2005 MacArthur Foundation Awards

Updated June 26, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

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

• Marin Alsop, 48, conductor; Poole, England
• Ted Ames, 66, fisherman, Stonington, Maine
• Terry Belanger, 64, rare book preservationist, Charlottesville, Va.
• Edet Belzberg, 35, documentary filmmaker, New York, N.Y.
• Majora Carter, 38, urban revitalization strategist, Bronx, N.Y.
• Lu Chen, 33, neuroscientist, Berkeley, Calif.
• Michael Cohen, 61, pharmacist, Huntington Valley, Pa.
• Joseph Curtin, 52, violin maker, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• Aaron Dworkin, 35, music educator, Detroit, Mich.
• Teresita Fernández, 37, sculptor, New York, N.Y.
• Claire Gmachl, 38, laser technologist, Princeton, N.J.
• Sue Goldie, 43, physician/researcher, Boston, Mass.
• Steven Goodman, 48, conservation biologist, Antananarivo, Madagascar
• Pehr Harbury, 40, biochemist, Stanford, Calif.
• Nicole King, 35, molecular biologist, Berkeley, Calif.
• Jon Kleinberg, 33, computer scientist, Ithaca, N.Y.
• Jonathan Lethem, 41, novelist, Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Michael Manga, 37, geophysicist, Berkeley, Calif.
• Todd Martinez, 37, theoretical chemist, Urbana, Ill.
• Julie Mehretu, 34, painter, New York, N.Y.
• Kevin M. Murphy, 47, economist, Chicago, Ill.
• Olufunmilayo Olopade, 48, clinician/researcher, Chicago, Ill.
• Fazal Sheikh, 40, photographer, Zurich, Switzerland
• Emily Thompson, 43, aural historian, San Diego, Calif.
• Michael Walsh, 62, vehicle emissions specialist, Arlington, Va.