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Russian award for dubious achievements. Who is the worst: “Golden Raspberry”, “Shnobel” and other anti-prizes

Everyone knows about the most prestigious award in the field of cinema - the Oscar. But in this article I would like to talk about anti-premiums, i.e. prizes for the worst or dubious achievements. So, the 8 most popular anti-premiums.

Anti-Prizes of the World

1. Ig Nobel Prize (Anti-Nobel Prize) - The Prize was established by Mark Abrahams and the humor magazine "Annals of Incredible Research" in 1991. This prize is awarded for dubious achievements. This prize is presented at the beginning of October each year by actual Nobel laureates, and the award ceremony takes place at Harvard.

2. Stella Prize - This prize is awarded for the most ridiculous court decision in the United States. It is named after Stella Liebeck, who in 1992 doused herself with hot coffee from McDonald's and sued him, thereby suing the fast food company for $2.9 million.

3. Golden Raspberry – anti-award, anti-Oscar. The award is given for achievements in the field of cinema. It was founded back in 1981 by American John Wilson. The nominations for this award are announced the day before the Oscars.

4. Silver Galosh - Russian anti-award in the field of show business. The award was established by Radio Silver Rain in 1996.

5. Darwin Award - An unofficial award for the most ridiculous death (or at least for the most ridiculous loss of reproductive function). The prize is awarded to people who died in the most ridiculous way, thereby leaving no offspring behind, thereby purifying the gene pool of humanity.

6. “Glass Bolt” Award - established in 2011 by blogger Ilya Varlamov and awarded to Russian officials for the most idiotic and ridiculous decisions in terms of developing the city of Moscow. In 2012, the award became officially all-Russian.

7. Latern Rouge - the prize is awarded to the cyclist who takes the very last place in the Tour de France race. Translated as “Red Lantern”, this award is named after the red lantern on the last carriage of the train.

8. Paragraph – Literary anti-prize. Created in 2001 and awarded in the following categories: “Worst Proofreading”, “Worst Translation”, “Worst Editing” and “Full Paragraph” (for complete violation of all book publishing standards). “Honorary Certificates” are also awarded.

Ig Nobel Prize

For achievements that make you laugh and then think

The awards are presented by real Nobel Prize winners, only with fake noses and makeup, and the recipients' speaking time is limited by Little Miss Sweetie Poo, who after 60 seconds says “Please stop, I'm bored!”

Since 1991, at the behest of founder Mark Abrahams and the scientific publication Annals of Improbable Research, the Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded along with the announcement of Nobel Prize laureates. Rarely does an anti-Nobel award express criticism; more often, it draws attention to work with a funny worded topic or a funny subject of research. For example, the research of two Austrian researchers who used mathematical methods to determine whether Sultan Ismail the Bloodthirsty of Morocco could have fathered 888 children between 1697 and 1727.

The medal parodies the Nobel Prize

Russian citizens received Ig Nobel several times. For example, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chemist and crystallographer Yuri Struchkov received a literature prize for publishing 948 scientific papers between 1981 and 1990, that is, one scientific article every 4 days. In 2012, our compatriots received three Ig Nobels. The owner of the Russian company SKN, Igor Petrov, received the Peace Prize for the synthesis of nanodiamonds from old ammunition; a prize in physics (“for research on how to carry coffee correctly so as not to spill it”) was awarded to former citizen of the Russian Federation, scientist Ruslan Krechetnikov (together with the American Hans Mayer); The prize in the field of psychology went to Tulio Guadelupe from the Institute of Psycholinguistics of the city of Nijmegen, representing Russia and Peru, for his scientific work “From the left angle, the Eiffel Tower appears shorter.” In 2000, Andrei Geim, a native of the USSR, received the Ig Nobel Prize for his experiment with diamagnetic levitation (making a frog fly), and ten years later he was awarded the Nobel Prize for the practical production of graphene.

