2008 MacArthur Foundation Awards

The MacArthur Foundation awards monetary prizes each year in order to provide financial assistance for selected innovators.

Chimamanda Adichie

31, fiction writer, Columbia, Maryland

Will Allen

59, urban farmer, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Regina Benjamin

51, rural family physician, Bayou La Batre, Alabama

Kirsten Bomblies

34, plant evolutionary geneticist, Tubingen, Germany

Tara Donovan

38, sculptor, Brooklyn, New York

Wafaa El-Sadr

58, infectious disease physician, New York, New York

Andrea Ghez

43, astrophysicist, Los Angeles, California

Stephen Houston

49, anthropologist and epigrapher, Providence, Rhode Island

Mary Jackson

63, fiber artist, Charleston, South Carolina

Leila Josefowicz

30, violinist, New York, New York

Alexei Kitaev

45, physicist and computer scientist, Pasadena, California

Walter Kitundu

35, instrument maker and composer, San Francisco, California

Susan Mango

47, developmental biologist, Salt Lake City, Utah

Diane Meier

56, geriatrician, New York, New York

David Montgomery

46, geomorphologist, Seattle, Washington

John Ochsendorf

34, structural engineer and architectural preservationist, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Peter Pronovost

43, critical care physician, Baltimore, Maryland

Adam Riess

38, astronomer, Baltimore, Maryland

Alex Ross

40, music critic, New York, New York

Nancy Siraisi

76, medical historian, Brooklyn, New York

Marin Soljacic

34, optical physicist, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sally Temple

49, neuroscientist, Albany, New York

Jennifer Tipton

71, stage lighting designer, New York, New York

Rachel Wilson

34, experimental neurobiologist, Boston, Massachusetts

Miguel Zenón

31, saxophonist, New York, New York