.

2013

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
archeology	Brian Crandall and Peter Stahl		the dead shrews boiled, swallowed without chewing and used their own excrement to prove which bones dissolve in the human digestive system and which do not.
Astronomy and biology	Marie Dacke, Emily Baird, Marcus Byrne, Clarke Scholtz and Eric Warrant		for an experiment that showed that stray dung beetles can orient themselves on the Milky Way on the way home.
chemistry	Shinsuke Imai, Nobuaki Tsuge, Muneaki Tomotake, Yoshiaki Nagatome, Toshiyuki Nagata and Hidehiko Kumgai		for their discovery that the biochemical processes that cause people to cry while chopping onions are even more complicated than science previously believed.
peace	Belarus and its President		for the ban on applauding in public and the Belarusian police who arrested a one-armed man for applauding in public.
medicine	Masateru Uchiyama, Xiangyuan Jin, Qi Zhang, Toshihito Hirai, Atsushi Amano, Hisashi Bashuda and Masanori Niimi		for their study measuring the effects of classical music on heart transplant mice.
Public health system	Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal and Henry Wilde		for the surgical techniques published in the paper “Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam”. They recommended various techniques - except for cases where the penis was partially eaten by a duck.
physics	Alberto Minetti, Yuri Ivanenko, Germana Cappellini, Nadia Dominici and Francesco Lacquaniti		for her discovery that some people could walk on water if they and the water were on the moon.
psychology	Laurent Bègue, Oulmann Zerhouni, Baptiste Subra, Medhi Ourabah and Brad Bushman		for an experiment that showed that people who believe they are drunk also believe they are attractive.
Security technology	Gustano Pizzo († 2006)		for his electromechanical system, with which the hijackers fall through a trapdoor into a box, which is then parachuted to the ground, where the police are supposed to wait.
Probability theory	Bert Tolkamp, ​​Marie Haskell, Fritha Langford, David Roberts and Colin Morgan		for their discovery that on the one hand the probability that a cow gets up increases with the time it has already been lying down, but on the other hand it is not easy to predict when it will lie down again

2014

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
Arctic research	Eigil Reimers, Sindre Eftestøl	Norway	for studying the reaction of reindeer to humans disguised as polar bears.
biology	Vlastimil Hart, Petra Nováková, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Vladimír Hanzal, Miloš Ježek, Tomáš Kušta, Veronika Němcová, Jana Adámková, Kateřina Benediktová, Jaroslav Červený and Hynek Burda		for their thorough demonstration that dogs prefer to orient themselves along the earth's magnetic field when urinating and defecating.
nourishment	Raquel Rubio, Anna Jofré, Belén Martín, Teresa Aymerich, Margarita Garriga		for their study entitled "Characterization of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Infant Faeces as Potential Probiotic Starter Cultures for Fermented Sausages." (“Characterization of lactic acid bacteria from the stool of infants as potential probiotic starter cultures for fermented sausage products”).
Arts	Marina de Tommaso, Michele Sardaro, Paolo Livrea		for measuring the sensation of pain while the subjects are looking at ugly (or beautiful) pictures and at the same time a powerful laser is pointed at the palm of their hand.
medicine	Ian Humphreys, Sonal Saraiya, Walter Belenky, James Dworkin		for her tamponade of insatiable nosebleeds with strips of cured pork.
Neuroscience	Jiangang Liu, Jun Li, Lu Feng, Ling Li, Jie Tian, ​​Kang Lee		for trying to understand what's going on in the brains of people who see the face of Jesus on a toast.
Public health system	Jaroslav Flegr, Jan Havlíček, Jitka Hanušova-Lindova, David Hanauer, Naren Ramakrishnan, Lisa Seyfried		for examining whether owning a cat is bad for the mind
physics	Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima, Rina Sakai		for measuring the friction between the sole of the shoe and the banana peel or between the banana peel and the floor when someone steps on a banana peel on the floor
psychology	Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones, Minna Lyons		for collecting evidence that people who stay up late are, on average, more conceited, more manipulative and more psychopathic than those who get up early
business	ISTAT	Italy	for demonstrating that Italy leads the way in meeting European targets for economic growth - when income from prostitution, drug trafficking, smuggling and illegal financial transactions are included.

