<Li> Medicine: Dan Meyer and Brian Witcombe, for investigating the side - effects of swallowing swords . </Li> <Li> Nutrition: Brian Wansink, for investigating people's appetite for mindless eating by secretly feeding them a self - refilling bowl of soup . </Li> <Li> Peace: The United States Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, for suggesting the research and development of a "gay bomb," which would cause enemy troops to become sexually attracted to each other . </Li> <Li> Physics: Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and Enrique Cerda Villablanca for their theoretical study of how sheets become wrinkled . </Li>

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