MEDICINE:  Matthew Lewis, Peter Snyder, Robert Feldman, Robert Pietrzak, David Darby, Paul Maruff along with Mirjam Tuk, Debra Trampe and Luk Warlop for discovering 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.

LITERATURE:  John Perry for the Theory of Structured Procrastination, which says to be a high achiever you should work on something important to avoid working on something that’s even more important.

BIOLOGY:  Daryll Gwynne and David Rentz for discovering a certain kind of beetle mating with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle.

PHYSICS: Philippe Perrin, Cyril Perrot, Dominique Deviterne, Bruno Ragaru and Herman Kingma for determining why discus throwers become dizzy and why hammer throwers don’t.

MATHEMATICS: To several doomsday predictors for predicting the end of the world (1954, 1982, 1990, 1992, 1999 and 2011) and for teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical calculations.