Igs

We mention the prizes here because although the Igs are all awarded for real scientific work, they tend to sound like things that ought to be in science fiction short stories.

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Just ask Professors Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz, whose study snared the Ig Nobel Prize also known as "Ig" or "Igs" in Biology on Thursday night.

Katherine Meusey: Ig Nobel Prizes: Think First, Then Laugh Katherine Meusey 2011

At the theatre entrance you are just as likely to see a college student flashing devil horns at you, smiling excitedly and mouthing "Igs," as you are a bevy of top Ivy League educators.

Katherine Meusey: Ig Nobel Prizes: Think First, Then Laugh Katherine Meusey 2011

The more than 100 volunteers are what make the Igs come alive.

Katherine Meusey: Ig Nobel Prizes: Think First, Then Laugh Katherine Meusey 2011

Igs was just as responsible as Sid for this win, and thats from someone who bleeds Black n Gold.

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The Igs, as they are known, are chosen by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine to highlight scientific achievements that, in the words of editor Marc Abrahams, "first make people laugh and then make them think".

Wacky Inventions Key to Ig Nobel Prizes | Impact Lab 2007

Immunoglobulins Igs, also called antibodies: These are the receptor proteins of the immune system.

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“Now in their fifteenth year, the Igs honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think,” Abrahams said in a statement.

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The biology prize - often a good source of humour at the Igs - went to Darryl Gwynne of Canada, Australia and the United States, and David Rentz of Australia, for their groundbreaking paper titled: "Beetles on the Bottle: Male Buprestids Mistake Stubbis For Females."

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The more than 100 volunteers are what make the Igs come alive.

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