The journal ACS Chemical Biology wrote in 2006 in its Editor’s Letter:
Congratulations, you’re a winner, too!
As the Nobel Prize winners head to Stockholm, we have to face the reality that most of us will never receive a call from the Nobel Foundation in the wee hours of the morning. Don’t despair: there’s always hope that each of our small contributions to science, whether literary or experimental, will be recognized by another, equally visible but less lucrative award, the Ig Nobel Prize.
The Ig Nobel Prize is organized by the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. “The winners have all done things that first make people LAUGH, then make them THINK.” These Ig Nobel Prizes will not make anyone rich, but the winners are proud of their imaginative and sometimes unusual ways of increasing people’s interest in science and technology.