Physiology
To Anna Wilkinson, Natalie Sebanz, Isabella Mandl and Ludwig Huber for finding no evidence of contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise.
Chemistry
To Makoto Imai, Naoki Urushihata, Hideki Tanemura, Yukinobu Tajima, Hideaki Goto, Koichiro Mizoguchi and Junichi Murakami for determining the density of airborne wasabi (pungent horseradish) to awaken sleeping people in case of emergency and creating the Wasabi Alarm. Itundefineds intended for the hard of hearing.
Psychology
To Karl Halvor Teigen for research into why in daily life people sigh. One experiment gave subjects puzzles they could not figure out. They gave up and sighed.
Medicine
To Matthew Lewis, Peter Snyder, Robert Feldman, Robert Pietrzak, David Darby, Paul Maruff along with Mirjam Tuk, Debra Trampe and Luk Warlop for discovering people make better decisions about some kinds of things but worse decisions about other kinds of things when they have a strong urge to urinate.
Literature
To John Perry for the Theory of Structured Procrastination, which says to be a high achiever work on something important to avoid working on something thatundefineds even more important.
Biology
To Daryll Gwynne and David Rentz for discovering a certain kind of beetle mating with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle.
Physics
To Philippe Perrin, Cyril Perrot, Dominique Deviterne, Bruno Ragaru and Herman Kingma for determining why discus throwers become dizzy and why hammer throwers donundefinedt.
Peace
To Arturas Zuokas for discovering that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armoured tank.
Public safety
To John Senders for conducting a series of safety experiments in which a person drives a car on a major highway while a visor repeatedly flops down, intermittently blinding him. This decades old research has new relevance with the advent of phoning and texting while driving.
Mathematics
To several doomsday predictors for predicting the end of the world (1954, 1982, 1990, 1992, 1999 and 2011) and for teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical calculations.
Physiology
To Anna Wilkinson, Natalie Sebanz, Isabella Mandl and Ludwig Huber for finding no evidence of contagious yawning in the red-footed tortoise.
