The document discusses the differences and connections between the Nobel Prize and the Ig Nobel Prize. It provides background on the origins of the Nobel Prize from Alfred Nobel's will and the origins of the Ig Nobel Prize from a goal of making people laugh and then think. It summarizes several notable Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and some examples of Ig Nobel Prizes related to chemistry that were given for discoveries intended to first make people laugh.
3. NP AND IG-NP Honoring men and women from all corners of the globe for their achievements Research that makes people laugh and then think From 1991 From 1901 Stockholm (Sweden) Harvard University (MA, USA) Diploma and medal Over USD 1 million ** Very awful prize… ** JEAN-PAUL SARTRE (France) declined NP of Literature in 1964
4. NP ORIGIN His last will “The capital shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.” “The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, [...] physics [...] chemical discovery [...] medicine [...] literature [...] and peace congresses.”
5. IG-NP ORIGIN Make people laugh, then think Spur people’s curiosity How do you decide what's important and what's not, and what's real and what's not ? "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but, 'That's funny..." —Isaac Asimov
6. IG-NP NOMINATION How to nominate someone marca@chem2.harvard.edu How the winners are chosen Board of Governors: scientists, writers, athletes+ random passerby Pool> 5000 each year refine Top 10 NO NO Finalist exists? True work? Finalist accepts? NO YES YES YES Congratulations!
10. First Nobel Prize Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff in 1901 “in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions”
18. The Curious Case ofAndre Geim “First make people laugh, and then make them think"
19. Some Chemistry Selected Cases 2008, Chemistry To Sharee A. Umpierre of the University of Puerto Rico, Joseph A. Hill of The Fertility Centers of New England (USA), Deborah J. Anderson of Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School (USA), for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide, and to Chuang-Ye Hong of Taipei Medical University (Taiwan), C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang (all of Taiwan) for discovering that it is not. 2010, Chemistry Eric Adams of MIT, Scott Socolofsky of Texas A&M University, Stephen Masutani of the University of Hawaii, and BP [British Petroleum], for disproving the old belief that oil and water don’t mix.
21. The Earth is Round!!! Some years ago!!! In the XV century!!!
22. Why Randomly-Selected Politicians Would Improve Democracy A small number of randomly selected legislators should make parliaments more effective!!! Let me think about it… …The research of the future?
23. The other side of the coin Sometimes people think that Nobel prizes are actually IG Nobel prizes! http://www.wirefresh.com/obamas-nobel-peace-prize-69-of-twitter-users-say-wtf/
24. The Ig Nobels: Honor or Ridicule? Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. —Dame Edna Everage