2015

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	Bruno Grossi, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo A. Vasquez, Jose Iriarte-Diaz	Chile United States	for their observation that chickens walk in a manner similar to dinosaurs when a weighted stick is attached to their rump.
chemistry	Callum Ormond, Colin Raston, Tom Yuan, Stephan Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William A. Brown, Kaitlin Pugliese, Tivoli Olsen, Mariam Iftikhar and Gregory Weiss	Australia United States	for inventing a chemical recipe to partially decoil an egg. →  denaturation
Diagnostic medicine	Diallah Karim, Anthony Harnden, Nigel D'Souza, Andrew Huang, Abdel Kader Allouni, Helen Ashdown, Richard J. Stevens and Simon Kreckler	Canada United Kingdom New Zealand United States Bahrain Belgium United Arab Emirates India South Africa People's Republic of China Syria	can be diagnosed reliably for their evidence that acute appendicitis by the amount of pain felt by the patient, if it over a speed bump runs.
literature	Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira, and Nick J. Enfield	Netherlands United States Spain Belgium Canada Australia	for discovering that the word “huh?” (or its equivalent) appears to exist in any human language - and for not being sure why it is.
management	Gennaro Bernile, Vineet Bhagwat, P. Raghavendra Rau	Italy Singapore United States India France Luxembourg Germany Japan	for recognizing that many business leaders acquire risk-taking in their childhood when they experience natural disasters (such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and forest fires) that have no serious personal consequences for them.
mathematics	Elisabeth Oberzaucher , Karl Grammer	Austria Germany United Kingdom	for their attempt to use mathematical methods to find out whether and how Moulai Ismael, the bloodthirsty , the Sharif emperor of Morocco , had managed to father 888 children from 1697 to 1727.
medicine	Hajime Kimata, Jaroslava Durdiakova, Peter Celec, Natalia Kamodyova, Tatiana Sedlackova, Gabriela Repiska, Barbara Sviezena, Gabriel Minarik	Japan People's Republic of China Slovakia United States United Kingdom Germany	for experiments investigating the biomedical benefits and consequences of intense kissing (and other intimate interpersonal activities).
physics	Patricia Yang, David Hu, Jonathan Pham, Jerome Cho	United States Taiwan	for the investigation of the biological principle that almost all mammals empty their bladder within 21 seconds - plus / minus 13 seconds.
Physiology and Entomology	Justin O. Schmidt	United States Canada	for his laborious compilation of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index , which describes the relative pain after the sting of different insect species
	Michael L. Smith	Panama United States United Kingdom Netherlands	for his meticulous work with honey bees , in which he repeatedly had himself stabbed on 25 different parts of the body to find out which stabbed areas were least painful (head, tip of the middle toe, upper arm) and which were most painful (nostril, upper lip and penile shaft ).
business	Bangkok Metropolitan Police	Thailand	which offers their police officers additional compensation in the event that they refrain from accepting bribes .

