“These 24 delightfully different MacArthur Fellows are shedding light and creation swell on vicious issues, pulling a bounds of their fields, and improving a universe in imaginative, astonishing ways,” MacArthur President Julia Stasch explains on a MacArthur Foundation website. “Their work, their commitment, and their creativity enthuse us all.”
The MacArthur Fellowship, founded in 1978, is given out annually to a organisation of high-achieving people in disciplines as different as dance, mechanism scholarship and adaptive design. What was once a $50,000 endowment has given morphed into a six-figure prize
Check out a full-list of a 2015 Fellows below.