The 2006 Annual Ig Nobel Prize Winners Award Ceremony

Sanders Theater at Harvard University

The Ig Nobel Prize: Given to Researchers Honoring “Achievements that Cannot or Should Not Be Reproduced.”

The 2006 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

INCLUDING THE 2006 IG NOBEL PRIZE WINNER FOR MEDICINE:

Francis M. Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, for his medical case report “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage“; and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel, for their subsequent medical case report also titled “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage.”
REFERENCE: “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage,” Francis M. Fesmire, Annals of Emergency Medicine, vol. 17, no. 8, August 1988 p. 872.
REFERENCE: “Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage,”
Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven, Journal of Internal Medicine, vol. 227, no. 2, February 1990, pp. 145-6. They are at the Department of Internal Medicine, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
REFERENCE: “Hiccups and Digital Rectal Massage,” M. Odeh and A. Oliven, Archives of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery, vol. 119, 1993, p. 1383.
ATTENDING THE IG NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY: Francis Fesmire, The University of Tennessee College of Medicine.
October 6th, 2006

Last night the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize Winners were revealed at the Sixteenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony.

Tomorrow, Saturday, October 7, 2006, come see and hear them at the Ig Informal Lectures.

Ig Nobel Tonight

Tonight, Thursday, October 5, 2006, the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony happens at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre.

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Click here to Watch the Live Webcast.
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The webcast starts at 7:15 pm Boston time (and, of course at Equivalent Clock Times in other places).

The special pre-ceremony “Inertia versus Franz Lizst” concert/dance starts about 7:20. The ceremony proper begins at 7:30.