This list organizes current and previous recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship based on areas of principal focus. It is intended solely to provide a sense of the range and breadth of their activities collectively. The selection process considers each nominee's creative efforts as a whole, not just with respect to their contributions to a particular discipline or field. Because MacArthur Fellows often cross disciplinary boundaries, readers should not interpret a specific entry as fully descriptive or infer that nominees are chosen on the basis of their fit within any of the categories on this list. There is no such thing as a MacArthur Fellow “in” a specific field.
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Agriculture |
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Will Allen |
Urban Farmer |
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Wes Jackson |
Agronomist |
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Peter E. Kenmore |
Agricultural Entomologist |
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Calvin R. King |
Land and Farm Development Specialist |
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Gary Paul Nabhan |
Ethnobotanist and Nature Writer |
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Rebecca J. Nelson |
Plant Pathologist |
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Cheryl Rogowski |
Farmer |
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Pedro Sanchez |
Agronomist |
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Kent Whealy |
Plant Collector and Preservationist |
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I. Garth Youngberg |
Agriculturist |
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Community Affairs |
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Lorna Bourg |
Rural Development Leader |
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Majora Carter |
Urban Revitalization Strategist |
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Ernesto J. Cortes Jr. |
Community Organizer |
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William Drayton |
Public Service Innovator |
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Martin Daniel Eakes |
Economic Development Strategist |
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Sophia Bracy Harris |
Child Care Leader |
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Wesley Charles Jacobs Jr. |
Rural Planner |
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Sokoni T. Karanja |
Child and Family Development Specialist |
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William J. Linder |
Community Development Leader |
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Joseph E. Marshall Jr. |
Educator and Violence-Prevention Specialist |
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Hugo Morales |
Radio Producer |
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Hipolito (Paul) Roldan |
Community Developer |
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Lateefah Simon |
Women’s Development Leader |
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Muriel S. Snowden |
Community Organizer |
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Robert L. Woodson |
Community Development Leader |
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Billie Jean Young |
Community Development Leader |
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Cultural Preservation |
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Terry Belanger |
Rare Book Preservationist |
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Sven Haakanson |
Alutiiq Curator and Anthropologist |
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John Rice Irwin |
Curator and Cultural Preservationist |
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Aaron Lansky |
Cultural Preservationist |
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Walter F. Morris Jr. |
Cultural Preservationist |
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John Ochsendorf |
Structural Engineer/Architectural Preservationist |
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Sam-Ang Sam |
Musician and Cultural Preservationist |
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Economic Development |
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Elouise C. Cobell |
Banker |
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Rosanne Haggerty |
Housing and Community Development Leader |
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Carolyn McKecuen |
Economic Development Leader |
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Otis Pitts Jr. |
Community Development Leader |
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Dorothy Stoneman |
Educator and Youth Leader |
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William E. Strickland Jr. |
Arts Educator |
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Maria Varela |
Community Development Leader |
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Education |
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Shawn Carlson |
Science Educator |
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Deborah Bial |
Education Strategist |
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Jacques d’Amboise |
Dance Educator |
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Lisa Delpit |
Education Reform Leader |
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Aaron Dworkin |
Music Educator |
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David Hawkins |
Philosopher |
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W. Keith Hefner |
Journalist and Educator |
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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot |
Sociologist of Education |
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Elma Lewis |
Arts Educator |
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Tommie Lindsey |
High School Debating Coach |
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Patricia Locke |
Tribal Rights Leader and Educator |
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Rueben Martínez |
Bookseller |
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Robert H. McCabe |
Educator |
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Deborah W. Meier |
Education Reform Leader |
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Robert Parris Moses |
Educator and Philosopher |
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Vivian Gussin Paley |
Educator and Writer |
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Janine Pease |
Educator |
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James Randi |
Educator |
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Kathleen A. Ross |
Educator |
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Philip Uri Treisman |
Mathematics Educator |
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Eliot Wigginton |
Educator |
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Energy |