2016

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	Charles Foster	United Kingdom	for its life in the wild as a badger, otter, deer, fox and bird at different times
	Thomas Thwaites	United Kingdom	for creating prosthetic extensions of his limbs that would allow him to move like goats and wander around with them on hills.
chemistry	Volkswagen	Germany	for solving the problem of excessive emissions from cars through automatic, electromechanical generation of lower emissions when the vehicles are tested.
Reproduction	Ahmed Shafik (†)	Egypt	for researching the effects of wearing polyester, cotton and wool pants on the love life of rats and conducting similar tests with men.
peace	Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek Koehler and Jonathan Fugelsang	Canada United States	for their scientific investigation "Perception and detection of pseudo-founded nonsense".
literature	Fredrik Sjöberg	Sweden	for his three-volume autobiographical work on the pleasure of collecting dead flies and those that are not yet dead.
medicine	Christoph Helmchen, Carina Palzer, Thomas Münte, Silke Anders and Andreas Sprenger	Germany	for discovering that itching on the left side of the body can be relieved by looking in a mirror and scratching the right side of the body (and vice versa).
Perception	Atsuki Higashiyama and Kohei Adachi	Japan	for researching whether things look different when you lean forward and watch them through your own legs.
physics	Gábor Horváth, Miklós Blahó, György Kriska, Ramón Hegedüs, Balázs Gerics, Róbert Farkas, Susanne Åkesson, Péter Malik and Hansruedi Wildermuth	Hungary Spain Sweden Switzerland	for discovering why white-haired horses are the most brake-resistant horses, and for discovering why dragonflies are fatally attracted to black tombstones.
psychology	Evelyne Debey, Maarten De Schryver, Gordon Logan, Kristina Suchotzki and Bruno Verschuere	Belgium Netherlands Germany Canada United States	for asking 1,000 liars how often they lie and deciding whether to believe their answers.
business	Mark Avis, Sarah Forbes and Shelagh Ferguson	New Zealand United Kingdom	for assessing the perceived personality of rock from a sales and marketing perspective.

2017

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
anatomy	James Heathcote	United Kingdom	for his medical study "Why do old men have big ears?"
biology	Kazunori Yoshizawa, Rodrigo Ferreira, Yoshitaka Kamimura and Charles Lienhard	Japan Brazil Switzerland	for her discovery of a female penis and a male vagina in a cave insect ( neotrogla )
nourishment	Fernanda Ito, Enrico Bernard and Rodrigo Torres	Brazil Canada Spain	for the first scientific investigation into the importance of human blood in the diet of the comb-tooth vampire
peace	Milo Puhan, Alex Suarez, Christian Lo Cascio, Alfred Zahn, Markus Heitz and Otto Brändli	Switzerland Canada Netherlands United States	for demonstrating that regular didgeridoo play is an effective treatment for obstructive sleep apnea and snoring
Obstetrics	Marisa López-Teijón, Álex García-Faura, Alberto Prats-Galino and Luis Pallarés Aniorte	Spain	for demonstrating that a growing human fetus reacts more strongly to music that is played electromechanically in the mother's vagina than when it is played over loudspeakers on the mother's stomach
medicine	Jean-Pierre Royet, David Meunier, Nicolas Torquet, Anne-Marie Mouly and Tao Jiang	France United Kingdom	for the application of functional magnetic resonance imaging to determine the extent of aversion that people feel for cheese
physics	Marc-Antoine Fardin	France Singapore United States	for the application of fluid mechanics to the study of whether a cat can be both a solid and a liquid
Fluid mechanics	Jiwon Han	South Korea United States	for his study of the dynamics of sloshing in a person moving backwards with a cup of coffee
perception	Matteo Martini, Ilaria Bufalari, Maria Antonietta Stazi and Salvatore Maria Aglioti	Italy Spain United Kingdom	for demonstrating that many identical twins cannot visually distinguish one another
business	Matthew Rockloff and Nancy Greer	Australia United States	for her experiments on how contact with a living crocodile affects willingness to gamble

