Ig Nobel equine hair ponytail equation

The British and American research team with the equation for the shape of ponytail has been awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in 2012.

The British and American team with the equation for the shape of a ponytail has just been awarded the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize. In addition, nine categories of the prestigious Nobel Prize prize have also been mastered.

Patrick Warren, Raymond Goldstein, Robin Ball and Joe Keller both received awards at Harvard University on September 20.

Dr. Warren, a researcher at Unilever in the UK, said he was surprised with the Ig Nobel prize.'I was surprised that part of the work I did was getting so much attention ,' said Dr. Warren.

According to the equation of Warren and colleagues, the stiffness of the hair, the effect of gravity and the natural curvature affect the shape of the ponytail.

Dr. Warren, a researcher at Unilever
in the UK, said he was very surprised with the Ig Nobel prize

In this round of awards, the Ig Nobel committee announced that they had forgotten to name a person in the 'victory' list in 1999. Joseph Keller was also awarded the Physics Prize that year.

The list of other winners includes:

This year's Psychology Award was given to two Dutchmen, Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan, for the study "Tilting to the left makes us look at the Eiffel Tower seem smaller than usual".

According to Earland and Zwaan, body and thinking are still thought to be unrelated, but actually have a close relationship. The body influences thinking in mysterious ways, so human thoughts and feelings are formed based on the sensation and movement of the body.

Interestingly, two days after the awards ceremony, Anita Eerland and Rolf Zwaan will marry in the Netherlands.

The Peace Prize was awarded to Russia's SKN Company for transforming the old Russian ammunition weapons into new nano diamonds.

Kazutaka Kurihana and Koji Tsukada (Japan) were awarded the Sound Prize with the SpeechJammer - the device that caused the speaker to stop immediately because of his own sound.

The Neuroscience Award belongs to Craig Bennett, Abigail Baird, Michael Miller, and George Wolford (USA) because the work tells researchers about the brain - using complex devices and simple data - Can see very meaningful activity of the brain everywhere - even at a dead salmon.

Explaining why the hair of people living in a few houses in the town of Anderslöv, Sweden, suddenly turns green, helped Johan Petterson (Swedish and Rwandan nationality) win the Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize. .

The US Government Inspector General Office received the Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for the "Report of Reports on Reports" which showed how to prepare a report on reports . on reports.

The fluid dynamics award for Rouslan Krechetnikov (US, Russian, Canadian nationals) and Hans Mayer (US) with the study of fluid dynamics to know what happens when a person walks and takes a cup of coffee .

Ig Nobel Prize The surgery was awarded to Frans de Waal (American and Dutch nationals) and Jennifer Pokorny (USA) discovered that chimpanzees can recognize individual animals after watching photos taken behind their backs.

The two Frenchmen, Emmanuel Ben-Soussan and Michel Antonietti, received the Medical Prize in a way that instructed doctors to examine the colon to reduce the risk of exploding patients.

The Ig Nobel Prize is a prize for the Nobel Prize, which was awarded by Annals of Improbable Research in early autumn - close to the time when the Nobel Prize was officially announced - for 10 achievements "first child people laugh, then make them think ".

The first Ig Nobel prize was awarded in 1991.