Medicine Prize: Shared by two teams whose independent research jointly established that people make better decisions about some kinds of things, but worse decisions about other kinds of things‚ when they have a strong urge to urinate.
So which camp is go in?
And for our numbers fanatics:
Mathematics Prize: Shared by a group of doom-mongers for teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations -
Dorothy Martin of the US who predicted the world would end in 1954
Pat Robertson of the US who predicted the world would end in 1982
Elizabeth Clare Prophet of the US who predicted the world would end in 1990
Lee Jang Rim of Korea who predicted the world would end in 1992
Credonia Mwerinde of Uganda who predicted the world would end in 1999
Harold Camping of the US who predicted the world would end in 1994 and then later in 2011