The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 citizens or residents of the U.S., of any age and working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work. A nickname is a Name of an entity or thing that is not its Proper name. The John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation is a major private grant -making Private foundation based in Chicago that has awarded more than US$4 billion The United States of America —commonly referred to as the " According to the Foundation website, "the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishment, but rather an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential. " The current amount of the award is $500,000, paid in quarterly installments over five years. As of 2007, there have been 731 recipients who have received a total of more than $350 million. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.

The Fellowship has no application. People are nominated anonymously, by a body of nominators who submit recommendations to a small selection committee of about a dozen people, also anonymous. The committee then reviews every nominee and passes along their recommendations to the President and the board of directors. The entire process is anonymous and confidential. Most new MacArthur Fellows first learn that they have even been considered when they receive the congratulatory phone call. A New York Times Op-Ed by MacArthur genius Jim Collins describes the experience. James J Collins ( June 26, 1965) is an American Bioengineer, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, and a Howard

Contents 1 List of MacArthur Fellows 1.1 1981 1.2 1982 1.3 1983 1.4 1984 1.5 1985 1.6 1986 1.7 1987 1.8 1988 1.9 1989 1.10 1990 1.11 1991 1.12 1992 1.13 1993 1.14 1994 1.15 1995 1.16 1996 1.17 1997 1.18 1998 1.19 1999 1.20 2000 1.21 2001 1.22 2002 1.23 2003 1.24 2004 1.25 2005 1.26 2006 1.27 2007 2 References in popular culture 3 References 4 External links

List of MacArthur Fellows

MacArthur Fellows organized by the year of their awards:

1981

A. R. Ammons, poet Joseph Brodsky, poet Gregory V. Chudnovsky, mathematician Robert Coles, child psychiatrist Shelly Errington, cultural anthropologist Henry Louis Gates, Jr., literary critic Michael Ghiselin, evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, paleontology Ian Graham, archaeologist John Imbrie, climatologist Elma Lewis, arts educator James Alan McPherson, novelist, writer Roy P. Mottahedeh, historian Douglas D. Osheroff, physicist Robert Root-Bernstein, biologist and historian of science Lawrence Rosen, attorney and anthropologist Carl E. Schorske, intellectual historian Leslie Marmon Silko, writer Derek Walcott, poet and playwright Robert Penn Warren, poet, writer, and literary critic Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist and physicist[1]

John Cairns, molecular biologist Joel E. Cohen, population biologist Richard Critchfield, essayist Howard Gardner, psychologist John Gaventa, sociologist David Hawkins, philosopher John P. Holdren, arms control and energy analyst Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic and historian Robert Kates, geographer Raphael Carl Lee, surgeon Cormac McCarthy, writer Barbara McClintock, geneticist Richard C. A R Ammons, or Archie Randolph Ammons, ( February 18, 1926 &ndash February 25, 2001) was an award-winning major American Joseph Brodsky ( May 24, 1940 — January 28, 1996) born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Иосиф Александрович Бродский The Chudnovsky brothers (both born in Kiev) are mathematicians known for their wide mathematical ability their home-built supercomputers and their close working Robert Coles (b October 12, 1929) is an American Author, child psychiatrist and professor at Harvard University. Shelly Errington is a Cultural anthropologist specializing in the studies of plastic and Narrative arts focusing on Documentary film, Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, educator scholar writer editor and Public intellectual Michael T Ghiselin is an American biologist philosopher/historian of biology currently at the California Academy of Sciences. Stephen Jay Gould (September 10 1941 &ndash May 20 2002 was a prominent American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science Ian Graham (born 5 January 1943 is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL during the 1960s John Imbrie (born July 4, 1925) is an American Paleoceanographer. Elma Idna Lewis ( September 15, 1921 &ndash January 1, 2004) was the founder of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (including James Alan McPherson (born September 16, 1943 in Savannah, Georgia) is a United States short story writer and essayist and a recipient Roy Parviz Mottahedeh (born July 3, 1940 in New York City) is a professor of pre-modern social and intellectual history of the Islamic Middle East at Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist Professor Robert Root-Bernstein (b August 7 1953 ( PhD, Princeton University) is a professor of Physiology at Michigan State University. Lawrence Rosen (also Larry Rosen is an attorney and computer specialist Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon on March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a Native American writer of the Laguna Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West Indies poet playwright writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. Robert Penn Warren (April 24 1905 &ndash September 15 1989 was an American poet Novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. Stephen Wolfram (born August 29, 1959 in London) is a British Physicist, Mathematician and Businessman known for his Joel E Cohen (b February 10, 1944) is a mathematical biologist Howard Gardner (born July 11, 1943 in Scranton Pennsylvania) is an American Psychologist who is based at New York University John Gaventa (born 1949 is a political sociologist and a fellow with the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. David Hawkins may refer to David Hawkins (basketball (born 1982 American basketball player David Hawkins (defector (born 1933 American John P Holdren is the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Ada Louise (Landman Huxtable (b March 14 1921 in New York NY is an Architecture Critic and Writer on architecture Robert W Kates (born 1929 is an American geographer and independent scholar in Trenton Maine, and University Professor (Emeritus at Brown University. Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933 in Providence Rhode Island) is an American Novelist and Barbara McClintock (June 16 1902 – September 2 1992 the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished Mulligan, molecular biologist Elaine H. Pagels, historian of religion David Pingree, Historian of Science Paul G. Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey (born February 13, 1943) is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University David Edwin Pingree ( January 2, 1933 - November 11, 2005) late University Professor and Professor of History of Mathematics and Classics at Richards, seismologist Richard Rorty, philosopher Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., astrophysicist Michael Woodford, economist George Zweig, physicist and neurobiologist[2]

1982

Fouad Ajami, political scientist Charles A. Bigelow, graphic designer Peter Robert Lamont Brown, historian Robert Darnton, European historian Persi Diaconis, statistician William Gaddis, novelist Ved Mehta, writer Robert Parris Moses, educator and philosopher Richard A. Muller, geologist and astrophysicist

Conlon Nancarrow, composer Alfonso Ortiz, cultural anthropologist Francesca Rochberg, Assyriologist and historian of science Charles Sabel, political scientist and legal scholar Ralph Shapey, composer and conductor Michael Silverstein, lingust Randolph Whitfield, Jr, ophthalmologist Frank Wilczek, physicist Frederick Wiseman, documentary filmmaker Edward Witten, physicist [3]

1983

R. Stephen Berry, physical chemist Philip D. Curtin, historian of Africa William H. Richard McKay Rorty (October 4 1931 - June 8 2007 was an American Philosopher. Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr (born March 29, 1941) is an American Astrophysicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Michael Dean Woodford is an American macroeconomist who currently teaches at Columbia University George Zweig (born 1937 in Moscow Russia into a Jewish family was originally trained as a Particle physicist under Richard Feynman and later turned his attention Personal Ajami was born on September 19 1945 in Arnoun a rocky hamlet in the south of Lebanon Charles Bigelow (b 1945 Detroit Michigan) is a type historian professor and designer Peter Robert Lamont Brown (born 1935 was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a Protestant family Robert Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American Cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on eighteenth-century France. Persi Warren Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American Mathematician and former professional magician William Gaddis ( December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist Ved (Parkash Mehta (Born March 21, 1934) is a distinguished Indian Writer who was born in Lahore, British India (now a Pakistani Robert Parris Moses (born Harlem, New York, January 23, 1935, usually known as Bob Moses) is an American Harvard Richard A Muller of San Francisco California, US, is a Physicist who works at the University of California Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Conlon Nancarrow (born October 27 1912 &ndash August 10 1997) was a U Charles Frederick Sabel (born December 1, 1947) is an American Academic and professor of Law and Social Science at the Columbia Law School Ralph Shapey ( March 12, 1921 - June 13, 2002) was an American Composer and conductor. Michael Silverstein (born 1945 is a professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Psychology at the University of Chicago. Frank Anthony Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate. Frederick Wiseman (born 1 January 1935 in Boston Massachusetts, U Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American Theoretical physicist and Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study R Stephen Berry (born 1931 in Denver, Colorado) is a US professor of Physical chemistry. Philip D Curtin (born 1922 is a Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University and historian on Africa and the Atlantic slave trade. Durham, biological anthropologist Bradley Efron, statistician David L. Bradley Efron (born May 1938 is a statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of Statistics Felten, neuroscientist Shelomo Goitein, medieval historian Ramon Gutierrez, historian Bela Julesz, psychologist William Kennedy, novelist Leszek Kolakowski, historian of philosophy and religion Brad Leithauser, poet and writer Lawrence W. Béla Julesz ( February 19, 1928 &ndash December 31, 2003) was a visual neuroscientist and experimental psychologist in the fields of visual William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American Writer and Journalist born and raised in Albany New York Leszek Kołakowski (born 23 October, 1927 in Radom, Poland) is a distinguished Polish Philosopher and historian of Brad Leithauser (born February 27, 1953) is an American Poet, Novelist Essayist and Teacher. Levine, historian Ralph Manheim, translator Charles S. Peskin, mathematician and physiologist Julia Robinson, mathematician John Sayles, filmmaker and writer Peter Sellars, theater and opera director