"Golden Raspberry"

For dubious achievements in the field of cinema

Sprawling and golden, just like the Oscars

The Golden Raspberry Awards were invented in 1981 by publicist John Wilson, author of a guide to the worst films. The name comes from the English slang expression (to) blow raspberry (tongue) - to snort in mockery by blowing into your protruding tongue. While the Oscars are drowning in tolerance and predictability, members of the Golden Raspberry Foundation, as they say, keep filmmakers in good shape. The 36th awards ceremony took place on February 27 on Broadway - as always, the day before the Oscars. As last year, nine failed nominations were diluted by the berry of mercy: the “redeeming raspberry” became an indulgence for the one who was able to bring his career out of a steep dive. Among the contenders were Night Shyamalan (for the film “The Visit”), Elizabeth Banks (for “Pitch Perfect 2”), Will Smith (role in “The Protector”). Sylvester Stallone received it for “Creed” (by the way, he was named the worst actor of the 20th century when summing up the film results of the century). Other favorites for the 36th Golden Raspberry ceremony included Jupiter Ascending and The Fantastic Four, but in the end, Fifty Shades of Gray took almost all the statuettes.

Runet Anti-Premium

For the brightest, unformatted and dubious projects of the Russian Internet

The informal anti-award was loved by users much more than its source - the Runet Prize, which, for example, did not award Pavel Durov for VKontakte, which is why he launched a DDoS attack on the site with a popular vote. The Runet Anti-Prize remains in the memory at least thanks to the nominations - risky, witty and surprisingly accurately showing key events. For example, in 2014, Lenta.ru won in the “Not a Runet Cake” category, Meduza debuted in the “Bombanulo!” section, and “Lentach” became a leader in the “BDSMM and other PR poses” category. Sites that won the anti-award regularly found themselves under the yoke of Roskomnadzor: for example, “Lurkomorye” (winner of 2014 in the “Underground” category) and RuTracker.org (nominee “Mom, I downloaded again in my sleep”), it is hardly possible in the same category note the social network “VKontakte”, where there is less and less pirated content, sidelong glances periodically catch the Kermlin Russia account (winner of the “Kitten named.GOV” nomination) and the public “The Decaying West” (“Fun of the Year”). The award did not survive until 2016.

Pigasus Award

For his contribution to the activities of pseudoscience and paranormal research

The Pigasus Award was created by James Randi, an illusionist, scientific skeptic and fighter against paranormal scammers. Back in the 1970s, Randy was involved with the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of Paranormal Activity. The Pigasus Award is another achievement of Randy's in the fight against sorcerers and psychics. The name Pigasus itself is a derivative of “Pegasus” and pig, referring to the expression “when pigs fly” (“when the crayfish whistles on the mountain”). The ceremony takes place on April 1, and the prize is a flying pig on a stand, “which the winner takes by telekinesis.” The award has five categories in total: the scientist who did the biggest stupid thing (in 2012 - Stanislaw Burzynski for selling an expensive cancer drug); organizations - for supporting parapsychological research (in the same year - Pumpkin Hollow Retreat Center for supporting the healing laying on of hands on the sick - “Therapeutic Touch”); The media - for asserting paranormal phenomena as facts; the performer who fooled the most people; and finally, an award “for the most desperate refusal to face reality.”

Bent Spoon Award

Australian Paranormal Folly Award

Bent spoon given to Australian charlatans

A special anti-award from the Australian Skeptics Society, named after Uri Geller, who allegedly bent spoons through telekinesis. The Bent Spoon Award was won in 2013 by the Australian Chiropractors Association, which refused to insure its members, and in 2014 by Dr Larry R Marshall, president of the government's scientific body CSIRO, for his support of dowsing. The latest Bent Spoon winner is Australian celebrity chef and TV presenter Pete Evans, who was nominated for his praise of the Paleo Diet, a diet based on the supposed ancient diet of people during the Paleolithic.

Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year

For the strangest, funniest and most ridiculous book title

The definitive guide to farting on a date won an award in 2014, but it's not just the title that's outstanding - the book's theme deserves its own prize.

The idea for the prize came from The Bookseller magazine and publishers Diagram Group, who wanted to draw attention to the 1978 Frankfurt Book Fair. Since then, every year, with rare exceptions, a prize is awarded - a bottle of champagne or Bordeaux - to active readers who sent the strangest, funniest or most ridiculous title of a book that was published during the past year. The first nominee for the award was the non-fiction “Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Naked Mice” (1978); Then the following books earned public recognition: “Madame as an Entrepreneur: Domestic Prostitution and Career Management” (1979), “Significant Moments in the History of Concrete” (1994), “The Joy of Sex. Pocket edition" (1997), "Knitting adventures with hyperbolic planes" (2009), "Managing a dental clinic like Genghis Khan" (2010) and many others. The most recent winner was Margaret Meps Schulte's Strangers Have the Best Candy (2015).

Bad Sex in Fiction Award

For Worst Erotic Scene in Literature

The winning scene features a "giggling snowball of total copulation" and a "sexually violent rollercoaster loop"

Until last year, the BSIFA prize was more of a local meme among readers of the Literary Review magazine, but in 2015, news of the award spread throughout the media when it was awarded to The Smiths singer Stephen Morrissey for his book The Lost List. The author described the plot of his book this way: “A team of American runners from the 70s accidentally kills another athlete, thus releasing a demon from him. This demon is the devil in the flesh, and every killer will die. But all this ends up being a ritual of exile, so the death at the very beginning of the book is just an illusion.” The author himself did not come to receive the prize in the form of a naked woman on an open book and did not comment on the situation.

"Paragraph"

Prize from the newspaper "Book Review" for dubious achievements in the field of book publishing

Not every anti-award has the budget for such a commemorative sculpture

It consists of a twice-broken pen in the shape of the letter Z on a stand, and is awarded in the nominations “Worst Proofreading”, “Worst Translation”, “Worst Editing” and “Full Paragraph” (for complete violation of all book publishing standards), and for “especially cynical crimes” against Russian literature" give "Honorable illiteracy". “Illiteracy” was once received by Andrei Fursenko for the education reform and by Konstantin Ernst with the formulation “as the physical embodiment of the largest rating share of television, which stupefies the common man, separating him from books and reading, from any manifestation of culture.” In addition to them, Anatoly Fomenko has “Paragraph” for “New Chronology” (2004) and Boris Akunin for the book “History of the Russian State. From the origins to the Mongol invasion" (2014).

Turnip Prize

Parody of the Turner Prize - for the worst works of contemporary art

Shortlisted work for 2011. Called First Class Mail by TeamGB

In response to the Turner Prize jury's controversial decisions, the Turnip Prize organizers say: "You can submit any work to us as long as it sucks." At the same time, the leitmotif of the anti-prize is the hypothesis: “We know that this sucks, but is it art?” Before the final decision, each candidate receives an assessment of his creation: “not enough effort” and “isn’t it crap?” - make it to the finals, and works with the ratings “tried too hard” and “not shit enough” are eliminated. The 2003 winner was James Timms with his work "Take a Leaf from My Chopstick" (raw chicken in leaves). In 2007, the turnip award went to Bracey Vermin with his work “Tea P”, which consisted of several soaked tea bags laid out in the shape of the letter P. This year the winner was the artist Bonksy and his work “Dismal And” - an homage to Banksy with his thematic Dismaland Park, is a piece of wood with a sad muzzle Winning work in the form of an ampersand.

Location London, Great Britain

Years 1999 - present

Golden Fleece Award (1975–1987)

For grant-eating and stupid research

The first prize in 1975 was received by the US National Science Foundation for spending $84,000 on a laboratory study of the phenomenon of love. Later, NSF would again be a Golden Fleece Award winner for analyzing the aggression of moonfish, one of which drank tequila and the other rum. The US Department of Defense received an award for spending $3,000 on research that showed that soldiers should use an umbrella when it rains; Ronald Reagan - for spending $15.5 million from taxpayers' pockets (the money was needed for the re-inauguration). The Golden Fleece Prize was established by the American Democratic politician William Proxmire and was awarded until 1987.

