Mathematics 数学奖:
Gideon Gono, governor of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank, for giving people a simple, everyday way to cope with a wide range of numbers by having his bank print notes with denominations ranging from one cent to one hundred trillion dollars.
津巴布韦储备银行及行长吉迪恩·戈诺天天锻炼人民的数学能力,因为银行印制的钞票面额从1分到100万亿不等。
Public Health 公共卫生奖:
Elena N Bodnar, Raphael C Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago, US, for inventing a bra that can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks--one for the wearer and one to be given to a needy bystander.
美国芝加哥的埃琳娜·N·博德纳尔、拉斐尔·C·李以及桑德拉·玛珍研究出将一只胸罩快速改装成两个防毒面具的方法——一只防毒面具给自己用,另一只可以给身边有需要的人使用。