List of MacArthur Fellows

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The list of MacArthur Fellows includes Fellows of the MacArthur Fellowship . This is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , combined with a five-year scholarship.

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List of MacArthur Fellows

1981

  • AR Ammons , poet
  • Joseph Brodsky , poet
  • Gregory Chudnovsky , mathematician
  • Robert Coles (* 1929), child psychiatrist and author, professor at Harvard
  • Shelly Errington , cultural anthropologist on, for example, Mexico, Southeast Asia, professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Henry Louis Gates , literary critic
  • Michael Ghiselin , evolutionary biologist, biology historian, philosopher of science who dealt with poisons from sea snails, he was a professor at Berkeley and the University of Utah and was from 1983 at the California Academy of Sciences.
  • Stephen Jay Gould , paleontologist
  • Ian Graham (1923-2017), British archaeologist and Maya researcher
  • John Imbrie , geologist and paleo-climatologist
  • Elma Lewis (1921–2004), art teacher, 1968 founder of the National Center for Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) in Boston.
  • James Alan McPherson , narrator, author
  • Roy Mottahedeh (* 1940), historian of the social and cultural history of early Islam and the cultural history of Iran, professor at Harvard
  • Douglas D. Osheroff , physicist
  • Robert Root-Bernstein (* 1953), Physiology Professor at Michigan State University, wrote about creativity and published unconventional reflections on the cause of AIDS
  • Lawrence Rosen , Professor of Anthropology at Princeton and Law at Columbia University, received his PhD in Chicago in 1968 and has written books on the cultural history and anthropology of justice and on Islamic societies
  • Carl E. Schorske , cultural historian
  • Leslie Marmon Silko , author
  • Derek Walcott , poet and theater writer
  • Robert Penn Warren , poet, author, literary critic
  • Stephen Wolfram , computer scientist and physicist
  • John Cairns , molecular biologist, physician and virologist
  • Joel E. Cohen (born 1944), population biologist and applied mathematician (in biology), professor at Rockefeller University and Columbia University.
  • Richard Critchfield , American journalist and essayist, was on the Washington Star
  • Howard Gardner , psychologist
  • John Gaventa (* 1949), American sociologist on the distribution of power at the municipal level, he was at the University of Tennessee, author of Radical Power (1976)
  • David Hawkins , philosopher
  • John Holdren , disarmament, energy issues
  • Ada Louise Huxtable (1921–2013), architecture critic for the New York Times, where she won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970, and architecture historian, biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright .
  • Robert Kates (1929–2018), American geographer, former professor at Brown University. He dealt with population development and environmental influences on the population.
  • Raphael Carl Lee (* 1949), plastic surgeon at the University of Chicago, did research in the area of ​​trauma treatment and developed artificial chaperones to improve the chances of recovery from injuries.
  • Cormac McCarthy , author
  • Barbara McClintock , geneticist
  • Richard C. Mulligan (born 1954), geneticist, professor at Harvard Medical School. Gene therapy.
  • Elaine Pagels , historian of religion
  • David Pingree , historian of science
  • Paul G. Richards (* 1943), seismologist, professor at Columbia University
  • Richard Rorty , philosopher
  • Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. , astrophysicist
  • Michael Woodford (* 1955), economist (macroeconomics, monetary policy), professor at Columbia University, author of Interest and Prices - Foundations of a theory of monetary policy (2003).
  • George Zweig , physicist and neurobiologist

1982

  • Fouad Ajami (* 1945), Lebanese-American political scientist (Middle East), professor at Princeton and then at Johns Hopkins University. Publicly campaigned in the USA for self-determination of the Palestinians and for the Iraq war.
  • Charles Bigelow , graphic designer
  • Peter Brown , historian
  • Robert Darnton , historian
  • Persi Diaconis , statistician
  • William Gaddis , narrator
  • Ved Mehta (* 1934), Indian-American blind author. He was a journalist for The New Yorker.
  • Robert Parris Moses (* 1935), civil rights activist for black rights in the US southern states in the 1960s. With the money from the award he started the US Algebra Project for better math education for blacks and minorities in the US.
  • Richard A. Muller , astrophysicist
  • Conlon Nancarrow , composer
  • Alfonso Ortiz (1939–1998), Native American American cultural anthropologist. He taught in Princeton and New Mexico, among others. President of the Association for American Indian Affairs. Published on the Pueblo Indians, Native American Myths, and Native American Culture.
  • Francesca Rochberg , Assyriologist and science historian
  • Charles F. Sabel , political scientist, lawyer
  • Ralph Shapey , composer, conductor
  • Michael Silverstein (* 1945), linguist and anthropologist, professor at the University of Chicago. Coined the term Language Ideologies .
  • Randolph Whitfield, Jr , American ophthalmologist who treated eye diseases such as trachoma and glaucoma and trained doctors in Kenya .
  • Frank Wilczek , physicist
  • Frederick Wiseman , documentary film director
  • Edward Witten , physicist