Location Washington, USA

Years 1975–1987

Doublespeak Award

For the most cunning political rhetoric

This anti-award, established by the National Council of Teachers of English, is awarded for the most ambiguous statement. The very first one went to US Air Force press attache David Opfer for calling the bombing in Southeast Asia “air support.” In 1986, the winners were NASA contractors who tried to hide the meaning of the Challenger shuttle disaster. The explosion was called an "anomaly", the bodies of the dead astronauts were called "the squad returning to Earth", and the coffins were called "crew containers". Interestingly, in England there is its own analogue of the anti-premium called. Among the champions of absurdity there are Naomi Campbell (“I love England, especially your national food - nothing tastes better than pasta”), Silvio Berlusconi (“I am truthful quite often”) and Donald Trump for recalling McCain’s captivity in Vietnam (“He not a war hero. He was a hero because he was captured. And I love people who were not captured").

Darwin Award

For idiocy. Posthumously

American Larry Walters took a balloon flight

This is one of the most cruel, famous and funny anti-prizes. Awarded annually to persons who have died or been deprived of the opportunity to have children due to stupidity. It grew out of an ancient usenet forum launched on August 7, 1985. Eight years later, in 1993, biology student Wendy Northcutt created a Darwin Award website and, that same year, began compiling obituary books for “human lemmings.” For the selection, Northcutt was guided by five rules: the nominee must die or be sterilized as a result of his actions, self-harm must be as stupid as possible, the person must harm himself on his own, and be over 18 years old and mentally healthy; finally, the incident must be verified. In 2014, a posthumous prize was awarded to a young magician from Spain who tried to use his body as a conductor to light a light bulb in his hand; In 2015, the Darwin Prize was won by a South African woman who fell off a cliff while trying to take a selfie.

Alas, not all people are capable of any outstanding deeds or at least accomplishments worthy. However, some people do something so ridiculous, bad and funny that it cannot escape the attention of the public.

World Stupidity Award

Awarded for the most outstanding achievements in the field of ignorance and stupidity. The wording is vague, and considering that this award is sponsored by a comedy festival, it is unlikely that they are choosing something really stupid. But it's funny, for sure.

Anti-prize "Paragraph"

This prize is awarded to publishing houses that have published the most failed books. There are several categories - proofreading, editing, translation and everything in general. Nominees are selected from anonymous and not-so-reader opinions sent to the committee.

Chicken Chicken Award

Awarded for exaggeratedly inadequate forecasts regarding the inevitable destruction of the environment. That is, those studies in which the author shouts loudest that “We are all going to die!” and tries to give some other supposedly reasonable arguments.

"Glass Bolt"

It is awarded to officials who make absolutely unsuccessful decisions regarding urban planning and city development. Initially, the award was exclusively Moscow, but very soon it became clear that candidates for it could be found in any city.

"Silver Galosh"

Dubious achievements in the field of show business. What is typical is that the nominees regularly even come to the awards. Still, black PR in show business is still PR. If they talk about you, it means they at least noticed you.

golden raspberry

In fact, it’s the antipode of the Oscars. It is also held the day before, with both the announcement of the nominees and the announcement of the winners. And the nominations are not much different from the Oscars - direction, film, song, acting, and so on. The prize is a plastic raspberry covered in “golden” red.

Stella Award

It was named after the lady who was able to sue the McDonald's chain for several million dollars in compensation for spilling coffee in their establishment. This award is given for similar ridiculous and absurd court decisions. And in the USA there are plenty of them.

