Ravi Batra of Southern Methodist University, 1993: Won in Economics for selling enough copies of his book The Great Depression of 1990 and Surviving the Great Depression of 1990 to single-handedly prevent worldwide economic collapse predicted in the book.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif, 1998: The then Prime Minister of India and the then Pakistan Prime Minister won the Ig Nobel for Peace for their aggressively peaceful detonations of atomic bombs.
Deepak Chopra, 1998: The guru from the Chopra Centre of Well Being, California, wins in the field of Physics for interpreting the subject of Quantum Physics in such a manner that it applied to increasing life span, curing life threatening diseases and pursuit of economic happiness.
Chittaranjan Andrade and B.S. Srihari, 2001: The Ig Nobel award in Public Health was presented to the duo from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore for their probing medical discovery that nose picking is a...
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