1983

  • R. Stephen Berry , physical chemistry
  • Philip D. Curtin (1922–2009), professor at Johns Hopkins University, historian of the history of Africa and the Atlantic slave trade (he assumed an import of around 10 million slaves from there)
  • William H. Durham , biological anthropologist, professor at Stanford. He studied demographics in Central America and rainforest destruction in South America.
  • Bradley Efron , statistician
  • David L. Felten , medical doctor and neuroscientist. He was a professor at the University of California, Irvine, the University of Rochester and Oakland University.
  • Shlomo Dov Goitein (1900–1985), German-born Jewish Medievalist who dealt with Jewish history in the Islamic Middle Ages, especially in Cairo. He was at Hebrew University and the Institute for Advanced Study.
  • Ramón A. Gutiérrez , American historian at the University of Chicago who studied the history and sociology of Americans of Spanish origin.
  • Béla Julesz , psychologist
  • William Kennedy , narrator
  • Leszek Kołakowski , historian of philosophy and religion
  • Brad Leithauser (* 1953), American poet and writer
  • Lawrence W. Levine (1933–2006), American historian (American history) at Berkeley and at George Mason University.
  • Ralph Manheim (1907–1992), American translator from German and French, by Günter Grass, Brecht, Hermann Hesse, Novalis, Handke and Martin Heidegger, among others.
  • Charles S. Peskin , mathematician
  • Julia Robinson , mathematician
  • John Sayles , film director and writer
  • Peter Sellars , theater and opera director
  • Adrian Wilson , book designer and book historian
  • Irene J. Winter , art historian and archaeologist (Mesopotamia), professor at Harvard.
  • Mark S. Wrighton (* 1949), chemist (metallic catalysts, photochemistry), professor at MIT and then at Washington University in St. Louis
  • Seweryn Bialer (1926–2019), political scientist at Columbia University, expert on communism in Eastern Europe
  • William C. Clark (born 1948), Harvard professor, environmental policy analyst and environmental activist
  • Randall Forsberg (1943–2007), political scientist, founder of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies in Cambridge / Massachusetts and previously at the Stockholm Peace Research Institute, activist for disarmament and arms control
  • Alexander L. George (1920–2006), political scientist, professor at Stanford. He examined international security relations between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
  • Mott Greene , historian of science
  • John Hopfield , physicist and biologist
  • Sylvia A. Law (* 1942), law professor at New York University. She is the first to receive a law scholarship specializing in health, women's rights, welfare, civil rights.
  • Robert K. Merton , historian and sociologist of science
  • Walter F. Morris, Jr. , archaeologist, cultural anthropologist, and founder of Aid to Artisans in Hartford to support small artisans in the developing world.
  • AK Ramanujan (1929–1993), Indian writer, translator, philologist, literary scholar, professor in Chicago
  • Alice Rivlin (1931–2019), economist and political scientist, she was director of the Congressional Budget Office, was in the cabinet of Bill Clinton and was Governor and Vice-Chancellor of the Federal Reserve Bank.
  • Richard Schoen , mathematician
  • Karen Uhlenbeck , mathematician

