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Peter Sellars, theater and opera director.

Ramanujan, poet, translator, and literary scholar Merton, historian and sociologist of science

Leszek Kołakowski, historian of philosophy and religion.

Shelomo Dov Goitein, medieval historian.

Forsberg, political scientist and arms control strategist Clark, ecologist and environmental policy analyst

George Zweig, physicist and neurobiologist.

Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist and physicist.

Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist, and literary critic.

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., astrophysicist.

Carl Emil Schorske, intellectual historian.

Lawrence Rosen, attorney and anthropologist.

Robert Root-Bernstein, biologist and historian of science.

James Alan McPherson, short story writer and essayist.

Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic and historian.

Michael Ghiselin, evolutionary biologist.

Shelly Errington, cultural anthropologist.

Ĭecilia Conrad is the managing director leading the MacArthur Fellows Program. MacArthur Fellow Jim Collins described this experience in an editorial column of The New York Times. Most new fellows first learn of their nomination and award upon receiving a congratulatory phone call. The committee reviews all nominees and recommends recipients to the president and board of directors. Anonymous and confidential nominations are invited by the foundation and reviewed by an anonymous and confidential selection committee of about a dozen people.

The program does not accept applications. The award has been called "one of the most significant awards that is truly 'no strings attached'". Since 1981, 942 people have been named MacArthur Fellows, ranging in age from 18 to 82. This figure was increased from $500,000 in 2013 with the release of a review of the MacArthur Fellows Program. The current prize is $625,000 paid over five years in quarterly installments. Īccording to the foundation's website, "the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishment, but rather an investment in a person's originality, insight, and potential". MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States. The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the " Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D.