Marc Abrahams

American mathematician and scientific editor

Marc Abrahams, in 2008.

Marc Abrahams (born 1956^{[citation needed]}) is the editor and co-founder of Annals of Improbable Research, and the originator and master of ceremonies of the annual Ig Nobel Prize celebration. He was formerly editor of the Journal of Irreproducible Results.^[1]

Abrahams is married to Robin Abrahams, also known as "Miss Conduct", a columnist for the Boston Globe.^[2]

He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in applied mathematics.^[3]

Bibliography

Books written or edited by Abrahams include:

• This Is Improbable (ISBN 978-1-85168-931-6)
• The Ig Nobel Prizes (ISBN 978-0-525-94753-0)
• Why Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans (ISBN 978-0-7528-6846-2)
• Sex As a Heap of Malfunctioning Rubble (ISBN 978-1-56305-312-2)
• The Best of "Annals of Improbable Research" (ISBN 978-0-71673-094-1)
• The Man Who Tried to Clone Himself (ISBN 978-0-45228-772-3)

References

1. About Marc Abrahams at Improbable Research
2. Miss Conduct Blog at The Boston Globe Archived September 17, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
3. "Improbable Research". Archived from the original on 2009-10-06.

External links

• Annals of Improbable Research
• Ig Nobel Prize website
• "Laugh first, think later" (Abrahams' own account of JIR and AIR), The Guardian, June 1, 2004
• Marc Abrahams at TED
  • "A science award that makes you laugh, then think" (TEDMED 2014)