Macarthur Fellow

A. E. Stallings
Alicia Elsbeth Stallings (born 1968) is an American poet, and translator.
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A. R. Ammons
Archie Randolph Ammons, (February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001) was an American poet.
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A.K. Ramanujan
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Aaron Dworkin
Aaron Paul Dworkin (September 11, 1970 Monticello, New York) is an African American violinist, and music educator.
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Aaron Lansky
Aaron Lansky (born 1955) is the founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language publications. When he began saving books in the early 1980s, most experts believe that there were fewer than 70,000 Yiddish volumes extant. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 for his work.
http://wn.com/Aaron_Lansky

Aaron Shirley
Aaron Shirley is an American physician, Chairman of the Board for the Jackson Medical Mall Foundation, and an associate professor in pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
http://wn.com/Aaron_Shirley

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".
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Adam Riess
Adam Guy Riess (born 1969) is an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute and is widely known for his research in using supernovae as Cosmological Probes.
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Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Rich is an American poet, essayist and feminist. She has been called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century."
http://wn.com/Adrienne_Rich

Alar Toomre
Alar Toomre is an Estonian born astronomer and mathematician who immigrated to the United States in 1949. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Toomre's research is focused on the dynamics of galaxies.
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Albert J. Libchaber
Albert J. Libchaber (1934-) is a Detlev W. Bronk Professor at Rockefeller University.He won the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1986.
http://wn.com/Albert_J_Libchaber

Alexander L. George
Alexander L. George (May 31, 1920 Chicago - August 16, 2006) was the Graham H. Stuart Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University.
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Alfonso Ortiz
Alfonso Alex Ortiz (April 30, 1939 San Juan, New Mexico - September 27, 1998) was an Native-American cultural anthropologist.
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Alice Fulton
Alice Fulton is a United States poet and author.
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Alisa Weilerstein
Alisa Weilerstein (born 1982 in Rochester, New York) is an American cellist. She started playing the cello at age four and promptly showed her talent for the instrument performing her first public concert six months later. She made her debut at age 13 with the Cleveland Orchestra playing Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme. As a soloist she has performed with a number of other major orchestras and in musically-significant venues on four continents. She also is active in chamber music and performs with her parents, violinist Donald Weilerstein (the noted first violinist of the Cleveland Quartet) and pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, as the Weilerstein Trio. The trio currently resides at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Her brother is the violinist and conductor, Joshua Weilerstein (born in 1987).
http://wn.com/Alisa_Weilerstein

Allan Berube
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Allan C. Wilson
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Allen Grossman
Allen Grossman is a noted American poet, critic and professor.
http://wn.com/Allen_Grossman

Allison Anders
Allison Anders (born November 16, 1954) is an American film and television director. Anders has directed many independent films, on which she frequently collaborates with fellow UCLA film school graduate Kurt Voss.
http://wn.com/Allison_Anders

Alma Guillermoprieto
Alma Guillermoprieto (born May 27, 1949) is a Mexican journalist who has written extensively about Latin America for the British and American press. Her writings have also been widely disseminated within the Spanish-speaking world.
http://wn.com/Alma_Guillermoprieto

Alvin Bronstein
Alvin J. Bronstein is an American lawyer, and founder and Executive Director of the National
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Amalia Mesa-Bains
Amalia Mesa-Bains (b. July 10, 1943), born in Santa Clara, California, is a psychologist, curator, author and artist. She received a B.A. in painting from San Jose State University before earning a M.A. in interdisciplinary education from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Wright Institute of Berkeley, California, and worked for the San Francisco Unified School District as a psychologist. During the period between 1965–1985 she was the regional committee chair (Northern California) for the exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation. She has written Ceremony of Spirit: Nature and Memory in Contemporary Latino Art.
http://wn.com/Amalia_Mesa-Bains

Aminah Robinson
Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (born February 18, 1940, Columbus, Ohio) is an American artist.
http://wn.com/Aminah_Robinson

Amory Lovins
Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947 in Washington, DC) is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. For four decades he has worked in energy policy and related areas.
http://wn.com/Amory_Lovins

Amy B. Smith
Amy Smith is an inventor who lectures at MIT and develops low-tech devices for use in developing countries.
http://wn.com/Amy_B_Smith

Amy Rosenzweig
Amy C. Rosenzweig is an American biochemist, professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, at Northwestern University, and Principal Investigator at the Rosenzweig Lab.
http://wn.com/Amy_Rosenzweig

Anders Winroth
Anders Winroth (born 1965 in Ludvika in Sweden) is a history professor at Yale University.
http://wn.com/Anders_Winroth

Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus (August 11, 1936 - February 24, 1999) was an American short story writer, essayist, and autobiographer. He is recognized as one of the best American short-story writers in the 20th century.
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Andrea Barrett
Andrea Barrett (born November 16, 1954) is an American writer. Her Ship Fever collection of novella and short stories won the National Book Award in 1996. Barrett received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, and her book Servants of the Map was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
http://wn.com/Andrea_Barrett

Andrea Ghez
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Andrew McGuire
Andrew McGuire (born in 1945 Oakland, California) is an American trauma prevention specialist and grassroots campaigner. He was the first Executive Director of Action Against Burns (Boston, 1974-75), founder and Executive Director of the Burn Council (San Francisco General Hospital, 1975-1981), which was renamed the Trauma Foundation, in 1981.
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Andrew W. Lewis
Andrew W. Lewis is an American medieval historian, and professor at Missouri State University.
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Andrew Wiles
Sir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS (born 11 April 1953) is a British mathematician and a professor at Princeton University, specializing in number theory. He is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
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Angela Belcher
Angela M. Belcher is a material scientist, biological engineer, and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in , United States. She is director of the Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT and a 2004 MacArthur Fellow.
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Ann Ellis Hanson
Ann Ellis Hanson is an American historian, and senior research scholar at the Papyrological Institute at Yale University.
http://wn.com/Ann_Ellis_Hanson

Ann Lauterbach
Ann Lauterbach (born 1942) is an American poet, essayist, and professor. Her most recent poetry collection is Or to Begin Again (Penguin Books, 2009), a 2009 National Book Award finalist. Her other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including Conjunctions, and in anthologies including American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2009) and American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (Wesleyan University Press, 2002).
http://wn.com/Ann_Lauterbach

Ann M. Blair
Ann M. Blair is an American historian, and Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University.
http://wn.com/Ann_M_Blair

Anna Schuleit
Anna Schuleit (born in 1974, in Mainz, Germany) is a visual artist who lives and works in the United States. She studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design where she received her B.F.A. in 1998, and creative writing / book arts at Dartmouth College (M.A. in 2005).
http://wn.com/Anna_Schuleit

Anne Carson
Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a former professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. In 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
http://wn.com/Anne_Carson

Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed (born November 19, 1958) is an American historian and law professor. Gordon-Reed was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. She is Professor of Law and History at Harvard, and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2009, and in 2010 she received the National Humanities Medal and was named a MacArthur Fellow.
http://wn.com/Annette_Gordon-Reed

Anthony Amsterdam
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Anthony Braxton
Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s. Among the array of instruments he plays are the flute; the sopranino, soprano, C-melody, F mezzo-soprano, E-flat alto, baritone, bass, and contrabass saxophones; and the E-flat, B-flat, and contrabass clarinets.
http://wn.com/Anthony_Braxton

Arnold J. Mandell
Arnold J. Mandell is an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, and founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego.
http://wn.com/Arnold_J_Mandell

Arnold Rampersad
Arnold Rampersad (born 13 November 1941) is a biographer and literary critic. The first volume of his Life Of Langston Hughes was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He was born in Trinidad and Tobago.
http://wn.com/Arnold_Rampersad

Arthur Winfree
Arthur Taylor Winfree (May 15, 1942 - November 5, 2002) was a noted theoretical biologist at the University of Arizona. He was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.
http://wn.com/Arthur_Winfree

Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande (born on November 5, 1965 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American doctor and journalist. He serves as a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health. He is also an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker and Slate, pieces which have been collected in his books Complications and Better.
http://wn.com/Atul_Gawande

Avner Greif
Avner Greif (born 1955) is an economics professor at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He holds a chaired professorship as Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences.
http://wn.com/Avner_Greif

Ayesha Jalal
Ayesha Jalal () is a Pakistani-American sociologist and historian. She is a professor of history at Tufts University and a 1998 MacArthur Fellow. The bulk of her work deals with the creation of Muslim identities in modern South Asia.
http://wn.com/Ayesha_Jalal

Baldemar Velasquez
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Barbara Block
Barbara Block is an American marine biologist, and Charles & Elizabeth Prothro Professor in Marine Sciences
http://wn.com/Barbara_Block

Barbara Fields
http://wn.com/Barbara_Fields

Barbara McClintock
http://wn.com/Barbara_McClintock

Beaumont Newhall
Beaumont Newhall (June 22, 1908 - February 26, 1993) was an influential curator, art historian, writer, and photographer. His The History of Photography remains one of the most significant accounts in the field and has become a classic photo history textbook. Newhall was the recipient of numerous awards and accolades for his accomplishments in the study of photo history.
http://wn.com/Beaumont_Newhall

Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor (born 1951 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American cartoonist. His comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer paints an evocative picture of a slightly surreal, historical New York City with a decidedly Jewish sensibility. Julius Knipl has been published in several book collections including Cheap Novelties: The Pleasure of Urban Decay and The Beauty Supply District. Other serialized comics by Katchor include The Jew Of New York (collected and published as a graphic novel in 1998), The Cardboard Valise, Hotel & Farm and "Shoehorn Technique". He has contributed comics and drawings to The New Yorker and The New York Times. He was a contributor to RAW and published and edited two issues of Picture Story magazine, which featured his own work along with illustrated articles and stories by Peter Blegvad and Jerry Moriarty. He wrote and illustrated a "weeklong electronic journal" for Slate in 1997 and contributed articles to the now-defunct Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress. His comics have been translated into French, Italian, German and Japanese. He currently produces a monthly strip for [http://www.metropolismag.com Metropolis Magazine.]
http://wn.com/Ben_Katchor

Benedict Gross
Benedict Hyman Gross (born June 22, 1950) is an American mathematician, the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and former Dean of Harvard College.
http://wn.com/Benedict_Gross

Benjamin D. Santer
Dr. Benjamin D. Santer (June 3, 1955 in Washington, DC, United States) is a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and former researcher at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. He specializes mainly in statistical analysis of climate data sets, and detection/attribution of climate change forcings. He was the convening Lead Author of Chapter 8 of 1995 IPCC Working Group I Report, which addressed the global warming issue.
http://wn.com/Benjamin_D_Santer

Bernadette Brooten
Bernadette J. Brooten is an American historian, and Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University.
http://wn.com/Bernadette_Brooten

Beth Shapiro
Beth Shapiro is an evolutionary molecular biologist in the department of biology at the Pennsylvania State University. She was formerly a researcher in the department of zoology at Oxford University.
http://wn.com/Beth_Shapiro

Bette Howland
Bette Howland is an American writer and literary critic.
http://wn.com/Bette_Howland

Bill Irwin
William Mills "Bill" Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor and clown noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He is known for his vaudeville-style stage acts, but has made a number of appearances on film and television and won a Tony Award for a dramatic role on Broadway.
http://wn.com/Bill_Irwin

Bill Strickland
Bill Strickland (born 1947) is the founder and CEO of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, an innovative nonprofit agency in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that uses the arts to inspire inner-city teenagers.
http://wn.com/Bill_Strickland

Bill T. Jones
Bill T. Jones (born February 15, 1952) is an American artistic director, choreographer and dancer.
http://wn.com/Bill_T_Jones

Bill Viola
Bill Viola (born January 25, 1951 in the United States) is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness.
http://wn.com/Bill_Viola

Billie Young
Billie Jean Young (born 1947) is an actor, activist, poet and educator.
http://wn.com/Billie_Young

Bonnie Bassler
Bonnie L. Bassler is a professor of molecular biology at Princeton University.
http://wn.com/Bonnie_Bassler

Brackette Williams
Brackette F. Williams is a anthropologist, and Senior Justice Advocate, Open Society Institute.
http://wn.com/Brackette_Williams

Brad Leithauser
Brad E. Leithauser (born February 27, 1953) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher. After serving as the Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College and visiting professor at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, he is now on faculty at The Johns Hopkins University in the writing seminars department.
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Bradley Efron
Bradley Efron (born May 24, 1938) is an American statistician best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in the field of statistics and virtually every area of statistical application. The bootstrap was one of the first computer-intensive statistical techniques, replacing traditional algebraic derivations with data-based computer simulations.
http://wn.com/Bradley_Efron

Bret Wallach
Bret Wallach is an American cultural geographer, and professor at University of Oklahoma.
http://wn.com/Bret_Wallach

Brian Tucker
Brian E. Tucker is a disaster prevention specialist. A seismologist by training, Dr. Tucker has devoted his life to realizing a world of self-reliant communities that can continue their economic, political and cultural development unimpeded by natural disasters. For more than sixteen years, Dr. Tucker has created exhibits, organized workshops and symposia around the world, printed multilingual reports and written/edited three books to raise awareness of geologic threats to communities from Tajikistan to Ecuador. Beyond education, he has drafted earthquake mitigation plans and has supported mason training and the retrofitting of schools, leaving a long-term legacy of natural hazard risk reduction in more than twenty countries.
http://wn.com/Brian_Tucker

Bright Sheng
Bright Sheng (surname Sheng, ; born December 6, 1955 in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He has lived in the United States since 1982 and is on faculty at the University of Michigan. In 1999, the White House commissioned Sheng to compose a piece to honor the Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji at a state dinner hosted by President Bill Clinton. In November 2001, Sheng received a MacArthur Fellowship. Sheng is the New York City Ballet's first composer in residence.
http://wn.com/Bright_Sheng

