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The Graduate Schools Present: ‘Ig Nobel Awards Tour Show’
“The Ig Nobel awards are arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar.”- Nature
The Ig Nobel Prizes honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology. For full details see http://improbable.com/
The Awards Tour Show, hosted by the Graduate Schools, returns to Imperial College London for the second successive year, as part of National Science & Engineering Week celebrations. The event is co-sponsored by The British Association for the Advancement of Science and by The Guardian.
The event will consist of the Tour Show from 18.00 – 19 .30 followed by an informal Reception from 19.30- 20.30. Your ticket also entitles you to one free drink at the reception.
The final line-up is yet to be confirmed, but the show will feature Marc Abrahams, organiser of the Ig Nobel Prizes, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research, and Guardian columnist, together with a gaggle of Ig Nobel Prize winners and other great scientists, musicians, and other thinkers. Most events in the UK tour will include a performance of a new mini-opera, and also The Great Inertia Debate. Each show will include a unique combination of these individuals:
- Bart Knols – Winner of 2006 Ig Nobel Biology Prize for showing that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet
- Howard Stapleton – Winner of the 2006 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for The Mosquito, an electromechanical teenager repellant — a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults
- Max Whitby and Fiona Barclay – Winners of the 2002 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize, in collaborated with Theo Gray, to assemble the world’s first periodic table table — a large, lovely, four-legged piece of furniture that contains all the elements of the periodic table
- Caroline Mills – Winner of the1998 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize for the medical study “A Man Who Pricked His Finger and Smelled Putrid for 5 Years”
Tickets are limited to two per person and can be obtained by emailing events@imperial.ac.uk