Jimmy Liao, who was awarded the 2024 Ig Nobel Physics Prize, for for demonstrating and explaining the swimming abilities of a dead trout, did this TED Talk about some of his experience. It’s titled “What studying fish teaches me about human life”:
His Ig-winning research studies are:
- “Neuromuscular Control of Trout Swimming in a Vortex Street: Implications for Energy Economy During the Kármán Gait,” James C. Liao, The Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 207, 2004, pp. 3495-3506. <doi.org/10.1242/jeb.01125>
- “Passive Propulsion in Vortex Wakes,” David N. Beal, Franz S. Hover, Michael S. Triantafyllou, James C. Liao, and George V. Lauder, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 549, 2006, pp. 385-402. <doi.org/10.1017/S0022112005007925>