[Editors] A Nobel chuckle

[Charles Jennings]

Apparently he is also the first person to win both a Nobel and an IgNobel prize.  The latter was for levitating frogs in a magnetic field:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/05/scientist-wins-both.html 



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Subject: [Editors] A Nobel chuckle

Just learned of the following through a science writers group I follow:

Andre Geim, one of this week's Nobel Laureates in physics, has an A+ sense of humor. In 2001 he named his hamster as co-author of a research paper in the journal Physica B. (It's noted under "trivia" in his Wikipedia entry.) The paper itself is at:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TVH-42HXG7J-5N&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F2001&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=67426fc670cf36c7f0699842adf0ff92

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