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Meet the 23 MacArthur Fellows Washington Post journalist David Finkel is among the 23 “genius awards” recipients, bestowed by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for “creativity, originality, and potential to make important contributions in the future.”
David Finkel
David Finkel, 56, is a Washington Post journalist whose long-form newswriting has transformed readers’ understanding of military service and sacrifice.
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Chris Thile
Chris Thile, 31, is a mandolinist and composer who is creating a new musical aesthetic and a distinctly American canon for the mandolin through a lyrical fusion of traditional bluegrass orchestrations with a range of styles and genres.
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Benoit Rolland
Benoit Rolland, 58, is a stringed-instrument bow maker who experiments with new designs and materials to create violin, viola and cello bows that rival the quality of prized 19th-century bows and meet the artistic demands of today’s musicians.
Tsar Fedorsky
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Claire Chase
Arts entrepreneur Claire Chase, 34, engages audiences in the appreciation of contemporary classical music and opens new avenues of artistic expression through her International Contemporary Ensemble.
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Maurice Lim Miller
Maurice Lim Miller, 66, is a social services innovator who designs projects that reward and track self-sufficiency among residents of low-income neighborhoods in San Francisco, Boston and Oakland, Calif.
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An-My Le
An-My Le, 52, is a photographer at Bard College who approaches the subjects of war and landscape from new perspectives to create images rich with layers of meaning.
Matt Carr
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Natalia Almada
Natalia Almada, 37, is a documentary filmmaker who captures complex and nuanced views of Mexican history, politics and culture.
Rafael Monroy
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Uta Barth
Uta Barth, 54, is a conceptual photographer who explores the nature of vision and the difference between seen reality and how a camera records it.
Roman Cho
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Laura Poitras
Laura Poitras, 48, is a documentary filmmaker who reveals the consequences of military conflict abroad in documentaries that portray the lives and intimate experiences of families and communities largely inaccessible to the American media.
Sean Gallup
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Raj Chetty
Raj Chetty, 34, is an economist at Harvard University who studies how policy decisions affect real-world behavior.
Tsar Fedorsky
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Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu, 34, is a writer whose novels and nonfiction pieces enrich understanding of the little-explored world of the African diaspora in America.
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Dylan Penningroth
Northwestern University historian Dylan Penningroth, 41, is unearthing evidence from scattered archives to shed light on shifting concepts of property ownership and kinship among African American slaves and their descendants.
Peter Wynn Thompson
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Junot Diaz
Junot Diaz, 43, is a fiction writer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who uses raw, vernacular dialogue and spare, unsentimental prose to draw readers into the various and distinct worlds that immigrants must straddle.
Tsar Fedorsky
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Elissa Hallem
Elissa Hallem, 34, is a neurobiologist at the University of California at Los Angeles, who explores the physiology and behavioral consequences of odor detection in invertebrates and identifies interventions that may eventually reduce the scourge of parasitic infections in humans.
Stephanie Diani
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Melody Swartz
Melody Swartz, 43, is a bioengineer who enhances understanding of the dynamic processes of tissue vascularization and immune responses to tumor invasion using a large toolbox of concepts and methods from biophysics, cell culture, molecular genetics, engineering and immunology.
Stefan Jermann
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Benjamin Warf
Benjamin Warf, 54, is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Children’s Hospital of Boston who is revolutionizing treatment of hydrocephalus and other intra-cranial diseases in young children and advancing standards of and access to health care in both the developed and poorest regions of the world.
Tsar Fedorsky
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Maria Chudnovsky
Maria Chudnovsky, 35, is a mathematician at Columbia University whose work is deepening the connections between graph theory and other major branches of mathematics, such as linear programming and geometry.
Christopher Lane
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Oliver Guyon
Oliver Guyon, 36, is an optical physicist and astronomer at the University of Arizona who designs telescopes and other astronomical instrumentation that play a critical role in the search for Earth-like planets outside this solar system.
Marco Garcia
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Sarkis Mazmanian
Sarkis Mazmanian, 39, is a medical microbiologist at the California Institute of Technology who studies the role intestinal bacteria may play in a broad range of human diseases.
David McNew
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Terry Plank
Terry Plank, 48, is a geochemist at Columbia University who probes the usually invisible but remarkably powerful thermal and chemical forces deep below the Earth’s crust that drive the motion of tectonic plate collisions.
Matt Carr
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Eric Coleman
Eric Coleman, 47, is a geriatrician at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who is improving health care by focusing on patient transitions from hospitals to homes and care facilities.
Kim Cook
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Daniel Spielman
Daniel Spielman, 42, is a computer scientist at Yale University who connects theoretical and applied computing to resolve issues in code optimization theory with implications for how we measure, predict and regulate our environment and behavior.
Kenneth Gabrielsen
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Nancy Rabalais
Nancy Rabalais, 62, is a marine ecologist at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium who documents the environmental and economic consequences of dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico.
Daymon Gardner
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