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David B. Goldstein |
Energy Conservation Specialist |
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Peter J. Hayes |
Energy Policy Specialist |
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John P. Holdren |
Arms Control and Energy Analyst |
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Amory B. Lovins |
Physicist and Energy Analyst |
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Frank N. von Hippel |
Arms Control and Energy Analyst |
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Robert H. Williams |
Physicist and Energy Analyst |
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Environment and Conservation |
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Ted Ames |
Fisherman and Marine Conservation Specialist |
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George Archibald |
Ornithologist |
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Lucy Blake |
Conservationist |
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Lester R. Brown |
Agricultural Economist |
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David Carroll |
Naturalist, Author, and Illustrator |
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William C. Clark |
Ecologist and Environmental Policy Analyst |
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Lisa Curran |
Tropical Forester |
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George D. Davis |
Environmental Policy Analyst |
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Ruth DeFries |
Environmental Geographer |
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Marc Edwards |
Water Quality Engineer |
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Peter H. Gleick |
Water Conservation Specialist |
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Steven Goodman |
Conservation Biologist |
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Claire Kremen |
Conservation Biologist |
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Sandra Lanham |
Pilot and Conservationist |
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William W. McDonald |
Cattle Rancher and Conservationist |
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Donella H. Meadows |
Environmental Writer |
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Cynthia Moss |
Nature Historian |
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Patrick F. Noonan |
Conservationist |
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Carl Safina |
Marine Conservationist |
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Guy Tudor |
Conservationist and Illustrator |
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Michael Walsh |
Vehicle Emissions Specialist |
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Edith Widder |
Oceanographer |
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Human Rights |
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Anthony Amsterdam |
Attorney and Legal Scholar |
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Joaquin Avila |
Voting Rights Advocate |
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Ellen Barry |
Attorney and Human Rights Leader |
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Janet Benshoof |
Attorney and Reproductive Rights Leader |
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Unita Blackwell |
Mayor and Civil Rights Leader |
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John C. Bonifaz |
Lawyer and Voting Rights Advocate |
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Alvin J. Bronstein |
Human Rights Lawyer |
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Valery Chalidze |
Physicist and Human Rights Organizer |
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Frederick C. Cuny |
Disaster-Relief Specialist |
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Alison L. Des Forges |
Human Rights Leader |
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Mercedes Doretti |
Forensic Anthropologist |
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Corinne Dufka |
Human Rights Investigator |
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James Fruchterman |
Technologist |
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John P. Gaventa |
Sociologist |
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Robert M. Hayes |
Lawyer and Human Rights Leader |
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Ralf David Hotchkiss |
Rehabilitation Engineer |
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Thomas C. Joe |
Social Policy Analyst |
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John Kamm |
Human Rights Strategist |
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Stewart Kwoh |
Human Rights Leader |
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Sylvia A. Law |
Human Rights Lawyer |
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Gay J. McDougall |
Human Rights Lawyer |
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Cecilia Muñoz |
Civil Rights Policy Analyst |
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Rosalind P. Petchesky |
Political Scientist |
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Xiao Qiang |
Human Rights Leader |
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Edward V. Roberts |
Civil Rights Leader |
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David Rudovsky |
Civil Rights Lawyer |
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Elyn Saks |
Mental Health Lawyer |
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Bryan Stevenson |
Human Rights Lawyer |
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Susan E. Sygall |
Civil Rights Leader |
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Dorothy Quincy Thomas |
Human Rights Leader |
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Patricia J. Williams |
Legal Scholar |
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Marian Wright Edelman |
Children’s Rights Leader |
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José D. Zalaquett |
Human Rights Lawyer |
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Leonard H. Zeskind |
Human Rights Leader and Journalist |
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International Security |
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Bruce G. Blair |
Foreign Policy Analyst |
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Christopher Chyba |
Astrobiologist and Policy Analyst |
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Sidney Drell |
Physicist and Arms Policy Analyst |
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Randall Watson Forsberg |
Political Scientist and Arms Control Strategist |
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Morton H. Halperin |
Political Scientist |
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Journalism |
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Lynsey Addario |
Photojournalist |
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Paul Berman |
Journalist |
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Katherine Boo |
