From: md@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Mark Dionne x5551)
Subject: Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony to be Held at MIT
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 14:09:17 GMT
Expires: Oct 2, 1992

Second 1st Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony to be Held at MIT
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The MIT Museum and The Journal of Irreproducible Results announces that
this year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will occur on the evening of Thursday,
October 1, at MIT. A spoof on the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes recognize
men and women whose achievements cannot or should not be reproduced.

Amid mock pomp and circumstance, the 1992 IgNobel Prizes will be handed
out by genuine Nobel Laureates from MIT, Harvard and other institutions.
Laureates participating in last year's ceremony included Sheldon Glashow 
of Harvard (Physics, 1979), Jerome Friedman of MIT (Physics, 1990), Henry
Kendall of MIT (Physics, 1990), Dudley Hershbach of Harvard (Chemistry,
1986), and Eric Chivian of MIT (Peace, 1985). This year's Ig Nobel
ceremony will be graced by the presence of Laureates from a wide range
of institutions. International jazz harpist Deborah Henson-Conant and
other musicians of note will perform at the ceremony.

The Ig Nobel Prizes are a legacy from the estate of the legendary
Ignatius ("Ig") Nobel, mythical inventor of soda pop. Ig Nobel believed
himself to be a relative of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite and later
endowed the prestigious prizes that bear his name. Ig Nobel prizes are
awarded for irreproducible achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine,
Literature, Peace, Economics, Education and other areas of human endeavor.

Last year's winners included: Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb,
who won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize; Michael Milken, imprisoned father of
the junk bond, who won the Ig Nobel Economics Prize; Vice President Dan
Quayle, who won the Ig Nobel Education prize for demonstrating better 
than anyone else the need for science education; and Chariots of the 
Gods author Eric von Daniken, who won the Ig Nobel Literature Prize. The
identities of this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners are a closely guarded
secret not to be revealed before the ceremony.

The ceremony, which begins at 7 p.m., will take place at Kresge Auditorium
on the MIT campus. It is open to the general public on a first come, first
served basis. Absolutely no one will be admitted before 6:30 p.m. Lab coats 
or other experimental attire is suggested but by no means required.
Members of the press should telephone (617) 253-4422 for press passes.

The Journal of Irreproducible Results (JIR) has been described as the
"Mad Magazine of the Stephen Hawking set." Written by scientists and
doctors from around the world, the Journal has stood for more than
35 years as "the publication of record for overly stimulating research
and ideas." In co-sponsoring this event, JIR is continuing a tradition
it began accidentally in the mid-1960's.

The MIT Museum cosponsors the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in conjunction with
its ongoing programs related to humor at MIT.

To obtain further information, contact Kathleen Thurston at the MIT
Museum at (617) 253-4422 or Marc Abrahams, editor of The Journal of
Irreproducible Results, at (617) 491-4437.
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