Two more returning Ig Nobel Prize winners have joined the lineup for the 21st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony on Thursday night: Deborah Anderson [pictured here, delivering her acceptance speech] (2009 chemistry prize for testing whether Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide) Hyuk Ho Kwon (1999 environmental protection prize, for inventing the self-perfuming business suit). At least two other people […]
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The scented business suit, demonstrated for chemists
Yesterday, at the American Chemical Society’s meeting in Denver, I demonstrated the Ig Nobel Prize-winning (prize in environmental protection, 1999) self-perfuming business suit. Chemical & Engineering News filmed this moment of fashion history: I also showed a bottle of DNA Cologne. It comes in a triple-helix-shaped bottle, and the packaging says “Product does not contain deoxyribonucleic […]
Portrait of perfumer/Ig winner Bijan
From a portrait of 2005 Ig Nobel chemistry prize winner Bijan Pakzad: Bijan dresses some of the world’s most powerful men: former President of the United States George W. Bush, Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, American actor Tom Cruise, German TV host Thomas Gottschalk, British actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, President of Russia Vladimir Putin,… [A] […]
Poison: The Perfume
Poison, the perfume (click on image, right). And a 1951 report about poison, the perfume: “Attractive wrapping of poisonous preparations a danger to children; with reference to two cases of poisoning with Maletta perfume tablets,” Sven Lakartidn. 1951 Jun 1;48(22):1364-7.