Brooks Pate
Brooks H. Pate is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of chemistry, at the University of Virginia.
http://wn.com/Brooks_Pate

Bruce G. Blair
Bruce G. Blair (born 1947) is an American policy analyst, and is the president of the World Security Institute.
http://wn.com/Bruce_G_Blair

Bruce Schwartz
Bruce D. Schwartz is an American puppeteer and sculptor. By extension, he is also a mimic, storyteller and clown. He is using a technique where, unlike most puppeteers, who usually hide their hands in gloves, or use strings or sticks, he does the opposite and shows his hands.
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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.
http://wn.com/Bryan_Stevenson

Byllye Avery
Byllye Yvonne Avery (born 1937) is an American health care activist, who has worked to improve the welfare of African-American women by creating the National Black Women's Health Project in 1981. She has received the MacArthur Foundation's Fellowship for Social Contribution and the Gustav O. Lienhard Award for the Advancement of Health Care from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, among other awards.
http://wn.com/Byllye_Avery

Calvin King
Calvin R. King (born 1953) is an American farm developmer, and the President of the Arkansas Land and Farm Development Corp.
http://wn.com/Calvin_King

Camille Utterback
Camille Utterback (b. 1970 in Bloomington, Indiana) is an interactive installation artist. Initially trained as a painter, her work is at the intersection of painting and interactive art.
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Camilo José Vergara
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Campbell McGrath
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.
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Carl E. Schorske
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Carl R. Woese
http://wn.com/Carl_R_Woese

Carl Safina
Carl Safina (born 1955) is president and co-founder of the Blue Ocean Institute, and author of several writings on marine ecology and the ocean, including the award winnings Song for the Blue Ocean (1998) and Eye of the Albatross (2002).
http://wn.com/Carl_Safina

Carol Levine
Carol Levine is the Director of the Families and Health Care Project of the United Hospital Fund.
http://wn.com/Carol_Levine

Carol Padden
Carol A. Padden (born 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, where she has been teaching since 1983. She was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, and a 1992 Guggenheim Fellow.
http://wn.com/Carol_Padden

Caroline Bynum
Caroline Walker Bynum (born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1941) is an American Medieval scholar. She is a University Professor Emerita at Columbia University, where she still teaches, and a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. She was the first woman to be appointed University Professor at Columbia. She is a former Dean of Columbia's School of General Studies. She served as President of the American Historical Association for 1996.
http://wn.com/Caroline_Bynum

Carolyn McKecuen
Carolyn McKecuen is an American economic development leader, and President of the Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Foundation.
http://wn.com/Carolyn_McKecuen

Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Dr. Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi is an American chemist. She is the T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley; Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco; is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and Director of the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience research center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She received a MacArthur "genius" award at age 33 . This makes her among the youngest scientists to receive this award.
http://wn.com/Carolyn_R_Bertozzi

Charles Archambeau
Charles B. Archambeau is an American geophysicist.
http://wn.com/Charles_Archambeau

Charles C. Steidel
Charles C. Steidel (born October 14, 1962 Ithaca, New York) is an American astronomer, and Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology.
http://wn.com/Charles_C_Steidel

Charles S. Peskin
Charles S. Peskin (born 15 April 1946) is a professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He is a MacArthur Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Science.
http://wn.com/Charles_S_Peskin

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, and ultra-robust networks.
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Charles Simic
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Charles Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen (b. June 9, 1938, in New York City) is a U.S. composer. Wuorinen is a prolific composer in all genres and a high profile proponent of contemporary music. In 1970, Wuorinen became the youngest composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music (for the electronic work ''Time's Encomium'') while his many other awards include a MacArthur Fellowship.
http://wn.com/Charles_Wuorinen

Charlotte Erickson
Charlotte Erickson (born 22 October 1923 Oak Park, Illinois - 9 July 2008 Cambridge) was an American historian.
http://wn.com/Charlotte_Erickson

Cheryl Hayashi
Cheryl Hayashi is a biologist at University of California, Riverside who specializes in the genetic structure of spider silk.
http://wn.com/Cheryl_Hayashi

Cheryl Rogowski
Cheryl Rogowski (born c. 1960) is an American farmer from Pine Island, New York.
http://wn.com/Cheryl_Rogowski

Christopher Beckwith
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Christopher Chyba
Christopher F. Chyba is an American astrobiologist, and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.
http://wn.com/Christopher_Chyba

Cindy Sherman
http://wn.com/Cindy_Sherman

Claire Gmachl
http://wn.com/Claire_Gmachl

Claire J. Tomlin
Claire Jennifer Tomlin (b. Southampton, England 1969) is an American researcher in hybrid systems, distributed and decentralized optimization and control theory.
http://wn.com/Claire_J_Tomlin

Claire Kremen
Claire Kremen (born 1961) is an American biologist, and professor of conservation biology at University of California, Berkeley.
http://wn.com/Claire_Kremen

Claire Van Vliet
Claire Van Vliet was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1933. She is a fine artist, illustrator and typographer who founded Janus Press in San Diego, California in 1955. Van Vliet received the Bachelor of Arts in 1952 from San Diego State College, and the Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate School in 1954. In 1955 she moved to Europe, shortly after her first publications, then returned to the United States in 1957. She worked for John Anderson of Lanston Monotype Company in Philadelphia before moving to Madison, Wisconsin. She made several trips back to Europe and continued her education in hand typesetting and compositing. She taught drawing and printmaking classes at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art and Philadelphia Museum College of Art from 1965-1966. In 1967 she established a typographic workshop in Madison, Wisconsin. The Janus Press has been based in Newark, Vermont since Van Vliet settled there in 1966.
http://wn.com/Claire_Van_Vliet

Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead is a New York-based novelist. He is best-known as the author of the 2001 novel John Henry Days. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
http://wn.com/Colson_Whitehead

Conlon Nancarrow
Conlon Nancarrow (October 27, 1912 – August 10, 1997) was a United States-born composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life. He became a Mexican citizen in 1955.
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Corey Harris
Corey Harris (born February 21, 1969, Denver, Colorado) is an American blues and reggae musician, currently residing in Virginia. Along with Keb' Mo' and Alvin Youngblood Hart, he raised the flag of acoustic guitar blues in the mid 1990s. He was featured on the 2003 PBS television mini-series, The Blues, in an episode directed by Martin Scorsese.
http://wn.com/Corey_Harris

Corinne Dufka
Corinne Dufka (born 1958) is a senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Africa Division, and was criminal investigator in Sierra Leone.
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Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, ranging from the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres. He has also written plays and screenplays. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road. His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He received a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1992 novel, All the Pretty Horses.
http://wn.com/Cormac_McCarthy

Curtis G. Hames
Dr. Curtis G. Hames Sr. (1920 Claxton, Georgia - January 6 2005 Savannah, Georgia) was a family physcian and pioneer in the epidemologic study of heart disease and stroke.
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Cynthia Moss
Cynthia Moss (born 1940 in Ossining, New York) is an American conservationist, wildlife researcher and writer, who specialises in elephant behaviour. She has published several books including Portraits in the Wild: Animal Behaviour in East Africa (Hamish Hamilton 1979).
http://wn.com/Cynthia_Moss

D. Holmes Morton
D. Holmes Morton is an American physician specializing in genetic disorders of Old Order Amish and Mennonite children. In 1989 he established the Clinic for Special Children in Strasburg, Pennsylvania to focus on these diseases.
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Daisy Youngblood
Daisy Youngblood (born 1945) is an American modern sculptor and ceramic artist. She grew up in North Carolina and currently lives in New Mexico. She was a 2003 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant".
http://wn.com/Daisy_Youngblood

Daniel Friedan
Daniel Friedan is an American theoretical physicist and is one of two sons of the feminist author and activist Betty Friedan.
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Daniel Janzen
http://wn.com/Daniel_Janzen

Daniel Jurafsky
Daniel Jurafsky is a Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at Stanford University.
http://wn.com/Daniel_Jurafsky

Daniel P. Schrag
Daniel P. Schrag (b. January 25, 1966) is Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Director of the University Center for the Environment, and Director of the Laboratory for Geochemical Oceanography at Harvard University. He is also an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
http://wn.com/Daniel_P_Schrag

Daniel Sigman
Daniel Sigman is an American geoscientist, and the Dusenbury Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences in at Princeton University.
http://wn.com/Daniel_Sigman

Daniela L. Rus
Daniela L. Rus is an American roboticist and Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a recipient of the 2002 MacArthur Fellowship.
http://wn.com/Daniela_L_Rus

Danielle Allen
Danielle S. Allen is an American classicist and political scientist, and UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study.
http://wn.com/Danielle_Allen

Daphne Koller
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 "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World" concerning the topic of Bayesian Machine Learning.
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Daryl Hine
Daryl Hine (born 24 Feb 1936 in New Westminster, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet and translator.
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Dave Hickey
Dave Hickey (born circa 1939) is an American art and cultural critic. He has written for many American publications including Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, ''Harper's Magazine, and Vanity Fair''. He is currently Professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and Distinguished Professor of Criticism for the MFA Program in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of New Mexico.
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David Alan Rosenberg
David Alan Rosenberg (born 1948) is a military historian, and was Admiral Harry W. Hill Chair of Maritime Strategy at the National War College from 1996 to 2003.
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David B. Goldstein
David B. Goldstein is an American energy conservation policy expert. He co-directs the Natural Resources Defense Council's Energy Program.
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David C. Page
David C. Page, MD, is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the director of the Whitehead Institute, where he has a laboratory devoted to the study of the Y-chromosome. His lab mapped the human Y chromosome in 1992. In 2003, his research group sequenced the human Y chromosome.
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David Cromer
David Cromer is an Obie award winning American theatre director and stage actor. He has received wide recognition for his work Off Broadway and in his native Chicago. Cromer is the recipient of numerous awards including the Lucille Lortel Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Joseph Jefferson Award. He was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.
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David Donoho
David Leigh Donoho, born on March 5, 1957 in Los Angeles, is a professor of mathematics and statistics at Stanford University, where he is also the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences. His work includes the development of effective methods for the construction of low-dimensional representations for high-dimensional data problems (multiscale geometric analysis), developments of wavelets for denoising and compressed sensing.
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David Foster Wallace
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David Hammons
David Hammons (born 1943) is an African-American artist mostly known for his works in and around New York City during the 1970s and 1980s.
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David Hillis
David Mark Hillis (born December 21, 1958 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is an American evolutionary biologist, and the Alfred W. Roark Centennial Professor of Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is best known for his studies of molecular evolution, phylogeny, and vertebrate systematics.
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David Isay
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David Kazhdan
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David Keightley
David N. Keightley is an American sinologist, historian, and Professor Emeritus, Department of History, at University of California, Berkeley.
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David L. Felten
David L. Felten is an American neuroscientist.
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David Levering Lewis
David Levering Lewis (born May 25, 1936) is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois (in 1994 and 2001, respectively). He is the first author to win two Pulitzer Prizes for biography for back-to-back volumes.
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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.
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David Mumford
David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is a mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He won the Fields Medal and was a MacArthur Fellow. He is currently a University Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, having previously had a long academic career at Harvard University.
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David Pingree
David Edwin Pingree (January 2, 1933 New Haven, Connecticut - November 11, 2005) was a University Professor and Professor of History of Mathematics and Classics at Brown University, and was one of America's foremost historians of the exact sciences in antiquity.
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David R. Nelson
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David Rudovsky
David Rudovsky (born 1943, Queens, New York) is a civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia. He is a founding partner of the law firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing, and Feinberg[http://www.krlawphila.com], and a Senior Fellow at University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he teaches evidence and constitutional criminal procedure. In 1986 he was named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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David Rumelhart
David Everett Rumelhart (b. 1942, Wessington Springs, South Dakota) has made many contributions to the formal analysis of human cognition, working primarily within the frameworks of mathematical psychology, symbolic artificial intelligence, and parallel distributed processing. He also admired formal linguistic approaches to cognition and explored the possibility of formulating a formal grammar to capture the structure of stories.
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David Simon
David Simon (born 1960) is an American author, journalist, and a writer/producer of television series, best known as the creator of the HBO television series The Wire. He worked for the Baltimore Sun City Desk for twelve years. He wrote ' and co-wrote ' with Ed Burns. The former book was the basis for the NBC series , on which Simon served as a writer and producer. Simon adapted the latter book into the HBO mini-series The Corner. He is the creator of the HBO television series The Wire, for which he served as executive producer, head writer, and show runner for all five seasons. He adapted the non-fiction book Generation Kill into an HBO mini-series and served as the show runner for the project. He was selected as one of the 2010 MacArthur Fellows.
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David Spergel
David Nathaniel Spergel (born March 25, 1961), is an American theoretical astrophysicist and Princeton University professor (currently chair of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences) known for his work on the WMAP mission. Professor Spergel is a MacArthur Fellow. He has served as the chair of the Astrophysics Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council and was once the W.M. Keck distinguished visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Not only has he focused on deciphering the data that the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) beams back from space, he was part of the team that dreamed up the mission and designed the satellite that would carry it out. Spergel is the Charles A Young Professor of Astronomy and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He
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David Werner
David Werner (Born 1934) is author of the book Donde No Hay Doctor Where There is No Doctor, co-founder and co-director of HealthWrights (based in Palo Alto, California) and a Visiting Professor at Boston University International School of Public Health.
http://wn.com/David_Werner

Dawn Song
Dawn Xiaodong Song (born 1975) a Computer Scientist, and is an Associate Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley. She was awarded a 2010 MacArthur Fellowship.
http://wn.com/Dawn_Song