Darwin Award

Awarded for the most absurd and ridiculous deaths, provided there are no direct descendants. They say that the nominee removes his genes of idiocy from the human population, and therefore is worthy of the award. To be clear, we are not talking about accidents or outright suicides. All the nominees are firmly convinced of what they did and did not intend to end their lives. But alas.

Ig Nobel Prize

Not all scientific research is created equal. Some scientists seriously study complete nonsense. It is to them that this prize is awarded. On the other hand, some of the nominees for this award do do significant work that allows us to understand our world a little better. Still, not everyone can invent cures for cancer - someone can study the quack of ducks and the gait of goats.

The site team and journalist Artyom Kostin brings to your attention, or rather, a selection of the best outfits of celebrities who attended the Emmy Award ceremony.

The ceremony brought together authors who seriously studied issues that were more like a joke. The real prizes were given - a statuette and 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars. It's actually not as much as it seems.

Not too scrupulous housewives already knew, and now science has confirmed: human saliva removes dirt better than a cleaner. Chemists from Portugal tried to clean paintings and gilded sculptures with various reagents from ammonia to toluene. But the old “spit and wipe” method gave the best results.

For 28 years, Harvard University has been flying paper airplanes, fooling around, handing out awards for the most ridiculous scientific achievements, and silencing winners if their acceptance speech lasts more than a minute.

David Wortinger from the University of Michigan made a discovery that, as required by the rules of the Ig Nobel Committee, first made me laugh and then made me think. A trip to Luna Park will help remove kidney stones. One of his patients got rid of three stones at once when he rode a roller coaster.

“Big, powerful rides are not good. What people think. The higher the slide, the faster you fly along it, the better. Nothing like this. We found out that to influence the stones you need to drive slowly, no more than 50 kilometers per hour, but with sharp turns, and so that it shakes a lot. You need to get into the last carriage. Then the stones are crushed well,” said Ig Nobel Prize winner in medicine David Wortinger.

The experience of the Ig Nobel Prize laureates in biology was repeated by the Nobel Prize laureates and honorary guests of the ceremony. And now it has been proven twice: the fruit fly Drosophila can change the taste of wine by getting into it for just a few seconds.

The Nobel in Economics was awarded to a team from Canada, the USA, China and Singapore. Researchers asked disgruntled employees to take it out on a bad boss by transferring their emotions to a voodoo doll.

“People who took revenge on the boss-like doll felt relieved. For them, justice was restored,” explained Ig Nobel Prize laureate in economics Douglas Brown.

“Where is the economy?” - the journalist asked for clarification.

“We don’t even know ourselves. We thought they would give us the Peace Prize!” - answered the scientist.

James Cole from Great Britain proved that ancient people did not engage in cannibalism because of hunger. The calorie content of human meat is only 125 kilocalories, which is several times less than the calorie content of, for example, a mammoth. For his discovery, like all laureates, Cole received 10 trillion Zimbabwean dollars.

“Well, since I’m a trillionaire now, I’ll probably retire. In general, Zimbabwe, in my opinion, has already switched to dollars. And it's about 30 cents in total. You can’t even buy a hamburger,” said James Cole.

Japanese Akira Horiuchi received an Ignobel for his study “Colonoscopy in a sitting position.” He was convinced from personal experience that performing this procedure while sitting is no less effective than traditionally lying down. And now, like every Ig Nobel laureate, he will be given the opportunity to give a lecture about it at one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

Already in early October, Nobel Prize laureates will be announced. And in history, by the way, there have been cases when Ig Nobel laureates also received a Nobel a few years later. Therefore, the ceremony in Cambridge traditionally ends with the words: if you are an Ig Nobel laureate, and especially if you are not, we wish you good luck next year!

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It is interesting to look at a person who has never heard of the Nobel Prize, or knows nothing about the Oscar film award. However, it is always interesting to know where it all began and how these coveted awards came about. In this rating, the site has collected for you the most prestigious awards in the world, the history of their occurrence and the conditions for receiving them. Who knows, perhaps one of the future laureates is among us.

