NAME

DESCRIPTION

FELLOWS CLASS

Loic Wacquant

Sociologist

July 1997

Günter P. Wagner

Developmental Biologist

July 1992

Derek Walcott

Poet and Playwright

June 1981

Alan Walker

Paleontologist

August 1988

Kara E. Walker

Painter and Installation Artist

July 1997

David Foster Wallace

Writer

July 1997

Naomi Wallace

Playwright

July 1999

Bret Wallach

Geographer

November 1984

Michael Walsh

Vehicle Emissions Specialist

September 2005

Robert Penn Warren

Poet, Writer, and Literary Critic

June 1981

Jeffrey R. Weeks

Mathematician

July 1999

Shen Wei

Choreographer

September 2007

Jay Michael Weiss

Psychologist

March 1984

Paul O. Wennberg

Atmospheric Chemist

September 2002

David B. Werner

Health Care Leader

July 1991

James A. Westphal

Engineer and Planetary Scientist

July 1991

Kent Whealy

Plant Collector and Preservationist

August 1990

Richard White

Historian

July 1995

Colson Whitehead

Writer

September 2002

Thomas Whiteside

Journalist

August 1986

Randolph Whitfield Jr.

Ophthalmologist

August 1982

Edith Widder

Oceanographer

September 2006

John Edgar Wideman

Writer

July 1993

Eliot Wigginton

Educator

August 1989

Frank Wilczek

Physicist

August 1982

Andrew J. Wiles

Mathematics

July 1997

Brackette P. Williams

Anthropology

July 1997

Eddie Williams

Policy Analyst and Civil Rights Leader

August 1988

Heather Williams

Biologist and Ornithologist

July 1993

Marion Williams

Gospel Music Performer

July 1993

Patricia J. Williams

Legal Scholar

July 2000

Robert H. Williams

Physicist and Energy Analyst

July 1993

Deborah Willis

Historian of Photography and Photographer

July 2000

Eleanor Wilner

Poet

July 1991

Adrian Wilson

Book Designer, Printer, and Historian of the Book

February 1983

Allan C. Wilson

Biochemist

August 1986

David Wilson

Artist and Curator

October 2001

Fred Wilson

Installation Artist

July 1999

Rachel Wilson

Neurobiologist

September 2008

William Julius Wilson

Sociology

July 1987

Arthur T. Winfree

Physiologist and Mathematician

November 1984

Erik Winfree

Computer and Materials Scientist

July 2000

Anders Winroth

Medieval Historian

October 2003

Irene J. Winter

Art Historian and Archaeologist

February 1983

Jack Wisdom

Physicist

July 1994

Frederick Wiseman

Documentary Filmmaker

August 1982

Edward Witten

Physicist

August 1982

Carl R. Woese

Molecular Biologist

March 1984

Eric Wolf

Anthropologist

August 1990

Sidney M. Wolfe

Physician and Public Health Leader

August 1990

Stephen Wolfram

Computer Scientist and Physicist

June 1981

Michael Woodford

Economist

December 1981

Robert L. Woodson

Community Development Leader

August 1990

Richard Wrangham

Primate Ethologist

July 1987

C. D. Wright

Poet

September 2004

Henry T. Wright

Archaeologist and Anthropologist

July 1993

Jay Wright

Poet and Playwright

August 1986

Patricia C. Wright

Primatologist and Conservationist

August 1989

Rita P. Wright

Archaeologist

August 1988

Marian Wright Edelman

Children's Rights Leader

July 1985

Mark S. Wrighton

Chemist

February 1983

Charles Wuorinen

Composer

August 1986