Dawn Upshaw
Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a world-renowned American soprano described as "one of the most consequential performers of our time" by the Los Angeles Times. The recipient of several Grammy Awards and Edison Prize-winning discs, Upshaw is at home both in opera and art song, and in repertoire from Baroque to contemporary. Many composers, including Osvaldo Golijov, John Harbison, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Adams, and Kaija Saariaho, have written for her, and her artistic achievements are extensive. In 2007 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Deborah Bial
Deborah Bial (born 1965) is an education strategist, Founder and President of the Posse Foundation.
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Deborah Eisenberg
Deborah Eisenberg (born November 20, 1945) is an American short-story writer, actor and teacher.
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Deborah Jin
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Deborah W. Meier
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Denny Moore
Denny Moore is an American linguist, and anthropologist.
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Derek Walcott
The Hon. Derek Alton Walcott, OCC (born January 23, 1930) is a Caribbean poet, playwright, writer and visual artist. Born in Castries, Saint Lucia, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.
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Diane E. Meier
Diane E. Meier, M.D., is an American geriatrician and the Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. As an internationally recognized expert on palliative medicine, Meier has appeared in media including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ABC World News Tonight, The Open Mind with Richard Heffner, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the New York Daily News, Newsday, The New Yorker and Newsweek. She was featured in the Bill Moyers series On Our Own Terms: Dying in America, a four-part PBS documentary in 2002.
http://wn.com/Diane_E_Meier

Dirk Obbink
Dirk D. Obbink (born 1957 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American-born papyrologist and Classicist. He is the Lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Literature in the Faculty of Classics at Oxford University and is the head of the prestigious Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project. Obbink has achieved the rare distinction of a dual appointment as an American University Professor (Collegiate Professor of Papyrology, University of Michigan) and Fellow and Tutor in the University of Oxford (Christ Church).
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Donald Hopkins
Donald R. Hopkins (born 1941) is an American physician, and is director of health programs of The Carter Center.
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Donella Meadows
Donella H. "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 Elgin, Illinois, USA - February 20, 2001, Hanover, New Hampshire) was a pioneering American environmental scientist, teacher and writer. She is best known as lead author of the influential book The Limits to Growth, which made headlines around the world.
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Dorothy Stoneman
Dorothy Stoneman is the founder and president of YouthBuild USA, and chairman of the YouthBuild Coalition, with over 1000 member organizations in 43 states, Washington D.C. and the Virgin Islands.
http://wn.com/Dorothy_Stoneman

Douglas Crase
Douglas Crase (born 1944) is an American poet, essayist and critic. He was born in 1944 in Battle Creek, Michigan. His poetry collection, The Revisionist, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and an American Book Award. He is a former MacArthur Fellow. Crase lives in New York City and Honesdale, Pennsylvania. His work has been published in many collections, including his poem "Astropastoral", found in The KGB Bar Book Of Poems edited by David Lehman and Star Black.
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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"
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Edet Belzberg
Edet Belzberg is a documentary filmmaker.
http://wn.com/Edet_Belzberg

Edgar Meyer
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Edith Widder
Edith Widder (born 1951) is an American oceanographer, marine biologist, and Senior Scientist at the Ocean Research & Conservation Association.
http://wn.com/Edith_Widder

Edward Hirsch
Edward Hirsch (born January 20, 1950) an American poet and academic who wrote a best seller about reading poetry. He is the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City (not to be mistaken with E.D. Hirsch, Jr.)
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Edward P. Jones
Edward Paul Jones (born 1951) is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel The Known World received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Edward Witten
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Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat (; born January 19, 1969) is an Haitian-American author.
http://wn.com/Edwidge_Danticat

Edwin Hutchins
Edwin Hutchins is a professor and former department head of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. Hutchins is one of the main developers of distributed cognition.
http://wn.com/Edwin_Hutchins

Eiko Otake
http://wn.com/Eiko_Otake

Elaine Pagels
http://wn.com/Elaine_Pagels

Eleanor Wilner
Eleanor Rand Wilner (born 1937 Ohio) is an American poet, and editor.
http://wn.com/Eleanor_Wilner

Elinor Ochs
Elinor Ochs is an American linguistic anthropologist, and professor of Anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles. Ochs is married to Alessandro Duranti, faculty member at UCLA and current Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA.
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Eliot Wigginton
Eliot Wigginton (born Brooks Eliot Wigginton on November 9, 1942) is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator. He was most widely known for the series of Foxfire books, twelve volumes in all, consisting of field reports by high school students from Rabun County, Georgia. He was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989.
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Elizabeth LeCompte
Elizabeth LeCompte (born April 28, 1944) is a founding member and the theater director of experimental theater collective The Wooster Group (emerged 1975, founded 1980). She is considered one of the "fifty key theatre directors" of today.
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Elizabeth Streb
Elizabeth Streb is a choreographer, performer and teacher of contemporary dance.
http://wn.com/Elizabeth_Streb

Ellen Silbergeld
Ellen Kovner Silbergeld (born 1945) is a leading expert in the field of environmental health. After graduating from Vassar College summa cum laude in 1967, she earned a Ph.D. in environmental engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1972. She is a professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and formerly was on the faculty at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Before that she worked as a scientist for Environmental Defense. She is editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Research. She is an authority on the toxicological manifestations of lead and mercury poisoning, having done some of the first research on how lead affects the central nervous system. Silbergeld has also been involved in public policy and raised public awareness of the dangers of lead. In 1993, she received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship ("genius award") from the MacArthur Foundation.
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Ellen Stewart
Ellen Stewart (born November 7, 1919 Alexandria, Louisiana), is an American theater director and producer and the founder of La MaMa, E.T.C. (Experimental Theatre Club).
http://wn.com/Ellen_Stewart

Elliot Sperling
Elliot Sperling is Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and an expert on the history of Tibet and Tibetan-Chinese relations at Indiana University.
http://wn.com/Elliot_Sperling

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 a Presidential Medal for the Arts by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. She is also an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.
http://wn.com/Elma_Lewis

Elouise Cobell
http://wn.com/Elouise_Cobell

Elyn Saks
Elyn Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School and an expert in mental health law.
http://wn.com/Elyn_Saks

Emily Thompson
Emily Ann Thompson (born 1962) is an American aural historian.
http://wn.com/Emily_Thompson

Emmanuel Saez
Emmanuel Saez (born November 26, 1972) is a French economist. Saez is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2009 and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010.
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Eric Charnov
Eric L. Charnov (born Oct 29, 1947 ) is an American evolutionary ecologist. He is best known for his work on foraging, especially the marginal value theorem, and life history theory, especially sex allocation and scaling/allometric rules. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Eric Wolf
Eric Robert Wolf (February 1, 1923 – March 6, 1999) was an anthropologist, best known for his studies of peasants, Latin America, and his advocacy of Marxian perspectives within anthropology.
http://wn.com/Eric_Wolf

Erik Demaine
Erik D. Demaine (b. February 28, 1981, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), is an associate professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
http://wn.com/Erik_Demaine

Erik Mueggler
Erik Mueggler is an American anthropologist, and Professor at the University of Michigan.
http://wn.com/Erik_Mueggler

Erik Winfree
Erik Winfree is an American computer scientist, bioengineer, and associate professor at California Institute of Technology. He is a leading researcher into DNA computing and DNA nanotechnology.
http://wn.com/Erik_Winfree

Errol Morris
Errol Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American director. In 2003, The Guardian put him seventh in its list of the world's 40 best directors. As of 2010, Morris has won one Academy Award for Best Documentary Film.
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Esther Duflo
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Eva Silverstein
Eva Silverstein (born 1970) is a string theorist. She is married to fellow string theorist Shamit Kachru. She and Kachru were both proteges of Edward Witten.
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Eve Troutt Powell
Eve M. Troutt Powell is an American historian and professor at University of Pennsylvania.
http://wn.com/Eve_Troutt_Powell

Evelyn Fox Keller
Evelyn Fox Keller (born 1936) is an American physicist, author and feminist. She is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller has also taught at the State University of New York at Purchase, New York University and in the department of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Faye Ginsburg
Faye Ginsburg is an American anthropologist, and David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She founded the Center for Media, Culture and History at NYU.
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Fazal Sheikh
Fazal Sheikh (born 1965 New York City) is an American photographer.
http://wn.com/Fazal_Sheikh

Fouad Ajami
Fouad A. Ajami (; born September 9, 1945, in Arnoun, Lebanon), is a MacArthur Fellowship winning, Lebanese-born American university professor and writer on Middle Eastern issues.
http://wn.com/Fouad_Ajami

Francesca Rochberg
Francesca Rochberg (Halton) (born Philadelphia) is an American Assyriologist, historian of science, and Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Near Eastern Studies at University of California, Berkeley.
http://wn.com/Francesca_Rochberg

Frank N. von Hippel
Frank N. von Hippel, Professor and Co-Director, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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Frank Sulloway
Frank J. Sulloway (born 1947) is a visiting Scholar in the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychology.
http://wn.com/Frank_Sulloway

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.
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Franklin Stahl
Dr. Franklin William Stahl (born October 8, 1929) is an American molecular biologist. With Matthew Meselson, Stahl conducted the famous Meselson-Stahl experiment showing that DNA is replicated by a semiconservative mechanism, meaning that each strand of the DNA serves as a template for the "replicated" strand.
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Fred Cuny
Frederick C. Cuny (born November 14, 1944 in New Haven, Connecticut) was an American disaster relief specialist who was active in many humanitarian projects around the world from 1969 until his forced disappearance in Chechnya in 1995.
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Fred Wilson (artist)
Conceptual artist Fred Wilson (born in 1954 in The Bronx) describes himself as of "African, Native American, European and Amerindian" descent. Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1999 and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 2003. Wilson represented the United States at the Biennial Cairo in 1992 and the Venice Biennale in 2003. In May 2008, it was announced Mr. Wilson will become a Whitney Museum trustee replacing Chuck Close.
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Frederick Wiseman
Frederick Wiseman (born January 1, 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American documentary filmmaker. He came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer. He has won numerous film awards, as well as Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships.
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Fritz John
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Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (born February 1, 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island) is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St. Francis and the Sow" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps".
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Garth Youngberg
Ivan Garth Youngberg was the founder and director of the Institute for Alternative Agriculture.
http://wn.com/Garth_Youngberg

Gary A. Tomlinson
Gary A. Tomlinson is an American musicologist, and Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, at the University of Pennsylvania.
http://wn.com/Gary_A_Tomlinson

Gary Hill
Gary Hill (born in 1951, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.
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Gary Nabhan
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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 (khipu) numerical recording system used in the Inca empire in the 15th and 16th centuries. He is the most prominent advocate of the theory that the quipus encode linguistic as well as numerical information. From 2001 to 2005 he was a MacArthur Fellow.
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Gay McDougall
Gay J. McDougall (born August 13, 1947, Atlanta, Georgia) was Executive Director of Global Rights, Partners for Justice (from September 1994 to 2006). In August 2005, she was named the first United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues.
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Geerat J. Vermeij
Dr. Geerat J. Vermeij, born in the Netherlands, is a professor of geology at the University of California at Davis. Blind from the age of three, he graduated from Princeton University in 1968 and received his Ph.D. in biology and geology from Yale University in 1971.
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George Oster
George Oster is an American mathematical biologist, and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of California, Berkeley.
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George Saunders
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George W. Archibald
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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 Alamos National Laboratory and MIT, but as of 2004, has gone on to work in the financial services industry.
http://wn.com/George_Zweig

Geraldine Seydoux
Geraldine C. Seydoux is a Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University, and Investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
http://wn.com/Geraldine_Seydoux

Getatchew Haile
Getatchew Haile is Amerian philologist, Regents Professor Emeritus of Medieval Studies, and Curator, Ethiopian Study Center at College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University.
http://wn.com/Getatchew_Haile

Gina G. Turrigiano
Gina G. Turrigiano is an American neuroscientist, and Professor of Biology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems, at Brandeis University.
http://wn.com/Gina_G_Turrigiano

Gregory Chudnovsky
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Gregory Schopen
Gregory Schopen is a Buddhist historian, and Professor at University of California, Los Angeles, chair of the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures.
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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 and has written on Christian faith as well.
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Gretchen Berland
Gretchen Kimberly Berland is an American physician and filmmaker, and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.
http://wn.com/Gretchen_Berland

Guillermo Algaze
Guillermo Algaze (born November 24, 1954) is a recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award in 2003 and 2004. Algaze is the chair of the anthropology department at University of California, San Diego, and project director of the Titris Hoyuk excavation in southern Turkey.
http://wn.com/Guillermo_Algaze

Guillermo Gómez-Peña
http://wn.com/Guillermo_Gómez-Peña

Gunther Schuller
Gunther Schuller (born November 22, 1925) is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.
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Guy Davenport
http://wn.com/Guy_Davenport

Günter P. Wagner
http://wn.com/Günter_P_Wagner

Han Ong
http://wn.com/Han_Ong

Harlan Lane
Harlan Lane is Distinguished University professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. He specializes in research on Deaf culture and sign language. In 1991, Professor Lane received a MacArthur Foundation "genius award". He has become an often controversial spokesman for the Deaf community and critic of cochlear implants.
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American writer and literary critic, currently Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is known for his defense of 19th-century Romantic poets, his construction of unique but controversial theories of poetic influence, and for advocating an aesthetic approach to literature against feminist, Marxist, New Historicist, poststructuralist (deconstructive and semiotic) literary criticism. Bloom is a 1985 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Heather Hurst
Heather Hurst (born 1976) is an American archaeologist, and anthropologist.
http://wn.com/Heather_Hurst

Heather Lechtman
Heather Lechtman is an American materials scientist and archaeologist, and Director, Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
http://wn.com/Heather_Lechtman

Heather McHugh
Heather McHugh (born August 20, 1948) is an American poet.
http://wn.com/Heather_McHugh

Heidi Hartmann
Heidi Hartmann is a pioneering feminist economist and the founder of Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) specializing in social research, particularly relating to women. She is also the organization's president. She has testified many times before the U.S. Congress, and her research is cited in various media outlets.
http://wn.com/Heidi_Hartmann

