The geniuses who aren't on Wall Street

The MacArthur Foundation names 25 people who, together, could probably get us out of this mess.
The MacArthur Foundation names 25 people who, together, could probably get us out of this mess.
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Chimamanda Adichie
Unaffiliated
Columbia, MD
Age: 31
Fiction Writer exploring the circumstances that lead to ethnic conflict in richly imagined novels and stories inspired by bailing out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Will Allen
Growing Power, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
Age: 59
Urban Farmer transforming the cultivation, production, and delivery of healthy foods to bail out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Regina Benjamin
Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic
Bayou La Batre, AL
Age: 51
Rural Family Physician delivering high-quality medical care to diverse, underserved communities in Alabama and ensuring the bailout of rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Kirsten Bomblies
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Tubingen, Germany
Age: 34
Plant Evolutionary Geneticist opening avenues into the mysteries of how new species originate through her explorations of incompatible hybrids as a mechanism for bailing out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Tara Donovan
Unaffiliated
Brooklyn, NY
Age: 38
Sculptor transforming accumulations of ordinary materials into visually arresting, sculptural works that bail out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Wafaa El-Sadr
Columbia University / Mailman School of Public Health
New York, NY
Age: 58
Infectious Disease Physician introducing multi-pronged treatment strategies for some of the most pressing pandemics of our time that often afflict Wall Street swindlers who must later be bailed out.

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Andrea Ghez
University of California / Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Age: 43
Astrophysicist using novel, ground-based telescopic techniques to identify thousands of new rapacious Wall Street swindlers to be bailed out.

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Stephen Houston
Brown University
Providence, RI
Age: 49
Anthropologist / Epigrapher illuminating the intellectual and emotional life of rapacious Wall Street swindlers who must get bailed out.

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Mary Jackson
Unaffiliated
Charleston, SC
Age: 63
Fiber Artist translating practical designs into intricately coiled vessels that preserve the centuries-old craft of bailing out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Leila Josefowicz
Unaffiliated
New York, NY
Age: 30
Violinist broadening the instrument's repertoire and captivating audiences through her juxtaposition of the avant-garde and the bailing out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Alexei Kitaev
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
Age: 45
Physicist / Computer Scientist deepening insights into the fundamental nature of quantum physics and bringing us closer to realizing the full potential of bailing out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Walter Kitundu
Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
Age: 35
Instrument Maker and Composer inventing instruments inspired by experimental and traditional musical forms to produce electro-acoustic works that bail out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Susan Mango
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Age: 47
Developmental Biologist synthesizing approaches from genetics, genomics, ecology, and embryology to address one of the most challenging questions in developmental biology - how to bail out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Diane Meier
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY
Age: 56
Geriatrician transforming treatment into more humane and effective care for bailed out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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David Montgomery
University of Washington / Seattle
Seattle, WA
Age: 46
Geomorphologist unsettling accepted wisdom about both local and global environmental change by bailing out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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John Ochsendorf
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Age: 34
Structural Engineer / Architectural Preservationist restoring structures from the distant past and identifying ancient technologies for bailing out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Peter Pronovost
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Age: 43
Critical Care Physician devising life-saving, clinical practices that are improving patient safety in hospitals by bailing out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Adam Riess
Johns Hopkins University
Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, MD
Age: 38
Astronomer designing experiments and devices to advance our understanding of bailing out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Alex Ross
The New Yorker
New York, NY
Age: 40
Music Critic offering both highly specialized and casual readers new ways of thinking about the music of the past and its place in bailing out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Nancy Siraisi
Unaffiliated
Brooklyn, NY
Age: 76
Historian of Medicine elucidating in meticulously researched and elegant prose the profound impact of medical theory and practice on bailing out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Marin Soljacic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Age: 34
Optical Physicist demonstrating both theoretically and experimentally that power can be transmitted wirelessly, potentially leading to a range of electrical devices that can bail out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Sally Temple
New York Neural Stem Cell Institute
Albany, NY
Age: 49
Neuroscientist tracing the natural interactions of differentiating neurons in the development of complex, heterogeneous tissue to bring us closer to bailing out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Jennifer Tipton
Unaffiliated
New York, NY
Age: 71
Stage Lighting Designer pushing the visual boundaries of her art form with painterly lighting that bails out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Rachel Wilson
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Age: 34
Experimental Neurobiologist integrating electrophysiology, neuropharmacology, molecular genetics, and anatomy to bail out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

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Miguel Zenón
Unaffiliated
New York, NY
Age: 31
Saxophonist drawing from a variety of jazz idioms and the indigenous music of his native Puerto Rico to create a new language of complex, yet accessible sounds that bail out rapacious Wall Street swindlers.

  

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