Teflon diet earns trio the 2025 Ig Nobel chemistry prize
By 
Khushleen Kaur2025-09-22T09:09:00
The prizes that first make you laugh, then make you think reward more irreverent scientific ideas.
At the 35th First Annual Ig Nobel ceremony – held at Boston University, US, and streamed online worldwide – 10 awards were given to various disciplines from engineering to medicine.
In a year where science once again proved it can be both brilliant and bizarre, the Ig Nobel prize for chemistry was awarded to Rotem Naftolovich, Daniel Naftolovich and Frank Greenway for their proposal for a ‘Teflon diet’.