Thomas Thwaites designed prosthetic limbs that allowed him to walk on all fours and graze with goats on a farm in the Alps.
He published his research in a book entitled GoatMan: How I Took A Holiday From Being Human and his work was recognised at the annual awards, a parody of the Nobel Prizes, which are given out for the most unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research.
Mr Thwaites, wearing his prosthetic limbs, said the award was a "huge honour" as he collected the prize at a ceremony at Harvard University in the US.
He said: "I got tired of all the worry and the pain of being a human and so I decided I would take a holiday from it all and become a goat."The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, and then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative .
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