Ig Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge

Sep 17, 2015

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Helen F. Ashdown (C) of University of Oxford accepts her team s 2015 Ig Nobel Prize in Diagnostic Medicine for their work in determining that acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed by the amount of pain evident when the patient is driven over speed bumps, at the awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 17, 2015. The prizes which are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative and spur people s interest in science, medicine, and technology. BOS2015091714 MATTHEWxHEALEY
Elisabeth Oberzaucher accepts her team s 2015 Ig Nobel Prize in Mathematics for her work in trying to use mathematical techniques to determine whether and you Moula Ismael the Bloodthirsty, the Shharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed during the years from 1697 through 1727, to father 888 children, at the awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 17, 2015. The prizes which are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative and spur people s interest in science, medicine, and technology. BOS2015091713 MATTHEWxHEALEY
Justin Schmidt gives a speech after accepting the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize in Physiology and Entomology for his work in creating the Schmidt Sting Pain Index which rates the relative pain people feel when stung by various insects at the awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 17, 2015. The prizes which are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative and spur people s interest in science, medicine, and technology. BOS2015091712 MATTHEWxHEALEY
Japanese inventor Yoshiro Nakamatsu, also known as Dr. NakaMats, sings a song during the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 17, 2015. The prizes which are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative and spur people s interest in science, medicine, and technology. BOS2015091711 MATTHEWxHEALEY
2007 Ig Nobel Prize winner Dan Meyer swallows a sword on stage during the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 17, 2015. The prizes which are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative and spur people s interest in science, medicine, and technology. BOS2015091709 MATTHEWxHEALEY
David Hu of Georgia Tech, accepts the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics from Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach (R) for testing the biological principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders in about 21 seconds (plus or minus 3 seconds) at the awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 17, 2015. The prizes which are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative and spur people s interest in science, medicine, and technology. BOS2015091703 MATTHEWxHEALEY
Bruno Grossi of the Universidad de chile, Santiago, demonstrates the research he and his team did to win the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize in Biology for observing that when you attach a weighted stick to the rear end of a chicken, the chicken then walks in a manner similar to that in which dinosaurs are thought to have walked, at the awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 17, 2015. The prizes which are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative and spur people s interest in science, medicine, and technology. BOS2015091705 MATTHEWxHEALEY
Gregory A. Weiss of UC Irvine, holds up two bags of smashed eggs while demonstrating 2015 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg at the awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 17, 2015. The prizes which are awarded by the Annals of Improbable Research are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative and spur people s interest in science, medicine, and technology. BOS2015091702 MATTHEWxHEALEY

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