Each year, the MacArthur Foundation selects between 20 and 30 recipients for its five-year, $500,000 MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. Between 1981 and 2012, 873 fellows have been named from a range of disciplines. Past recipients have been writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, entrepreneurs, farmers, and fishermen, among many others. This year, geochemist Terry Plank was among the recipients.
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