2003 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.

• Guillermo Algaze, 38, anthropology; San Diego, Calif.
• James J. Collins, 38, biomedical engineering; Boston, Mass.
• Lydia Davis, 56, writer and translator; Albany, N.Y.
• Erik Demaine, 22, computer science; Cambridge, Mass.
• Corinne Dufka, 46, human rights activist; Freetown, Sierra Leone
• Peter Gleick, 46, conservation analyst; Oakland, Calif.
• Osvaldo Golijov, 42, music professor and composer; Worcester, Mass.
• Deborah Jin, 34, physicist; Boulder, Colo.
• Angela Johnson, 42, writer; Kent, Ohio
• Tom Joyce, 46, artist-blacksmith; Santa Fe, N.M.
• Sarah H. Kagan, 41, nursing professor; Philadelphia, Pa.
• Ned Kahn, 43, science exhibit artist; Sebastopol, Calif.
• Jim Yong Kim, 43, public health physician; Geneva, Switzerland
• Nawal Nour, 37, physician; Boston, Mass.
• Loren Rieseberg, 42, botanist; Bloomington, Ind.
• Amy Rosenzweig, 36, biochemist; Evanston, Ill.
• Pedro A. Sanchez, 62, agronomist; Upper Grandview, N.Y.
• Lateefah Simon, 26, director of a program for troubled teenagers and young women; San Francisco, Calif.
• Peter Sis, 54, illustrator and author; New York, N.Y.
• Sarah Sze, 34, sculptor; New York, N.Y.
• Eve Troutt Powell, 42, historian; Athens, Ga.
• Anders Winroth, 38, historian; New Haven, Conn.
• Daisy Youngblood, 58, sculptor; Santa Fe, N.M.
• Xiaowei Zhuang, 31, biophysicist; Cambridge, Mass.