"You must be a genius studying ununderstandable things and only use kilometer long terms to be a famous searcher!" if sombody ever tells you that, they are rong! Last septembre, in harvard, during the 22 annual Nobel Price award, the scientist studying the weirdest subjects got medalled, certificated and will stay for ever known as some Nobel price winners. What kind of subjects where they studying? How a dead salmon's brain works, what angle is the best to see the Eifell tower at its smallest, or how to stop an explosion from happening during a coloscopy. But not only were the scientists studying "special" subject, the ceremony was "special" too. The ceremony first started with an opera where they used a dress to represent the cosmos, then Robert Kushner inhailed helium and cut a real pie to explain the composition of the universe. And right before the Laureas received their trophy everybody stood up to throw paper planes through the room.
Here is the list of the prices:
List taken, translated and slightly changed from science et vie junior:
Price Psychology: Eerland, Zwaan and Guadalupe for their study "Leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem smaller.
Peace Prize: SKN the company to transform former Russian ammunition diamonds. Director Igor Petrov is also eager to distribute at the meeting candy.
Price of Acoustics: Kurihara and Tsukada, for the creation of SpeechJammer (the "jammer speech"), a device that can destabilize a person too talkative making him hear his own words with a slight delay.
Price of Neuroscience: Bennet, Baird, Miller and Wolford, for insisting shown that we can detect brain activity everywhere, even in a dead salmon.
Price of Chemistry: it is with the beard dyed green Johan Pettersson came to receive his award for demonstrating why some people in Anderslöv, Sweden, saw their hair color become grass.
Literature prize: the "Court of Auditors' American (the General Accountability Office), for writing a report on reports on reports that recommend the preparation of a report concerning the report on reports on reports ... Phew !
Price Physics: Keller, Godlstein, and Warren Ball, for their study of the movement of the hair in a ponytail.
Price of Fluid Mechanics: Krechetnikov and Mayer for why coffee cup that overflows into the hand while walking.
Price of Anatomy: De Waal and Pokorny, who showed that chimpanzees can identify conspecifics just looking after them.
Medicine Price: Ben-Soussan and Antonietti, whom studiesd how to reduce the risk of explosion during colonoscopic examination.
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