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Sir Andre Geim, who had been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize (a satiric prize) in 2000 for levitating a frog by magnetism, was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics in 2010 for his work with the electromagnetic properties of graphene. He is the only individual, as of 2023, to have received both a Nobel and an Ig Nobel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize