In 2003, Dr Kim was awarded an esteemed McArthur Fellowship, known as a "genius grant".
Whoever came up with this idea probably received a government genius grant of some sort.
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Yoky Matsuoka, a MacArthur genius grant winner and professor at the University of Washington, serves as vice president of efficiency algorithms.
He's won the prestigious Macarthur Genius Grant and this year, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
After a thorough research of these people, he coins the concept of Social Entrepreneurship and receives the McArthur Genius Grant of 1 million dollars with which he launches Ashoka.
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The 47-year-old Mr. Cromer, who won a MacArthur "genius grant" in 2010, may be best known for his off-Broadway production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town, " the longest run in the play's history.
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And we've done this, and this is why I got that award (the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant") was that we were the first group to identify an organism that comes from humans -- not dairy products -- that has demonstrable health benefits in both mice and in human cells, and we hope to someday give this to humans clinically to treat various indications.
Munoz, 50, is a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant for her work on immigration policy and civil rights.
Wimbledon, a MacArthur "Genius" grant, "Project Runway, " "The Price is Right, " the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest, the Booker Prize or a Grammy for best spoken-word album.
He won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, has two honorary degrees, inspired a character in "Jurassic Park" and is curator of paleontology for the largest Tyrannosaurus rex collection in the world.
It's good for you, says Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner in 1984 of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
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