The Ig Nobel Prizes recognize genuine achievements, with the exception of three prizes awarded in the first year to fictitious scientists Josiah S. Ten prizes are awarded each year in many categories, including the Nobel Prize categories of physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, literature, and peace, but also other categories such as public health, engineering, biology, and interdisciplinary research. Awards were presented at that time for discoveries 'that cannot, or should not, be reproduced'. The Ig Nobels were created in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor and co-founder of the Annals of Improbable Research, a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Irreproducible Results, who has been master of ceremonies at all awards ceremonies.

Organized by the scientific humor magazine, Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), the Ig Nobel Prizes are presented by Nobel laureates in a ceremony at the Sanders Theater, at Harvard University, and are followed by the winners' public lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Its aim is to 'honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.' The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which it parodies, and on the word ignoble ('not noble'). The Ig Nobel Prize ( / ˌ ɪ ɡ n oʊ ˈ b ɛ l/ IG-noh- BEL) is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Geim was awarded an actual Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. The 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Andre Geim, Radboud University Nijmegen, and Michael Berry, University of Bristol, UK, for the magnetic levitation of a live frog.

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