Adrian Wilson (book designer), book designer, printer, and historian of the book Irene J. Ralph Manheim ( 4 April 1907 - 26 September 1992) was an American Translator of German and French literature Charles S Peskin (born in June 1947 is a professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. Julia Hall Bowman Robinson ( December 8, 1919 – July 30, 1985) was an American Mathematician, born in St John Thomas Sayles (born September 28 1950) is an American Independent film director and Screenwriter who frequently Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American Theater director, renowned for his contemporary stagings Winter, art historian and archaeologist Mark S. Wrighton, chemist[4] Seweryn Bialer, political scientist William C. Mark Stephen Wrighton (born 1949) is an American Academic, a Chemist, and the current Chancellor of Washington University in Clark, ecologist and environmental policy analyst Randall W. Forsberg, political scientist and arms control strategist Alexander L. George, political scientist Mott T. Dr Randall Caroline Forsberg ( July 23, 1943 – October 19, 2007) led a lifetime of research and advocacy on ways to reduce the risk of war Alexander L George (May 31 1920-August 16 2006 was the Graham H Greene, historian of science John J. Hopfield, physicist and biologist Sylvia A. Law, human rights lawyer Robert K. Merton, historian and sociologist of science Walter F. John Joseph Hopfield (b July 15, 1933) is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative Neural network Sylvia A Law is the Elizabeth K Dollard Professor of Law Medicine and Psychiatry and the Co-Director of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program at New York University Robert King Merton ( July 4, 1910 &ndash February 23, 2003, born Meyer R Morris, Jr. , cultural preservationist A.K. Ramanujan, poet, translator, and literary scholar Alice M. Rivlin, economist and policy analyst Richard M. Schoen, mathematician Karen K. Uhlenbeck, mathematician[5]

1984

George W. Archibald, ornithologist Ernesto J. Cortes, Jr., community organizer Robert Hass, poet, critic, and translator J. For the mathematician, see Srinivasa Ramanujan Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan (1929-1993 was a scholar of Indian literature Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born March 4, 1931, in Philadelphia) is an Economist, a former U Richard Melvin Schoen (born October 23 1950) is an American Mathematician. Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (born August 24, 1942 in Cleveland Ohio) is a Professor and Sid W George William Archibald (born 13 July 1946 was the inaugural winner of the 2006 Indianapolis Prize and co-founder of the International Crane Foundation. Ernesto Cortes Jr is a community organizer affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF and Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS Robert L Hass (b March 1, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet Bryan Hass, religion and foreign policy scholar Robert Irwin, painter and installation artist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, novelist and screenwriter Paul Oskar Kristeller, intellectual historian and philosopher Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, educator Heather Lechtman, materials scientist and archaeologist Michael Lerner (environmentalist), public health leader Andrew W. Robert Irwin (born Sep 12 1928 is an American Installation artist. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (born May 7, 1927) is a Booker prize-winning Novelist Short story writer and two-time Paul Oskar Kristeller ( May 22, 1905 in Berlin - July 7, 1999 in New York, USA) was an important scholar of Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is an American Sociologist who examines the culture of schools the patterns and structures of classroom life Socialization within Lewis, medieval historian Arnold J. Mandell, neuroscientist and psychiatrist Matthew Meselson, geneticist and arms control analyst David R. Matthew Stanley Meselson (b May 24, 1930) is an American Geneticist and molecular biologist whose research was important in showing how DNA replicates Nelson, physicist Michael Piore, economist Judith N. Shklar, political philosopher Charles Simic, poet, translator, and essayist David Stuart, linguist and epigrapher John E. Michael Joseph Piore (born August 14, 1940) is an American Economist and professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute Judith Nisse Shklar ( September 24, 1928 – September 17, 1992) was a Political theorist, the John Cowles Professor of Government Charles Simic (ˈtʃ​͡ɑːɻls ˈʂimitɕ​͡ born Dušan Simić, May 9, 1938 in Belgrade, Serbia) is a Serbian Dr David Stuart (born 1965) is a Mayanist scholar and Professor of Mesoamerican Art and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. Toews, intellectual historian James Turrell, light sculptor Jay Weiss, psychologist Carl R. Woese, molecular biologist[6] Shelly Bernstein, pediatric hematologist Peter J. James Turrell (born 1943, Los Angeles) is an artist primarily concerned with Light and Space. Carl Richard Woese (born July 15 1928, Syracuse New York) is an American Microbiologist who attended Deerfield Academy Bickel, statistician

William Drayton, public service innovator Sidney Drell, physicist and arms policy analyst Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, mathematical physicist Michael H. Freedman, mathematician Curtis G. For other men with this name see William Drayton (disambiguation. Sidney Drell (born September 13, 1926) is an American theoretical physicist and Arms control expert Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum (born December 19 1944) is a mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in Chaos theory led to the discovery Michael Hartley Freedman (born 21 April 1951 in Los Angeles, California, U Hames, family physician Shirley Heath, linguistic anthropologist Bette Howland, writer and literary critic Bill Irwin, writer and performance artist Fritz John, mathematician Galway Kinnell, poet Henry Kraus, art historian Peter Mathews, archaeologist and epigrapher Beaumont Newhall, historian of photography Roger S. Payne, zoologist and conservationist Edward V. William Mills "Bill" Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American Actor and Clown noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American Fritz John (1910–1994 was a German born mathematician specialising in Partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. Galway Kinnell (born February 1st 1927 in Providence Rhode Island) is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century Beaumont Newhall ( June 22, 1908 - 1993 was an influential Curator, Art historian, Writer, and Photographer. Roger Payne is a biologist and environmentalist made famous by (together with Scott McVay) in 1967 discovering Whale song among Humpback whales. Roberts, civil rights leader Elliot Sperling, Tibetan studies scholar Frank Sulloway, psychologist (child birth-order research) Alar Toomre, astronomer and mathematician Amos Tversky, cognitive scientist J. Kirk Varnedoe, art historian Bret Wallach, geographer Arthur Winfree, physiologist and mathematician Billie Young, community development leader[7]

1985

Joan Abrahamson, community development leader John Ashbery, poet John F. | Elliot Sperling is Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and an expert on the History of Tibet and Tibetan - Chinese relations at Frank J Sulloway is a visiting Scholar in the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley and a Visiting Professor Alar Toomre is an Estonian born astronomer and mathematician who immigrated to the United States in 1949 Amos Nathan Tversky, PhD (עמוס טברסקי March 16, 1937 - June 2, 1996) was a cognitive and mathematical psychologist John Kirk Train Varnedoe (Jan 18 1946 – Aug 15 2003 was an American art historian and writer a Professor of the History of Art at the Institute for Advanced Arthur Taylor Winfree ( May 15, 1942 - November 5, 2002) was a noted theoretical biologist at the University of Arizona. John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is Benton, medieval historian Harold Bloom, literary critic Valery Chalidze, physicist and human rights organizer William Cronon, environmental historian Merce Cunningham, choreographer Jared Diamond, environmental historian and physiologist Marian Edelman, Children's Defense Fund founder Morton Halperin, political scientist Robert M. Hayes, lawyer and human rights leader Edwin Hutchins, cognitive scientist Sam Maloof, Woodworker

