(In 2001 he won a coveted MacArthur "genius" award.)

In 1985, she was the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" fellowship.

"In my work on climate, I have one client, the earth," Dr. Schneider, a winner of a 1992 MacArthur "genius" grant, said in a recent interview during a scientific conference here.

James Collins, bioengineer and MacArthur "genius"

A MacArthur "genius," he has composed music for the French Bicentennial celebration on an official commission and he has written for the Kronos Quartet.

Six years later, he became the youngest recipient ever of a MacArthur "genius" fellowship.

Soon after moving to Caltech, Dr. Barton gave birth to her daughter, and within short order learned of her MacArthur "genius" award.

This absorbing portrait of Paul Farmer - anthropologist, Harvard professor, MacArthur "genius" - and his idealistic quest to cure infectious diseases ventures into some of the poorest places on earth.

PLoS has since attracted papers from leading lights in science like Dr. Robert Sapolsky, a Stanford researcher and a winner of a MacArthur "genius" award.

He has taken up various university posts and even received the accolade of a MacArthur "genius" grant.