令人大笑发人深省 第15届“搞笑”诺贝尔奖揭晓 Dog testicles, penguin poop study win Ig Nobels

Dog testicles, penguin poop study win Ig Nobels
令人大笑发人深省 第15届“搞笑”诺贝尔奖揭晓

Psychologist and author Robin Abrahams (L) talks to William Lipscomb, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and dressed as a bottle of beer, at the ‘Fifteenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize‘ ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts October 6, 2005.
The inventor of artificial testicles for dogs and a team that calculated the pressures created when penguins poop won Ig Nobel prizes for 2005 on Thursday.
The spoof prizes, awarded by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research, are presented at a ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the winners must try to explain their work in a minute or less.
While some awards clearly poke fun at current culture, others are meant to provoke debate about science, Annals editor Marc Abrahams said.
"Now in their fifteenth year, the Igs honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think," Abrahams said in a statement.
The Ig Nobel Prizes were handed to the winners by genuine Nobel laureates Dudley Herschbach (1986 Chemistry), William Lipscomb (1976 Chemistry), Robert Wilson (1978 Physics) and Sheldon Glashow (1979 Physics).
Harvard professor Roy Glauber, awarded a Nobel Prize in physics, has been a regular at the Ig Nobels for 10 years, sweeping paper airplanes thrown on the stage during the ceremony.
This year‘s winners include:
"Medicine" -- Gregg Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri, for inventing Neuticles -- artificial replacement testicles for dogs.
"Fluid Dynamics" -- Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of International University Bremen, Germany and Jozsef Gal of Lorond Eotvos University in Hungary, for "Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh -- Calculations on Avian Defecation," an actual study published in 2003 in the journal Polar Biology.
"Economics -- Gauri Nanda of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for inventing an alarm clock that runs away and hides.
(Agencies)
本周四，2005年度“搞笑”诺贝尔奖正式揭晓。获奖者包括人造狗睾丸的发明者和一组计算企鹅排便产生压力的科学家们。
由幽默科学杂志《不可思议研究年报》设立的“搞笑”诺贝尔奖今年在美国马萨诸塞州东部城市剑桥举行的颁奖仪式上正式揭晓，获奖者们必须用一分钟或更少时间来介绍他们的研究成果。
《不可思议研究年报》编辑马克·亚伯拉罕斯说，有些奖项显然是在取笑主流文化，还有一些旨在激起科学领域的讨论。
“在‘搞笑’诺贝尔奖的第十五个年头，获奖的是那些首先会令人发笑而后又发人深思的研究成果。”亚伯拉罕斯在一份声明中说。
此次的颁奖嘉宾是达德利·赫希巴赫（1986年的诺贝尔化学奖获得者）、威廉·利普斯科姆（1976年诺贝尔化学奖的获得者）、罗伯特·威尔逊（1978年诺贝尔物理学奖的获得者）和谢尔登·格拉肖（1979年的诺贝尔物理学奖获得者）。
刚刚获得2005年度诺贝尔物理学奖的哈佛大学教授罗伊·格劳伯在过去10年中一直是“搞笑”诺贝尔奖的常客。今年，在颁奖典礼上，他清理了投掷到台上的纸飞机。
今年的获奖者包括：
医学奖：美国密苏里州奥克格罗夫的格雷格·米勒。他发明了Neuticles——一种为阉割的狗制造的橡胶睾丸。
流体动力学奖：德国不来梅国际大学的维克多·本诺·迈耶·罗乔和匈牙利Lorond Eotvos大学的约瑟夫·亚伯拉罕斯因论文《企鹅排便产生的压力：鸟类排便的计算》获得流体动力学奖。这项研究结果2003年就发表在《极地生物学》杂志上。
经济学奖：麻省理工学院的高里·南达发明了一种闹钟，这种闹钟会自己跑掉并躲起来。
（中国日报网站薛晓文译）
Vocabulary:
spoof : nonsense,tomfoolery（胡说；戏弄）
poke fun : subject to laughter or ridicule（取笑）
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