Ig Nobel prize winner Bart Knols has been awarded a research grant from the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation. (Knols and colleague Ruurd de Jong shared the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for showing that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell […]
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New mosquito book by Ig winner
Bart Knols, who won the 2006 Ig Nobel biology prize, for ‘for showing that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet’ recently wrote a book (in Dutch). It is titled ‘Mug’ and tells how mosquito’s have influenced the history of […]