The MacArthur Winners

The following 24 fellows will each receive $625,000 over the next five years from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation:

Kyle Abraham, 36, New York City. Dancer, choreographer.

Donald Antrim, 55, New York City. Writer and writing teacher at Columbia University.

Phil Baran, 36, La Jolla, Calif. Organic chemist, Scripps Research Institute.

C. Kevin Boyce, 39, Stanford, Calif. Paleobotanist at Stanford University.

Jeffrey Brenner, 44, Camden. Physician.

Colin Camerer, 53, Pasadena, Calif. Behavioral economist, California Institute of Technology.

Jeremy Denk, 43,

New York City. Writer, concert pianist.

Angela Duckworth, 43, Philadelphia. Research psychologist, University of Pennsylvania.

Craig Fennie, 40, Ithaca, N.Y. Materials scientist, Cornell University.

Robin Fleming, 57, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Medieval historian, Boston College.

Carl Haber, 54, Berkeley, Calif. Experimental physicist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Vijay Iyer, 41, New York City. Jazz pianist, composer, and writer.

Dina Katabi, 42, Cambridge, Mass. Computer scientist, MIT.

Julie Livingston, 46, New Brunswick, N.J. Medical historian, Rutgers University.

David Lobell, 34, Stanford, Calif. Agricultural ecologist at Stanford University.

Tarell McCraney, 32, Chicago. Playwright, Steppenwolf Theater Company.

Susan Murphy, 55,

Ann Arbor, Mich. Statistician, University of Michigan,

Sheila Nirenberg, New York City. Neuroscientist, Weill Cornell Medical College.

Alexei Ratmansky, 45, New York City. Choreographer and artist-in-residence, American Ballet Theatre.

Ana Maria Rey, 36, Boulder, Colo. Theoretical physicist, University of Colorado.

Karen Russell, 32, New York City. Fiction writer.

Sara Seager, 42, Cambridge, Mass. Astrophysicist, MIT.

Margaret Stock, 51, Anchorage, Alaska. Immigration attorney.

Carrie Mae Weems, 60, Syracuse, N.Y. Photographer, video artist.

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