2018

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
anthropology	Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc and Elainie Madsen	Sweden Romania Denmark Netherlands Germany United Kingdom Indonesia Italy	for proving that chimpanzees in the zoo imitate people just as often and just as well as vice versa.
biology	Paul Becher, Sebastien Lebreton, Erika Wallin, Erik Hedenstrom, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Marie Bengtsson, Volker Jörger and Peter Witzgall	Sweden Colombia Germany France Switzerland	for proof that wine connoisseurs can reliably smell a single fly in a wine glass.
chemistry	Paula Romão, Adília Alarcão and César Viana	Portugal	for measuring whether spit is suitable as a cleaning agent.
nourishment	James Cole	Zimbabwe Tanzania United Kingdom	for his calculation that a human cannibal diet contains significantly fewer calories than most traditional meat-based diets.
peace	Francisco Alonso, Cristina Esteban, Andrea Serge, Maria-Luisa Ballestar, Jaime Sanmartín, Constanza Calatayud and Beatriz Alamar	Spain Colombia	for measuring the frequency, motivation and effects of screaming and cursing while driving.
literature	Thea Blackler, Rafael Gomez, Vesna Popovic and M. Helen Thompson	Australia El Salvador United Kingdom	for proving that most people who use complicated products do not read the manual.
medicine	Marc Mitchell and David Wartinger	United States	for trying to speed up the passage of kidney stones by means of roller coaster rides.
Medical teaching	Akira Horiuchi	Japan	for his report "Colonoscopy while sitting: What can be learned from a self-colonoscopy."
Reproductive medicine	John Barry, Bruce Blank and Michel Boileau	United States Japan Saudi Arabia Egypt India Bangladesh	for the use of stamps as a test of whether the male sexual organ is still functioning properly: "Nocturnal Penile Tumescence Monitoring With Stamps."
business	Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, D. Lance Ferris, and Lisa Keeping	Canada People's Republic of China Singapore United States	for her investigation into whether the use of voodoo dolls is suitable to repay bosses for their maliciousness.

2019

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
anatomy	Roger Mieusset and Bourras Bengoudifa	France	for her detailed study of the measurement of scrotal temperature asymmetry in naked and clothed postmen in France.
biology	Ling-Jun Kong, Herbert Crepaz, Agnieszka Górecka, Aleksandra Urbanek, Rainer Dumke and Tomasz Paterek	Singapore People's Republic of China Australia Poland United States Bulgaria	for discovering that dead magnetized cockroaches behave differently than live magnetized cockroaches.
chemistry	Shigeru Watanabe, Mineko Ohnishi, Kaori Imai, Eiji Kawano and Seiji Igarashi	Japan	for estimating the amount of spit a typical five-year-old child produces per day.
peace	Ghada A. bin Saif, Alexandru Papoiu, Liliana Banari, Francis McGlone, Shawn G. Kwatra, Yiong-Huak Chan and Gil Yosipovitch	United Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Singapore United States	for trying to measure the feeling of well-being when scratching an itchy part of the body.
engineering	Iman Farahbakhsh	Iran	for the invention of a baby changing machine.
medicine	Silvano Gallus	Italy Netherlands	for gathering evidence that pizza protects against disease and death. Provided it is made and eaten in Italy.
Medical teaching	Karen Pryor and Theresa McKeon	United States	for the use of clicker training in the training of surgeons.
physics	Patricia Yang, Alexander Lee, Miles Chan, Alynn Martin, Ashley Edwards, Scott Carver, and David Hu	United States Taiwan Australia New Zealand Sweden United Kingdom	for research on how and why wombats drop cube-shaped feces.
psychology	Fritz Strack	Germany	for his discovery that holding a pencil between their teeth makes people smile and happier ( facial feedback hypothesis ) and that this effect does not occur when the pencil is held between their lips. And for repeat examinations that showed exactly the opposite (see replication crisis ).
business	Habip Gedik, Timothy A. Voss and Andreas Voss	Turkey Netherlands Germany	for a study of which paper money from which country is the best to spread dangerous bacteria.

