Marconi’s chicken

It’s the first historical essay in the world literature about 110 jokes pulled by scientists in the last century and over. Studying scientific literature, Vito Tartamella – a multi-awarded science journalist and long seller writer – found pranks arranged by Nobel prize winners (Guglielmo Marconi, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, Hans Bethe, Andre Geim), and many other episodes in the last century in world scientific literature. Research institutions such as NASA, CERN, FermiLab, journals like Science, Nature, British Medical Journal, Scientific American, museums and laboratories all over the world had organized sensational jokes. All those pranks are placed in their scientific, historical and social context.