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Marc Abrahams
Founder, Ig Nobel Prize
Editor, <Improbable Research>
Columnist, <The Guardian>
ABRAHAMS, Marc
Founder, Ig Nobel Prize / Editor, Improbable Research / Columnist, The Guardian
Marc Abrahams is editor and cofounder of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), its web site, www.improbable.com and an Internet TV series as well as the author of the book This Is Improbable (to be published in September 2012 by OneWorld in London).
He writes about research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK. Abrahams is the father and master of ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honoring achievements that make people laugh and then think. The Prizes are handed out by genuine Nobel Laureates at a gala ceremony held each fall at Harvard University and broadcast on National Public Radio and on the Internet.
The Washington Post called Abrahams "the nation's guru of academic grunge." The Journal of the American Medical Association called him "the Puck of Science." He has been called many other things. The Improbable Research editorial board of more than 50 distinguished scientists includes nine Nobel Laureates, IQ record holder Marilyn Vos Savant and a convicted felon.
Abrahmas has a degree in applied mathematics from Harvard College, spent several years developing optical character recognition computer systems (including a reading machine for the blind) at Kurzweil Computer Products, and later founded Wisdom Simulators, a creator of educational software. He is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study called "Marc Abrahams: Annals of an Improbable Entrepreneur."
He is married to psychologist Robin Abrahams, who is a research associate at Harvard Business School and writes the "Miss Conduct" advice column for The Boston Globe Magazine.
Founder, Ig Nobel Prize / Editor, Improbable Research / Columnist, The Guardian
Marc Abrahams is editor and cofounder of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), its web site, www.improbable.com and an Internet TV series as well as the author of the book This Is Improbable (to be published in September 2012 by OneWorld in London).
He writes about research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK. Abrahams is the father and master of ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honoring achievements that make people laugh and then think. The Prizes are handed out by genuine Nobel Laureates at a gala ceremony held each fall at Harvard University and broadcast on National Public Radio and on the Internet.
The Washington Post called Abrahams "the nation's guru of academic grunge." The Journal of the American Medical Association called him "the Puck of Science." He has been called many other things. The Improbable Research editorial board of more than 50 distinguished scientists includes nine Nobel Laureates, IQ record holder Marilyn Vos Savant and a convicted felon.
Abrahmas has a degree in applied mathematics from Harvard College, spent several years developing optical character recognition computer systems (including a reading machine for the blind) at Kurzweil Computer Products, and later founded Wisdom Simulators, a creator of educational software. He is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study called "Marc Abrahams: Annals of an Improbable Entrepreneur."
He is married to psychologist Robin Abrahams, who is a research associate at Harvard Business School and writes the "Miss Conduct" advice column for The Boston Globe Magazine.
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