David Ewing Duncan

5094 annotated genes have been documented in David Ewing Duncan’s genome, a new world record. His DNA has been read by three different companies, who’ve collectively checked 1.7 million locations out of the 3 billion positions of his DNA. His report from SNPedia can be read here.

The record was documented on June 7, 2009 in San Francisco, California. Mike Carioso, curator of SNPedia, was present to serve as the witness.

Dan Meyer

On October 1, 2009, during the 19th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts, eight Nobel Prize Laureates removed a 22-inch solid steel sword from Ig Nobel Prize Laureate sword swallower Dan Meyer’s throat.

The Nobel Laureates involved:[
Rich Roberts][] - Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine, 1993[
Wolfgang Ketterle][] - Nobel Prize in Physics, 2001[
Dudley Herschbach][] - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986[
Paul Krugman][] - Nobel Prize in Economics, 2008[
Roy Glauber][] - Nobel Prize in Physics, 2005[
Frank Wilczek][] - Nobel Prize in Physics, 2004[
Martin Chalfie][] - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2008[
William Lipscomb][] - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1976

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Rich Roberts]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RichardJ.Roberts [
Wolfgang Ketterle]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WolfgangKetterle [
Dudley Herschbach]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DudleyR.Herschbach [
Paul Krugman]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaulKrugman [
Roy Glauber]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoyJ.Glauber [
Frank Wilczek]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrankWilczek [
Martin Chalfie]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MartinChalfie [
William Lipscomb]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WilliamLipscomb

Michael Smith

Michael Smith prepared 19 frog plates by hand in a single sitting. He performed the feat in the Rose Lab at Princeton University.

Each frog plate is a 96-well plate with strains of yeast at the top, diluted down the lanes. Each frog plate was plated onto at least two plates to confirm growth (-URA and -URA Galactose). Professor Mark Rose was present to witness the achievement.

See full-sized images here and here.

Michael Smith

Michael Smith of Princeton University’s Rose Lab successfully performed 147 yeast plasmid transformations by hand in a single sitting. Each transformation was conducted in a microcentrifuge tube, and then plated onto -URA glucose media.

Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya

Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyayaposted a tweet containing 77 symbols from the Periodic Table Of Elements.

Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya

Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya posted 21 consecutive tweets of different mathematical constants and physical constantstohis Twitter account. He set the record between 3:44 PM and 3:49 PM on October 8th, 2010.

Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya

Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya posted a tweetcontaining 27 chemical element symbols of the Periodic Table Of Elements from the letters in “LIVESTRONG” in a single tweet.

Rahamath Ali

Rahamath Ali wrote 118 element symbols from the periodic table of the elements while wearing a blindfold in one minute, 46.36 seconds.