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
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Henry Kraus
Henry Kraus (1906 Knoxville, Tennessee - January 27 1995 Paris) was a labor historian, and European art historian.
http://wn.com/Henry_Kraus

Henry T. Wright
Henry T. Wright is an American anthropologist, and professor at the University of Michigan, and at the Santa Fe Institute.
http://wn.com/Henry_T_Wright

Hideo Mabuchi
Hideo Mabuchi (born 1971) is an American physicist. He is Department Chair and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University, and the boss of the Mabuchi Lab.
http://wn.com/Hideo_Mabuchi

Horng-Tzer Yau
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Howard Gardner
Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is an American developmental psychologist who is John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences.
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Hugo Morales (radio)
http://wn.com/Hugo_Morales_(radio)

Ian Graham
Ian James Alastair Graham (born 12 November 1923) is a British Mayanist whose explorations of Maya ruins in the jungles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize helped establish the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions published by the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Among his related works is a biography of an early predecessor, the 19th-century British Maya explorer Alfred Maudslay.
http://wn.com/Ian_Graham

Ida Applebroog
Ida Applebroog is a notable American painter. Her work is included in many public collections in the United States. During the decade of the 1990s, she received multiple honors including the College Art Association Distinguished Art Award for Lifetime Achievement, an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, New School for Social Research/Parsons School of Design.
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Ingrid Daubechies
Ingrid Daubechies (born 17 August 1954) (pronounced "DOHB-shee") is a Belgian physicist and mathematician and currently Professor in the mathematics and applied mathematics departments at Princeton University. In January 2011 she will move to Duke University as a Professor in mathematics. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression.
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Ira Herskowitz
Ira Herskowitz (born 1946 Brooklyn - 28 April 2003 San Francisco) was an American geneticist.
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Irene J. Winter
Irene J. Winter is an American art historian.
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Irving Feldman
Irving Feldman (born on 22 September 1928 in Brooklyn, New York is an American poet and professor of English.
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Irving Howe
Irving Howe (June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Scott Reed (born 22 February 1938) is an American poet, essayist, and novelist. A prominent African-American literary figure, Reed is known for his satirical works challenging American political culture, and highlighting political and cultural oppression.
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Israel Gelfand
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J. Kirk Varnedoe
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J. Richard Steffy
John Richard Steffy (May 1, 1924 Lancaster, Pennsylvania - November 29, 2007 Bryan, Texas) was an American nautical archaeologist.
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Jack Miles
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 Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times.
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Jack Wisdom
Jack Wisdom is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. from Rice University in 1976 and his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1981. His research interests are the dynamics of the Solar System.
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Jacqueline Barton
Jacqueline K. Barton is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of her research is transverse electron transport along double-stranded DNA, its implications in the biology of DNA damage and repair, and its potential for materials sciences applications. She is married to fellow Caltech chemist Peter Dervan.
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Jacqueline Jones
Jacqueline Jones (born 1948) is Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin, United States. She is an expert in American social history in addition to writing on economics (also feminist economics), women, and class.
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Jacques d'Amboise
'''Jacques d'Amboise''' (born July 28, 1934) is a well-known American ballet dancer, choreographer, and film actor.
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Jad Abumrad
Jad Abumrad (born April 18, 1973) is an American-Lebanese radio host and producer. He has reported and produced documentaries for a number of local and National Public Radio programs, including On the Media, PRI's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Democracy Now!, and WNYC's "24 Hours at the Edge of Ground Zero". He currently hosts and produces Radiolab on WNYC.
http://wn.com/Jad_Abumrad

James Alan McPherson
James Alan McPherson (born September 16, 1943 in Savannah, Georgia) is a United States short story writer and essayist, a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship, and a member of the permanent faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
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James Angel
James Roger Prior Angel (born 1941) is an American astronomer, and is Regents Professor and Professor of Astronomy and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona.
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James Randi
James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928) is a Canadian American stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Randi began his career as a magician, as The Amazing Randi, but when he retired at age 60, he switched to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims, which he collectively calls "woo-woo." Although often referred to as a "debunker", Randi rejects that title owing to its perceived bias, instead describing himself as an "investigator". He has written about the paranormal, skepticism, and the history of magic. He was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and is occasionally featured on the television program .
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James Turrell
James Turrell (born 1943, Pasadena, California). He is an artist primarily concerned with light and space. Turrell was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984. He is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York.
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James Westphal
James Adolf Westphal (June 30, 1930–September 8, 2004) was an American academic, scientist, engineer, inventor and astronomer and Director of Caltech's Palomar Observatory from 1994 through 1997.
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Jane Lubchenco
Dr. Jane Lubchenco (born December 4, 1947) is an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist. On March 19, 2009, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first woman to serve as the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Jane S. Richardson
Jane Shelby Richardson (born 1941 in Teaneck, New Jersey) is an American biochemist who developed the Richardson diagram, or ribbon diagram, method of representing proteins. She is a professor in biochemistry at Duke University.
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Janet Benshoof
Janet Benshoof (born 1947 Detroit Lakes, Minnesota) is an American human rights lawyer, and President of the Global Justice Center.
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Janine Antoni
Janine Antoni (b. January 19, 1964 -, in Freeport, Bahamas ) is a contemporary artist whose work focuses mostly on process. She often uses her whole body or different parts of it, such as her mouth, hair, eyelashes, and brain as tools and with them performs everyday activities to create her artwork. For example, in her work Gnaw (1992) Antoni uses her mouth and the activity of eating or chewing to carve two 600 lb (300 kg) cubes, one made of chocolate, the other of lard, and then used the chewed out bits to create chocolate boxes and lipstick tubes, which she then displayed in a mock store front. In this work and others, Antoni often confronts issues such as materiality, process, the body, cultural perceptions of femininity, and her art historical roots.
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Janine Jagger
Janine Jagger is an American epidemiologist, Becton Dickinson Professor of Research of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and director of the International Health Care Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
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Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist and author whose work draws from a variety of fields. He is currently Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA. He is best known for the award-winning popular science books The Third Chimpanzee; Guns, Germs, and Steel; and .
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Jay Cantor
Jay Cantor (born 1948 New York City) is an American novelist, and essayist.
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Jay Rubenstein
Jay Rubenstein (born 1967) is an American historian.
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Jay Weiss
Jay Michael Weiss is an American psychologist, and Jenny Culbreth Adams Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
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Jean Strouse
Jean Strouse (born 1945) is an American biographer, editor and critic. She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan.
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Jeanne Gang
Jeanne Gang (born 1964) leads Studio Gang Architects, a Chicago-based architecture and design firm. Gang's projects include Aqua, an 82-story mixed-use high-rise, and SOS Children's Village Lavezzorio Community Center, a foster care community center on Chicago's South Side.
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Jed Z. Buchwald
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Jennifer Gordon
Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project in 1992, a non-profit worker center in Hempstead, New York, which organizes immigrant workers, mostly from Central and South America. The Workplace Project lobbied for and won a strong wage enforcement law in New York state. Gordon was the executive director of the Workplace Project from 1993 to 1998. Gordon was a MacArthur Fellow from 1999-2004. She is the author of Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights, as well as several articles on immigrants, politics, and labor unions. She received a bachelor of arts degree from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1987 and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1992. She is currently an associate professor at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches courses on immigration and labor law.
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Jennifer Moody
Jennifer Alice Moody is an American archaeologist, and research fellow at University of Texas at Austin.
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Jennifer Richeson
Jennifer A. Richeson is an African-American social psychologist who studies racial identity and interracial interactions.
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Jennifer Tipton
Jennifer Tipton (born September 11, 1937 Columbus, Ohio) is a lighting designer. She has designed for dance, ballets, and stage productions.
http://wn.com/Jennifer_Tipton

Jeraldyne Blunden
Jeraldyne Blunden (1940 Dayton, Ohio - 1999) was an American choreographer, founder and artistic director of the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company.
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Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Grotowski (11 August 1933 - 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre director and innovator of experimental theater, the "theatre laboratory" and "poor theatre" concepts.
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Jill Seaman
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Jillian Banfield
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Jim Fruchterman
Jim Fruchterman
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Jim Kim
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Jim Powell (poet)
Jim Powell is an American poet, translator, and classicist from the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Joan Abrahamson
Joan Abrahamson (born 1951) is an American public policy organizer, and trustee.
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Joan Breton Connelly
Joan Breton Connelly is a classical archaeologist and Professor of Classics and Art History at New York University. She is Director of the Yeronisos Island Excavations and Field School in Cyprus. Connelly was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1996. She received the Archaeological Institute of America Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2007 and held the Lillian Vernon Chair for Teaching Excellence at New York University from 2002-2004. She is an Honorary Citizen of the Municipality of Peyia, Republic of Cyprus. She is a Trustee of Bryn Mawr College.
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Joanna Scott
Joanna Scott (born 1960) is an American author and Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.
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Joaquin Avila
Joaquin Avila is Managing Director of the global private equity firm, Carlyle Group, where he is responsible for researching and discovering opportunities in the field of buyout investments.
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Joel E. Cohen
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Joel Rogers
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Joel Schwartz
Joel Schwartz (born Long Island, New York) is an American epidemiologist, and Professor of Environmental Epidemiology, at Harvard University, School of Public Health.
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John A. Rich
John Armand Rich is Professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was a 2006 MacArthur Fellow,
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John A. Rogers
John A. Rogers is a physical chemist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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John Ashbery
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John Carlstrom
John E. Carlstrom (born 1957) is an American astrophysicist, and Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Physics, at the University of Chicago. He is Director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics.
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John E. Toews
John E. Toews is an American historian, and chair of the Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington.
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John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman (born June 14, 1941, in Washington, D.C.) is an American writer.
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John F. Benton
John F. Benton (1931 Philadelphia - February 25, 1988 Pasadena) was the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History, at the California Institute of Technology.
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John G. Fleagle
John G. Fleagle is an American anthropologist, primatologist, and Distinguished Professor at State University of New York, Stony Brook.
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John Harbison
John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938 in Orange, New Jersey) is a composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.
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John Henry Holland
John Henry Holland (2 February 1929) is an American scientist and Professor of Psychology and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a pioneer in complex system and nonlinear science. He is known as the father of genetic algorithms. He was awarded the Louis E. Levy Medal in 1961.
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John Hollander
John Hollander (born October 28, 1929 in New York City) is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. Previously he taught at Connecticut College, Hunter College, and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
http://wn.com/John_Hollander

John Imbrie
John Imbrie (born July 4, 1925) is an American paleoceanographer.
http://wn.com/John_Imbrie

John Jesurun
John Jesurun is writer, director and multi-media artist, based in a New York, USA. His work Chang in a Void Moon is a live serial running since 1983, originally at the Pyramid Club in the East Village, and now less frequently at venues worldwide. He was born 1951 in Battle Creek, Michigan.
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John Kamm
John Kamm is an American businessman, Human Rights activist, and founder of The Dui Hua Foundation. He is credited with having helped over 400 religious and political prisoners in China.
http://wn.com/John_Kamm

John Ochsendorf
John Ochsendorf is a professor of civil engineering and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 2002.
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John Rice Irwin
John Rice Irwin (born 1930) is an American cultural historian, and Founder of the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee.
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John Sayles
John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director and screenwriter.
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John T. Scott
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John Terborgh
John W. Terborgh is a conservation biologist.
http://wn.com/John_Terborgh

John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist.
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Jon H. Else
Jon H. Else is an American documentary filmaker.
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Jon Kleinberg
Jon Michael Kleinberg (born October 1971) is an American computer scientist, MacArthur Fellow, Nevanlinna Prize winner, and the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.
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Jon Seger
Jon Seger is an American evolutionary ecologist, and professor at University of Utah.
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Jonathan Shay
Jonathan Shay is a doctor and clinical psychiatrist. He holds a B.A from Harvard and an M.D. and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.cite web |url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2913825/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id=E9E1451F-45BD-4CAE-BC81-1DBB22F276D0}¬oc;=1 |title=MacArthur Fellows 2007 |accessdate=2008-08-15 |work= |publisher=www.macfound.org |date= }} His early medical work was with the behaviour of brain cells in and after strokes, but after suffering a stroke and financial hard times, he began work for a United States Department of Veterans' Affairs outpatient clinic in Boston, MA. While he worked there, in his words, "[t]he veterans simply kidnapped [him]," and his work with them "utterly redirected [his] life."
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Jonathan Spence
Jonathan D. Spence (Self-adopted Chinese name: , born August 11, 1936) is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most famous book is The Search for Modern China, which has become one of the standard texts on the last several hundred years of Chinese history. A prolific author, reviewer, and essayist, he has written a dozen books on China. He retired from Yale in 2008.
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Jose Zalaquett
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Joseph Brodsky
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Joseph Curtin
Joseph Curtin is a contemporary violinmaker.
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Joseph DeRisi
Joseph DeRisi is an American biochemist, specializing in molecular biology, parasitology, genomics, virology, and computational biology.
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Joseph E. Marshall
Joseph E. Marshall is an American author, lecturer, radio talk show host, and community activist.
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Josiah McElheny
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Judith N. Shklar
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Judy Pfaff
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Julia Robinson
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Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu (born 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an artist, best known for her densely-layered abstract paintings and prints. She lives and works in New York City. Mehretu shares her New York studio with her partner, also a celebrated artist, Jessica Rankin.
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Julie Su (attorney)
Julie A. Su is a litigation director at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC).
http://wn.com/Julie_Su_(attorney)

Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She is widely known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical. The Lion King also earned her a Tony Award for Original Costume Design.
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Julie Theriot
Julie A. Theriot (born 1967) is an American microbiologist, professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and Theriot Lab. She was a Predoctoral Fellow, and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She was a fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
http://wn.com/Julie_Theriot

K. Christopher Beard
K. Christopher Beard is an American paleontologist, Curator of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Mary R. Dawson Chair of Vertebrate Paleontology, at University of Pittsburgh. He was co-author with Dan Gebo about an extinct primate from China. He worked with NASA to scan a T-Rex skull.
http://wn.com/K_Christopher_Beard

Kara Walker
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.
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Karen Hesse
Karen Hesse (born on August 29, 1952 Baltimore, Maryland) is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings.
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Karen K. Uhlenbeck
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Karl Sims
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Katherine Gottlieb
Katherine Gottlieb is the president and CEO of the Southcentral Foundation, an Alaska Native Healthcare Organization.
http://wn.com/Katherine_Gottlieb

Kathleen Ross
Kathleen Ross, SNJM is founding president of Heritage University.
http://wn.com/Kathleen_Ross

Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison (born June 22, 1946) is an American clinical psychologist and writer who is one of the foremost experts on bipolar disorder as well as suffering from the disorder since her early adulthood. She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is an Honorary Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.
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Kay Ryan
Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945) is an American poet and educator. She is the sixteenth Poet Laureate of the United States.
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Kenneth C. Catania
Kenneth C. Catania (born 1965) is a neurobiologist. Catania is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University, where he studies star-nosed moles and naked mole rats. In 1989, Catania received a BS in zoology from the University of Maryland. In 1992, he received an MS in Neurosciences from the University of California, San Diego, followed in 1994 with a Ph.D. from UCSD. Catania was a post doctoral fellow at Vanderbilt from 1995-1997. In 2000 Catania became an assistant professor at Vanderbilt.
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Kent Whealy
Kent Whealy and Diane Ott Whealy, founded the Seed Savers Exchange, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the seed lines of heirloom plants and to the sharing of such seeds both through sales and by facilitating exchanges among member gardeners. The organization works to maintain genetic diversity in both food crops and ornamental plants.
http://wn.com/Kent_Whealy

Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall (b. October 17, 1955) is an artist born in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up in South Central Los Angeles and now lives in Chicago where he previously taught at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a 1978 graduate of Otis College of Art and Design.
http://wn.com/Kerry_James_Marshall

Kevin Eggan
Kevin Eggan (born 1974 in Normal, Illinois) is Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University, known for his work in stem cell research (also known as "therapeutic cloning"), and as a spokesperson for stem cell research in the United States. He was a 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes nicknamed the "genius grant").
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Kevin M. Murphy
Kevin Miles Murphy is the George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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Koma Otake
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Kun-Liang Guan
Kun-Liang Guan (; 1963-), is an American biochemist. He won the MacArthur Award in 1998.
http://wn.com/Kun-Liang_Guan

L. Mahadevan
Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan is an Indian American mathematician, and Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, at Harvard University.
http://wn.com/L_Mahadevan

Lateefah Simon
Lateefah Simon (born 1977 San Francisco) was executive director of the Center for Young Women's Development. She is Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights.
http://wn.com/Lateefah_Simon

Laura L. Kiessling
Laura L. Kiessling is an American biochemist, and Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the director of the Keck Center for Chemical Genomics, and the NIH Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program.
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Laura Otis
Laura Otis is an American historian of science, and Professor of English, at Emory University.
http://wn.com/Laura_Otis

Lawrence W. Levine
Lawrence William Levine (February 27, 1933 – October 23, 2006) was an American historian. He was born in Manhattan and died in Berkeley, California.
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Leah Krubitzer
Leah Krubitzer is an American neuroscientist, Professor at University of California, Davis, and head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Neurobiology.
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Lee Ann Newsom
Dr. Lee Ann Newsom is currently an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Penn State University at University Park. She has written numerous books & articles. She was given the MacArthur Fellowship in 2002.[http://www.psu.edu/trustees/agenda/nov2002minutespres.pdf]
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Lee Breuer
Lee Breuer (born 1937) is an American academic, educator, film maker, poet, lyricist, writer and stage director.
http://wn.com/Lee_Breuer

Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander (born July 14, 1934) is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 70s, working primarily with Leica 35mm cameras and black and white film, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of the photographs including fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street-signs.
http://wn.com/Lee_Friedlander

Leila Josefowicz
Leila Bronia Josefowicz (born October 20, 1977), is a Canadian classical violinist.
http://wn.com/Leila_Josefowicz

Lene Hau
Lene Vestergaard Hau (born in Denmark, on November 13, 1959) is a Danish physicist. In 1999, she led a Harvard University team who succeeded in slowing a beam of light to about 17 metres per second, and, in 2001, was able to momentarily stop a beam. She was able to achieve this by using a superfluid.
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Leo Buss
Leo W. Buss (born 1953) is a Professor in Yale University's departments of geology, geophysics, and ecology and evolutionary biology.
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Leo Steinberg
Leo Steinberg (born July 9, 1920, Moscow) is an American art critic and art historian and a naturalized citizen of the U.S. He is the son of Isaac Nachman Steinberg.
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Leonard Zeskind
Leonard Zeskind is an American human rights activist, and president of the Institute for Research & Education of Human Rights (IREHR).
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Leslie Kurke
Leslie Kurke is a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley.
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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 wave of what Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. She was one of the original recipients of the MacArthur Foundation Grant later known as the "Genius Grant" in 1981 and the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994.
http://wn.com/Leslie_Marmon_Silko

Lester R. Brown
Lester Russel Brown (born March 28, 1934 in Bridgeton, New Jersey) is an American environmentalist, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C. BBC Radio commentator Peter Day calls him "one of the great pioneer environmentalists."
http://wn.com/Lester_R_Brown

Leszek Kołakowski
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Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde (born Boston 1945) is a scholar and writer whose scholarly work focuses on the nature of imagination, creativity, and property.
http://wn.com/Lewis_Hyde

Lin He
Lin He (born 1975) is an assistant professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, where she leads a lab focusing on identifying non-coding RNA which may play a role in tumorigenesis and tumor maintenance.
http://wn.com/Lin_He

Linda Bierds
Linda Louise Bierds (born 1945 Delaware) is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, where she also received her B.A. in 1969.
http://wn.com/Linda_Bierds

Linda Griffith
Linda G. Griffith (born 1960) is an American biomedical engineer, and Professor of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
http://wn.com/Linda_Griffith

Lisa Cooper
Lisa A. Cooper (born 1963) is a public health physician, and professor at Johns Hopkins.
http://wn.com/Lisa_Cooper

Lisa Curran
Lisa Curran is an American tropical forester, and Roger and Cynthia Lang Professor in Environment & Anthropology, at Stanford University.
http://wn.com/Lisa_Curran

Lisa Delpit
Lisa D. Delpit is the Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Urban Educational Leadership at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, and also the director of the Center for Urban Educational Excellence, whose work focuses on education and race.
http://wn.com/Lisa_Delpit

Liz Lerman
Liz Lerman (born 1948) is an American choreographer and founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.
http://wn.com/Liz_Lerman

Liza Lou
Liza Lou (born 1969) is an American visual artist best known for producing large-scale work in unlikely and tedious mediums, such as beads.
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Loren H. Rieseberg
Loren H. Rieseberg is a Canadian-American botanist. He is a Professor of Botany at the University of British Columbia and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana University, and head of the Rieseberg Lab.
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Lorna Bourg
Lorna Bourg is President/Executive Director of the Southern Mutual Help Association (SMHA).
http://wn.com/Lorna_Bourg

Louis Massiah
Louis J. Massiah is an American documentary filmmaker.
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Loïc Wacquant
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Lu Chen (scientist)
Lu Chen is an Chinese American neuroscientist who is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute.
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Lucia M. Perillo
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Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn (born in 1979 in Guatemala City, Guatemala) is an entrepreneur and a professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as a one of the pioneers of the idea of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009. As a professor, his research includes CAPTCHAs and human computation, and has earned him international recognition and numerous honors. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (a.k.a., the "genius grant") in 2006, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in 2009, a Sloan Fellowship in 2009, and a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship in 2007. He has also been named one of the 50 Best Brains in Science by Discover Magazine, and has made it to many recognition lists that include Popular Science Magazine's Brilliant 10, Silicon.com's 50 Most Influential People in Technology, Technology Review's TR35: Young Innovators Under 35, and FastCompany's 100 Most Innovative People in Business.
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Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis (born 1947) is a contemporary American short story writer, and French translator.
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Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage (born 1964) is an American playwright whose work often deals with the lives of African Americans and women. She was born in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2007. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2009 for Ruined.
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Lynsey Addario
Lynsey Addario (born 1973 Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American photojournalist currently based in Istanbul, Turkey. Her work often focuses on conflicts and human rights issues, especially the role of women in traditional societies.
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M. A. R. Koehl
Mimi A. R. Koehl is an American marine biologist, professor at University of California, Berkeley, and head of the Koehl Lab.
http://wn.com/M_A_R_Koehl

Majora Carter
Majora Carter (born October 27, 1966) is an economic consultant, public radio host, and environmental justice advocate from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable South Bronx before entering the private sector.
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Maneesh Agrawala
Maneesh Agrawala (born 1973) is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, where he leads the Visualization Lab.
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Marcel Ophüls
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Margaret Geller
Margaret J. Geller is an American astronomer and professor. She is a Senior Astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and has written numerous articles and produced several award-winning scientific short films.
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Margaret Murnane
Dr. Margaret Murnane is a current professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and has been since 1999. Her interests are Atomic & Molecular Physics, Nanoscience, and Optical Physics. Her work with lasers has earned her multiple rewards including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship award in 2000.
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Margaret W. Rossiter
Margaret W. Rossiter is an American historian of science, and Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science, at Cornell University.
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Margie Profet
Margie Profet (born August 7, 1958) is an American evolutionary biologist with no formal biology training who created a decade-long controversy when she published her findings on the role of Darwinian evolution in menstruation, allergies and morning sickness.
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Mari Jo Buhle
Mari Jo Buhle is an American historian, and William J. Kenan Jr. University Professor Emerita, at Brown University.
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Maria Crawford
Maria Luisa Crawford is an American geologist.
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Maria Mavroudi
Maria Mavroudi (born 1967) is a history professor at University of California, Berkeley.
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Marian Edelman
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Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop (born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor and violinist. She is the current music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
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Marin Soljačić
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Marion Williams
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Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford (born 1961 Los Angeles, California) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles.
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Mark Danner
Mark David Danner (born November 10, 1958) is a prominent American journalist, writer, and educator. He is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Danner specializes in U.S. foreign affairs and has written extensively on Haiti, Central America, the former Yugoslavia, and the Middle East. In 1999, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.
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Mark Morris
Mark William Morris (born 29 August 1956) is an American dancer, choreographer and director whose work is acclaimed for its craftsmanship, ingenuity, humor, and at times eclectic musical accompaniments. Morris is popular among dance aficionados, the music world, as well as mainstream audiences.
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Mark S. Wrighton
Mark Stephen Wrighton (born June 11, 1949) is an American academic, a chemist, and the current Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Wrighton received his B.S. in Chemistry from Florida State University in 1969. While at Florida State, he won the Monsanto Chemistry Award for outstanding research. He received his Ph.D at the age of 22 from the California Institute of Technology, working under Harry B. Gray and George S. Hammond. His doctoral dissertation subject was Photoprocesses in Metal-Containing Molecules. He graduated from Caltech in 1972.
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Mark Strand
Mark Strand (born 11 April 1934) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990. Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia University.
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Markus Greiner
Markus Greiner is a German physicist.
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Martha Clarke
Martha Clarke (born June 3, 1944) is an American director and choreographer noted for her multidisciplinary approach to theatre, dance, and opera productions. Her work frequently emphasizes striking visual tableaux, often directly inspired by visual art, especially painting. Though dance is the primary basis of Ms. Clarke's training, she has maintained a career which spans and melds dance, theater, the visual arts, and opera. Probably her best-known original work is "The Garden of Earthly Delights" (1984), an exploration in theatre, dance, music and flying of the famous painting of the same name by Hieronymus Bosch. In June 2007, a new version of the show opened the 30th anniversary of the American Dance Festival. On November 19, 2008, the re-imagined [http://www.gardenofearthlydelightsnyc.comGarden of Earthly Delights] opened Off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater in New York City; two extensions and five months later - it ran until April 5, 2009. A world tour will follow.
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Martin Daniel Eakes
Martin Daniel Eakes is an American economic development strategist, and credit union CEO.
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Martin Kreitman
Martin Kreitman is an American geneticist, and Professor at the University of Chicago, and Principal Investigator at the Kreitman Lab.
http://wn.com/Martin_Kreitman

Martin Puryear
Martin Puryear (born May 23, 1941) is an African American sculptor. He works in media including wood, stone, tar, and wire, and his work is a union of minimalism and traditional crafts.
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Mary Tinetti
Mary Tinetti is an American physician, and Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University, and Director of the Yale Program on Aging.
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Mary Zimmerman
Mary Zimmerman is an American theatre director and playwright, born in Lincoln, Nebraska.
http://wn.com/Mary_Zimmerman

Matias Zaldarriaga
Matias Zaldarriaga is an Argentinian cosmologist. Born in Coghlan neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, at the present time he works in the Institute for Advanced Study located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. He is known especially for his work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Together with Uros Seljak, he developed the CMBFAST code, the first computationally efficient method for computing the anisotropy of the CMB for an arbitrary set of cosmological parameters. In 2003, he was awarded the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy by the
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Matthew Carter
Matthew Carter (born in London in 1937) is a type designer. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Carter's career in type design has witnessed the transition from physical metal type to digital type. He was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.
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Matthew Meselson
Matthew Stanley Meselson (born May 24, 1930) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist whose research was important in showing how DNA replicates, recombines and is repaired in cells. In his mature years, he has been an active chemical and biological weapons activist and consultant. He is married to the medical anthropologist and biological weapons writer Jeanne Guillemin.
http://wn.com/Matthew_Meselson

Matthew Rabin
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. He was the recipient of the 2001 John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to "that American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge."
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Max Roach
Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.
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May Swenson
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Merce Cunningham
http://wn.com/Merce_Cunningham

