2007 Ig Nobel Prize winners announced
{{date|October 5, 2007}}
[[Image:Peach.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The 2007 {{w|Ig Nobel Prize}} in aviation went to a team from an [[Argentina|Argentinian]] university, who discovered that impotency drugs can help {{w|hamsters}} recover from {{w|jet lag}}.]]

The winners of the 2007 {{w|Ig Nobel Prize}} have been announced. The awards, given out every early October since 1991 by the {{w|Annals of Improbable Research}}, are a parody of the [[Nobel Prize]], which are awards given out in several fields. The awards are given to achievements that, "first make people laugh, and then make them think." They were presented at [[Harvard University]]'s {{w|Sanders Theater}}.

Ten awards were been presented, each given to a different field. The winners were:

* '''Medicine''': Brian Witcombe, of Gloucestershire Royal NHS Foundation Trust, [[UK]], and Dan Meyer, who studied the health consequences of {{w|sword swallowing}}.

* '''Physics''': A team from the [[USA]] and [[Chile]], who made a study about how cloth sheets become wrinkled.

* '''Biology''': Dr Johanna van Bronswijk of the [[Netherlands]], for carrying out a census of creatures that live in people's beds.

* '''Chemistry''': Mayu Yamamoto, from [[Japan]], for creating a method of extracting vanilla fragrance and flavouring from cow dung.

* '''Linguistics''': A team from the {{w|University of Barcelona}}, who discovered that rats cannot tell the difference between Japanese and Dutch when spoken backwards.

* '''Literature''': Glenda Browne of Blue Mountains, [[Australia]], for her study on how the word "The" confuses people when they try to put things in alphabetical order.

* '''Peace''': The US Air Force Wright Laboratory for trying to develop a {{w|Gay bomb|"Gay bomb"}} that would turn enemy soldiers homosexual.

* '''Nutrition''': Brian Wansink of [[Cornell University]] for his investigation into the limits of the human appetite, by using a self-refilling "bottomless" bowl of soup.

* '''Economics''': Kuo Cheng Hsieh of [[Taiwan]], for patenting a machine that catches bank robbers by dropping a net on top of them.

* '''Aviation''': A team from the National University of {{w|Quilmes, Buenos Aires|Quilmes}}, [[Argentina]], for discovering that impotency drugs can help hamsters recover from {{w|jet lag}}.

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== Sources ==
*{{source|url=http://www.topnews.in/nri-scientist-wins-ig-nobel-prize-physics-22929
|title=NRI scientist wins Ig Nobel Prize in physics
|author=Mohit Joshi
|pub=TopNews.in
|date=October 5, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7026150.stm
|title='Gay bomb' scoops Ig Nobel award
|author=
|pub=BBC
|date=October 4, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2007/10/04/sciigno104.xml
|title=Sword swallowing study wins alternative Nobel prize
|author=Roger Highfield
|pub=Daily Telegraph
|date=October 4, 2007}}

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