MacArthur Fellows
Listed chronologically by year of the grant.
| Name | Degree/year/major | Field | Year | Work |
| Philip Curtin | B.A., 1948, history | History | 1983 | Johns Hopkins University professor; researcher of Caribbean/African history and comparative history |
| John J. Hopfield | B.A., 1954, physics | Molecular biology | 1983 | Princeton University professor; computational neurobiology/computing network researcher |
| Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot | B.A., 1966, psychology | Sociology/education | 1984 | Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University; researches education, socialization. Developed portraiture approach |
| Jane S. Richardson | B.A., 1968, philosophy | Biochemistry | 1985 | Duke University biochemistry professor; proteins researcher, especially three-dimensional structure and means of formation |
| David Page | B.A., 1978, chemistry | Biology/medicine | 1986 | MIT biology professor; director of Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; Sequenced the Y-chromosome. |
| Ellen M. Barry | B.A., 1975 | Criminology/penology | 1998 | Prison reform advocate; founder of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and the National Network for Women in Prison |
| Rebecca J. Nelson | B.A./B.S., 1982 | Plant pathology | 1998 | Researcher of molecular genetics, crop disease, and crop management; associate professor of plant pathology at Cornell University |
| Christopher F. Chyba | B.A., 1982, physics | Science/international security | 2001 | Princeton University professor; co-director of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation; former science/technology/national security adviser to the Clinton administration |
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