Andrew McGuire, trauma prevention specialist Patrick Noonan, conservationist George Oster, mathematical biologist Thomas G. Palaima, classicist Peter Raven, botanist Jane S. Richardson, biochemist Gregory Schopen, historian of religion Franklin Stahl, geneticist J. Harold Bloom' (born July 11, 1930) is a Literary critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations Valery Chalidze (ვალერი ჭალიძე Валерий Николаевич Чалидзе Valeriy Nikolayevich Chalidze) (born 1938 is a Georgian William Cronon (born September 11, 1954) is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History Geography and Environmental Studies at the See also Merce Cunningham (born April 16, 1919 in Centralia Washington, United States is an American Dancer and choreographer TemplateInfobox writer --> Jared Mason Diamond (b 10 September, 1937) is an American Evolutionary biologist Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939, in Bennettsville South Carolina) is an American Activist for the rights of children Morton H Halperin (born June 13, 1938) is an American expert on foreign policy and civil liberties Robert M Hayes (born 1926 is Professor Emeritus and former dean of the School of Library Service (1974-1989 now the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Edwin Hutchins is a professor and former department head of Cognitive science at the University of California San Diego. Sam Maloof (born January 24 1916) is a Furniture designer and maker Thomas G Palaima (born October 6, 1951) is a Mycenologist the Raymond F Peter Hamilton Raven (b June 13, 1936) is a Botanist and Environmentalist, notable as the longtime director of the Missouri Botanical Jane Shelby Richardson (born 1941 in Teaneck New Jersey Biography While attending high school in 1958 she won third place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Dr Franklin William Stahl (born October 8, 1929) is an American molecular biologist. Richard Steffy, nautical archaeologist Ellen Stewart, theater director Paul Taylor, choreographer, dance company founder Shing-Tung Yau, mathematician [8]

1986

Paul Adams, neurobiologist Milton Babbitt, composer Christopher Beckwith, philologist Richard Benson, photographer Lester R. Brown, agricultural economist Caroline Bynum, medieval historian William A. Ellen Stewart (born November 7 1918 Alexandria Louisiana) is an American Theater director and producer and the founder of La MaMa E Paul Taylor (born July 29, 1930) is one of the foremost American Choreographers of the 20th century. Shing-Tung Yau ( born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese American Mathematician working in Differential geometry, and involved Milton Byron Babbitt (born May 10 1916 is an American Composer. Christopher I Beckwith (born 1945 is a professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana. For the Canadian football player of the same name see Lester Brown (football player. Caroline Walker Bynum is an American Medieval scholar She is a University Professor Emerita at Columbia University, where she still teaches Christian, historian of religion Nancy Farriss, historian Benedict Gross, mathematician Daryl Hine, poet and translator John Robert Horner, paleobiologist Thomas C. Benedict Gross (born June 22, 1950) is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University and former Dean of Harvard College John "Jack" R Horner (born June 15, 1946) is an American paleontologist who discovered and named Maiasaura Joe, social policy analyst David Keightley, historian and sinologist

Albert J. Libchaber, physicist David C. Page, molecular geneticist George Perle, composer and music theorist James Randi, educator David Rudovsky, civil rights lawyer Robert Shapley, neurophysiologist Leo Steinberg, art historian Richard P. Albert J Libchaber (1934- is a Detlev W Bronk Professor at Rockefeller University David C Page, MD is a professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT) and the director of the Whitehead Institute, where he has George Perle (born May 6, 1915 in Bayonne New Jersey) is a Composer and music theorist. James Randi (born August 7 1928 (stage name The Amazing Randi) is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of Paranormal David Rudovsky (born 1943, Queens New York) is a civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia. Leo Steinberg (born 1920 is an American art historian He has won literary awards as well as awards for his criticism Turco, atmospheric scientist Thomas Whiteside, journalist Allan C. Wilson, biochemist Jay Wright, poet and playwright Charles Wuorinen, composer[9]

1987

Walter Abish, writer Robert Axelrod, political scientist Robert F. Jay Wright may refer to Jay Wright (coach (born 1961 men's head basketball coach of Villanova University Jay Wright (poet (born 1935 Charles Wuorinen (b June 9, 1938 in New York City is an American Composer. Walter Abish (born December 24 1931) is an American author of experimental novels and short stories Robert Axelrod (born 1943 is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Coleman, mathematician Douglas Crase, poet Daniel Friedan, physicist David Gross, physicist Ira Herskowitz, molecular geneticist Irving Howe, literary and social critic Wesley Charles Jacobs, Jr. Douglas Crase (born 1944) is an American poet essayist and critic Daniel Friedan is an American theoretical physicist and is one of two sons of Betty Friedan. David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington DC Irving Howe ( June 11, 1920 &ndash May 5, 1993) was an American literary and social critic , rural planner Peter Jeffery, musicologist Horace Freeland Judson, historian of science Stuart Alan Kauffman, evolutionary biologist Richard Kenney, poet Eric Lander, geneticist and mathematician Michael Malin, geologist and planetary scientist Deborah W. Meier, education reform leader

Arnaldo Dante Momigliano, historian David Mumford, mathematician Tina Rosenberg, journalist David Rumelhart, cognitive scientist and psychologist Robert Morris Sapolsky, neuroendocrinologist and primatologist Meyer Schapiro, art historian John H. Schwarz, physicist Jon Seger, evolutionary ecologist Stephen Shenker, physicist David Dean Shulman, historian of religion Muriel S. Horace Freeland Judson (born April 21 1931 is a Historian of Molecular biology and the author of several books including The Eighth Day of Creation, Stuart Alan A Kauffman ( 28 September, 1939) is an American theoretical Biologist and Complex systems researcher concerning the Origin of Richard L Kenney (born 1948 is a Poet and Professor of English at the University of Washington. Eric Steven Lander (born February 3, 1957) is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michael C Malin (born 1950 is an American Astronomer, space-scientist and CEO of Malin Space Science Systems. Deborah Meier (born April 6, 1931) is often considered the founder of the modern small schools movement Arnaldo Dante Momigliano KBE ( September 5, 1908 Caraglio, Piemont – September 1, 1987 London) was an Italian David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is a Mathematician known for distinguished work in Algebraic geometry, and then for research into Tina Rosenberg (born 1960 in Brooklyn New York) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist and Author. David Everett Rumelhart (b 1942, Wessington Springs, South Dakota) has made many contributions to the formal analysis of Human cognition, working Robert Maurice Sapolsky (born 1957) is the John A and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences and by courtesy Meyer Schapiro (born September 23, 1904, in Shavel / Šiauliai, Lithuania; died March 3, 1996 in New York John Henry Schwarz (born 1941) is an American theoretical physicist. Stephen Shenker is an American theoretical physicist who works on String theory. Snowden, community organizer Mark Strand, poet and writer May Swenson, poet Huynh Thong, translator and editor William Julius Wilson, sociologist Richard Wrangham, primate ethologist[10]

1988

Charles Archambeau, geophysicist Michael Baxandall, art historian Ruth Behar, cultural anthropologist Ran Blake, composer and pianist Charles Burnett, filmmaker Philip James DeVries, insect biologist Andre Dubus, writer Helen T. Edwards, physicist Jon H. Mark Strand (born April 11, 1934) is an American Poet, Essayist, and Translator. May Swenson (b Anna Thilda May Swenson, May 28, 1913 in Logan Utah - December 4, 1989 in Bethany Beach Delaware William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is an American sociologist. Richard Wrangham is a British primatologist. He is a Professor in Biological Anthropology at Harvard University. Michael David Kighley Baxandall FBA ( August 18 1933 &ndash August 12 2008) was a prominent British-born art historian Ruth Behar (born 1956 in Havana, Cuba) is a Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, poet and writer who teaches at the University Ran Blake (born April 20, 1935) is an American Pianist and composer Charles Burnett ( April 13, 1944, Vicksburg Mississippi) is a MacArthur Award -winning American filmmaker Philip James DeVries PhD (born March 7, 1952) is a tropical biologist whose research focuses on insect ecology and evolution especially butterflies Andre Dubus ( August 11, 1936 - February 24, 1999) was an American Short story writer Essayist, and autobiographer Helen Thom Edwards (born 1936 is an American Physicist. She led the effort to design and build the Tevatron, at present the world's highest energy Particle accelerator Else, documentary filmmaker John G. Fleagle, primatologist and paleontologist Cornell H. Fleischer, Middle Eastern historian Getatchew Haile, philologist and linguist Raymond Jeanloz, geophysicist Marvin Phillip Kahl, zoologist Naomi Pierce, biologist Thomas Pynchon, novelist Stephen J. Pyne, environmental historian

