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Scientist Uchiyama Masateru: Of Mice, Music, and Heart Transplant Operations

  • A special magazine published by Annals of Improbable Research, which organizes the Ig Nobel Prizes, after the awards ceremony. Uchiyama appears on the cover, at right. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

    A special magazine published by Annals of Improbable Research, which organizes the Ig Nobel Prizes, after the awards ceremony. Uchiyama appears on the cover, at right. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

  • A leaflet advertising Ig Nobel lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the day after the ceremony. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

    A leaflet advertising Ig Nobel lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the day after the ceremony. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

  • Test mice observed by Uchiyama and his team. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

    Test mice observed by Uchiyama and his team. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

  • Uchiyama gives a presentation at the Japanese College of Angiology in October 2013, one month after the awards ceremony. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

    Uchiyama gives a presentation at the Japanese College of Angiology in October 2013, one month after the awards ceremony. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

  • Uchiyama gives a presentation at the Japanese College of Angiology in October 2013, one month after the awards ceremony. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

    Uchiyama gives a presentation at the Japanese College of Angiology in October 2013, one month after the awards ceremony. (Courtesy Uchiyama Masateru)

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