Chilean physicst Enrique Cerda received Anti Nobel by study on the wrinkles of sheets

If Mistral and Neruda do not have in the country anybody that equals them, at least already they count on its opposite pole: a Chilean scientist who thanks to its investigation on “So that the sheets are wrinkled” was awarded with “Anti Nobel” in the category of Sciences, organized by the University of Harvard.

With this award, the prestigious house of studies recognizes the creativity of the scientists whose projects seem simple, even idiot, but that unlike which it was possible to be thought implies an important quota of talent.

In this line, the Chilean physicist Enrique Cerda Villablanca presented/displayed a work on the virtues of the wrinkles, that usually are enemy of the order and it vindicated them finding a use him, that it shaped in his writing on “wrinkles in a thin surface”, published in the Nature magazine, in 2003.

The premiación was made yesterday in Boston and her it attended the sister of the scientist, who received the prize in his name. During the ceremony, the awards were given by true Nobel prizes.

In addition to Bristle, also other ingenious investigators of the world were awarded. Like the Japanese Mayu Yamamoto who with its study on “How to remove extract from vanilla of bosta of cow” one took Anti Nobel de Química.

The Medicine prize was for Brian Witcombe and Dan Meyer, authors of a medical report on “Swallowing sabers and their indirect effect”.

In as much, Anti Nobel of La Paz it was for the laboratory of the North American Air Force of Dayton Ohio that, in 1994, seriously studied the possibility of a “pump gay” to return irresistible to each other to the enemy soldiers.

These investigations in superficial appearance, despite present important findings. As the organizers explained, the objective of the prizes “is to make first laugh to people, and later make think them”.*
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