FEEDBACK’S favourite awards, the Ig Nobel prizes, were handed out on 2 October at Harvard University by three Nobel laureates and the editors of the Annals of Improbable Research. Here is a sample of the winners.
The engineering prize went posthumously to Edward A. Murphy Jr and John Paul Stapp, and their surviving colleague George Nichols, in recognition of their discovery of the fundamental principle known as Murphy’s law, which states that if anything can go wrong, it will.
In illustration of the principle, it has taken more than 50 years to cite these engineers, who famously recognised the obvious…