Nobel Prize

Alfred Nobel was a fairly successful chemical inventor and engineer. In addition, he owned the Bofors metallurgical concern, whose main activity was the mass production of weapons. In addition, Nobel received income from his inventions, the total number of which exceeded 3 hundred. The main invention that made Nobel famous was dynamite. All this allowed the inventor to accumulate impressive capital, which Nobel intended to pass on to his descendants. But one day in the morning newspaper I read an obituary about myself: “The merchant of death has died.” In fact, a terrible mistake crept into the note, since the inventor’s brother died, and not he himself. But Alfred wondered what kind of memory humanity would have when its last hour struck. As a result, he decided to change his will. Nobel bequeathed his entire capital to be placed in a reliable bank, with the aim of subsequently distributing funds in the form of bonuses to those who made the greatest contribution to the development of science during the year. Pundits were to be encouraged in 5 categories: in the field of physiology and medicine, chemistry, physics, literature and restoration of peace on earth. Since 1900, the Nobel Prize has been awarded according to all the rules drawn up by its founder. In addition, in 1968, at the initiative of the Swedish Bank, one innovation was added: in addition to five nominations, an award for merit in the field of economics was added. The laureates receive the Peace Prize in Norway from the hands of the king. Laureates in all other categories are awarded in Sweden. From the hands of the king they receive a gold medal with a portrait of Nobel, and a check. The amount of the award varies from year to year depending on the income of the Nobel Foundation. Today it is somewhere around 1.5 million dollars.

Oscar Film Award

Grammy - music award

Musicians strive to get their Oscar, we are talking about the Grammy Award. This award was first presented in 1958 at the initiative of the US Recording Industry Association. A year earlier, professional musicians gathered in Los Angeles to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the invention of the gramophone. It was at this event that the idea of a music award arose. They also didn’t think long about the name and form of the award. As you know, it has the shape of a small gilded gramophone. For many years, winners were chosen in 30 musical genres in 108 categories. True, in 2011 the number of categories was slightly reduced, now there are 78. Behind the scenes, there are three most prestigious categories, in which it is considered the greatest success to be noted: song of the year, record of the year, album of the year and best new artist. In 2016, Kendrick Ramar, who raps, was nominated in 11 categories. However, these figures cannot be compared with the record of conductor Georg Solti. During the 20 years that he directed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the musician managed to receive 31 Grammy awards, and there were as many as 74 nominations in his career. Among groups, U2 is considered the absolute record holder with 22 statuettes. But the record for the number of awards received in one ceremony is shared between Michael Jackson and Santana. They received 8 statuettes in 1984 and 2000, respectively.

Booker Prize for Literature

The highest literary award was established in 1969, and since then has gained fame as the most prestigious prize in the field of English-language literature. Until 2013, only an author living in a Commonwealth country, Zimbabwe or Ireland could receive the Booker Prize. In addition to this condition, only works created in English were taken into account. Today, the prize can be awarded to any literary work in English, regardless of the author’s nationality. The main sponsor of the award has been the Man Group corporation for almost 15 years. Since then, the name of the award has been The Man Booker Prize. The decision on the winner is made by a special jury, which includes eminent literary critics, public figures and writers. You have to choose from hundreds of applicants. The winner, in addition to an honorary title, will receive a monetary reward, the amount of which is limited to 50 thousand pounds sterling. In the history of the Man Booker Prize, four of its laureates were subsequently also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. And Hilary Mantel, J.M. Coetzee and Peter Carey won the Booker twice. But the absolute record holder in terms of receiving awards was Iris Murdoch, because she received the Booker as many as 6 times.

