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| x Yvonne Rainer |
Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934, San Francisco) is an American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental.
Rainer was born in San Francisco to parents who considered...
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| x Archie Randolph Ammons |
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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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| x Seweryn Bialer |
Seweryn Bialer (born November 3, 1926, in Berlin, Germany) is an emeritus professor of political science at Columbia University and an expert on the Communist parties of the Soviet Union and Poland. He was the Director of Columbia's Research...
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| x Gary Urton |
Gary Urton is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies at Harvard University. He was previously Professor of Anthropology at Colgate University from 1978 to 2001. Dr. Urton is a specialist in Andean archaeology, particularly the quipu ...
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| x Guillermo Gómez-Peña |
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. He has pioneered multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video,...
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| x Daphne Koller |
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Daphne Koller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. Her general research area is artificial intelligence. Koller was featured in an article by MIT Technology Review titled ...
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| x David R. Montgomery |
David R. Montgomery is a Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he leads the Geomorphological Research Group and is a member of the Quaternary Research Center.
Montgomery received his B.S. in geology...
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| x 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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| x Ayesha Jalal |
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Ayesha Jalal (Urdu: عائشہ جلال) is a Pakistani-American sociologist and historian. She is a professor of history at Tufts University and a MacArthur Fellow. The bulk of her work deals with the creation of Muslim identities in modern South Asia.
She...
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| x Anders Winroth |
Anders Winroth (born 1965 in Ludvika in Sweden) is a history professor at Yale University.
After graduation from Stockholm University, Winroth did his master's and doctoral studies at Columbia University on the Decretum of Gratian. He discovered...
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| x Béla Julesz |
Béla Julesz (February 19, 1928–December 31, 2003) was a visual neuroscientist and experimental psychologist in the fields of visual and auditory perception.
Julesz was the originator of random dot stereograms which led to the creation of...
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| x My Hang V. Huynh |
My Hang V. Huynh (born 1962) is a chemist in the High Explosives Science and Technology Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Huynh's research has led to the creation of "Green Primary Explosives" which are "designed to replace traditional...
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| x Walter Abish |
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Walter Abish (born December 24, 1931) is an Austrian-American author of experimental novels and short stories.
Abish was born in Vienna, Austria. At a young age, his family fled from the Nazis, traveling first to Italy and Nice before settling in...
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| x Daniel Janzen |
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Daniel Hunt Janzen (born 1939 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.) is an evolutionary ecologist, naturalist, and conservationist and the son of a previous Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. He divides his time between his professorship in...
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| x Richard Howard |
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Richard Howard (born October 13, 1929) is a distinguished American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he now teaches. He lives in New York City....
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| x Kara Walker |
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Kara Walker (born November 26, 1969) is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.
Walker was born in...
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| x Bryan Stevenson |
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 at New York University School of Law.
A graduate of Eastern College...
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| x Campbell McGrath |
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Campbell McGrath (born 1962) is a notable modern American poet. He is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, including his most recent, Seven Notebooks.
McGrath was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Washington, D.C., where he...
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| x Conlon Nancarrow |
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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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| x Noel Swerdlow |
Noel M. Swerdlow (born 1941) is Professor of History and of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He specializes in the history of exact sciences, astronomy in particular, from antiquity through the seventeenth century.
In 1988...
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| x 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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| x David Macaulay |
David Macaulay (born December 2, 1946) is an author and illustrator. Now a resident of Norwich, Vermont, United States, he is an alumnus and faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design.
David Macaulay is also a board member of the National...
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| x Helen T. Edwards |
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 the first high-energy accelerator completely based on superconducting magnets....
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| x Allan Berube |
Allan Ronald Bérubé (3 December 1946 – 11 December 2007) was an American historian, activist, independent scholar, self-described "community-based" researcher and college drop-out, and award-winning author, best known for his research and writing...
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| x Alexander L. George |
Alexander L. George (May 31, 1920-August 16, 2006) was the Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University. He was an Assyrian, his parents were from Urmi in north-west Iran.
He received a MacArthur Foundation...
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| x John Edgar Wideman |
John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941, in Washington, DC) is an American writer.
Wideman was born on June 14, 1941. He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and much of his writing is set there, especially in the Homewood neighborhood of the...
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| x George Saunders |
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George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories and essays. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's and GQ, among others. He also contributes a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend...
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| x Matthew Rabin |
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Matthew Joel Rabin (born December 27, 1963) is the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Rabin is mentioned as a potential recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial...
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| x Max Roach |
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Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.
A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important...
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| x Richard A. Muller |
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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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| x Alison Des Forges |
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Alison Des Forges (née Liebhafsky) (August 20, 1942 – February 12, 2009) was an African historian and human rights activist who specialized in the African Great Lakes region, particularly the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. At the time of her death, she was...
