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Inorganic chemist at UC Berkeley and recipient of the 2015 MacArthur Genius Grant
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California MacArthur Geniuses Two Northern California scientists were among the 24 winners of the the prestigious MacArthur Genius Grant. Christopher Ré, a computer scientist at Stanford, got the award for his work on DeepDive, a system to tackle so-called dark data. And an inorganic chemist at UC Berkeley, Peidong Yang, received the $625,000 award for creating a synthetic leaf that can turn sunlight into other energy forms.
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