TOKYO: Although Nobel Prizes eluded Japanese scientists this year, a 62-year-old professor won a spoof Nobel for his study on why a bronze statue in his city fails to attract pigeons.
Prof Yukio Hirose, 62, who taught computational mechanics at Kanazawa University, won the “Ig Nobel Prize” for chemistry, bringing the award to Japan for the second consecutive year.
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