Winners of MacArthur Grants Announced. NY Times Here’s the complete list, hyperlinks courtesy of me and Google:

• Bonnie Bassler, a molecular ecobiologist;
  
• Ann Blair, an intellectual historian;
  
• Katherine Boo, 37, a Pulitzer-Prize winning staff writer at The Washington Post.
  
• Paul Ginsparg, an Internet publisher and a physicist;
  
• David B. Goldstein, an energy conservation specialist and physicist
  
• Karen Hesse, a novelist
  
• Janine Jagger, an epidemiologist
  
• Daniel Jurafsky, a computational linguist
  
• Toba Khedoori, an artist
  
• Liz Lerman, a choreographer
  
• George Lewis, a trombonist and composer
  
• Liza Lou, 33, a Californian known for huge installations using thousands of glass beads;
  
• Edgar Meyer, a bassist and composer
  
• Jack Miles, a literary scholar and critic and author of God: The Biography
  
• Erik Mueggler, an anthropologist
  
• Sendhil Mullainathan, 29, who in this era of Wall Street scandals studied the phenomenon of growing executive compensation
  
• Stanley Nelson, a documentary filmmaker
  
• Lee Ann Newsom, a paleoethnobotanist
  
• Daniela Rus, 39, a roboticist and Dartmouth College professor who works on robots that independently change shapes, depending on their task
  
• Charles Steidel, 39, a cosmologist and professor at the California Institute of Technology
  
• Brian Tucker, 56, a seismologist and founder and president of GeoHazards International in Palo Alto, Calif.
  
• Camilo José Vergara, 58, a photographer who captured images of the World Trade Center from its construction more than 30 years ago to the day the towers fell
  
• Paul Wennberg, an atmospheric chemist.
  
• Colson Whitehead, 32, who received critical acclaim for his first two novels, John Henry Days (2001) and The Intuitionist (1998) [You should read this! — FmH]
  

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