Vibrating an Earthworm at High Frequency: 2020 Ig Informal Lectures
Channel: Improbable Research
Date: 24/12/2020

2020 Ig® Informal Lecture: THE PHYSICS PRIZE
"Vibrating an Earthworm at High Frequency"

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.

In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after the ceremony, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it.

The 2020 Ig Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Ivan Maksymov and Andriy Pototsky, for determining, experimentally, what happens to the shape of a living earthworm when one vibrates the earthworm at high frequency.

They documented that research, in the study “Excitation of Faraday-like body waves in vibrated living earthworms,” Ivan S. Maksymov and Andriy Pototsky, bioRxiv 10.1101/868521, December 8, 2019.
[LINK TO THAT STUDY: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65295-4]


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