Ig Nobel Prize for useless discoveries

Many scientists secretly hope to one day receive a Nobel Prize for their work. However, some are awarded only an ironic Ig Nobel Prize. This idea is nothing more than a parody of a prestigious award in the field of science. True, it is awarded in a very serious place - at Harvard. Moreover, the laureates are very real scientists, whose discoveries and inventions turned out to be absolutely useless for humanity. The main condition for receiving this award is the humorous component of scientific work. After all, as the motto of the Ig Nobel Prize says, it is awarded for inventions that first make you smile, and only then make you think. Thus, among the examples there is a serious scientific work on how the presence of a person affects the libido of ostriches, or a study of the harms and benefits of kissing. The nominees are awarded by real Nobel laureates, with fake noses and fake glasses. However, history knows one Ig Nobel laureate, who was awarded the Nobel Prize a little later. Physicist Andrei Geim became him. Truly, there is only one step from the great to the ridiculous.

Darwin Award for ridiculous deaths

Quite cynical criteria for selecting the winners of the annual Darwin Awards. After all, according to the terms of the prize, those who absurdly ended their own lives without leaving descendants are awarded, i.e. behind . Thus, with the help of black humor, the founders hint at Darwin's theory of natural selection. They say that fools who killed themselves out of their own stupidity thus saved humanity from defective genes. But don’t think that only dead people can be nominated for this award. The Darwin Award has been awarded several times to people who, as a result of stupid carelessness, lost their reproductive function. So, escaping from a police chase, petty swindler Richard Greg Oliver decided to jump over the fence. At that moment, the gun in his pocket went off, instantly ending any hope Oliver had of ever becoming a father. And if things don’t work out with the descendants, then Mr. Oliver already has the Darwin Award. It’s sad, but the award has no shortage of nominees.

Fields Medal in Mathematics

It's no secret that mathematicians have never won a Nobel Prize. This science is simply not on the list specified in the will of the founder himself. They say that it was no coincidence that Alfred Nobel deprived mathematicians of the opportunity to receive prizes. Nobel's contemporary was the brilliant Swedish mathematician Mittag-Leffler, for whom the founder of the prize had a strong dislike. Whether this was due to the attentions the mathematician showed to Nobel’s wife, or something else, history is silent. But still there are no mathematicians among the Nobel Prize laureates. And the representatives of this science would have remained deprived if not for John Fields. In 1924, while presiding over the International Congress of Mathematicians, he proposed, as part of this event, to recognize young mathematicians for certain achievements. Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Fields Prize is awarded only once every 4 years. Only mathematicians under 40 years of age are awarded a gold medal and a relatively small cash prize of 15 thousand Canadian dollars. The age restrictions were proposed by Fields himself, so he hoped to encourage young scientists to new achievements. If you like math, don't miss it.

Turing Award for Computer Science

Professionals working in the field of information technology can count on receiving the Turing Award. The winner is determined by the Association of Computing Machinery, which became the founder of the award. You can only become a Turing Award winner once; it is not awarded to the same person again. One or two nominees are awarded per year. The first winner of the award was Alan Perlis, and this happened in 1966. Until 2014, the award was sponsored by two large corporations: Google and Intel. And at that time the winner received 250 thousand dollars. Now Google is the only sponsor left. And today the laureate can count on $1 million in prize money. By tradition, the winner must give a lecture at which he highlights innovative ideas in the field of information technology.

Pritzker Prize for Architecture

Architects have a chance to become $100,000 rich. Those who receive the Pritzker Prize have this opportunity. This award was established in 1979 by the Pritzker family, who are also the owners of the Hyatt hotel chain in different countries around the world. The winners are those who generate innovative design ideas in the field of architecture. It is curious that each time the award is presented in different places. Thus, the Pritzker Prize has already been awarded within the walls of the National Gallery in Washington, at the Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg, on Capitol Hill in Rome and even in the White House. Each time, the awards ceremony itself is preceded by exhibitions of works by all laureates.

Often, when taking on something, a person does not expect to receive any special recognition. He is simply passionate about what he loves, and does his job exceptionally well, because he doesn’t know how to do otherwise. It is all the more pleasant to receive a well-deserved reward for your efforts, unless it is a Darwin Award.

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