The next time someone asks me "TU Eindhoven? what? where..?", I'm going to simply point them to the following link.
TU/e Professor Wins 2007 Ig Noble Prize
An award Nature calls the "highlight of the scientific calendar" has been won in the field of biology by Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. Van Bronswijk of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, for doing a census of all the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds each night.
Congratulations to Prof. van Bronswijk. She now joins the illustrious group of researchers like Mayu Yamamoto (who developed a method to extract vanilla fragrance and flavouring from cow dung), Brian Witcombe and Dan Meyer (for their penetrating medical report "Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects"), Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés (for showing that rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards) and many other notable scientists.
It's good to see TU/e getting the recognition it deserves :-)
TU/e Professor Wins 2007 Ig Noble Prize
An award Nature calls the "highlight of the scientific calendar" has been won in the field of biology by Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. Van Bronswijk of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, for doing a census of all the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds each night.
Congratulations to Prof. van Bronswijk. She now joins the illustrious group of researchers like Mayu Yamamoto (who developed a method to extract vanilla fragrance and flavouring from cow dung), Brian Witcombe and Dan Meyer (for their penetrating medical report "Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects"), Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés (for showing that rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards) and many other notable scientists.
It's good to see TU/e getting the recognition it deserves :-)
