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    Here Are The 2017 MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Winners

    Jason De León, Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Derek Peterson are among the 24 winners of this year's MacArthur Fellowship, which honors "extraordinarily talented and creative individuals."
    by Colin Dwyer Oct 11, 2017 4 minutes
    MacArthur Award Winners 2017.

    It's not often you'll find these 24 names in the same place. They are historians and musicians, computer scientists and social activists, writers and architects. But whatever it may read on their business cards (if they've even got business cards), they now all have a single title in common: 2017 MacArthur Fellow.

    The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the winners of this year's fellowship — — and the list includes a characteristically wide array of disciplines: There's painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby, for instance, and mathematician Emmanuel Candès and immunologist Gabriel Victora, among many others.

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