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Chemistry PrizeCallum Ormonde, Colin Raston, Tom Yuan,
Stephan Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William A. Brown, Kaitlin Pugliese,
Tivoli Olsen, Mariam Iftikhar, and Gregory Weiss [AUSTRALIA, USA], for
Physics Prize
testing the biological principlethat nearly all mammals
empty their bladders
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in about 21 seconds
Physics Prize
testing the biological principlethat nearly all mammals
empty their bladders
(plus or minus 13 seconds).
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in about 21 seconds
Literature Prize
Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira, and Nick J. Enfield [AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM,
THE NETHERLANDS, USA], for…
Literature Prize
—discovering that the word“huh?”
(or its equivalent)
seems to exist in every human language
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Literature Prize
—discovering that the word“huh?”
(or its equivalent)
seems to exist in every human language
— and for not being quite sure why.
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Management PrizeGennaro Bernile, Vineet Bhagwat, and P. Raghavendra Rau [ITALY, SINGAPORE, USA, UK, INDIA, FRANCE, LUXEMBOURG,
GERMANY, JAPAN] for…
Management Prizediscovering that
many business leaders
developed, in childhood, a fondness for risk-taking,
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Management Prizediscovering that
many business leaders
developed, in childhood, a fondness for risk-taking,
when they experienced natural disasters
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Management Prizediscovering that
many business leaders
developed, in childhood, a fondness for risk-taking,
when they experienced natural disasters(such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,
tsunamis, and wildfires)
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Management Prizediscovering that
many business leaders
developed, in childhood, a fondness for risk-taking,
when they experienced natural disasters(such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,
tsunamis, and wildfires)
that — for them — had no dire personal consequences.
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Medicine Prizeand to Jaroslava Durdiaková,
Peter Celec, Natália Kamodyová,
Tatiana Sedláčková, Gabriela Repiská, Barbara Sviežená, and Gabriel Minárik
[SLOVAKIA, USA, UK, GERMANY] for...
Medicine Prize
experiments to studythe biomedical benefits orbiomedical consequences
of intense kissing
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Medicine Prize
experiments to studythe biomedical benefits orbiomedical consequences
of intense kissing(and other intimate interpersonal
activities).
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Mathematics Prize
to determine whether and howMoulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty,
•trying to use mathematical
techniques
Mathematics Prize
to determine whether and howMoulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty,
•trying to use mathematical
techniques
the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed,
Mathematics Prize
to determine whether and howMoulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty,
•trying to use mathematical
techniques
the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed,
during the years from 1697 through 1727,
Mathematics Prize
to determine whether and howMoulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty,
•trying to use mathematical
techniques
the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed,
during the years from 1697 through 1727,to father 888 children.
Biology Prize
Bruno Grossi, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo A. Vásquez,
and José Irarte-Díaz [CHILE, USA], for…
Biology Prize
to the rear end of a chicken,
the chicken then walks
observing that when you attach a weighted stick
in a manner similar to that in which
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Biology Prize
to the rear end of a chicken,
the chicken then walks
observing that when you attach a weighted stick
in a manner similar to that in whichdinosaurs are thought to have walked.
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Diagnostic Medicine Prize
Diallah Karim, Anthony Harnden, Nigel D’Souza, Andrew Huang,
Abdel Kader Allouni, Helen Ashdown, Richard J. Stevens, and
Simon Kreckler [CANADA, UK, NEW ZEALAND, USA, BAHRAIN, BELGIUM, DUBAI, INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, CHINA, SYRIA], for…
Diagnostic Medicine Prize
determining that acute appendicitiscan be accurately diagnosed
by the amount of pain evident
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Diagnostic Medicine Prize
determining that acute appendicitiscan be accurately diagnosed
by the amount of pain evidentwhen the patient is
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Diagnostic Medicine Prize
determining that acute appendicitiscan be accurately diagnosed
by the amount of pain evidentwhen the patient is
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driven over speed bumps.
painstakingly creatingthe Schmidt Sting Pain Index,
which rates the relative pain people feel
Physiology and Entomology Prize
painstakingly creatingthe Schmidt Sting Pain Index,
which rates the relative pain people feel
when stung by various insects, and…
Physiology and Entomology Prize
carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly
on 25 different locations on his body,
to learn which locations are the least painful
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carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly
on 25 different locations on his body,
to learn which locations are the least painful
(skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm),
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carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly
on 25 different locations on his body,
to learn which locations are the least painful
(skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm),
and to learn which locations are the most painful
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carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him repeatedly
on 25 different locations on his body,
to learn which locations are the least painful
(skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm),
and to learn which locations are the most painful
(nostril, upper lip, and penis shaft).
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