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MacArthur Fellowship

The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the Genius Award) is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 United States citizens or residents, of any age and working in any field, who "show exceptional merit and promise...
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Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He received the 1947...
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1947
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Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
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All the King's Men
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Poetry
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1967
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Bollingen Prize
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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist based in New York City and noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English...
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1974
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American Book Award
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Gravity's Rainbow
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Aug 1988
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Fiction
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1974
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National Book Award for Fiction
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Gravity's Rainbow
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James Alan McPherson

James Alan McPherson (born September 16, 1943 in Savannah, Georgia) is a United States short story writer and essayist, and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973. McPherson won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for his short story...
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1978
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Elbow Room
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Fiction
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2002
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Lannan Literary Fellowship
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Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Gould spent...
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Ecology and Evolution
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1981
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National Book Award for Science
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
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1994
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St. Louis Literary Award
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Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram (born 29 August 1959 in London) is a British physicist, software developer, mathematician, computer programmer, author and businessman, known for his work in theoretical particle physics, cosmology, cellular automata, complexity...
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Computer Science
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Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko (born Leslie Marmon on March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) to Leland Howard Marmon (a photographer) and Mary Virginia Leslie, is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the second...
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Fiction
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2000
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Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
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1980
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American Book Award
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Ceremony
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Douglas D. Osheroff

Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3" Osheroff's father was the son of Jewish...
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Physics
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1996
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Nobel Prize in Physics
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David Lee,
Robert Coleman Richardson
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for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3

Carl E. Schorske

Carl Emil Schorske (born March 15, 1915 in New York City) is an American cultural historian and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. In 1981 he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and...
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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History
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1981
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
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Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received...
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Literary Studies
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1989
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Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
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Collected Black Women's Narratives
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1989
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American Book Award
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The Signifying Monkey
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Robert Root-Bernstein

Robert Root-Bernstein (b. August 7, 1953) (Ph.D., Princeton University) is a professor of physiology at Michigan State University. In 1981, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as a "genius grant." He has also researched and...
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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History and Philosophy of Science
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Archie Randolph Ammons

Archie Randolph Ammons, (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an award-winning American poet. Ammons grew up on a tobacco farm near Whiteville, in southeastern North Carolina. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war, he...
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Poetry
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1975
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Bollingen Prize
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1992
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Lannan Literary Award for Poetry
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Robert Coles

Robert Coles (born October 12, 1929) is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he attended Milton Academy and Harvard College, where he studied English literature. He originally...
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Psychology and Cognitive Science
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1973
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
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Children of Crisis
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1998
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Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Michael Ghiselin

Michael T. Ghiselin is an American biologist, philosopher/historian of biology currently at the California Academy of Sciences. B.A., University of Utah (1960); Ph.D., Stanford University (1965); Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (1964-65);...
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Ecology and Evolution
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Roy Mottahedeh

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 Harvard University and expert on Iranian culture. Mottahedeh graduated from George School in...
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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History
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John Imbrie

John Imbrie (born July 4, 1925) is an American Paleoceanographer. Imbrie received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1951. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981. He was awarded the William H. Twenhofel Medal by the Society for...
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Shelly Errington

Shelly Errington is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the studies of plastic and narrative arts, focusing on documentary film, photography, arts, and multi-media. She is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz...
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Cultural Anthropology
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Elma Lewis

Elma Idna Lewis (September 15, 1921 – January 1, 2004) was the founder of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (including a museum) and the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts. She received the MacArther Fellows Grant in 1981. She was also given...
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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Education
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Gregory V. Chudnovsky

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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Mathematics
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Ian Graham

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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Archaeology
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Lawrence Rosen

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Jul 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Cultural Anthropology
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Barbara McClintock

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 cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
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1983
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Mobile genetic elements
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"for her discovery of mobile genetic elements"

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1981
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Wolf Prize in Medicine
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for her imaginative and important contributions to our understanding of chromosome structure behaviour and function, and for her identification and description of transposable genetic (mobile) elements.
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Richard Rorty

Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher. He had a long and diverse career in Philosophy, Humanities, and Literature departments. His complex intellectual background gave him a comprehensive and nuanced...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Musicology
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Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.

Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Astronomy
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1993
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Nobel Prize in Physics
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Russell Alan Hulse
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for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation

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1992
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Wolf Prize in Physics
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for his discovery of an orbiting radio pulsar and its exploitation to verify the general theory of relativity to high precision.

Howard Gardner

Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is an American psychologist who is based at Harvard University. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences. Camille 1938, Howard Gardner's Jewish parents fled from...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Psychology and Cognitive Science
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John Gaventa

John Gaventa (born 1949) is a preeminent political sociologist and a fellow with the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the current (2007) chair of Oxfam Great Britain Council of Trustees. Gaventa received his B...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Human Rights
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Elaine Pagels

Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey, (born February 13, 1943), is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she is best known for her studies and writing on the Gnostic Gospels. Her...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Religious Studies
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1980
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National Book Award for Religion/Inspiration
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The Gnostic Gospels
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Hardcover

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1979
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National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
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The Gnostic Gospels
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George Zweig

George Zweig (born on May 30, 1937 in Moscow, Russia into a Jewish family) was originally trained as a particle physicist under Richard Feynman and later turned his attention to neurobiology. He spent a number of years as a Research Scientist at Los...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Physics
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Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise (Landman) Huxtable (b. March 14, 1921, in New York, NY) is an architecture critic and writer on architecture. In 1970 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for "distinguished criticism during 1969". Her father, Michael Landman,...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Art History and Criticism
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1970
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Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
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For distinguished criticism during 1969.

David Pingree

David Edwin Pingree (January 2, 1933 - November 11, 2005), late University Professor and Professor of History of Mathematics and Classics at Brown University, was one of America's foremost historians of the exact sciences in antiquity. He had joined...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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History and Philosophy of Science
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John Cairns

(Hugh) John Cairns FRS (1922- ) is a British physician and molecular biologist who made significant contributions to molecular genetics, cancer research, and public health. Cairns received his M.D. from Oxford. He then worked as a virologist at the...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
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Joel E. Cohen

Joel E. Cohen (born February 10, 1944) is a mathematical biologist. He is currently Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University in New York City. He is also professor of populations at the Earth Institute of...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Ecology and Evolution
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John P. Holdren

John P. Holdren is advisor to President Barack Obama for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Holdren was...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Energy
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Robert Kates

Robert W. Kates (born 1929) is an American geographer and independent scholar in Trenton, Maine, and University Professor (Emeritus) at Brown University. In 2008, he was appointed the inaugural Presidential Professor of Sustainability Science at the...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Earth and Environmental Sciences
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1991
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National Medal of Science for Behavioral and Social Science
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For his fundamental contributions to the understanding of natural and man-made hazards, global environmental change, and the prevelance and persistence of world hunger.

Michael Woodford

Michael Dean Woodford (born 1955, in Chicopee, Massachusetts) is an American macroeconomist who currently teaches at Columbia University. His early research topics included sunspot equilibria and imperfect competition. More recently he has studied...
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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Economics
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Raphael Carl Lee

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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Public Health and Medicine
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Richard Mulligan

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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Medical Science
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Paul G. Richards

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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Richard Critchfield

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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Journalism
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David Hawkins

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Dec 1981
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Education
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Shing-Tung Yau

Shing-Tung Yau (Chinese: 丘成桐; pinyin: Qiū Chéngtóng; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese American mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds. Yau was born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China...
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1982
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Fields Medal
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Jul 1985
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Mathematics
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1997
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National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
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For his fundamental contributions in mathematics and physics. Through his work, the understanding of basic geometric differential equations has been changed and he has expanded their role enormously within mathematics.
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Peter Brown

Peter Robert Lamont Brown (born 1935) is a historian and professor of history. He was born in Dublin, Ireland to a Protestant family, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. He was a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford where...
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1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Religious Studies
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1997
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Oscar for Best Art Direction
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Titanic
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Edward Witten

Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist with a focus on mathematical physics. He is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is a leading researcher in superstring theory and winner of the highest honor...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Physics
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2000
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Nemmers Prize in Mathematics
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Fields Medal
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Persi Diaconis

Persi Warren Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly known for tackling mathematical...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Statistics
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William Gaddis

William Gaddis (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. He wrote five novels, two of which won National Book Awards. Gaddis was born in New York City to William Thomas Gaddis, who worked "on Wall Street and in politics," and...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Fiction
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1976
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National Book Award for Fiction
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J R
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1994
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National Book Award for Fiction
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A Frolic of His Own
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Frank Wilczek

Frank Anthony Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is a theoretical physicist from the United States and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wilczek, along with David Gross...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Physics
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2004
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Nobel Prize in Physics
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David Gross,
H. David Politzer
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for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction

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Lorentz Medal
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Fouad Ajami

Fouad A. Ajami (Arabic: فؤاد عجمي‎; born September 9, 1945), is a MacArthur Fellowship winning, Lebanese-born American university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues. In recent years, Ajami has been an outspoken supporter of the Iraq War,...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Political Science
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Richard A. Muller

Richard A. Muller January 6, 1944 (1944-01-06) (age 65) of San Francisco, California, U.S., is a physicist who works at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Muller began his career as a graduate...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Physics
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Frederick Wiseman

Frederick Wiseman (born 1 January 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American documentary filmmaker. Born into a Jewish family, he came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer. He has won numerous film awards, as well...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Photography, Filmmaking, and Video
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1990
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Peabody Award
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a Personal Award

Charles Bigelow

Charles A. Bigelow (b. 1945, Detroit, Michigan) is a type historian, professor, and designer. Bigelow grew up in the Detroit suburbs and attended the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982. Along with Kris...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Crafts and Design
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Robert Parris Moses

Robert Parris Moses (born Harlem, New York, January 23, 1935, usually known as Bob Moses) is an American Harvard-trained educator who joined the civil rights movement and later founded the nationwide U.S. Algebra project. Moses graduated from...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Education
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Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on eighteenth-century France. He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. ...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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History
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1995
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National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
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The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
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Ved Mehta

Ved Parkash Mehta (Born March 21, 1934) is a writer who was born in Lahore, British India (now a Pakistani city) to a Hindu family. He lost his sight at the age of four as the result of an attack of cerebrospinal meningitis. Because of the limited...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Fiction
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Ralph Shapey

Ralph Shapey (March 12, 1921 – June 13, 2002) was an American composer and conductor. He is well-known for his work as a composition professor at the University of Chicago, where he founded and directed the Contemporary Chamber Players. Shapey was a...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Music
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Conlon Nancarrow

Conlon Nancarrow (October 27, 1912 – August 10, 1997) was a U.S.-born composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life. He became a Mexican citizen in 1955. Nancarrow is best remembered for the pieces he wrote for the player piano. He...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Music
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Charles Sabel

Charles Frederick Sabel (born December 1, 1947) is an American academic and professor of Law and Social Science at the Columbia Law School. His research centers on public innovations, European Union governance, labor standards, economic development,...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Economics
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Michael Silverstein

Michael Silverstein (born 1945) is a professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology at the University of Chicago. He is a preeminent theoretician of semiotics and linguistic anthropology. Over the course of his career he has drawn together...
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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Linguistics
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2004
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Academy Award for Best Sound Editing
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Randy Thom
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The Incredibles
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Alfonso Ortiz

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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Cultural Anthropology
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Randolph Whitfield Jr.

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Aug 1982
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MacArthur Fellowship
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Public Health and Medicine
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Francesca Rochberg

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Aug 1982
x Award:
MacArthur Fellowship
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History and Philosophy of Science
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John Sayles

John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director and screenwriter who frequently plays small roles in his own and other indie films. Sayles was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary (née Rausch), a...
Awards Won
x Year:
Feb 1983
x Award:
MacArthur Fellowship
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x Winning work:
Photography, Filmmaking, and Video
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