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| x Amy Clampitt |
Amy Clampitt (June 15, 1920 - September 10, 1994) was an American poet and author.
Amy Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920 of Quaker parents, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. In the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at nearby Grinnell...
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| x Kun-Liang Guan |
Kun-Liang Guan (Chinese: 管坤良; 1963-), is an American biochemist. He won the MacArthur Award in 1998.
In 1963, Guan was born in Tongxiang (Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province), China. In 1982, Guan graduated (B.S.) from the Department of Biology, Hangzhou...
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| x Peter Gleick |
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 challenges. He works at the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California,...
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| x Anna Deavere Smith |
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Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is a Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-nominated American actress, playwright, and professor. She is currently the artist in residence at the Center for American Progress.
Smith was born in Baltimore,...
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| x 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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| x Walter Kitundu |
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Walter Kitundu is a musical instrument builder, graphic artist, and musical composer from San Francisco, California.
Kitundu was born in Rochester, Minnesota and spent his early years in Tanzania. He returned to Minnesota from age 8 to 25, then...
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| x John Ochsendorf |
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John Ochsendorf is a professor of civil engineering and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (since 2002) and a fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
He was educated at Elkins High School, Cornell University, Princeton...
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| x Ruth DeFries |
Ruth DeFries (born 1957) is an environmental geographer who specializes in the use of remote sensing to study Earth's habitability under the influence of human activities, such as deforestation, that influence regulating biophysical and...
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| x Rachel Wilson |
Rachel Wilson is an assistant professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.
Wilson was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She received an A.B. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco. She was a...
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| x John Bonifaz |
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. He is currently a board member at the Access Strategies Fund, a Massachusetts...
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| x Paul Farmer |
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Paul Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American anthropologist and physician, the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in...
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| x Aleksandar Hemon |
Aleksander Hemon (born ?, 1964) is an American writer and journalist. He sometimes publishes in the The New Yorker magazine, and has written an acclaimed novel, Nowhere Man and a collection of short stories, The Question of Bruno.
Born in Sarajevo...
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| x Thylias Moss |
Thylias Moss (b. 1954 in Ohio) is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright, of African American, Indian, and European heritage, who has published a number of poetry collections, children’s books, essays, and...
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| x Jay Wright |
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Jay Wright (born 1935) is an African-American poet, playwright and essayist. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he currently lives in Bradford, Vermont. Although his work is not as widely known as other American poets of his generation, it has...
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| x Alice Rivlin |
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Alice Mitchell Rivlin (born March 4, 1931, in Philadelphia) is an economist, a former U.S. Cabinet official, and an expert on the budget. She is currently on the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange.
Rivlin is an alumna of the Madeira...
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| x Jim Blinn |
James F. Blinn is a computer scientist who first became widely known for his work as a computer graphics expert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), particularly his work on the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project, his work on the...
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| x Cecil Taylor |
Cecil Percival Taylor (born March 15 or March 25, 1929 in New York City) is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic...
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| x Richard Powers |
Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology.
Powers was born in Evanston, Illinois, and his family later moved a few miles south to Lincolnwood, where his father was...
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| x Alfredo Jaar |
Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives in New York. He was born in 1956 in Santiago de Chile. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and...
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| x Amory Lovins |
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Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947 in Washington, DC) is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. His four decades of work spans and integrates energy policy, resources, security, economy, environment, and development....
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| x Ernest Gaines |
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Ernest J. Gaines (born 15 January 1933) is an American author. His works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Chinese. Four of his works have been produced into...
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| x John Sayles |
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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...
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| x Jack Miles |
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Jack Miles (born 1942) is an American author and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the MacArthur Fellowship. His work on religion, politics, and culture has appeared in numerous national publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York...
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| x 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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| x Gregory Vlastos |
Gregory Vlastos (July 27, 1907 – October 12, 1991) was a scholar of ancient philosophy, and author of several works on Plato and Socrates. He was also a Christian believer and has written on Christian faith as well.
Vlastos was born in Istanbul, to...
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| x Leszek Kołakowski |
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Leszek Kołakowski (October 23, 1927 – July 17, 2009) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He was best known for his critical analyses of Marxist thought, especially his acclaimed three-volume history, Main Currents of Marxism, which is ...
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| x Charles Simic |
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Dušan “Charles” Simić (Serbian: Душан "Чарлс" Симић) (IPA: [/ˈtʃ͡ɑːɻls ˈʂimitɕ͡/]) (born 9 May 1938) is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the...
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| x Ernesto Cortes |
Ernesto Cortes, Jr. is a community organizer affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) and Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS).
Cortes is known primarily for his efforts in organizing COPS in San Antonio, Texas, though he...
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| x Bill Siemering |
Bill Siemering was the first Director of Programming of the infant National Public Radio, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant. He invented the first signature program of public radio, All Things Considered. This followed his...
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