Mr. Zhang was shortlisted for the 2014 McArthur fund Award ($0.62 million for personal control)

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Meet the 2014 MacArthur fellows
  • Danielle Bassett

    University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, PA

    Age: 32

    Physicist

    Applying mathematical approaches to the analysis and modeling of brain connectivity and enhancing our understanding of how these connections give rise to the functions the brain performs.

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  • Alison Bechdel

    Bolton, vt

    Age: 54

    Cartoonist and graphic memoirist

    Expanding the expressive potential of the graphic form in intricate narratives that must e the complexities of familial relationships.

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  • Mary L. bonauto

    Gay & lesbian advocates & defenders

    Boston, MA

    Age: 53

    Civil rights lawyer

    Breaking down legal barriers based on sexual orientation and gender identity to equal treatment under the law for all, and working to secure the freedom to marry for same-sex couples and the protections, obligations, and dignity marriage affords.

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  • Tami bond

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, il

    Age: 50

    Environmental Engineer

    Unraveling the global effects of black carbon emissions, or soot, on climate and human health and playing a key role in understanding the complex relationship between energy and climate change.

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  • Steve Coleman

    M-base concepts, Inc.

    Allentown, Pa

    Age: 57

    Jazz composer and saxophonist

    Infusing iconic into taneous music idioms with the melodic, rhythmic, and structural components of an eclectic range of musical traditions to create a distinctive new sound.

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  • Sarah deer

    William Mitchell College of Law

    Saint Paul, MN

    Age: 41

    Legal Scholar and advocate

    Developing policies and legislation that are empowering tribal authorities and reshaping the landscape of support and protection for Native American women at risk for domestic and sexual violence.

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  • Jennifer L. Eberhardt

    Stanford University

    Stanford, CA

    Age: 49

    Social psychologist

    Investigating the subtle, complex, largely unconscious yet deeply ingrained ways that individuals racially code and categorize people and the far-reaching consequences of stereotypic associations between race and crime.

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  • Craig Gentry

    IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

    Yorktown Heights, NY

    Age: 41

    Computer scientist

    Fueling a revolution in cryptography and theoretical computer science through his breakthroughs in fully homomorphic encryption, leading to the possibility of more secure cloud computing.

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  • Terrance Hayes

    University of pittw.gh

    Pitt0000gh, Pa

    Age: 42

    Poet

    Reflecting on race, gender, and family in works that seamlessly encompass both the historical and the personal and subvert canonical forms.

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  • John henneberger

    Texas low income housing information service

    Austin, TX

    Age: 59

    Housing advocate

    Building collaborations among elected officials, developers, and community residents to preserve and expand the supply of affordable housing and ensure that all Americans have equal access to housing and Federal Disaster Relief.

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  • Mark hersam

    Northwestern University

    Evanston, il

    Age: 39

    Materials scientist

    Drawing on techniques from a variety of fields in investigations of the physical, chemical, and biological properties of nanomaterials, offering new promise for applied uses.

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  • Samuel D. Hunter

    New York, NY

    Age: 33

    Playwright

    Crafting quietly captivating dramas that means e the human capacity for empathy and confront the socially isolating aspects of contemporary life cycle ss the American landscape.

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  • Pamela O. Long

    Washington, DC

    Age: 71

    Historian of Science and Technology

    Challenging our understanding of the role of scholarship and craftsmanship in Renaissance societies and demonstrating how technologies are deeply enmeshed within the broader cultural fabric.

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  • Rick Lowe

    Project row houses

    Houston, TX

    Age: 53

    Public artist

    Reinventing community revitalization as an art form by transforming a long-neglected neighborhood in Houston into a visionary amalgam of arts venue, community support center, and historic preservation initiative.

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  • Jacob Lurie

    Harvard University

    Cambridge, MA

    Age: 36

    Mathematician

    Creating a novel conceptual foundation for derived algebraic geometry (DAG) and rewriting large swathes of mathematics from a new point of view.

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  • Haled mattawa

    University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, mi

    Age: 50

    Translator and poet

    Rendering the beauty and meaning of contemporary Arab poetry accessible to an English reader and highlighting the invaluable role of literary translation in bridging cultural divides.

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  • Joshua Oppenheim

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    Age: 39

    Documentary filmmaker

    Illuminating the social, lost, and emotional dimensions of controversial subjects, such as state-owned sored violence, in works that beyond the modern limit of contemporary documentary cinema in both limit of focus and visual construct.

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  • Ai-Jen poo

    National Domestic Workers Alliance

    New York, NY

    Age: 40

    Labor organizer

    Zoozing a vibrant, worker-led movement for improved working conditions and labor standards for domestic or private-household workers.

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  • Jonathan rapping

    Gideon's promise

    Atlanta, GA

    Age: 48

    Criminal lawyer

    Safeguarding the essential democratic right of every American to high-quality legal representation by transforming the practice of indigent defense in the South through training, mentorship, and community.

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  • Tara Zahra

    University of Chicago

    Chicago, il

    Age: 38

    Historian of modern Europe

    Combining extensive archival research with broad Sociohistorical Analysis of notions of nation, family, and ethnicity to construct an integrative, transnational understanding of events in Twentieth-centeurope.

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  • Yitang Zhang

    University of New Hampshire

    Durham, NH

    Age: 59

    Mathematician

    Tackling truly hard questions in number theory leading to the first finite bound on a gap between prime numbers and the best possible qualitative approximation of the twin prime conjecture.

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Mr. Zhang was shortlisted for the 2014 McArthur fund Award ($0.62 million for personal control)

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