Majora Carter

Majora Carter

female, 43 years old
Wesleyan University alumni, Business Person, activist, New York University alumni, from the Bronx, Corporate director…MacArthurFellow
Majora Carter (born c. 1966) is an American environmental advocate and artist. She is focused on revitalization of her home borough of the Bronx,...
Amory Lovins

Amory Lovins

male
energy, Bates College alumni, Winning the Oil Endgame, Non-fiction writer, Harvard University alumni, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford…MacArthur Fellowship, MacArthurFellow
Amory Bloch Lovins is a "consultant experimental physicist" with an MA in physics from Oxford. He is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky...
Atul Gawande

Atul Gawande

male, 44 years old (Waban, Massachusetts, United States)
Pediatrician, Stanford University, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Stanford University alumni, urology, Paediatrician…MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthurFellow
Atul Gawande (b. 1965 in Brooklyn, NY) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, an assistant...
John Zorn

John Zorn

male, 56 years old
Jazz fusion musician, Avant-garde jazz musician, arranger, American, Postmodern composer, orchestration…MacArthurFellow
John Zorn (born September 2 1953 in Queens, USA) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and...
Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop

female, 53 years old
BSO, Yale University, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Music Director, Royal Philharmonic Society, Gustav Meier…MacArthurFellow
Marin Alsop's first performance as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on 27 September was recently featured on NBC's Today Show....
Stuart Kauffman

Stuart Kauffman

male, 70 years old
Complex Systems Scientist, University of Pennsylvania, Biophysics, Origin of life, biology, Santa Fe Institute…MacArthur Fellowship, MacArthurFellow
Stuart Alan Kauffman (born September 28, 1939) is a theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher, who has given much thought to the origin...

Mike Davis

male, 63 years old
Planet of Slums, University of California, Irvine, Student for a Democratic Society, social class, MacArthur Fellowship, Getty Center…MacArthur Fellowship Award, MacArthurFellow
Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his...
Mark Danner

Mark Danner

male, 51 years old
Harvard University alumni, New York Review of Books, New York Times, from Utica, New York, war correspondent, El Mozote massacre…MacArthur Fellowship, MacArthurFellow, named a MacArthur fellow
Mark Danner has written about international affairs, human rights and foreign wars for more than 20 years. He has covered Central America, Haiti,...
Richard Powers

Richard Powers

male, 52 years old
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty, from Evanston, Illinois, novelist, Illinois writer, American, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alumni…MacArthurFellow
Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology.