Prof. Skinner, however, defended the findings, saying in a 1960 project summary: “Call it a lunatic theory if you will. I have never stopped believing in it.
A group of French scientists won the anatomical prize because they wished to find out if the majority of people in the Northern Hemisphere had hair that swirled in the same direction as those in the Southern Hemisphere, either clockwise or counterclockwise.
Additionally, US scientists Fordyce Ely and William E. Petersen won the biology prize for their experiment in which they burst a paper bag close to a cat perched on a cow in an attempt to learn more about the timing and mechanism of cow milk spitting.
