The award in literature: the American Accountant General's Office for publishing a report about reports that recommend the preparation of reports about reports about reports about reports....
On September 20, 2012, the winners of the Ingoval Award for this year were announced. The ceremony is held as usual at Harvard University for studies that cannot or should not be repeated.
The prize in psychology: Anita Ireland and Roel Tswan of Holland and Tulio Guadalupe (Peru) for their research: "Leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower look smaller.
Ignoble Peace Prize: SKN Company from Russia for turning old Russian weapons into diamonds. Igor Petrov came to the ceremony
The prize in acoustics: Karzotaka Kirihara and Koji Tsukade Mipan for creating a speech mixer - a machine that interferes with people's speech by playing their own voice with a slight delay.
The prize in neuroscience: Craig Bennett, Abigail Bird, Michael Miller and George Walford (USA) for demonstrating that neuroscientists, through the use of complicated equipment and simple statistics, can find meaning in brain activity in anything, even in dead salmon. Everyone came to the ceremony.
The prize in chemistry - Johan Patterson (Sweden/Rwanda) for solving the riddle of why people's hair turns green in some houses in the city of Anderslov in Sweden.
The award in literature: the US Office of the Accountant General for publishing a report about reports that recommend the preparation of reports about reports about reports about reports....
The physical sciences: Joseph Keller from the Arab and Raymond Goldstein (USA/UK), Patrick Warren and Robin Ball from the UK for calculating the balancing forces that shape the movement of the hair in the human coccyx.
The Prize in Fluid Dynamics - Ruslan Krachetinov (USA, Russia and Canada) and Hans Meyer (USA) for studying the dynamics of liquid slime in order to learn what happens when a person walks while carrying a coffee cup.
The prize in anatomy: Frans de Waal (Netherlands/USA) and Jennifer Pokorny (USA) for the discovery that chimpanzees can recognize another chimpanzee in person by looking at pictures of their rear end.
The prize for medicine: Emmanuel Ben Shoshan and Michel Antoinette (France) for their strength to doctors performing colonoscopies on how to minimize the risk of their patient exploding.