1984

  • George W. Archibald (* 1946), ornithologist who dedicated himself in particular to cranes (co-founder of the International Crane Foundation)
  • Ernesto J. Cortes, Jr. , community development, Southwest US director of the Industrial Areas Foundation.
  • Robert Hass , poet, critic, translator
  • Robert Irwin (* 1928), painter, installation artist
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , storyteller and screenwriter
  • J. Bryan Hehir , religious scholar and political scientist
  • Paul Oskar Kristeller , philosopher, cultural history
  • Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot , cultural sociologist, professor at Harvard
  • Heather Lechtman , materials scientist and archaeologist, for example on Inca metallurgy, professor at MIT
  • Michael Lerner , Healthcare, Co-Founder of Commonweal
  • Andrew W. Lewis , Medievalist (specifically France), Professor at Missouri State University
  • Arnold J. Mandell , neuroscientist and psychiatrist, founding professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, professor at Emory University
  • Matthew Meselson , geneticist, disarmament
  • David Nelson , physicist
  • Michael Piore (* 1940), economist, professor at MIT, publications on innovations, the labor market and immigration in industrialized countries
  • Judith N. Shklar , Political Philosophy
  • Charles Simic , poet, translator, essayist
  • David Stuart (* 1965), Maya linguist, professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • John E. Toews , Cultural History, director of the Comparative History of Ideas program at the University of Washington
  • James Turrell , country artist
  • Jay Weiss , psychologist, professor at Emory University, researching stress
  • Carl Woese , molecular biologist
  • Shelly Bernstein , pediatric hematologist
  • Peter J. Bickel (* 1940), statistician, professor at Berkeley
  • William Drayton (* 1943), Public Service Innovator , originally a lawyer, responsible for emissions trading in the Carter Administration's Department of Environment, founder of Ashoka, Innovators for the Public and director of the Community Greens Project, invented the term social entrepreneur .
  • Sidney Drell , physicist
  • Mitchell Feigenbaum , physicist
  • Michael Freedman , mathematician
  • Curtis G. Hames (1920-2005), physician who led epidemiological studies of heart disease and stroke for the National Institutes of Health (Evans County Heart Study), which among other things demonstrated the beneficial effects of HDL .
  • Shirley Heath , linguistic anthropologist, professor at Stanford, including language education in elementary schools in the USA
  • Bette Howland , author and literary critic
  • Bill Irwin (* 1950), clown and actor who is known for theater productions and who was involved in the renaissance of the circus in the USA in the 1970s.
  • Fritz John , mathematician
  • Galway Kinnell (1927–2014), American poet, professor at New York University
  • Henry Kraus (1906–1995), he organized influential strikes in the US automobile industry in the 1930s and was later a journalist in Paris and wrote books on European art history.
  • Peter Mathews (* 1951), Australian Maya archaeologist, professor at La Trobe University, Australia.
  • Beaumont Newhall (1908–1993), historian of photography, curator at the Museum of Modern Art
  • Roger Payne (* 1935), zoologist known for his publication of the songs of humpback whales in 1970
  • Edward V. Roberts (1939–1995), lawyer, American pioneer in the civil rights movement for the rights of the disabled (he himself was disabled), who founded various centers in Berkeley for this purpose.
  • Elliot Sperling , Tibetan Studies
  • Frank Sulloway (* 1947), psychologist and science historian, known for a Sigmund Freud biography. Among other things, visiting professor at MIT and in Berkeley.
  • Alar Toomre , astronomer and mathematician
  • Amos Tversky , cognitive scientist
  • Kirk Varnedoe (1946–2003), art historian, professor at the Institute of Advanced Study and before that at various New York universities, curator for sculptures at the Museum of Modern Art. Among other things, an expert on Rodin.
  • Bret Wallach , Cultural Geography, Professor at the University of Oklahoma
  • Arthur Winfree , biologist and mathematician
  • Billie Jean Young (born 1947), actress and writer (poetry, theater) from Alabama.

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2011

  • Jad Abumrad , radio host and producer in science and philosophy
  • Marie-Therese Connolly , Seniors' Rights Advocate
  • Roland Fryer , economist, economic causes of imbalances in income distribution
  • Jeanne Gang , architect
  • Elodie Ghedin , virologist and parasitologist, University of Pittsburgh, elucidation of the genome of important third world parasites (sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis, river sickness)
  • Markus Greiner , solid state physicist, Harvard University
  • Kevin Guskiewicz , Sports Medicine Scientist , University of North Carolina, Sports- Related Brain Injury
  • Peter Hessler , journalist
  • Tiya Miles , historian at the University of Michigan, for example, Relationships Native Americans and African-Americans in US history
  • Matthew Nock , Harvard University Psychiatrist, Causes of Suicide and Self-inflicted Injury
  • Francisco Nunez , Choir Director, Young People's Chorus of New York City
  • Sarah Otto , evolutionary biologist, University of British Columbia
  • Shwetak Patel , computer engineer, development of cost-effective sensor systems, for example for energy-saving houses
  • Dafnis Prieto , jazz percussionist and composer
  • Kay Ryan , poet
  • Melanie Sanford , chemist at the University of Michigan, organo-metallic chemistry
  • William Seeley , neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco. For example, causes and therapies for dementia in the forebrain lobe.
  • Jacob Soll , historian, Rutgers University. Political Thinking in Early Modern Europe.
  • AE Stallings , poet who is particularly looking for references to classical antiquity. Translator of Lucretius De rerum natura .
  • Ubaldo Vitali , restorer and silversmith with his own company in Maplewood, New Jersey.
  • Alisa Weilerstein , cellist.
  • Yukika Yamashita , developmental biologist at the University of Michigan. Molecular biology of stem cell development in old age.

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