Hungarian researcher part of Ig Nobel Prize winning team.

(From Hungarian News Agency (MTI))

Budapest, October 3 (MTI) - Chemist Agota Toth of Szeged University in Hungary did not attend the Thursday night Ig Nobel Prize presentation ceremony at Harvard University, but the Japanese members of the research team with which she worked, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, Ryo Kobayashi and Atsushi Tero, not only attended the ceremony but sang their acceptance speech.

The Ig Nobel Prize, run by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research, is said to reward scientific achievements which "cannot or should not be reproduced," achievements that "first make people laugh and then make them think." The research …