Biology 生物獎:
Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu and Zhang Guanglei of Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in Sagamihara, Japan, for demonstrating that kitchen refuse can be reduced more than 90% in mass by using bacteria extracted from the faeces of giant pandas.
該獎由日本北里大學醫學科學研究生院的田口文昭、宋國富(音譯)與張光磊(音譯)共同獲得。他們研究證明使用大熊貓糞便中提取的細菌能有效分解超過90%的廚房垃圾。
Literature 文學獎:
Ireland's police service for writing and presenting more than 50 traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country--Prawo Jazdy--whose name in Polish means "Driving Licence".
文學獎由愛爾蘭警方獲得,獲獎理由是他們給看起來叫做PrawoJazdy的經常超速者開出了50多張罰單。而在波蘭語中,PrawoJazdy意為“駕照”。