MacArthur Fellows

Name Affiliation Year Occupation
Archie R. Ammons Faculty 1981 Poet
Shelly Johnson Errington A.M. 1971, Ph.D. 1975 1981 Cultural Anthropologist
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Faculty 1981 Literary Critic
Stephen Jay Gould Faculty 1981 Paleontologist
Barbara McClintock B.S. 1923, A.M. 1925, Ph.D. 1927, Faculty 1981 Geneticist
Douglas Dean Osheroff M.S. 1971, Ph.D. 1973 1981 Physicist
David Pingree Visiting Faculty 1981 Historian of Science
John J. Hopfield Ph.D. 1958 1983 Physicist and Biologist
William Kennedy Writer-in-residence 1983 Novelist
Charles S. Peskin Visiting Faculty 1983 Mathematician and Physiologist
George W. Archibald Ph.D. 1977 1984 Ornithologist
Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum Faculty 1984 Mathematical Physicist
David R. Nelson A.B. 1972, M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1975 1984 Physicist
Roger S. Payne Ph.D. 1962 1984 Zoologist and Conservationalist
Andrew T. Winfree B.S. 1965 1984 Physiologist and Mathematician
Harold I. Bloom A.B. 1951 1985 Literary Critic
Helen Thom Edwards A.B. 1957, M.S. 1963, Ph.D. 1966 1988 Physicist
Thomas Pynchon A.B. 1959 1988 Novelist
Jay E. Cantor A.B. 1964 1989 Writer
George D. Davis Doctoral Studies 1989 Environmental Policy Analyst
Margaret W. Rossiter Faculty 1989 Historian of Science
Brooks Eliot Wigginton A.B. 1965, M.A. 1966 1989 Educator
Charlotte J. Erickson A.M. 1947, Ph.D. 1951 1990 Historian
Nancy J. Kopell A.B. 1963 1990 Mathematician and Neuroscientist
Alice C. Fulton M.F.A. 1982 1991 Poet
Brackette P. Williams B.S. 1973 1997 Anthropologist
Stephen Lee Faculty 1999 Chemist
Sara Jean Horowitz B.S. 1984 1999 Attorney and Worker's Rights Leader
Christopher F. Chyba Ph.D. 1991, Faculty 2001 Astrobiologist and Policy Analyst
Paul H. Ginsparg M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1981, Faculty 2002 Physicist
Erik A. Mueggler 1987 (no degree) 2002 Anthropologist and Ethnographer
Sendhil Mullainathan A.B. 1993 2002 Economist
Daniela L. Rus M.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1992 2002 Computer Scientist and Roboticist
Pedro A. Sanchez B.S. 1962, M.S. 1964, Ph.D. 1968 2003 Agronomist
Jon Kleinberg A.B. 1993, Faculty 2005 Computer Scientist