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Physics Prize - Gabor Horvath and colleagues, for discovering why white-haired horses are the most horsefly-proof horses, and for discovering why dragonflies are fatally attracted to black tombstones.
The Ig Nobel prizes are a parody of the Nobel prizes, awarded annually for ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. They are intended to celebrate science that makes people laugh, and then think.
The 2016 Ig Nobel prizes were awarded on September 22, 2016 at Harvard University.
The winners of the Ig Nobel prizes are chosen by a panel of past Ig Nobel laureates, Nobel laureates, and other distinguished scientists. They evaluate the nominations and select the winners based on their ability to make people laugh and think.
Some of the 2016 Ig Nobel prize-winning studies include a study on the personalities of rocks, a study on the effects of opera music on mice, and a study on the potential for human saliva to act as a cleaning agent for dirty surfaces.
While the Ig Nobel prizes are meant to be humorous, they also serve as a reminder that even the most seemingly ridiculous research can have value and contribute to our understanding of the world. Some past Ig Nobel winners have even gone on to win real Nobel prizes for their work.