article_snippet: Attention from the scientific community soon followed, and within a year They were collecting a Nobel Prize.
article_snippet: An Ig Nobel Prize, that is.
article_snippet: A satirical cousin to the more esteemed Swedish award, the Ig Nobel seeks to highlight research that first makes you laugh, then makes you think.
article_snippet: This year marks the Ig Nobel 25th anniversary, so what better time to celebrate the Ig Nobels' contribution to the scientific community?
article_snippet: Winners receive Winners awards from genuine Nobel laureates, but speeches are curtailed by a screaming girl declaring her boredom.
article_snippet: However, not all winners can have such high scientific kudos.
article_snippet: the Ig Nobels skewered the U.S. Government in 2012, awarding them the Prize for Literature "for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.
article_snippet: In 2009 the Math Prize went to Gideon Gono, then head of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank, for printing a Z$100 trillion note (while also printing 1c).
article_snippet: As proved by the Ig Nobels, the line between ridiculous and serious research has always been blurred.
article_snippet: This is no better reflected than in Dutch-British physicist Andre Geim.
article_snippet: In 2000 Dutch-British physicist Andre Geim scooped the Ig Nobel for Biology for using magnets to levitate frogs.
article_snippet: Ten years later he went on to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for he "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.
article_snippet: It is hard to say which is the greater achievement.
article_snippet: And as for what the Nobel Prize in Physics could learn from Abrahams own mischievous creation? "
highlights_snippet: The Ig Nobel Prizes will celebrate The Ig Nobel Prizes 25th anniversary in September this year .
  
highlights_snippet: Previous winners of the satirical awards have gone on to win an actual Nobel Prize .