Sep 19 (Japan Times) - An international research team including a Japanese scientist on Thursday won the Ig Nobel Acoustics prize after showing that an alligator’s pitch rises after it inhales helium-enriched air.
Takeshi Nishimura, an associate professor at Kyoto University, received the parody prize from the science humor magazine “Annals of Improbable Research” at its 30th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, which was conducted online due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Since debuting in 1991, the awards, which parody the Nobel Prizes, are usually awarded at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and have 10 categories, including a peace prize and the medical education prize.
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