Bijan Pakzad, winner of the 1995 Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry, has died. Bijan (as both he and his company were best known) was awarded the prize for creating DNA Cologne and DNA Perfume, neither of which contain deoxyribonucleic acid, and both of which come in a triple helix bottle. The Persian Independent reports: Born […]
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Portrait of perfumer/Ig winner Bijan
From a portrait of 2005 Ig Nobel chemistry prize winner Bijan Pakzad: Bijan dresses some of the world’s most powerful men: former President of the United States George W. Bush, Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, American actor Tom Cruise, German TV host Thomas Gottschalk, British actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, President of Russia Vladimir Putin,… [A] […]