One cannot go past the achievements of the winners of the Ig Nobel awards when it comes to service to medicine and science.

The Igs are intended to celebrate unusual and imaginative research and are awarded annually by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research. The aim is to make people think and laugh, and along the way it may spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology. The prizes are presented at a gala ceremony held at Harvard University and the awards are given to the …