Miss Sweetie Poo with Javier Morales (right) and Miguel Apatiga at the 2009 Ig Nobel prize ceremony. Photograph: Eric WorkmanFrom The Guardian:
The discovery that he could make diamonds from Mexico's favourite tipple changed this physicist's life.
Ever since our research was first published, people who hear about it for the first time just can't help laughing. Well, the fact is that most sane people would not dream of trying to turn cheap tequila into diamonds. In fact, at most of the scientific conferences I have attended, the first response to the reading of any paper on the topic is laughter, and a lot of it. But then the audience quietens down. There is no doubt that this research makes people laugh … and then think.
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