Mercedes Doretti
Mercedes Doretti (born 1959) is an Argentine forensic anthropologist.
http://wn.com/Mercedes_Doretti

Meredith Monk
Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942 in New York City) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which dwell in the spaces between music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records.
http://wn.com/Meredith_Monk

Meyer Schapiro
Meyer Schapiro was an American art historian known for forging new art historical methodologies that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to the study of works of art. An expert on early Christian, Medieval, and Modern art, Schapiro explored art historical periods and movements with a keen eye towards the social, political, and the material construction of art works. Credited with fundamentally changing the course of the art historical discipline, Schapiro's scholarly approach was dynamic and it engaged other scholars, philosophers, and artists. An active professor, lecturer, writer, and humanist, Schapiro maintained a long professional association with Columbia University as a student, lecturer, and professor.
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Michael Baxandall
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Michael C. Malin
Michael C. Malin (born 1950) is an American astronomer, space-scientist, and CEO of Malin Space Science Systems. His cameras have been important scientific instruments in the Exploration of Mars.
http://wn.com/Michael_C_Malin

Michael Elowitz
Michael B Elowitz is Associate Professor of Biology and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
http://wn.com/Michael_Elowitz

Michael Ghiselin
Michael T. Ghiselin is an American biologist, philosopher/historian of biology currently at the California Academy of Sciences.
http://wn.com/Michael_Ghiselin

Michael Kremer
Michael Robert Kremer is a development economist and is currently the Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Kremer is also a Research Affiliate at Innovations for Poverty Action, a New Haven, Connecticut based research outfit dedicated to creating and evaluating solutions to social and international development problems. Kremer is founder and president of WorldTeach, a Harvard-based organization which places college students and recent graduates as volunteer teachers on summer and year-long programs in developing countries around the world.
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Michael Manga
Michael Manga is a MacArthur Fellow (2005) and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
http://wn.com/Michael_Manga

Michael Marletta
Michael A. Marletta is an American biochemist, professor at University of California, Berkeley, and head of the Marletta Lab.
http://wn.com/Michael_Marletta

Michael Massing
Michael Massing is a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. Michael Massing received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard and an MS from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He often writes for the New York Review of Books concerning the media and foreign affairs. He has written for The American Prospect, The New York Times, The New Yorker and the Atlantic Monthly. In addition to his magazine contributions, he has written on the War on Drugs in his book, The Fix (2002), and on American journalism, . Massing received the MacArthur Fellowship in 1992.
http://wn.com/Michael_Massing

Michael Moschen
Michael Moschen is a juggler. He received a Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation (the so-called "Genius Grant") in 1990, and has appeared on TV on PBS, and done ads for Motorola. Cirque du Soleil commissioned Moschen to create a new work for their permanent theatrical circus in Las Vegas, Nevada.
http://wn.com/Michael_Moschen

Michael Piore
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Michael Schudson
Michael Schudson is an American academic sociologist working in the fields of journalism and its history, and public culture.
http://wn.com/Michael_Schudson

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 research on linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language ideology, and grammatical theory into a comprehensive account of language in culture. Among other achievements, he is credited with introducing the semiotic terminology of Charles Sanders Peirce, including especially the notion of indexicality, into the linguistic and anthropological literature; with coining the terms metapragmatics and metasemantics in drawing attention to the central importance of metasemiotic phenomena for any understanding of language or social life; and with developing language ideology as a field of study. His works are noted for their terminological complexity and technical difficulty.
http://wn.com/Michael_Silverstein

Miguel Zenón
http://wn.com/Miguel_Zenón

Mike Davis (scholar)
Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American social commentator, urban theorist, historian, and political activist. He is best known for his investigations of power and social class in his native Southern California.
http://wn.com/Mike_Davis_(scholar)

Morton Halperin
Morton H. Halperin (born June 13, 1938) is an American expert on foreign policy and civil liberties. He served in the Johnson, Nixon and Clinton administrations and in a number of roles with think tanks, universities and other organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard University.
http://wn.com/Morton_Halperin

Mott T. Greene
Mott T. Greene is an American historian of science, and John B. Magee Professor of Science and Values, at the University of Puget Sound.
http://wn.com/Mott_T_Greene

Muriel S. Snowden
Muriel Sutherland Snowden (1916 - 1988) was the founder and co-director of Freedom House, a community improvement center in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
http://wn.com/Muriel_S_Snowden

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 mercury and lead-based explosives and reduce damaging side-effects to the environment and human health."
http://wn.com/My_Hang_V_Huynh

Nancy A. Moran
Nancy A. Moran (born Dallas, Texas) is an American evolutionary biologist, Regents' Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at University of Arizona, and Principal Investigator, Moran Lab.
http://wn.com/Nancy_A_Moran

Nancy Farriss
Nancy Marguerite Farriss is an American historian.
http://wn.com/Nancy_Farriss

Nancy Folbre
Nancy Folbre (born 1952) is a feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family, non-market work and the economics of care.
http://wn.com/Nancy_Folbre

Nancy Kopell
Nancy Jane Kopell (born November 8, 1942 New York City) is an American mathematician, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University, and Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics.
http://wn.com/Nancy_Kopell

Nancy Siraisi
Nancy G. Siraisi (born 1932) is an American historian of medicine, and Distinguished Professor Emerita in History at Hunter College, and City University of New York. Nancy Siraisi received a B.A. (1953) and an M.A. (1958) from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. (1970) from the City University of New York. She was a professor of history at Hunter College (1970-2003) and the Graduate Center (1976-2003) at the City University of New York.
http://wn.com/Nancy_Siraisi

Naomi Leonard
Naomi Ehrich Leonard is Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University.
http://wn.com/Naomi_Leonard

Naomi Wallace
Naomi Wallace is a playwright, screenwriter and poet from Prospect, Kentucky.
http://wn.com/Naomi_Wallace

Nawal M. Nour
Nawal M. Nour (born 1966 Khartoum, Sudan) is an American obstetrician and gynecologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
http://wn.com/Nawal_M_Nour

Ned Kahn
Ned Kahn is an environmental artist and sculptor, famous in particular for museum exhibits he has built for the Exploratorium in San Francisco. His works usually involves capturing an invisible aspect of nature and making it visible; examples include building facades that move in waves in response to wind; indoor tornadoes and vortices made of fog, steam, or fire; a transparent sphere containing water and sand which, when spun, erodes a beach-like ripple pattern into the sand surface. Kahn won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" fellowship in 2003, and the National Design Award for environmental design in 2005.
http://wn.com/Ned_Kahn

Nicholas Strausfeld
Nicholas James Strausfeld FRS is Regents Professor at the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and Director, Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona.
http://wn.com/Nicholas_Strausfeld

Nicole King
Nicole King is a MacArthur Fellow (2005), and faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley in molecular and cell biology and integrative biology.
http://wn.com/Nicole_King

Noel Swerdlow
Noel M. Swerdlow (born 1941) is a professor emeritus of history, astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He is currently a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology.
http://wn.com/Noel_Swerdlow

Nora England
Nora Clearman England (born 8 November 1946) is an American linguist, Mayanist, and Dallas TACA Centennial Professor at University of Texas at Austin.
http://wn.com/Nora_England

Norman Manea
Norman Manea (born July 19, 1936) is a Romanian writer, of Jewish origin, living in the United States, author of short fiction, novels, and essays preoccupied with the holocaust, the daily life in a communist state and exile. He is Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer in residence at Bard College.
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Norman R. Pace
Norman R. Pace is an American biochemist, and is Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado. He is principal inestigator at the Pace lab.
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Ofelia Zepeda
Ofelia Zepeda (born in Stanfield, Arizona, 1952) is a Tohono O'odham poet and intellectual. Zepeda is a professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and is well known for her efforts in the preservation of her native language and promotion literacy in it. She is also known for her work as a consultant and advocate on behalf of a number of American indigenous languages. Her book A Papago Grammar is the standard textbook used to teach Tohono O'odham. She was a student of MIT linguistics professor Ken Hale.
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Olufunmilayo Olopade
Olufunmilayo I. Olopade (born 1957 Nigeria) is an hematology oncologist, Associate Dean for Global Health and Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. She also serves as director of the University of Chicago Hospital's Cancer Risk Clinic.
http://wn.com/Olufunmilayo_Olopade

Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930) is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s.
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Pam Solo
Pam Solo (born 1946) is an arms control analyst, and Founder and President of the Civil Society Institute.
http://wn.com/Pam_Solo

Pamela Matson
Pamela Matson is a scientist, professor, and dean at Stanford University. She has previously worked at NASA and the University of California Berkeley.
http://wn.com/Pamela_Matson

Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information Management at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the UC Berkeley School of Information and Boalt Hall, the School of Law. She was appointed Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School for the Fall 2007 term. She is also Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.
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Patricia Churchland
Patricia Smith Churchland (born July 16, 1943 in Oliver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian-American philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) since 1984. She is currently a professor at the UCSD Philosophy Department, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and an associate of the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory (Sejnowski Lab) at the Salk Institute. She won a MacArthur prize in 1991. Educated at the University of British Columbia, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Oxford (B.Phil.). She taught philosophy at the University of Manitoba from 1969 to 1984 and is the wife of philosopher Paul Churchland.
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Patricia Hampl
Patricia Hampl (born March 12, 1946) is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She is a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship , teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center .
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Patricia J. Williams
Patricia J. Williams (born August 28, 1951) is a prominent law critic and a proponent of critical race theory, an offshoot of 1960s social movements that emphasizes race as a fundamental determinant of the American legal system.
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Patricia Locke
Patricia A. Locke (Tawacin WasteWin) (born Jan. 21, 1928, Fort Hall Indian Reservation - October 20, 2001 Phoenix, Arizona) was a native American educator.
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Patricia Wright
Patricia Wright, a conservationist and leading lemur expert, is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is a member of the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration. Wright, who received her B.S. from Hood College and her Ph.D. from the City University of New York, worked as a social worker in Brooklyn, New York before beginning her prodigious career as a primatologist in 1986. She and her first husband separated during her second week of studies at the City University of New York. Her second husband is Jukka Jernvall, a biologist from Finland. She has conducted 20 years of field research on the demographic and behavioral patterns of lemurs in Madagascar, with specific interest in Propithecus edwardsi (Milne-Edwards' Sifaka). She is credited, along with a German researcher, with the discovery of the Golden Bamboo Lemur while conducting research in Ranomafana, Madagascar in 1986 and the establishment of the independent Centre ValBio research station in Ranomafana. In 1991 Wright successfully lobbied for the creation of the Ranomafana National Park. While on the faculty at Duke University she was the recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant and in 1995 was awarded Madagascar's National Medal of Honor.
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Patrick Noonan
Patrick F. Noonan (born 1943) is an American conservationist, and was president of The Nature Conservancy, from 1973 to 1980, and the Conservation Fund.
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Paul Berman
Paul Berman is an American writer. His articles have been published in numerous periodicals, such as: The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review and Slate. He is also the author of several books, most notably A Tale of Two Utopias, Terror and Liberalism, and its sequel, The Flight of the Intellectuals.
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Paul Ginsparg
Paul Ginsparg (born 1955) is a physicist widely known for his development of the ArXiv.org e-print archive and for contributions to theoretical physics.
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Paul R. Ehrlich
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Paul Roldan
Hipolito (Paul) Roldan, (born 1944 New York) is an affordable housing developer in Chicago.
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Paul Rothemund
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Paul Wennberg
Paul Wennberg is an atmospheric scientist at Caltech. His research focuses on measurements of atmospheric trace gases towards accurately describing the exchange of carbon dioxide and other gases between the atmosphere and the land and ocean. He is a founding member of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory and leads the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON)
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Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at Girls High School, Brooklyn College (1953) and Hunter College (1955). Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose. She was chosen by Langston Hughes to accompany him on a world tour in which they both read their work, which was a boon to her career.
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Pedro A. Sanchez
Pedro Sanchez (born 1940) is the Director of the Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program, Senior Research Scholar, and Director of the Millennium Villages Project at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Sanchez was Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya from 1991-2001, and served as Co-chair of the UN Millennium Project Hunger Task Force. He is also Professor Emeritus of Soil Science and Forestry at North Carolina State University, and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Pedro Greer
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Pehr Harbury
Pehr A. B. Harbury (born 1965) is an American biochemist, and Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University.
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Pepon Osorio
Pepon Osorio (born 1955 Santurce, Puerto Rico) is a Latino artist.
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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.
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Peter Cole
Peter Cole (born 1957 Paterson, New Jersey) is an American Jewish poet who lives in Jerusalem, Israel.
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Peter E. Kenmore
Peter E. Kenmore is an American agricultural entomologist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
http://wn.com/Peter_E_Kenmore

Peter Galison
Peter Louis Galison is the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University.
http://wn.com/Peter_Galison

Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler (b. June 14, 1969) is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of three books about China, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (2001), ''Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (2006), and Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory'' (2010).
http://wn.com/Peter_Hessler

Peter Huybers
Peter Huybers (born 1974) is an American planetary scientist, and assistant professor at Harvard University, in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
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Peter J. Bickel
Peter John Bickel (born 1940 Romania) is an American statistician.
http://wn.com/Peter_J_Bickel

Peter J. Hayes
Peter John Hayes (born Melbourne) is the Executive Director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development.
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Peter Jeffery
Peter Jeffery is an American musicologist.
http://wn.com/Peter_Jeffery

Peter Pronovost
Peter J. Pronovost is an intensive care specialist physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
http://wn.com/Peter_Pronovost

