As do many others, I like to collect prizes. So in my continued pursuit I checked this years IgNoble prizes but failed to find my name. Here are two that did turn up that readers may find of interest:<\/p>\n
SAFETY ENGINEERING PRIZE<\/b>: The late Gustano Pizzo [USA], for inventing an electro-mechanical system to trap airplane hijackers \u2014 the system drops a hijacker through trap doors, seals him into a package, then drops the encapsulated hijacker through the airplane’s specially-installed bomb bay doors, whence he parachutes to earth, where police, having been alerted by radio, await his arrival.\u00a0US Patent #3811643, Gustano A. Pizzo, “anti hijacking system for aircraft”<\/a>, May 21, 1972.<\/p>\n – See more at: http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/winners\/#ig2013<\/p>\n Editors comment: We are still waiting for empirical evidence that it works, but note how long it took for this to finally earn the recognition it so clearly deserves!<\/p>\n MEDICINE PRIZE<\/b>:\u00a0Emmanuel Ben-Soussan<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Michel Antonietti<\/a>\u00a0[FRANCE] for advising doctors who perform colonoscopies how to minimize the chance that their patients will explode.<\/p>\n REFERENCE: “Colonic Gas Explosion During Therapeutic Colonoscopy with Electrocautery<\/a>,” Spiros D Ladas, George Karamanolis, Emmanuel Ben-Soussan, World Journal of Gastroenterology, vol. 13, no. 40, October 2007, pp. 5295\u20138. ATTENDING THE THE CEREMONY: Emmanuel Ben-Soussan<\/p>\n – See more at: http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/winners\/#ig2013<\/p>\n Editors comment: You may mock, but an exploding patient is not to be taken lightly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As do many others, I like to collect prizes. So in my continued pursuit I checked this years IgNoble prizes but failed to find my name. Here are two that did turn up that readers may find of interest: SAFETY ENGINEERING PRIZE: The late Gustano Pizzo [USA], for inventing an electro-mechanical system to trap airplane […]<\/p>\n
\nREFERENCE: “Argon Plasma Coagulation in the Treatment of Hemorrhagic Radiation Proctitis is Efficient But Requires a Perfect<\/a>\u00a0Colonic Cleansing to Be Safe,” E. Ben-Soussan, M. Antonietti, G. Savoye, S. Herve, P. Ducrott\u00e9, and E. Lerebours, European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, vol. 16, no. 12, December 2004, pp 1315-8.<\/p>\n