2020

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
Acoustics	Stephan Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson, Tecumseh Fitch	Austria Sweden Japan United States Switzerland	for their experiment in which they made a female Chinese alligator roar in an airtight chamber containing air enriched with helium
psychology	Miranda Giacomin, Nicholas Rule	Canada United States	for developing a method of identifying narcissists by examining their eyebrows
peace	Governments of India and Pakistan	India Pakistan	for the reciprocal bells of their diplomats in the middle of the night
physics	Ivan Maksymov, Andriy Pototsky	Australia Ukraine France Italy Germany United Kingdom South Africa	for experimental evidence, which with the shape of a living earthworm happens when this high frequency oscillation added
business	Christopher Watkins, Juan David Leongómez, Jeanne Bovet, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz, Max Korbmacher, Marco Antônio Corrêa Varella, Ana Maria Fernandez, Danielle Wagstaff, Samuela Bolgan	United Kingdom Poland France Brazil Chile Colombia Australia Italy Norway	for trying to quantify the relationship between the national income inequality of different countries and the average number of mouth-to-mouth kisses
management	Xi Guang-An, Mo Tian-Xiang, Yang Kang-Sheng, Yang Guang-Sheng, Ling Xian-Si	People's Republic of China	the five contract killers , for the conclusion of a total of four subcontracts, each with withholding part of the fee, without actually carrying out the murder
entomology	Richard Vetter	United States	for collecting evidence that many entomologists (entomologist) afraid of spiders because they are not insects have
medicine	Nienke Vulink, Damiaan Denys, Arnoud van Loon	Netherlands Belgium	for diagnosing misophonia , a long-unrecognized medical condition that causes sick people to become distressed when hearing other people's chewing noises
Medical teaching	Jair Bolsonaro , Boris Johnson , Narendra Modi , Andrés Manuel López Obrador , Alexander Lukashenko , Donald Trump , Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , Vladimir Putin , Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow	Brazil United Kingdom India Mexico Belarus United States Turkey Russia Turkmenistan	for harnessing the COVID-19 pandemic to show the world that politicians can have a more immediate impact on life and death than scientists and doctors
Materials science	Metin Eren, Michelle Bebber, James Norris, Alyssa Perrone, Ashley Rutkoski, Michael Wilson, Mary Ann Raghanti	United States United Kingdom	for demonstrating that knives made from frozen human excrement do not work well.

2021

category	Award winners	country	Reason	image
biology	Susanne Schötz, Robert Eklund	Sweden	for her work on communication between cats and humans.
ecology	Leila Satari, Alba Guillén, Àngela Vidal-Verdú, Manuel Porcar	Spain Iran	for comparing the bacteriomas in the chewing gum stains on the streets of different countries.
chemistry	Jörg Wicker, Nicolas Krauter, Bettina Derstroff, Christof Stönner, Efstratios Bourtsoukidis, Achim Edtbauer, Jochen Wulf, Thomas Klüpfel, Stefan Kramer, Jonathan Williams	Germany United Kingdom New Zealand Greece Cyprus Austria	for examining the air in the cinema after the performance and trying to prove how much violence, sex , antisocial behavior, drug use and swearing was shown.
Economy	Pavlo Blavatskyy	France Switzerland Australia Austria Czech Republic United Kingdom	for discovering that the preponderance of politicians can serve as an indicator of corruption in the country.
medicine	Olcay Cem Bulut, Dare Oladokun, Burkard Lippert, Ralph Hohenberger	Germany Turkey United Kingdom	for her proof that an orgasm works just as well as nasal decongestants as nasal spray.
peace	Ethan Beseris, Steven Naleway, David Carrier	United States	for her test of the hypothesis that beards developed in humans because they protect those who wear them from being hit in the face.
physics	Alessandro Corbetta, Jasper Meeusen, Chung-min Lee, Roberto Benzi and Federico Toschi	Netherlands Italy Taiwan United States	for conducting experiments to find out why pedestrians don't constantly collide with other pedestrians.
kinetics	Hisashi Murakami, Claudio Feliciani, Yuta Nishiyama, Katsuhiro Nishinari	Japan Switzerland Italy	for conducting experiments to learn why pedestrians sometimes collide.
entomology	John Mulrennan, Jr., Roger Grothaus, Charles Hammond, Jay Lamdin	United States	for their work A New Method of Cockroach Control on Submarines .
transport	Robin Radcliffe, Mark Jago, Peter Morkel, Estelle Morkel, Pierre du Preez, Piet Beytell, Birgit Kotting, Bakker Manuel, Jan Hendrik du Preez, Michele Miller, Julia Felippe, Stephen Parry, Robin Gleed	Namibia South Africa Tanzania Zimbabwe Brazil United Kingdom United States	for the experimental determination of whether rhinos can be safely transported overhead.

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