Peter Raven
http://wn.com/Peter_Raven

Peter Sellars
Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art as Moral Action.
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Peter Shor
Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT, most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer.
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Peter Sis
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Philip James DeVries
Philip James DeVries PhD (born March 7, 1952) is a tropical biologist whose research focuses on insect ecology and evolution, especially butterflies. His best-known work includes symbioses between caterpillars, ants and plants, and community level biodiversity of rainforest butterflies.
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Philip Treisman
Philip Uri Treisman is an American mathematician, mathematics educator, Director of the Charles A. Dana Center, and Professor of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Rackstraw Downes
Rackstraw Downes (born 1939) is a British-born realist painter and author. His oil paintings are notable for their meticulous detail accumulated during months of plein-air sessions, depictions of industry and the environment, and elongated compositions with complex perspective.
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Ralf Hotchkiss
Ralf Hotchkiss is an inventor and Whirlwind wheelchair designer whose company, Whirlwind Wheelchair International, designs wheelchairs for use and manufacture in developing countries, involving wheelchair riders in all of its projects and activities. The organization's mission is "to make it possible for every person in the developing world who needs a wheelchair to obtain one that will lead to maximum personal independence and integration into society." Himself a paraplegic, Hotchkiss is a graduate of Oberlin College.
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Ralph Manheim
Ralph Frederick Manheim (4 April 1907, New York – 26 September 1992, Cambridge, England) was an American translator of German and French literature, as well as occasional works from Dutch, Polish and Hungarian. He likened translation to acting, the role being "to impersonate his author."
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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 MacArthur Fellow in 1982.
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Ramón A. Gutiérrez
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Ran Blake
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Randall W. Forsberg
http://wn.com/Randall_W_Forsberg

Raphael Carl Lee
Raphael Carl Lee (born October 29, 1949 Sumter, South Carolina) is an American surgeon, medical researcher, biomedical engineer, and entrepreneur.
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Raymond Jeanloz
Raymond Jeanloz is a professor of earth and planetary science and of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Educated at the California Institute of Technology, Amherst College and at Deep Springs College, he has contributed research fundamental to understanding of the composition of the Earth and the behavior of materials under high temperatures and pressures. Jeanloz is also a prominent figure in nuclear weapons policy, chairing the Committee on International Security and Arms Control at the National Academy of Sciences.
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Rebecca Goldstein
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Rebecca J. Nelson
Rebecca Nelson (born c. 1961), B.A. Swarthmore College, 1982, Ph.D. University of Washington, 1988 (Zoology). Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and International Agriculture at Cornell University. She is also Program Director for The McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crop Research Program. Her current research concerns resistance to diseases of cereal crops (especially maize) in Africa. From 1997 until 2001 she led the late blight program at the International Potato Center in Peru. She appeared in the KCTS public television documentary, Hot Potatoes, originally broadcast November 12, 2001.
http://wn.com/Rebecca_J_Nelson

Rebecca J. Scott
Rebecca Jarvis Scott is an American historian, and Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law, at University of Michigan.
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Rebecca Onie
Rebecca Onie (born 1977) is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Project HEALTH.
http://wn.com/Rebecca_Onie

Regina Benjamin
Vice Admiral Regina Marcia Benjamin, USPHS, (born October 26, 1956 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American physician who currently serves as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Benjamin previously directed a nonprofit primary care medical clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama.
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Regina Carter
Regina Carter (born August 6, 1966, Detroit, Michigan) is an American jazz violinist. Carter began as a classical violinist at the age of four, studying the Suzuki Method until she was nine. She is the cousin of famous jazz saxophonist James Carter. Carter attended Cass Technical High School with a close friend, jazz singer Carla Cook, who introduced her to the likes of Ella Fitzgerald. In high school, Carter performed with the Detroit Civic Orchestra, played in a pop-funk group named Brainstorm, and studied jazz with Marcus Belgrave.
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Reginald Robinson
Reginald R. Robinson (born October 19, 1972) is a noted composer and performer of ragtime music. In 2004, he received a MacArthur Genius Grant. He was raised by working class parents in Chicago, for many years living in the Henry Horner Homes, a South Side housing project. He has absolute pitch.
http://wn.com/Reginald_Robinson

Richard A. Muller
Richard A. Muller (born January 6, 1944 in New York, New York, USA) is a physicist who works at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
http://wn.com/Richard_A_Muller

Richard Benson
Richard M.A. Benson (November 8, 1943, Newport, Rhode Island) is an American photographer.
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Richard C. Mulligan
Richard C. Mulligan, Ph.D., (born 1954) is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Harvard Gene Therapy Initiative.
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Richard Critchfield
Richard Critchfield is an American essayist.
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Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman (born in New York on 10 June 1937) is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
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Richard Howard
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 studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches. He lives in New York City.
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Richard Kenney
Richard L. Kenney (born 1948) is a poet and professor of English at the University of Washington. He is the author of four books of poetry: The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, Orrery, The Invention of the Zero, and The One-Strand River.
http://wn.com/Richard_Kenney

Richard Lenski
Richard E. Lenski (born August 13, 1956) is an American evolutionary biologist. He is the son of sociologist Gerhard Lenski. He earned his BA from Oberlin College in 1976, and his PhD from the University of North Carolina in 1982. He is a fellow at the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds the office Hannah Distinguished Professor of microbial ecology at Michigan State University. In 1996, Lenski won a MacArthur Fellowship, and in 2006 he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.
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Richard M. Schoen
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Richard P. Turco
Richard Peter Turco is an American atmospheric scientist, and Professor at the Institute of the Environment, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Richard Prum
Richard O. Prum is William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, at Yale University.
http://wn.com/Richard_Prum

Richard Rorty
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Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often shortened to rms, is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project's lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software movement; in October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation.
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Richard Wrangham
Richard W. Wrangham (born 1948) is a British primatologist. He is the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and his research group is now part of the newly established Department of Human Evolutionary Biology.
http://wn.com/Richard_Wrangham

Rita P. Wright
Rita P. Wright is an American anthropologist, and professor at New York University.
http://wn.com/Rita_P_Wright

Robert Axelrod
Robert Axelrod (born 1943) is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He has appointments in the Department of Political Science and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Prior to moving to Michigan, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley (1968-1974). He holds a BA in mathematics from the University of Chicago (1964) and a PhD in political science from Yale University (1969).
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Robert Coles
Martin Robert Coles (born October 12, 1929) is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor at Harvard University.
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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.
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Robert F. Coleman
Robert F. Coleman is an American mathematician, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary research area is in number theory, with specific interest in p-adic analysis and arithmetic geometry.
http://wn.com/Robert_F_Coleman

Robert Greenstein
Robert Greenstein is founder and executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a Washington, DC think tank that focuses on federal and state fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals. According to his CBPP bio, Greenstein is "an expert on the federal budget and in particular, the impact of tax and budget proposals on low-income people".
http://wn.com/Robert_Greenstein

Robert H. Williams
Robert H. Williams is a Senior Research Scientist at the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton University.
http://wn.com/Robert_H_Williams

Robert K. Merton
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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 University of Maine, Orono.
http://wn.com/Robert_Kates

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 was a leader in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and later founded the nationwide U.S. Algebra project.
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Robert Penn Warren
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Robert Shapley
Robert Shapley is an American neurophysiologist, and professor at the New York University Center for Neural Science.
http://wn.com/Robert_Shapley

Robert Woodson
Robert L. Woodson (born April 8, 1937 Philadelphia) is an American community development leader, and founder and president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (NCNE).
http://wn.com/Robert_Woodson

Roger S. Payne
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Rogers Brubaker
Rogers Brubaker is an Amerian sociologist, and professor at University of California, Los Angeles.
http://wn.com/Rogers_Brubaker

Roland Fryer
http://wn.com/Roland_Fryer

Rosanne Haggerty
Rosanne Haggerty (born 1961) is an American housing and community development leader, and founder of Common Ground Community.
http://wn.com/Rosanne_Haggerty

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.
http://wn.com/Roy_Mottahedeh

Rueben Martinez
Rueben Martinez (born in 1940 in Miami, Arizona) is a Mexican-American activist and businessman. Seeing no future for himself in the small mining town where he grew up, at the age of seventeen Martinez left Arizona for Southern California. He found a job at the massive Bethlehem Steel plant in Maywood, East Los Angeles, attended night school at Santa Ana College, married and began raising a family. By the standards of his community he was a success, but as the years went by Martinez began to feel that he hadn't yet found an occupation which was 'the right fit.' He quit Bethlehem Steel to explore a series of other jobs in Southern California until finally in the late 1970's he used his savings to open a barbershop in downtown Santa Ana and proceeded to cut hair fulltime for over twenty years.
http://wn.com/Rueben_Martinez

Russell Lande
Russell Lande (born 1951) is an American evolutionary biologist and ecologist, and a Royal Society Research Professor at Imperial College London, in Silwood Park.
http://wn.com/Russell_Lande

Ruth Behar
Ruth Behar (born 1956 in Havana, Cuba) is a Jewish Cuban American anthropologist, poet, and writer who teaches at the University of Michigan.
http://wn.com/Ruth_Behar

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 biogeochemical processes. She was one of 24 recipients of the 2007 MacArthur Fellowship, and was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
http://wn.com/Ruth_DeFries

Ruth Lubic
Ruth Watson Lubic (born 1927) is a midwife and founder of DC Developing Families Center.
http://wn.com/Ruth_Lubic

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (born May 7, 1927) is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant. Their films won six Academy Awards.
http://wn.com/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala

Sam Maloof
Sam Maloof (born Samuel Solomon Maloof) (January 24, 1916 - May 21, 2009) was a furniture designer and woodworker. He was born in Chino, California, USA, to parents who emigrated to the United States from Lebanon. He attended high school first at Chaffey High School in Ontario, California, where he took his first woodworking class and was recognized by his art teacher as having extraordinary skill. Later he attended Chino High School. Shortly after completing high school, he began working in the art department of the Vortox Manufacturing Company in Claremont, California. He was drafted into the United States Army on October 11, 1941. After serving in the Pacific theater and then transferring to a post in Alaska, Maloof left the army in 1945 to return to Southern California.
http://wn.com/Sam_Maloof

Sam-Ang Sam
Sam-Ang Sam, Ph.D. is a Cambodian American ethnomusicologist and recent MacArthur Fellow. As founder of Sam-Ang Sam Ensemble, he has released several albums for sale in mainstream American markets in an attempt to revive Classical Khmer music and stimulate interest in the various Cambodian Performing Arts.
http://wn.com/Sam-Ang_Sam

Samuel Mockbee
http://wn.com/Samuel_Mockbee

Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms and investigates emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural hybridity and economic inequality that endowed her with unique stories to tell. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicana literature.
http://wn.com/Sandra_Cisneros

Sandra Lanham
Sandra Lanham (born 1948) is Environmental Flying Services, a non-profit organization located in Tucson, Arizona.
http://wn.com/Sandra_Lanham

Sandy Close
Sandy Close is an American journalist and the Executive Director of the Bay Area Institute / Pacific News Service, and New America Media.
http://wn.com/Sandy_Close

Sara Horowitz
Sara Horowitz is the founder of Working Today and Freelancers Union, leading organizations of independent workers. She was an Echoing green fellow in 1995, and she was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1999. She graduated from Cornell University 1984.
http://wn.com/Sara_Horowitz

Sarah H. Kagan
Sarah H. Kagan is an American gerontological nurse, and Doris R. Schwartz Term Associate Professor in Gerontological Nursing at University of Pennsylvania.
http://wn.com/Sarah_H_Kagan

Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl (born 1974) is an American playwright. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
http://wn.com/Sarah_Ruhl

Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze (Born in Boston in 1969) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. Sze uses ordinary objects to create sculptures and site-specific installations.
http://wn.com/Sarah_Sze

Saul Friedländer
http://wn.com/Saul_Friedländer

Saul Griffith
Saul Griffith is an Australian American inventor. He is most well known for his inexpensive technique for making prescription eyeglasses. This method uses two flexible surfaces and a pourable resin.
http://wn.com/Saul_Griffith

Sendhil Mullainathan
Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He was hired with tenure by Harvard in 2004 after having spent six years at MIT, first as a junior faculty member and then as a full professor. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" and conducts research on development economics, behavioral economics, and corporate finance. He is a co-founder of the MIT Poverty Action Lab and most recently of the think-tank Ideas42. Mullainathan is also a Research Affiliate of Innovations for Poverty Action.
http://wn.com/Sendhil_Mullainathan

Sergiu Klainerman
Sergiu Klainerman (born 1950 in Bucharest, Romania) is a mathematician known for his contributions to the study of hyperbolic differential equations and general relativity. He is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University, a position he held since 1987. From 1980 to 1987 he was a faculty member at New York University.
http://wn.com/Sergiu_Klainerman

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 Institute on International Change.
http://wn.com/Seweryn_Bialer

Shahzia Sikander
Shahzia Sikander (; born 1969) is an artist from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Sikander is a Pakistani American artist, now living in New York City, who specializes in Mughal miniature painting and Persian miniature painting. She has also created murals, installations, mixed-media works and performance art. She is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant". She earned a BFA in 1992 at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan; and an MFA in 1995 at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.
http://wn.com/Shahzia_Sikander

Sharon Emerson
Sharon B. Emerson (born 1946) is an American biologist, and was researcher at the University of Utah.
http://wn.com/Sharon_Emerson

Sharon R. Long
Sharon R. Long, Ph.D. is an American plant biologist, and a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, and director of the Long Lab.
http://wn.com/Sharon_R_Long

Shawn Carlson
Shawn Carlson (born 1961) is an American science educator, founder of the Society for Amateur Scientists.
http://wn.com/Shawn_Carlson

Shelly Errington
Shelly E. 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.
http://wn.com/Shelly_Errington

Shelomo Dov Goitein
Shelomo Dov Goitein (April 3, 1900 — February 6, 1985) was a German-Jewish ethnographer, historian and Arabist known for his research on Jewish life in the Islamic Middle Ages.
http://wn.com/Shelomo_Dov_Goitein