Max Roach, percussionist and jazz composer Hipolito (Paul) Roldan, community developer Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, archaeologist David Alan Rosenberg, military historian Susan Irene Rotroff, archaeologist Bruce Schwartz, figurative sculptor and puppeteer Robert Shaw, physicist Jonathan Spence, historian Noel M. Swerdlow, historian of science Gary A. Cornell Fleischer is the Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at the University of Chicago. Raymond Jeanloz is a professor of earth and Planetary science and of Astronomy at the University of California Berkeley. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr (born May 8 1937 is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of Fiction. Stephen J Pyne is a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, specializing in the History of Ecology, the history of Exploration Maxwell Lemuel Roach ( January 10, 1924 &ndash August 16, 2007) was an American Jazz Percussionist, Drummer Bruce D Schwartz is an American Puppeteer and sculptor By extension he is also a mimic storyteller and clown Robert Stetson Shaw is an American physicist who was part of Eudaemonic Enterprises in Santa Cruz in the late 1970s and early 1980s Jonathan D Spence (Chinese name, August 11, 1936 &ndash) is a British-born Historian and Public intellectual specializing in Chinese Noel M Swerdlow (born 1941) is Professor of History and of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Tomlinson, musicologist Alan Walker, paleontologist Eddie Williams, policy analyst and civil rights leader Rita P. Alan Walker (born August 23 1938 is Evan Pugh Professor of Biological Anthropology and Biology at the Pennsylvania State University. Edward Laquan Williams (born November 1, 1964, in Shreveport Louisiana, United States was a Major League Baseball first baseman and third Wright, archaeologist Garth Youngberg, agriculturalist[11]

1989

Anthony Amsterdam, attorney and legal scholar Byllye Avery, women's healthcare leader Alvin Bronstein, human rights lawyer Leo Buss, evolutionary biologist Jay Cantor, writer George Davis, environmental policy analyst Allen Grossman, poet John Harbison, composer and conductor Keith Hefner, journalist and educator Ralf Hotchkiss, rehabilitation engineer John Rice Irwin, curator and cultural preservationist Daniel Janzen, ecologist Bernice Johnson Reagon, music historian, composer, and vocalist Aaron Lansky, cultural preservationist Jennifer Moody, archaeologist and anthropologist

Errol Morris, filmmaker Vivian Paley, educator and writer Richard Powers, novelist Martin Puryear, sculptor Theodre Rosengarten, historian Margaret W. Byllye Yvonne Avery (born 1937 is a Health care activist in the United States of America. Leo W Buss is a Professor in Yale University 's departments of Geology, Geophysics, and Ecology and Evolutionary biology. George Davis may refer to George Davis (actor (1889-1965 Dutch-born American actor George Davis (armed robber (b Allen Grossman is a noted American poet, Critic and Professor. John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938 in Orange New Jersey) is a Composer, best known for his Operas Keith Hefner is the founder and Executive Director of Youth Communications, an influential Nonprofit organization supporting foster youth in New Ralf Hotchkiss is an inventor and Whirlwind wheelchair designer whose company Whirlwind Wheelchair International designs wheelchairs for use and manufacture in developing countries Daniel Hunt Janzen (born 1939 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US) is an evolutionary ecologist, naturalist, and conservationist Dr Bernice Johnson Reagon (born October 4, 1942) is a singer composer scholar and social activist, who founded the A cappella Aaron Lansky (born 1955 is the founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language publications Errol Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American Academy Award winning Documentary film director Vivian Gussin Paley, born in 1929 is a noted kindergarten teacher child Psychologist and early childhood education researcher Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American Novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology Martin Puryear (born May 23, 1941) is an African Rossiter, historian of science George Russell, composer and music theorist Pam Solo, arms control analyst Ellendea Proffer Teasley, translator and publisher Clair Van Vliet, book artist Baldemar Velasquez, farm labor leader Bill Viola, video artist Eliot Wigginton, educator Patricia Wright, primatologist [12]

1990

John Christian Bailar, biostatistician Martha Clarke, theater director Jacques d'Amboise, dance educator Guy Davenport, writer and critic Lisa Delpit, education reform leader John Eaton, composer Paul R. Ehrlich, population biologist Charlotte Erickson, historian Lee Friedlander, photographer Margaret Geller, astrophysicist Jorie Graham, poet Patricia Hampl, writer John Hollander, poet and literary critic Thomas Cleveland Holt, social and cultural historian David Kazhdan, mathematician Calvin King, land and farm development specialist M. George Allen Russell (born June 23, 1923) is an American Jazz Pianist, Composer and theorist Baldemar Velázquez (born Pharr Texas, February 15 1947) is president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, an organization Bill Viola (born America 1951 is a contemporary video artist. Eliot Wigginton (born 1942 is an American oral historian, Folklorist, Writer and former Educator. Patricia Wright, a Conservationist and leading Lemur expert is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York Martha Clarke (born June 3, 1944) is an American choreographer and director noted for her multidisciplinary approach to dance theatre and opera productions See also Jacques d'Amboise (born Joseph Jacques Ahearn on July 28, 1934 in Dedham Massachusetts Guy Mattison Davenport ( November 23 1927 – January 4 2005) was an American Writer, Translator, Illustrator Lisa D Delpit is the Benjamin E Mays Professor of Urban Educational Leadership at Georgia State University in Atlanta Georgia, and also the director of the Center John Eaton, (born 30 March 1935 in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania) is an American Composer and MacArthur Fellow. Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29 1932 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is a renowned Entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies Lee Friedlander (born July 14, 1934) is an American Photographer and Artist. Margaret J Geller is an American Astronomer and Professor. She is a Senior Astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and has Jorie Graham (born May 9, 1950) is an American Poet and the editor of numerous volumes of John Hollander (born October 28, 1929 in New York City) is an American Poet and literary Critic. David Kazhdan (spelled דוד קשדן in Hebrew Každan or Kajdan in translations of some of his earlier papers formerly named Дми́трий Александрович A. R. Koehl, marine biologist Nancy Kopell, mathematician

Michael Moschen, performance artist Gary Nabhan, ethnobotanist Sherry Ortner, anthropologist Otis Pitts, community development leader Yvonne Rainer, filmmaker and choreographer Michael Schudson, sociologist Rebecca J. Michael Moschen is a Juggler. He received a Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation (the so-called "Genius Grant" in 1990 and has appeared on TV Gary Paul Nabhan (1952-) is an ecologist Ethnobotanist, and writer whose work has focused primarily on the plants and cultures of the desert Southwest. Sherry Beth Ortner (born September 19, 1941) is an American Cultural anthropologist and has been Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934, San Francisco) is an American choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in both Michael Schudson is an American academic Sociologist working in the fields of Journalism and its history and public culture Scott, historian Marc Shell, scholar Susan Sontag, writer and cultural critic Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation founder, Copyleft concept inventor Guy Tudor, conservationist Maria Varela, community development leader Gregory Vlastos, classicist and philosopher Kent Whealy, preservationist Eric Wolf, anthropologist Sidney Wolfe, physician Robert Woodson, community development leader Jose Zalaquett, human rights lawyer[13]

1991

Jacqueline Barton, biophysical chemist Paul Berman, journalist James Blinn, computer animator Taylor Branch, social historian Trisha Brown, choreographer Mari Jo Buhle, American historian Patricia Churchland, philosopher David Donoho, statistician Steven Feld, anthropologist Alice Fulton, poet Guillermo Gómez-Peña, writer and artist Jerzy Grotowski, theater director David Hammons, artist Sophia Harris, child care leader Lewis Hyde, writer Ali Akbar Khan, musician

Sergiu Klainerman, mathematician Martin Kreitman, geneticist Harlan Lane, psychologist and linguist William Linder, community development leader Patricia Locke, tribal rights leader Mark Morris, choreographer and dancer Marcel Ophüls, documentary filmmaker Arnold Rampersad, biographer and literary critic Gunther Schuller, composer, conductor, jazz historian Joel Schwartz, epidemiologist Cecil Taylor, jazz pianist and composer Julie Taymor, theater director David Werner, health care leader James Westphal, engineer and scientist Eleanor Wilner, poet [14]

1992

Janet Benshoof, attorney Robert Blackburn, printmaker Unita Blackwell, civil rights leader Lorna Bourg, rural development leader Stanley Cavell, philosopher Amy Clampitt, poet Ingrid Daubechies, mathematician Wendy Ewald, photographer Irving Feldman, poet Barbara Fields, historian Robert Hall, journalist Ann Hanson, historian John Henry Holland, computer scientist Wes Jackson, agronomist Evelyn Keller, historian and philosopher of science Steve Lacy, saxophonist and composer Suzanne Lebsock, social historian

