Overview
- The 36th Ig Nobel awards are scheduled for September in Zürich, marking the first ceremony outside the United States after 35 years in Boston.
- Organizers plan a new cadence with the event held in Zürich every two years and in other European cities in the intervening years.
- Founder Marc Abrahams said it became unsafe last year for some laureates and international journalists to travel to the United States.
- The prizes are run by the Cambridge, Massachusetts–based Annals of Improbable Research and have been awarded annually since 1991.
- The Ig Nobels honor unconventional studies that aim to make people laugh and then think, reflecting a blend of humor and serious inquiry.