"The aim of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes is to "honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The "Igs" as the prizes are informally known were founded as a satirical take on the Nobel Prizes. They are handed out every October at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, often by real Nobel laureates 7."
"The Nobel Prizes were originally established in the will of Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), a very wealthy Swedish weapons manufacturer. Nobel was predeceased by his older brother Ludwig. When Ludwig died, several of the newspapers erroneously published obituaries for Alfred instead. Nobel was displeased to find himself described as a man who made his fortune by coming up with innovative methods to injure and kill people 1. Nobel died in 1896, and his will stipulated for the foundation of prizes to be awarded annually for important discoveries in science."
"Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie (1903)"
"Marie Skłodowska Curie (1911)radium and polonium (Chemistry)"
"Frederic Joliot and Irene Joliot-Curie (1935)artificial radioactivity (Chemistry)"
"Ernest O Lawrence (1939) developed the cyclotron (Physics)"
"Otto Stern (1943)magnetic moment of the proton (Physics)"
"Hermann J Muller (1946)x-ray-induced genetic mutagenesis (Medicine or Physiology)"
"Edward Purcell and Felix Bloch (1952)NMR in condensed matter (Physics)"
"Andre F Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W Richards (1956) cardiac catheterisation (Medicine or Physiology)"
"Nicolaas Bloembergen (1981)NMR relaxation mechanisms (Physics)"
"Norman Ramsey (1989)"
"Richard R Ernst (1991)NMR Fourier spectroscopy (Chemistry)"
"Georges Charpak (1992)multiwire proportional chamber (Physics)"
"Edward Purcell and Felix Bloch (1952)NMR in condensed matter (Physics)"
"Nicolaas Bloembergen (1981)NMR relaxation mechanisms (Physics)"
"Richard R Ernst (1991)NMR Fourier spectroscopy (Chemistry)"
"The aim of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes is to "honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The "Igs" as the prizes are informally known were founded as a satirical take on the Nobel Prizes. They are handed out every October at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, often by real Nobel laureates 7."
"Indeed only two physicians appear in the above list: Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W Richards, for their co-development of cardiac catheterisation."
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"Nobel Prizes for contributions to radiology"
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