The IgNobel Prize – science at its most peculiar, comical and absurd
The winners of the IgNobel Prize are on a tour of Scandinavia, and will be coming to Sweden and Karolinska Institutet to talk about research that is everything but conventional in terms of its subject matter and method.IgNobel is a play on the name Nobel and the word ignoble, which means inferior and undignified. The prize was first awarded in 1991 to honour research of the more unusual and creative kind. It is now awarded annually in ten different categories, including those of the official Nobel Prize.The IgNobel lectureWhen: Sunday 13 March, 2.00 – 3:30 pm.Where: The Gustaf Retzius