The inventors of BowLingual, Keita Satoh, Dr. Matsumi Suzuki and Dr. Norio Kogure were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for "promoting peace and harmony between the species."
Grūtas Park and its founder Malinauskas won the 2001 Ig Nobel Peace Prize (see List of Ig Nobel Prize winners#2001).
The first Ig Nobels were created in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor and co-founder of the Annals of Improbable Research, and the Master of Ceremonies at all subsequent awards ceremonies.
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Recently the word has gained another meaning thanks to the activity of Togakkai (the Academy of Tondemo books) which annually award Nihon Tondemo-bon Taisho (Japan Tondemo Book Award), which is a sort of combination of the Golden Raspberry Award, Ig Nobel Prize and James Randi Foundation.
Francis M. Fesmire, Clinical Research Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the College of Medicine in Chattanooga, received the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research on unorthodox treatment of intractable hiccups.
George H. Goble, inventor of multi-CPU Unix systems, refrigerants, and winner of the 1996 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In December 2001, the Annals of Improbable Research (bestowers of the Ig Nobel prize) teamed up with the Museum of Bad Art to protest this omission in the form of a boycott.