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Winners of this year’s MacArthur fellowships announced

SEP 23, 2016
Physics Today

New York Times : On 22 September the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the winners of its 2016 fellowship awards. Twenty-three people, among them writers, artists, scientists, and nonprofit leaders, are each to receive a grant of $625 000 distributed over five years. This year the youngest fellow is 31-year-old playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and the oldest is 67-year-old artist Joyce Scott. Some are already well known, such as Claudia Rankine, whose book Citizen (2014) has won numerous awards. The scientist awardees are computer scientists Subhash Khot and Bill Thies, bioengineers Rebecca Richard-Kortum and Manu Prakash, geobiologist Victoria Orphan, synthetic chemist Jin-Quan Yu, and microbiologist Dianne Newman.

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