Sharon Long, plant biologist Norman Manea, writer Paule Marshall, writer Michael Massing, journalist Robert McCabe, educator Susan Meiselas, photojournalist Amalia Mesa-Bains, artist and cultural critic Stephen Schneider, climatologist Joanna Scott, writer John T. Marc Shell, born 1947 in Montreal is a Canadian Literary critic, currently Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Harvard Susan Sontag ( January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American Literary theorist, Philosopher, Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16 1953 often abbreviated " rms " is an American software freedom activist Copyleft is a play on the word Copyright and describes the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions Gregory Vlastos ( July 27, 1907 &ndash October 12, 1991) was a Scholar of ancient Philosophy, and author of several works Kent Whealy is co-founder with his ex-wife Diane Whealy, of the Seed Savers Exchange, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the seed lines of Eric R Wolf ( February 1, 1923 &ndash March 6, 1999) was an Anthropologist, best known for his studies of Peasants, José Zalaquett Daher is a Chilean lawyer renowned for his work in the defence of Human rights during the De facto regime that governed Professor Jacqueline K Barton is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. Paul Berman is an American author and journalist who writes on politics and literature James F Blinn is a computer scientist who first became widely known for his work as a computer graphics expert at NASA 's Taylor Branch (born January 14, 1947 in Atlanta Georgia) is an American author and Historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of Trisha Brown ( 25 November 1936, Aberdeen Washington, US) is a Postmodernist American choreographer and Dancer. Patricia Smith Churchland (born July 16, 1943 in Oliver British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian-American Philosopher working at the Steven Feld is an American Ethnomusicologist Anthropologist, and linguist, who worked for many years with the Kaluli ( Bosavi Alice Fulton (born in Troy New York, USA is a United States Poet and Author. Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born in Mexico City and moved to the US in 1978 where he established himself as a Performance artist writer activist and educator Jerzy Grotowski (11 August 1933 Rzeszów, Poland - 14 January 1999 Pontedera, Italy) was a Polish theatre director who developed David Hammons (born 1943 is an African-American artist mostly known for his works in and around New York City during the 1970s and 1980s Audrey Sophia “Sophie” Harris ( 2 July 1900 &ndash 10 March 1966) was an English award winning theatre and opera costume and scenic Lewis Hyde is a scholar and writer whose scholarly work focuses on the nature of Imagination, Creativity, and Property. Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (আলী আকবর খাঁ a master of the Sarod, His performances worldwide have established the modern sarod idiom and contributed Harlan Lane is a professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts, in the United States See also Mark Morris (born August 29, 1956) is an American Modern dancer Choreographer and director Marcel Ophüls (born November 1, 1927) is a Documentary film maker Arnold Rampersad (born 13 November 1941) is an acclaimed biographer and literary critic Gunther Schuller (born November 22 1925) is an American Composer and horn player Cecil Percival Taylor (born March 15 or March 25, 1929 in New York City) is an American Pianist and poet Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of Broadway theatre and film David Werner is co-founder and Director of HealthWrights (based in Palo Alto California) and a Visiting Professor at Boston University International School of Public Robert Blackburn ( December 10 1920 &ndash April 21 2003) was an African American artist teacher and printmaker Unita Blackwell (born 18 March 1933) was the first African-American woman to be elected a mayor in the U Stanley Louis Cavell (born September 1, 1926) is an American Philosopher. Amy Clampitt ( June 15, 1920 - September 10, 1994) was an American poet and Author. Ingrid Daubechies (born August 17, 1954) (approximate pronunciation "Dobe-uh-shee" is a Belgian Physicist and Mathematician Irving Feldman (born on 22 September 1928 in Brooklyn New York is an American poet and professor of English Barbara Jeanne Fields is a professor of American history at Columbia University. The Rev Robert Hall ( 2 May, 1764 - 21 February, 1831) was an English Baptist minister Ann Meekitjuk Hanson (Inuktitut ᐋᓐ ᒦᖀᑦᔩᒃ ᐦᐋᓐᓱᓐ/an miiqitjuk hansun (born May 22 1946) is the Commissioner of Nunavut John Henry Holland ( 2 February, 1929) is an American scientist and Professor of Psychology and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Wes Jackson is the founder and current president of The Land Institute. Evelyn Keller may refer to Evelyn Fox Keller (born 1936 an American physicist author and feminist and is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science This article is about the jazz musician For the CEO of Meredith see Steve Lacy (businessman. Suzanne Lebsock (born 1949 is an award winning author and historian Norman Manea (born July 19, 1936) is a Romanian writer and intellectual Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American Author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian Michael Massing is a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. Susan Meiselas (born 1948 is an American Photographer. Meiselas was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Stephen H Schneider (born c 1945 is Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change ( Professor by Courtesy in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Joanna Scott (born 1960 is an American author and Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Scott, artist John Terborgh, conservation biologist Twyla Tharp, dancer and choreographer Philip Treisman, mathematics educator Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, historian Geerat J. Vermeij, evolutionary biologist Gunter Wagner, developmental biologist[15]

1993

Nancy Cartwright, philosopher Demetrios Christodoulou, mathematician and physicist Maria Crawford, geologist Stanley Crouch, jazz critic and writer Nora England, anthropological linguist Paul Farmer, medical anthropologist Victoria Foe, developmental biologist Ernest Gaines, writer Pedro Greer, physician Thom Gunn, poet and literary critic Ann Hamilton, artist Sokoni Karanja, child and family development specialist Ann Lauterbach, poet and literary critic Stephen Lee, chemist Carol Levine, AIDS policy specialist Amory Lovins, physicist and energy analyst

Jane Lubchenco, marine biologist Ruth Lubic, nurse / midwife Jim Powell, poet and translator Margie Profet, evolutionary biologist Thomas Scanlon, philosopher Aaron Shirley, health care leader William Siemering, journalist and radio producer Ellen Silbergeld, biologist Leonard van der Kuijp, philologist and historian Frank von Hippel, arms control and energy analyst John Wideman, writer Heather Williams, biologist and ornithologist Marion Williams, gospel music performer Robert H. Twyla Tharp (born July 1 1941) is a American Dancer and Choreographer. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938) is a pre-eminent historian of early America and the history of women and a University Professor at Harvard University Italic text Dr Geerat J Vermeij', born in the Netherlands is a professor of Geology at the University of California at Davis. Note Not to be confused with Nancy Cartwright (actress Nancy Cartwright FBA (born 1944 is a professor of Philosophy Demetrios Christodoulou (born October 19, 1951) is a Greek-American mathematician-physicist well known in the field of General relativity for his proof Stanley Crouch (born December 14, 1945, Los Angeles) is an American music and cultural Critic, syndicated Columnist, and Paul Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American anthropologist and physician the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in Ernest J Gaines (born January 15, 1933) a prominent African-American fiction writer is a writer-in-residence at the University of Louisiana at Thom Gunn ( 29 August 1929 - 25 April 2004) was an Anglo-American poet Ann Hamilton (born June 22, 1956, Lima Ohio) is a contemporary American artist best known for her installations textile art and sculptures but Ann Lauterbach is an American poet and academic who has taught at Bard College since 1991 Stephen Lee is a chemist who won a MacArthur Award in 1994 He is the son of Tsung-Dao Lee, the winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13 1947 in Washington DC) is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a MacArthur Dr Jane Lubchenco (1947- is an American Environmental scientist and marine ecologist. Jim Powell is Senior Fellow at a Libertarian Think tank, the Cato Institute in Washington D Margie Profet holds bachelors degrees from both Harvard and the University of California Berkeley, she was a Visiting Scientist at the University of Washington Thomas Scanlon is the name of T M Scanlon (b 1940 professor of philosophy at Harvard University Thomas E Bill Siemering was the first Director of Programming of the infant National Public Radio, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. Ellen Kovner Silbergeld is a leading expert in the field of environmental health John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941, in Washington DC) is an American Writer. Marion Williams (b August 29, 1927; d July 2, 1994) was an American gospel singer Williams, physicist and energy analyst Henry T. Wright, archaeologist and anthropologist[16]

1994

Robert Adams, photographer Jeraldyne Blunden, choreographer Anthony Braxton (Avant-Garde composer and musician) Rogers Brubaker, sociologist Ornette Coleman, jazz performer and composer Israel Gelfand, mathematician and biologist Faye Ginsburg, anthropologist Heidi Hartmann, economist Bill T. Jones (dancer and choreographer) Peter E. Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who came to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American Composer, saxophonist, Clarinettist flautist, pianist Avant-garde (avɑ̃gaʁd in French) means "advance guard" or "vanguard A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930) is an American saxophonist Violinist Trumpeter and Composer. Israïl Moiseevich Gelfand (Израиль Моисеевич Гельфанд ישראל געלפֿאַנד (born on) is a Mathematician who has contributed substantially Bill T Jones (born February 15, 1952) is an American Artistic director, choreographer and Dancer. Dance (from French danser, perhaps from Frankish) is an Art form that generally refers to movement of the body usually rhythmic See also, Choreography (literally "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" (circular dance see chorea) and "γραφή" Kenmore, agricultural entomologist

