BIOLOGY
Peter Fong of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for
contributing to the happiness of clams by giving them Prozac.
[REFERENCE: "Induction and Potentiation of Parturition in
Fingernail Clams (Sphaerium striatinum) by Selective Serotonin Re-
Uptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)," Peter F. Fong, Peter T. Huminski, and
Lynette M. D'urso, "Journal of Experimental Zoology, vol. 280,
1998, pp. 260-64.]
STATISTICS
Jerald Bain of Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto and Kerry Siminoski
of the University of Alberta for their carefully measured report,
"The Relationship Among Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size."
[Published in "Annals of Sex Research," vol. 6, no. 3, 1993, pp.
231-5.
MEDICINE
To Patient Y and to his doctors, Caroline Mills, Meirion Llewelyn,
David Kelly, and Peter Holt, of Royal Gwent Hospital, in Newport,
Wales, for the cautionary medical report, "A Man Who Pricked His
Finger and Smelled Putrid for 5 Years." [Published in "The
Lancet," vol. 348, November 9, 1996, p. 1282.]
LITERATURE
Dr. Mara Sidoli of Washington, DC, for her illuminating report,
"Farting as a Defence Against Unspeakable Dread." [Published in
"Journal of Analytical Psychology," vol. 41, no. 2, 1996, pp. 165-78.]
MEDICINE
Carl J. Charnetski and Francis X. Brennan, Jr. of Wilkes
University, and James F. Harrison of Muzak Ltd. in Seattle,
Washington, for their discovery that listening to elevator Muzak
stimulates immunoblobulin A (IgA) production, and thus may help
prevent the common cold.
PEACE
Harold Hillman of the University of Surrey, England for his
lovingly rendered and ultimately peaceful report "The Possible
Pain Experienced During Execution by Different Methods."
[Published in "Perception 1993," vol 22, pp. 745-53.]
PHYSICS
Robert Matthews of Aston University, England, for his studies of
Murphy's Law, and especially for demonstrating that toast often
falls on the buttered side. [REFERENCE: "Tumbling toast, Murphy's
Law and the fundamental constants," "European Journal of Physics,"
vol.16, no.4, July 18, 1995, p. 172-6.]
PUBLIC HEALTH
Ellen Kleist of Nuuk, Greenland and Harald Moi of Oslo, Norway,
for their cautionary medical report "Transmission of Gonorrhea
Through an Inflatable Doll." [Published in "Genitourinary
Medicine," vol. 69, no. 4, Aug. 1993, p. 322.]
ECONOMICS
Dr. Robert J. Genco of the University of Buffalo for his discovery
that "financial strain is a risk indicator for destructive
periodontal disease.
MEDICINE
Marcia E. Buebel, David S. Shannahoff-Khalsa, and Michael R.
Boyle, for their invigorating study entitled "The Effects of
Unilateral Forced Nostril Breathing on Cognition." [Published in
"International Journal of Neuroscience," vol. 57, 1991, pp. 239-
249.]
LITERATURE
David B. Busch and James R. Starling, of Madison Wisconsin, for
their deeply penetrating research report, "Rectal foreign bodies:
Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World's
Literature." The citations include reports of, among other items:
seven light bulbs; a knife sharpener; two flashlights; a wire
spring; a snuff box; an oil can with potato stopper; eleven
different forms of fruits, vegetables and other foodstuffs; a
jeweler's saw; a frozen pig's tail; a tin cup; a beer glass; and
one patient's remarkable ensemble collection consisting of
spectacles, a suitcase key, a tobacco pouch and a magazine.
[Published in "Surgery," September 1986, pp. 512-519.]
PEACE
The Taiwan National Parliament, for demonstrating that politicians
gain more by punching, kicking and gouging each other than by
waging war against other nations.
PSYCHOLOGY
Shigeru Watanabe, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita, of Keio
University, for their success in training pigeons to discriminate
between the paintings of Picasso and those of Monet. [REFERENCE:
"Pigeons' Discrimination of Paintings by Monet and Picasso,"
"Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior," vol. 63, 1995,
pp. 165-174.]
PUBLIC HEALTH
Martha Kold Bakkevig of Sintef Unimed in Trondheim, Norway, and
Ruth Nielson of the Technical University of Denmark, for their
exhaustive study, "Impact of Wet Underwear on Thermoregulatory
Responses and Thermal Comfort in the Cold." [Published in
"Ergonomics," vol 37, no. 8, Aug. 1994 , pp. 1375-89.] |
