nobel prize

nobel PRIZE (2014)

Given on	Given to	Given for
Arctic Science	Eigil Reimers and Sindre Eftestøl	for testing how reindeer react to seeing humans who are disguised as polar bears
Art	Marina de Tommaso, Michele Sardaro, and Paolo Livrea	for measuring the relative pain people suffer while looking at an ugly painting, rather than a pretty painting, while being shot [in the hand] by a powerful laser beam
Biology	Vlastimil Hart, Petra Nováková, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Vladimír Hanzal, Miloš Ježek, Tomáš Kušta, Veronika Němcová, Jana Adámková, Kateřina Benediktová, Jaroslav Červený and Hynek Burda	for carefully documenting that when dogs defecate and urinate, they prefer to align their body axis with Earth's north-south geomagnetic field lines.
Economics	ISTAT — the Italian government's National Institute of Statistics	for proudly taking the lead in fulfilling the European Union mandate for each country to increase the official size of its national economy by including revenues from prostitution, illegal drug sales, smuggling, and all other unlawful financial transactions between willing participants.
Medicine	Ian Humphreys, Sonal Saraiya, Walter Belenky and James Dworkin	for treating "uncontrollable" nosebleeds, using the method of nasal-packing-with-strips-of-cured-pork.
Neuroscience	Jiangang Liu, Jun Li, Lu Feng, Ling Li, Jie Tian, and Kang Lee,	for trying to understand what happens in the brains of people who see the face of Jesus in a piece of toast.
Nutrition	Raquel Rubio, Anna Jofré, Belén Martín, Teresa Aymerich, and Margarita Garriga	for their study titled "Characterization of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Infant Faeces as Potential Probiotic Starter Cultures for Fermented Sausages.”
Physics	Kiyoshi Mabuchi, Kensei Tanaka, Daichi Uchijima and Rina Sakai	for measuring the amount of friction between a shoe and a banana skin, and between a banana skin and the floor, when a person steps on a banana skin that's on the floor.
Psychology	Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones, and Minna Lyons	for amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning.
Public Health	Jaroslav Flegr, Jan Havlíček and Jitka Hanušova-Lindova, and to David Hanauer, Naren Ramakrishnan, Lisa Seyfried	for investigating whether it is mentally hazardous for a human being to own a cat.