Joseph E. Marshall, educator Carolyn McKecuen, economic development leader Donella Meadows, writer Arthur Mitchell, company director and choreographer Hugo Morales, radio producer Janine Pease, educator Willie Reale, theater arts educator Adrienne Rich, poet and writer Sam-Ang Sam, musician and cultural preservationist Vincent Almendros, animator Jack Wisdom, physicist[17]

1995

Allison Anders, filmmaker Jed Z. Buchwald, historian Octavia Butler, science fiction novelist Sandra Cisneros, writer and poet Sandy Close, journalist Frederick C. Donella "Dana" Meadows ( March 13, 1941 Elgin Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, New Hampshire) was a pioneering Arthur Mitchell ( March 27, 1934 -) is an African-American Dancer and Choreographer who created a training school and the first Willie Reale is an American playwright and lyricist who often works with his older brother Robert Reale. Adrienne Cecile Rich (born May 16 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet essayist and Feminist. Sam-Ang Sam, PhD is a Cambodian American ethnomusicologist and recent MacArthur Fellow. Jack Wisdom is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Allison Anders (born November 16, 1954) is an American film and Television director. Jed Z Buchwald is Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at Caltech. Octavia Estelle Butler ( June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American Science fiction Writer, one Sandra Cisneros (born December 20 1954 is a Chicana author and Poet best known for her Novel The House on Mango Street. Cuny, disaster relief specialist Sharon Emerson, biologist Richard Foreman, theater director Alma Guillermoprieto, journalist Virginia Hamilton, writer Donald Hopkins, physician Susan W. Kieffer, geologist

Elizabeth LeCompte, theater director Patricia Nelson Limerick, historian Michael Marletta, chemist Pamela Matson, ecologist Susan McClary, musicologist Meredith Monk, vocalist, composer, director Rosalind P. Richard Foreman (born in New York on 10 June 1937) is an American Playwright and Avant-garde theater pioneer he is the founder of Alma Guillermoprieto (born May 27, 1949) is a Mexican journalist who has written extensively about Latin America Virginia Hamilton ( March 12, 1936 &ndash February 19, 2002) was an award-winning author of children's books Susan Elizabeth Werner Kieffer (born November 17, 1942 in Warren, Pennsylvania) is an American physical geologist and Elizabeth LeCompte (born April 28 1944) is a founding member of theater collective The Wooster Group. Patricia Nelson Limerick (born May 17 1951) is an American Historian, considered to be one of the leading historians of the American West Susan McClary (born 2 October 1946) is a Musicologist considered to be a significant figure in the " New Musicology " Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942, in New York) is an American Composer, performer director vocalist film-maker Petchesky, political scientist Joel Rogers, political scientist Cindy Sherman, photographer Bryan Stevenson, human rights lawyer Nicholas Strausfeld, neurobiologist Richard White, historian[18]

1996

James Angel, astronomer Joaquin Avila, voting rights advocate Allan Berube, historian Barbara Block, marine biologist Joan Breton Connelly, classical archaeologist Thomas Daniel, biologist Martin Daniel Eakes, economic development strategist Rebecca Goldstein, writer Robert Greenstein, public policy analyst Richard Howard, poet

John Jesurun, playwright Richard Lenski, biologist Louis Massiah, documentary filmmaker Vonnie McLoyd, developmental psychologist Thylias Moss, poet and writer Eiko Otake & Koma Otake, dancers, choreographers Nathan Seiberg, physicist Anna Deavere Smith, playwright/journalist/actress Dorothy Stoneman, educator William E. Joel Rogers is an American academic and political activist. He currently is a professor of law, Political science, and Sociology Cindy Sherman (born January 19, 1954 in Glen Ridge New Jersey) Bryan A Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative a private non-profit organization headquartered in Montgomery Alabama, and is a professor Richard White (born May 28, 1947) is an American Historian, a past President of the Organization of American Historians, and the author Joaquin Avila is Managing Director of the global private equity firm Carlyle Group, where he is responsible for researching and discovering opportunities in the field Allan Ronald Bérubé ( 3 December, 1946 &ndash 11 December, 2007) was an American Historian, activist, Joan Breton Connelly is a classical archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University. Rebecca Goldstein (born 1950 is an American Novelist and professor of Philosophy. Robert Greenstein is founder and executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP a Washington DC think tank that focuses on federal and state fiscal Richard Howard (born 13 October 1929) is a distinguished American Poet, Literary critic, Essayist Teacher, and John Jesurun is a New York USA based writer director and multi-media artist Richard E Lenski (born August 13, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist. Thylias Moss (b 1954 in Ohio) is an American Poet, Writer, Experimental filmmaker, Sound artist and Playwright Eiko Otake and Koma Otake, generally known as Eiko & Koma, are a Japanese husband and wife dance team Eiko Otake and Koma Otake, generally known as Eiko & Koma, are a Japanese husband and wife dance team Nathan "Nati" Seiberg, born in 1956 is an Israel-born American Theoretical physicist who works on String theory. Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize nominated African American Actress, Dorothy Stoneman is founder and president of YouthBuild USA, the national nonprofit intermediary and support center for over 200 YouthBuild programs and a leader in advocating Strickland, art educator[19]

1997

Luis Alfaro, writer and performance artist Lee Breur, playwright Vija Celmins, artist Eric Charnov, evolutionary biologist Elouise Cobell, banker Peter Galison, historian Mark Harrington, AIDS researcher Eva Harris, molecular biologist Michael Kremer, economist Russel Lande, biologist Kerry James Marshall, artist Nancy A. Vija Celmins (b October 25, 1938, Riga, Latvia) is an American Artist. Eric L Charnov (born Oct 29 1947) is an American theoretical ecologist at the University of New Mexico. Peter Louis Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University. Eva Harris is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California Berkeley, and the founder and president of the Sustainable Sciences Michael Robert Kremer is a development Economist and is currently the Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University. Kerry James Marshall (October 17 1955 -) is an artist born in Birmingham Alabama. Moran, evolutionary biologist and ecologist

Han Ong, playwright Kathleen Ross, educator Pamela Samuelson, copyright scholar and activist Susan Stewart, literary scholar and poet Elizabeth Streb, dancer and choreographer Trimpin, sound sculptor Loïc Wacquant, sociologist Kara Walker, artist David Foster Wallace, writer and journalist Andrew Wiles, mathematician Brackette Williams, anthropologist[20]

1998

Janine Antoni, artist Ida Applebroog, artist Ellen Barry, lawyer Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web protocol Linda Bierds, poet Bernadette Brooten, historian John Carlstrom, astrophysicist Mike Davis, historian Nancy Folbre, economist Avner Greif, economist Kun-Liang Guan, biochemist Gary Hill, artist Edward Hirsch, poet, essayist Ayesha Jalal, historian Charles R. Johnson, writer

Leah Krubitzer, neuroscientist Stewart Kwoh, human rights activist Charles Lewis, journalist William McDonald, rancher and conservationist Peter Miller, historian Don Mitchell, cultural geographer Rebecca Nelson, plant pathologist Elinor Ochs, linguistic anthropologist Ishmael Reed, poet, essayist, novelist Benjamin D. Santer, atmospheric scientist Karl Sims, computer scientist and artist Dorothy Thomas, human rights activist Leonard Zeskind, human rights activist Mary Zimmerman, playwright[21]