Journalist |
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Sandy Close |
Journalist |
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Richard Critchfield |
Essayist |
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Stanley Crouch |
Jazz Critic and Writer |
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Mark Danner |
Journalist |
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Alma Guillermoprieto |
Journalist |
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Robert H. Hall |
Public Interest Journalist |
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David A. Isay |
Radio Producer |
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Adrian LeBlanc |
Narrative Journalist |
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Charles R. E. Lewis |
Journalist |
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Michael Massing |
Journalist |
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Jerry Mitchell |
Investigative Reporter |
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Tina Rosenberg |
Journalist |
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Alex Ross |
Music Critic |
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William H. Siemering |
Journalist and Radio Producer |
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Thomas Whiteside |
Journalist |
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Labor |
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Jennifer Gordon |
Attorney and Community Organizer |
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Sara Horowitz |
Attorney and Worker’s Rights Leader |
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Joel Rogers |
Political Scientist |
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Julie Su |
Human Rights Lawyer |
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Baldemar Velasquez |
Farm Labor Leader |
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Public Health and Medicine |
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Byllye Avery |
Women’s Healthcare Leader |
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Regina Benjamin |
Rural Family Physician |
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Gretchen Berland |
Physician-Filmmaker |
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Shelly Bernstein |
Pediatric Hematologist |
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Michael Cohen |
Pharmacist |
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Lisa Cooper |
Public Health Physician |
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Wafaa El-Sadr |
Public Health Physician |
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Paul E. Farmer |
Medical Anthropologist and Physician |
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Atul Gawande |
Surgeon and Author |
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Sue Goldie |
Women’s Health Physician and Researcher |
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Katherine Gottlieb |
Alaskan Health Care Leader |
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Pedro José Greer Jr. |
Physician and Community Health Specialist |
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Victoria Hale |
Pharmaceutical Entrepreneur |
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Mark Harrington |
AIDS Researcher |
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Eva Harris |
Molecular Biologist |
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Donald Hopkins |
Public Health Physician |
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Janine Jagger |
Epidemiologist |
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Sarah H. Kagan |
Gerontological Nurse |
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Jim Kim |
Public Health Physician |
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Raphael Carl Lee |
Surgeon |
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Michael Lerner |
Public Health Leader |
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Carol Levine |
AIDS Policy Specialist |
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Ruth Watson Lubic |
Nurse-Midwife |
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Andrew McGuire |
Trauma Prevention Specialist |
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Diane Meier |
Geriatrician |
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D. Holmes Morton |
Country Doctor and Research Physician |
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Nawal M. Nour |
Obstetrician and Gynecologist |
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Olufunmilayo Olopade |
Oncologist |
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Rebecca Onie |
Health Services Innovator |
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Peter Pronovost |
Critical Care Physician |
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John Rich |
Physician |
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Jill Seaman |
Infectious Disease Physician |
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Aaron Shirley |
Health Care Leader |
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Wilma Alpha Subra |
Environmental Health Scientist |
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Mary Tinetti |
Geriatric Physician |
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David B. Werner |
Health Care Leader |
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Randolph Whitfield Jr. |
Ophthalmologist |
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Sidney M. Wolfe |
Physician and Public Health Leader |
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Public Policy |
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Joan Abrahamson |
Community Development Leader |
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Paul Ginsparg |
Physicist |
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Robert Greenstein |
Public Policy Analyst |
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J. Bryan Hehir |
Religion and Foreign Policy Scholar |
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Pamela Samuelson |
Legal Scholar |
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Pam Solo |
Arms Control and Economic Development Analyst |
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Brian E. Tucker |
Seismologist and Disaster Prevention Specialist |
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Eddie Williams |
Policy Analyst and Civil Rights Leader |
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Technology and Invention |
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James Fruchterman |
Technologist |
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David Green |
Technology Transfer Innovator |
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Saul Griffith |
Inventor |
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Amy Smith |
Inventor and Engineer |
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Theodore Zoli |
Bridge Engineer |
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