Shen Wei
Shen Wei is a renowned Chinese choreographer, director, dancer, painter and designer. Shen Wei is recognized for his vision of an intercultural, interdisciplinary, original mode of movement-based performance, and his innovative blend of traditional Chinese opera, dance and music with Western performance art such as ballet.
http://wn.com/Shen_Wei

Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau (; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese American mathematician working in differential geometry. He was born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China into a family of scholars from Jiaoling, Guangdong Province.
http://wn.com/Shing-Tung_Yau

Shirley Heath
Shirley Brice Heath is an American linguistic anthropologist, and Professor Emerita, Margery Bailey Professorship in English, at Stanford University.
http://wn.com/Shirley_Heath

Sidney Drell
Sidney David Drell (born September 13, 1926) is an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert.
http://wn.com/Sidney_Drell

Sokoni Karanja
Sokoni Tacuma Karanja (Lathan Johnson) (born January 7, 1940 Topeka, Kansas) is a child development expert, and President and CEO of the Center for New Horizons.
http://wn.com/Sokoni_Karanja

Stanley Cavell
Stanley Louis Cavell (born September 1, 1926) is an American philosopher. He is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.
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Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch (born December 14, 1945, Los Angeles) is an American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism, and his novel ''Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?''
http://wn.com/Stanley_Crouch

Stephen D. Houston
Stephen Douglas Houston ( ; born November 11, 1958) is an American anthropologist, archaeologist, epigrapher and Mayanist scholar, who is particularly renowned for his research into the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica. He is the author of a number of papers and books concerning topics such as the Maya script, the history, kingships and dynastic politics of the pre-Columbian Maya, and archaeological reports on several Maya archaeological sites.
http://wn.com/Stephen_D_Houston

Stephen Hough
Stephen Andrew Gill Hough
http://wn.com/Stephen_Hough

Stephen J. Pyne
Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, specializing in the history of ecology, the history of exploration, and the history of fire.
http://wn.com/Stephen_J_Pyne

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.
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Stephen Schneider
Stephen H. Schneider (February 11, 1945 – July 19, 2010) was Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change at Stanford University, a Co-Director at the Center for Environment Science and Policy of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Schneider served as a consultant to Federal Agencies and White House staff in the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama administrations.
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Stephen Shenker
Stephen Shenker is an American theoretical physicist who works on string theory. He is a professor at Stanford University and former director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His brother Scott Shenker is a computer scientist. His contributions to physics include:
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Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram (born 29 August 1959) is a British physicist, software developer, mathematician, author and businessman, known for his work in theoretical particle physics, cosmology, cellular automata, computational complexity theory, computer algebra, the Mathematica software application, and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine.
http://wn.com/Stephen_Wolfram

Steve Lacy
This article is about the jazz musician. For the CEO of Meredith, see Steve Lacy (businessman).
http://wn.com/Steve_Lacy

Steven Goodman
Steven Goodman is an American Conservation Biologist, and field biologist on staff in the Department of Zoology at the Field Museum of Natural History.
http://wn.com/Steven_Goodman

Stewart Kwoh
Stewart Kwoh (born 16 September 1948) is an Asian American, and the President and Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC).
http://wn.com/Stewart_Kwoh

Stuart Dybek
Stuart Dybek (born 1942) is an American writer.
http://wn.com/Stuart_Dybek

Sue Goldie
Sue J. Goldie (born 1962) is Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health at Harvard University.
http://wn.com/Sue_Goldie

Susan E. Alcock
Susan Alcock is a Roman archaeologist specializing in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman empire. Alcock grew up in Massachusetts and was educated at Yale and the University of Cambridge.
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Susan Irene Rotroff
Susan Irene Rotroff is an American archaeologist, and Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities, at Washington University in St. Louis.
http://wn.com/Susan_Irene_Rotroff

Susan Kieffer
Susan Elizabeth Werner Kieffer (born November 17, 1942 in Warren, Pennsylvania) is an American physical geologist and planetary scientist. Kieffer is known for her work on the fluid dynamics of volcanoes, geysers, and rivers, and for her model of the thermodynamic properties of complex minerals. She has also contributed to the scientific understanding of meteorite impacts.
http://wn.com/Susan_Kieffer

Susan Mango
Susan E. Mango is an American biologist, and H.A. and Edna Benning Professor of Oncological Sciences at University of Utah, and professor Harvard University. She is director of the Mango lab.
http://wn.com/Susan_Mango

Susan McClary
Susan McClary (born 2 October 1946) is a musicologist associated with the "New Musicology". Noted for her work combining musicology and a feminist music criticism, McClary is Professor of Musicology and Associate Vice-Provost of the International Institute at University of California, Los Angeles.
http://wn.com/Susan_McClary

Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas (born 1948) is an American photographer. Meiselas was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended junior high school in Woodmere, N.Y. After taking a BA at Sarah Lawrence College and an MA at Harvard University, she joined Magnum Photos co-operative in 1976 and has worked as a freelance photographer since then. In 1981, she visited a village destroyed by the armed forces in San Salvador and took pictures of the El Mozote massacre. Meiselas has published several books of her photographs.
http://wn.com/Susan_Meiselas

Susan Sontag
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Susan Stewart (poet)
Susan Stewart (born in 1952) is an American poet, university professor and literary critic.
http://wn.com/Susan_Stewart_(poet)

Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks (born 10 May 1963) is an African American playwright and screenwriter. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Topdog/Underdog.
http://wn.com/Suzan-Lori_Parks

Sven Haakanson
Sven Haakanson, Jr. (born 1967 Old Harbor, Alaska) is an American anthropologist, and the Executive Director of the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska.
http://wn.com/Sven_Haakanson

Sylvia A. Law
Sylvia A. Law is the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry and the Co-Director of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program at New York University School of Law.
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T. M. Scanlon
Thomas Michael ("Tim") Scanlon (born 1940) is the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity in Harvard University's Department of Philosophy. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard under Burton Dreben, studied for a year at Oxford University on a Fulbright Scholarship, and taught for many years at Princeton University, where he was an undergraduate student. His early work was in proof theory, but he soon made his name in ethics and political philosophy, where he developed a version of contractualism in the line of John Rawls, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Scanlon has also published important work on freedom of speech, equality, tolerance, foundations of contract law, and human rights.
http://wn.com/T_M_Scanlon

Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan (b. 1969, New York) is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
http://wn.com/Tara_Donovan

Taylor Branch
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Ted Ames
Ted Ames (born 1940) is a Maine fisherman, and hatchery director of Penobscot East Resource Center.
http://wn.com/Ted_Ames

Terence Tao
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Teresita Fernandez
http://wn.com/Teresita_Fernandez

Terry Belanger
Terry Belanger is an American librarian, University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia. He is a founding director of Rare Book School.
http://wn.com/Terry_Belanger

Theodore Rosengarten
Theodore Rosengarten is an American historian.
http://wn.com/Theodore_Rosengarten

Theodore Zoli
Theodore P. Zoli, P.E. is an American structural engineer, and a leading designer of cable-stayed bridges.
http://wn.com/Theodore_Zoli

Thomas C. Holt
Thomas Cleveland Holt is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago; he has produced a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora.
http://wn.com/Thomas_C_Holt

Thomas Daniel
Thomas Daniel is an American biologist, Joan and Richard Komen Endowed Chair of Biology at University of Washington, and leads the Daniel Lab.
http://wn.com/Thomas_Daniel

Thomas G. Palaima
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Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. For his most praised novel, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', Pynchon received the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pynchon is a MacArthur Fellow, is noted for his dense and complex novels, and both his fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, styles and themes, including (but not limited to) the fields of history, science, and mathematics.
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Thomas Whiteside
Thomas Whiteside (April 21, 1918 – October 6, 1997) was an American journalist.
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Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955, also known as "TimBL"), is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet.
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Tina Rosenberg
Tina Rosenberg (born 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. She frequently writes for The New York Times Magazine
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Toba Khedoori
Toba Khedoori (born 1964) is an Australian-born artist of Iraqi heritage, known primarily for highly-detailed mixed-media paintings executed on large sheets of wax-coated paper. Khedoori's works often fill the spectator's entire field of vision; a 'typical' Khedoori painting combines elements of drawing, painting, and art installation. Some of Khedoori's best-known paintings feature architectural renderings surrounded by a vast expanse of white or blank space. In recent years, Khedoori has incorporated natural imagery and landscape into her work.
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Todd Martinez
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Tommie Lindsey
Tommie Lindsey (born September 28, 1951 Oakland, California) is a Forensics coach, at James Logan High School.
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Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown (25 November 1936, Aberdeen, Washington, U.S.) is a postmodernist American choreographer and dancer.
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Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer and choreographer, who lives and works in New York City.
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Unita Blackwell
Unita Blackwell (born 18 March 1933) is an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman, and the tenth African-American, to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and helped organize voter drives for African-Americans across Mississippi. She is also a founder of the US China Peoples Friendship Association, a group dedicated to promoting cultural exchange between the United States and China. Barefootin, Blackwell's autobiography published in 2006, charts her activism.
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Valery Chalidze
Valery Chalidze (; , Valeriy Nikolayevich Chalidze) (born 1938) is a Georgian-American author, publisher, and the former Soviet dissident and human rights activist.
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Vamsi Mootha
Vamsi Mootha is an Indian-American physician-scientist and computational biologist. He holds the position of Associate Professor of Systems Biology and Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is also a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute.
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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 prospects for blind people in general, his father, a doctor, sent him over 1,300 miles away to the Dadar School for the Blind in Bombay.
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Victoria Foe
Victoria Elizabeth Foe (born 1945) is an American developmental biologist, and Research Professor at the University of Washington's Center for Cell Dynamics.
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Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins (b. October 25, 1938, Riga, Latvia) is an American artist.
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Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton (March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002) was an award-winning author of children's books. She wrote over 35 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great, for which she won the National Book Award in 1974 and the 1975 Newbery Medal.
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Vivian Paley
Vivian Gussin Paley is a noted pre-school and kindergarten teacher and early childhood education researcher. Now retired, she taught and did most of her research at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. She was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (Genius Grant) and the author of numerous books.
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Wafaa El-Sadr
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Walter Abish
Walter Abish (born December 24, 1931) is an Austrian-American author of experimental novels and short stories.
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Walter Kitundu
Walter Kitundu is a musical instrument builder, graphic artist, and musical composer from San Francisco, California.
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Wampanoag
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Wendy Ewald
Wendy Ewald (born in 1951) is an American photographer and educator. Her work is directed toward "helping children to see" and using the "camera as a tool for expression". In recent years Ewald has produced a number of conceptual installations -- for example, in Margate, England and in Amherst, Massachusetts -- making use of large scale photographic banners.
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Wes Jackson
Wes Jackson (born 1936) is the founder and current president of The Land Institute.
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Whitfield Lovell
Whitfield Lovell (born 1959 Bronx) is an African American painter and installation artist.
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William A. Christian
William A. Christian is a religious historian, and was the J.E. and Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished
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William C. Clark
William C. Clark (born 20 December, 1948 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is an American ecologist and environmental policy analyst, and Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
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William Cronon
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William Gaddis
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William H. Durham
William H. Durham is an American biological anthropologist, and is of the Department Chair of Anthropological Sciences, and Bing Professor in Human Biology, at Stanford University.
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Willie Reale
Willie Reale is an American playwright and lyricist who often works with his elder brother Robert Reale.
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Wilma Subra
Wilma Subra is an American environmental scientist.
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Xiao Qiang
Xiao Qiang () is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a bi-lingual China news website, and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley. He is also the Principle Investigator of the Counter-Power Lab, an interdisciplinary faculty-student research group focusing on the intersection of social media, informational politics and Internet freedom, based in the School of Information, UC Berkeley.
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Xiaowei Zhuang
Xiaowei Zhuang is an American biophysicist, and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Physics, at Harvard University, and the Zhuang Research Lab.
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Yiyun Li
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Yoky Matsuoka
Yoky Matsuoka (born c. 1972) is an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (U.W.), director of that university's Neurobotics Laboratory, and a 2007 MacArthur Fellow. Her research combines neuroscience and robotics--sometimes referred to by Matsuoka by the portmanteau "neurobotics"--to create more realistic prosthetics.
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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.
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Persondata
Name	Weilerstein, Alisa
Alternative names
Short description	American musician
Date of birth	1982
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

Persondata
Name	Berry, Drew
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1970
Place of birth
Date of death
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Jad Abumrad
Abumrad at "Third Coast Festival" (October 2005)
Born	(1973-04-18) April 18, 1973 (age 39)
Alma mater	Oberlin College (B.A. 1995)
Occupation	Public radio host and producer
Notable work(s)	Radiolab
Spouse	Karla Murthy
Children	1
Awards	2011 MacArthur Fellow

Persondata
Name	Abumrad, Jad
Alternative names
Short description	American radio host and producer
Date of birth	April 18, 1973
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

Kay Ryan

Born	(1945-09-21) September 21, 1945 (age 66) San Jose, California, USA
Occupation	Poet, Educator
Nationality	American
Period	1970s-present
Genres	Poetry
Notable work(s)	The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (2010)
Notable award(s)	Guggenheim Fellowship (2004) Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2004) United States Poet Laureate (2008-2010) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2011) MacArthur Fellowship (2011)
Partner(s)	Carol Adair (1978-2009†)
Influences Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost

	Camille Saint-Saëns's "Le cygne" (The Swan) Weilerstein and Jason Yoder (marimba) perform Camille Saint-Saëns's "Le cygne" (The Swan) from The Carnival of the Animals at the White House Evening of Classical Music (2009-11-04) Camille Saint-Saëns's "Le cygne" (The Swan) Audio only
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Persondata
Name	Ryan, Kay
Alternative names
Short description	Poet
Date of birth	1945-09-21
Place of birth	San Jose, California, USA
Date of death
Place of death

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