Ig Nobel Night

Ig Nobel Prize

Achievements so surprising that they ‘make people laugh, then think’ are honored with an Ig Nobel Prize. Marc Abrahams, founder and organiser of this coveted award, will be a guest at NEMO Science Museum on Tuesday evening, April 15, 2025, with an English spoken programme filled with science and humour. He will elaborate on the more than 30-year history of the award, present some of his all-time favourites and explain how you can win an ‘Ig’ (or not). Recent Ig Nobel Prize winners will talk about and demonstrate the research that brought them eternal fame:

Flip a coin

Eric-Jan Wagenmakers (Ig Nobel Probability Prize 2024), for showing, both in theory and by 350,757 experiments, that when you flip a coin, it tends to land on the same side as it started.

Drunk worms

Daniel Bonn, Antoine Deblais, Tess Heeremans en Sander Woutersen (Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize 2024), for using chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms.

Love at first sight

Mariska Kret and Eliska Prochazkova (Ig Nobel Applied Cardiology Prize 2022), for seeking and finding evidence that when new romantic partners meet for the first time, and feel attracted to each other, their heart rates synchronise.

Misophonia

Nienke Vulink (Ig Nobel Medicine Prize 2020) for diagnosing a long-unrecognised medical condition: misophonia, the distress at hearing other people make chewing sounds.

Keira Lee Rice will make live-drawings to illustrate each talk.

Programme

19:30 - Doors open
20:00 - Start programme
21:30 - End of programme

The programme will be in English and tickets are €10,-.