1999

Jillian Banfield, geologist Carolyn Bertozzi, chemist Xu Bing, printmaker Bruce G. Playwright and novelist Han Ong (1968&ndash) is both a high-school dropout and one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information Management at the University of California Berkeley with a joint appointment in Susan Stewart may be Susan McKinney Stewart (1847-1918 African-American physician Susan Stewart (poet (born 1952 American poet and critic Elizabeth Streb is a choreographer performer teacher and innovator of contemporary dance throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Trimpin (born Gerhard Trimpin 1951 in Istein Germany, now part of Efringen-Kirchen) is a Seattle Washington -based Sound artist a Loïc Wacquant is a French sociologist, specializing in Urban sociology, poverty and Ethnography. Kara Walker (born November 26, 1969) is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, Gender, sexuality David Foster Wallace (February 21 1962&ndashSeptember 12 2008 was an American author of novels, Essays and short-stories Sir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS (born 11 April 1953 is a British Mathematician and a professor at Princeton University Janine Antoni (b January 19, 1964 - in Freeport Bahamas) is a contemporary Artist whose work focuses mostly on process Education New York Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences, 1948-50 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1965-68 Honorary Doctorate Ellen Barry (born February 12, 1989) is a New Zealand professional Tennis player Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA (born 8 June 1955 is an English computer scientist who is credited Linda Bierds (born 1945 is an American poet and professor of English and Creative writing at the University of Washington, where she also received her Mike Davis (born 1946 is an American Social commentator, urban theorist historian and political activist Nancy Folbre (born 1952is a feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family non-market work and the economics of care Avner Greif is an economics professor at Stanford University, Stanford California Gary Hill (born in 1951 Santa Monica California, US) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle Washington. Edward Hirsch (born January 20, 1950) an American Poet and Academic who wrote a best seller about reading poetry Ayesha Jalal (عائشہ جلال is a Pakistani-American historian Charles R Johnson (born 1948 in Evanston Illinois) is an American scholar and Author of Novels short stories, and Charles Lewis is a former 60 Minutes producer who left the ranks of commercial journalism to found in 1989 the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan William Macdonald or MacDonald or McDonald may refer to William McDonald (Canadian politician (1837&ndash1916 Canadian politician Peter Miller (born 6 April 1969 is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Dockers in 1995 Don Mitchell is an academic Geographer at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Rebecca Nelson (born c 1961 BA Swarthmore College, 1982 PhD University of Washington, 1988 ( Zoology) Ishmael Scott Reed ( February 22, 1938) is an American Poet, essayist and novelist Dr Benjamin D Santer is a Climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Karl Sims is a Computer graphics artist and researcher who is most well known for using Particle systems and Artificial life in computer animation Mary Zimmerman is an American award winning Theatre director and Playwright. Dr Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi is an award-winning chemist. She is the T Xu Bing ( Chinese: 徐冰 b 1955 is a Chinese -born artist resident in the United States since 1990 Blair, policy analyst John Bonifaz, election lawyer and voting rights leader Shawn Carlson, educator Mark Danner, journalist Alison L. John C Bonifaz (born 22 June 1966 is a Boston -based attorney specializing in constitutional law and voting rights and founder of the National Voting Rights Institute Mark David Danner (born November 10, 1958) is a prominent American journalist Des Forges, human rights activist Elizabeth Diller, architect Saul Friedländer, historian Jennifer Gordon, lawyer David Hillis, biologist Sara Horowitz, lawyer Jacqueline Jones, historian Laura L. Ica exterior institute contemporary art bostonjpg|thumb|250px|Exterior shot of the ICA Institute of Contemporary Art Boston September 2 2007]] Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a New York Saul Friedländer (born October 11, 1932) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning Czech-French-Israeli-American historian Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project in 1992 a non-profit Worker center in Hempstead, New York, which organizes immigrant David Mark Hillis is a prominent American Herpetologist and systematic biologist at the University of Texas - Austin Sara Horowitz is the founder of Working Today and Freelancers Union, leading organizations of independent workers Jacqueline Jones (born 1948 is a Truman Professor of American Civilization at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, United States Kiessling, biochemist Leslie Kurke, scholar

David Levering Lewis, biographer and historian Juan Maldacena, physicist Gay J. David Levering Lewis (born May 25 1936 is an American historian and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one Juan Martín Maldacena (born September 10, 1968) is a theoretical Physicist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. McDougall, human rights lawyer Campbell McGrath, poet Denny Moore, anthropological linguist Elizabeth Murray, artist Pepon Osorio, artist Ricardo Scofidio, architect Peter Shor, computer scientist Eva Silverstein, physicist Wilma Subra, scientist Ken Vandermark, saxophonist, composer Naomi Wallace, playwright Jeffrey Weeks, mathematician Fred Wilson, artist Ofelia Zepeda, linguist[22]

2000

Susan E. Alcock, archaeologist K. Campbell McGrath (born 1962 is a notable modern American Poet. Elizabeth Murray (1940 &ndash August 12, 2007) was an American Painter, Printmaker and Draughtsman. Ica exterior institute contemporary art bostonjpg|thumb|250px|Exterior shot of the ICA Institute of Contemporary Art Boston September 2 2007]] Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a New York Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American theoretical computer scientist most famous for his work on Quantum computation Eva Silverstein is a string theorist. She is married to fellow string theorist Shamit Kachru. Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964 in Warwick Rhode Island is an American Jazz composer and Saxophone and Clarinet The saxophone (commonly referred to simply as sax) is a conical- bored transposing Musical instrument considered a member of the Woodwind A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Naomi Wallace is a Playwright, screenwriter and poet from Prospect Kentucky. Jeffrey Renwick Weeks is an American Mathematician. He became a MacArthur Fellow in 1999 Conceptual artist Fred Wilson, born in 1954 in the Bronx, describes himself as of "African American Indian European and Amerindian" descent Ofelia Zepeda (born in Stanfield, Arizona, 1952) is a Tohono O'odham Poet and Intellectual. Susan Alcock is a Roman Archaeologist specializing in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman empire Christopher Beard, paleontologist Lucy Blake, conservationist Anne Carson, poet Peter J. Anne Carson ( June 21, 1950) is a Canadian Poet, Essayist Translator, and a Professor of Classics Hayes, energy policy activist David A. Isay, radio producer Alfredo Jaar, photographer Ben Katchor, graphic novelist Hideo Mabuchi, physicist Susan Marshall, choreographer Samuel Mockbee, architect Cecilia Muñoz, civil rights policy analyst Margaret Murnane, optical physicist

Laura Otis, literary scholar and historian of science Lucia M. Ben Katchor (born 1951 in Brooklyn NY) is an American Cartoonist. Susan Marshall (born October 17, 1958) is an American choreographer and dancer Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee ( December 23, 1944 – December 30, 2001) was an American Architect and a co-founder of Dr Margaret Murnane is a current professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and has been since 1999 Perillo, poet Matthew Rabin, economist Carl Safina, marine conservationist Daniel P. Schrag, geochemist Susan E. Matthew Joel Rabin (born December 27, 1963) is the Edward G and Nancy S Carl Safina (born 1955 is president and co-founder of the Blue Ocean Institute, and author of several writings on marine ecology and the ocean including the award winnings Daniel P Schrag (b January 25, 1966) is Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Director of the Laboratory for Geochemical Oceanography at Harvard University Sygall, civil rights leader Gina G. Turrigiano, neuroscientist Gary Urton, anthropologist Patricia J. Williams, legal scholar Deborah Willis, historian of photography and photographer Erik Winfree, computer and materials scientist Horng-Tzer Yau, mathematician[23]

2001

Andrea Barrett, writer Christopher Chyba, astrobiologist Michael Dickinson, fly biologist/bioengineer Rosanne Haggerty, housing and community development leader Lene Hau, physicist Dave Hickey, art critic Stephen Hough, pianist Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist Sandra Lanham, pilot and conservationist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, artist Cynthia Moss, natural historian

Dirk Obbink, classicist and papyrologist Norman Pace, biochemist Suzan-Lori Parks, playwright Brooks Pate, physical chemist Xiao Qiang, human rights leader Geraldine Seydoux, molecular biologist Bright Sheng, composer David Spergel, astrophysicist Jean Strouse, biographer Julie Su (attorney), human rights lawyer David Wilson, creator of The Museum of Jurassic Technology[24]

