16 October 20159 September 2021 Chemist Peidong Yang receives MacArthur ‘genius award’ Peidong Yang, a UC Berkeley chemist who is trying to capture carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into a sustainable transportation fuel, has been named a MacArthur “genius” Fellow
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