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The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize

Have your ever seen a Nobel laureate putting a bra on his face? Well… you can see three.

It is the time of the year for Ig Nobel Prize again….. 😉

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Nobel laureates Roy Glauber (Physics, 2005), Sheldon Glashow (Physics, 1979) and James Muller (Peace, 1985) demonstrate how bra cups that can be converted to emergency gas masks during the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard. The bra-mask invention won one of the not-completely-serious scientific prizes in 2009. Charles Krupa / AP