2002

Danielle Allen, classicist and political scientist Bonnie Bassler, molecular biologist Ann M. Gary Urton is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies at Harvard University. Patricia J Williams (born 1951 is a prominent law critic and a proponent of Critical race theory, an offshoot of 1960s Social movements that emphasizes race Horng-Tzer Ya u is a Chinese-American Mathematician. Born in Taiwan, he has a B Andrea Barrett (born November 16, 1954) is an acclaimed American writer Lene Vestergaard Hau (born in Vejle Denmark, on November 13, 1959) is a Danish Physicist. Dave Hickey (born circa 1939 is one of the best known American Art and cultural Critics practising today Stephen Hough (born November 22, 1961) is a British -born classical pianist composer and writer Kay Redfield Jamison (born June 22, 1946) is an American clinical psychologist and writer who is one of the foremost experts on Bipolar disorder Norman Pace is an English comedian and actor born 17 February 1953 in Dudley, West Midlands Suzan-Lori Parks (born 1964 is an award-winning American Playwright and Screenwriter. Xiao Qiang ( is the Director of China Internet Project and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism University of California Berkeley. Bright Sheng (surname Sheng, born Shèng Zōngliàng, 盛[[wiktionary 宗|宗]] 亮, in Shanghai Dr David Nathaniel Spergel (born March 25, 1961, in Rochester, New York) is an American theoretical astrophysicist and Jean Strouse (born 1945 is an American biographer, editor and Critic. David Wilson may refer to Dave Wilson (c1932–2002 American television director Dave Wilson (American football (born 1959 American The Museum of Jurassic Technology is at 9341 Venice Boulevard in the Palms district of Los Angeles, California, next to the Center for Land Use Bonnie L Bassler is a professor of Molecular biology at Princeton University. Blair, intellectual historian Katherine Boo, Journalist Paul Ginsparg, physicist David B. Paul Ginsparg (1956- is a Physicist widely known for his development of the ArXiv Goldstein, energy conservation specialist Karen Hesse, writer Janine Jagger, epidemiologist Daniel Jurafsky, computer scientist and linguist Toba Khedoori, artist Liz Lerman, choreographer George E. Lewis, trombonist Liza Lou, artist

Edgar Meyer, bassist and composer Jack Miles, writer and Biblical scholar Erik Mueggler, anthropologist and ethnographer Sendhil Mullainathan, economist Stanley Nelson, documentary filmmaker Lee Ann Newsom, paleoethnobotanist Daniela Rus, computer scientist Charles C. Karen Hesse (1952 -) is an American author of Children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings Daniel Jurafsky is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at Stanford University. Toba Khedoori (born 1964 is an Australian -born artist of Iraqi heritage known primarily for highly-detailed mixed-media paintings executed on large sheets of wax-coated George E Lewis (born 1952 in Chicago) is a Trombone player composer and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is a prominent contemporary bassist. Jack Miles (born 1942 is an American author and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Stanley Earl Nelson Jr (born June 8, 1951, New York City) is an American Documentary filmmaker and producer Dr Lee Ann Newsom is currently an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Penn State University at University Park Steidel, astronomer Brian Tucker, seismologist Camilo José Vergara, photographer Paul Wennberg, atmospheric chemist Colson Whitehead, writer[25]

2003

Guillermo Algaze, archaeologist Jim Collins, biomedical engineer Lydia Davis, writer Erik Demaine, theoretical computer scientist Corinne Dufka, human rights researcher Peter Gleick, conservation analyst Osvaldo Golijov, composer Deborah Jin, physicist Angela Johnson, writer Tom Joyce, blacksmith Sarah H. Brian E Tucker is a a disaster prevention specialist and Seismologist. Camilo José Vergara (born 1944) is a Chilean-born New York -based writer photographer and documentarian Colson Whitehead is a New York -based Novelist. In 2002 he received a MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as the MacArthur "Genius" grant James J Collins ( June 26, 1965) is an American Bioengineer, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University, and a Howard Lydia Davis (born 1947 is a contemporary American author and translator of French Erik D Demaine (b February 28, 1981, in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is an associate professor of Computer Science at the Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the Science of the theoretical foundations of Information and Computation and their Dr Peter H Gleick (born 1956 is a scientist working on issues related to the environment, economic development and international security with a focus on global Freshwater Osvaldo Noé Golijov (born in La Plata, Argentina, December 5, 1960) is a Grammy award winning Composer of classical Deborah S Jin (born 1968 is a Physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST Professor Adjoint Department of Physics at the Angela Johnson is a children's book and poetry author with over 40 books to her credit since beginning her writing career in 1989 Tom Joyce (b 1956 is an American Blacksmith who utilizes contemporary and traditional design elements Kagan, gerontological nurse Ned Kahn, artist and science exhibit designer

Jim Yong Kim, public health physician Nawal M. Ned Kahn is an environmental artist and sculptor famous in particular for museum exhibits he has built for the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Dr Jim Yong Kim is an American Physician. He is a Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Nour, obstetrician and gynecologist Loren H. Rieseberg, botanist Amy Rosenzweig, biochemist Pedro A. Sanchez, agronomist Lateefah Simon, women's development leader Peter Sis, illustrator Sarah Sze, sculptor Eve Troutt Powell, historian Anders Winroth, historian Daisy Youngblood, ceramic artist Xiaowei Zhuang, biophysicist[26]

2004

Guillermo Algaze, anthropologist and archaeologist Angela Belcher, materials scientist and engineer Gretchen Berland, physician and filmmaker James Carpenter, artist Joseph DeRisi, biologist Katherine Gottlieb, health care leader David Green, technology transfer innovator Aleksandar Hemon, writer Heather Hurst, archaeological illustrator Edward P. Jones, writer John Kamm, human rights activist Daphne Koller, computer scientist

Naomi Leonard, engineer Tommie Lindsey, school debate coach Rueben Martinez, businessman and activist Maria Mavroudi, historian Vamsi Mootha, physician and computational biologist Judy Pfaff, American sculptor Aminah Robinson, artist Reginald Robinson, pianist and composer Cheryl Rogowski, farmer Amy Smith, inventor and mechanical engineer Julie Theriot, microbiologist C. D. Wright, poet[27]

2005

Marin Alsop, symphony conductor Ted Ames, fisherman, conservationist, marine biologist Terry Belanger, rare book preservationist Edet Belzberg, documentary filmmaker Majora Carter, urban revitalization strategist Lu Chen, neuroscientist Michael Cohen, pharmacist Joseph Curtin, violinmaker Aaron Dworkin, music educator Teresita Fernández, sculptor Claire Gmachl, quantum cascade laser engineer Sue Goldie, physician /researcher Steven Goodman, conservation biologist

Pehr Harbury, biochemist Nicole King, molecular biologist Jon Kleinberg, computer scientist Jonathan Lethem, novelist Michael Manga, geophysicist Todd Martinez, theoretical chemist Julie Mehretu, painter Kevin M. Murphy, economist Olufunmilayo Olopade, clinician/researcher Fazal Sheikh, photographer Emily Thompson, aural historian Michael Walsh, vehicle emissions specialist[28]

2006

David Carroll (naturalist), naturalist author/illustrator Regina Carter, jazz violinist Kenneth C. Catania, neurobiologist Lisa Curran, tropical forester Kevin Eggan, biologist James Fruchterman, technologist Atul Gawande, surgeon and author Linda Griffith, bioengineer Victoria Hale, CEO OneWorld Health Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, journalist and author David Macaulay, author/illustrator Josiah McElheny, sculptor D. Holmes Morton, physician

John A. Rich, physician Jennifer Richeson, social psychologist Sarah Ruhl, playwright George Saunders, short story writer Anna Schuleit, commemorative artist Shahzia Sikander, painter Terence Tao, mathematician Claire J. Tomlin, aviation engineer Luis von Ahn, computer scientist Edith Widder, deep-sea explorer Matias Zaldarriaga, cosmologist John Zorn, composer and musician[29]

2007

Deborah Bial, education strategist Peter Cole, translator/poet/publisher Lisa Cooper, public health physician Ruth DeFries, environmental geographer Mercedes Doretti, forensic anthropologist Stuart Dybek, short story writer Marc Edwards, water quality engineer Michael Elowitz, molecular biologist Saul Griffith, inventor Sven Haakanson, Alutiiq curator/anthropologist/preservationist Corey Harris, blues musician Cheryl Hayashi, spider silk biologist

My Hang V. Huynh, chemist Claire Kremen, conservation biologist Whitfield Lovell, painter/installation artist Yoky Matsuoka, neuroroboticist Lynn Nottage, playwright Mark Roth, biomedical scientist Paul Rothemund, nanotechnologist Jay Rubenstein, medieval historian Jonathan Shay, clinical psychiatrist/classicist Joan Snyder, painter Dawn Upshaw, vocalist Shen Wei, choreographer [30]

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• In the movie Little Miss Sunshine, Frank says that he attempted suicide after his rival was awarded a genius grant for his studies of Marcel Proust. Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American Comedy-drama film and the directorial film debut of the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (maʁsɛl pʁust (10 July 1871 &ndash 18 November 1922 was a French Novelist Essayist and Critic
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References

External links

• MacArthur Fellows Program website

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