Andre Geim won the Ignobel prize in 2000 for magnetically levitating a frog and then won the Nobel prize in 2010 for his work on Graphene. He is the only person to win both awards.
Frog flight

Andre Geim won the Ignobel prize in 2000 for magnetically levitating a frog and then won the Nobel prize in 2010 for his work on Graphene. He is the only person to win both awards.