The scientist Richard Roberts, who won a Nobel prize in 1993 for work on split genes, becomes a knight bachelor for services to molecular biology. In recent years he has joined the team of genuine Nobel winners who present the Ig Nobel awards, honouring the absurd, the improbable or the probably better never discovered in science: at one ceremony he joined a chorus of Nobel laureates in serenading the inventor of the karaoke machine.
So says a June 13, 2008 report in the Guardian.