List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1940

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Seventy-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1940. [1] [2] A total of $165,000 was disbursed. [3]

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1940 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsFiction Hermann J. Broch Princeton University (visiting) The Death of Virgil Also won in 1941 [4] [5]
Ward Allison Dorrance University of Missouri Writing [6]
Edwin Moultrie Lanham Herald Tribune Novel about the Southwest [7] [3] [8]
Andrew Nelson Lytle WritingAlso won in 1941, 1959 [9]
Christine Weston [10] [11]
Fine Arts Bernard Arnest Broadmoor Academy Painting [9] [12] [8]
Lawrence Louis Barrett [13]
Richmond Barthé Sculpture: Memorial to James Weldon Johnson Also won in 1941 [14] [3]
Miguel Covarrubias Book preparationAlso won in 1933 [9] [15]
John Hovannes Sculpture [16]
Henry Lee McFee Painting [9]
Elizabeth Tracy [17] [18]
Herman Palmer Graphic arts: Wild and domesticated animals [19] [3]
Ruth Reeves Living materials for modern textile designsAlso won in 1941 [20]
Carl Schaefer Painting: Life of an American farmer [21]
Harry Wickey SculptureAlso won in 1939 [22] [3]
Music Composition Marc Blitzstein Musical stage compositionAlso won in 1941 [23] [5] [24]
Alvin Etler Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra CompositionAlso won in 1941, 1963 [23] [2] [3]
Earl Robinson Full-length ballad-operetta based on The People, Yes Also won in 1941 [23] [9] [3] [25]
William Howard Schuman Sarah Lawrence College CompositionAlso won 1939 [26] [3]
Photography Walker Evans New York subway portraitsAlso won in 1941, 1959 [27]
Edward Weston California Also won in 1939 [28]
Poetry Lloyd Frankenberg Writing [29] [5]
Delmore Schwartz Also won in 1941 [9] [17] [29] [5]
Theatre Arts Howard Bay Scenic design [30]
HumanitiesAmerican Literature Alfred Kazin New York Herald Tribune 20th-century American proseAlso won in 1947, 1958, 1969 [9] [5]
Architecture, Planning, and Design Gregory Ain Development of low-cost housing [31]
Biography Richmond C. Beatty Vanderbilt University James Russell Lowell [9]
Fine Arts Research Robert Chester Smith Library of Congress Preparation of a history of the fine arts in Brazil from pre-Columbian times to present [32]
Carl Zigrosser Weyhe Gallery Art researchAlso won in 1939 [33]
General Nonfiction John Dos Passos Essays on the basis of the present American conceptions of freedom of thoughtAlso won in 1939, 1942 [34] [9] [17] [35]
German and East European History Lewis Galantière Treatise on the character of the German people [36] [3]
Intellectual and Cultural History Hans Kohn Smith College History of nationalism [37] [5]
Medieval Literature Louis Furman Sas City College of New York Origins of Romance languages [38]
Near Eastern Studies Richard F. S. Starr Hope House Art of the ancient Near East [39] [40]
Philosophy Otis Hamilton Lee Vassar College Nature of philosophic inquiry [3]
Paul Marhenke University of California, Berkeley Treatise on the sensational and perceptual basis of knowledge in the nature of a critique of the subjectivistic premise of the modern theories of knowledge [41]
United States History Howard Wolf Cleveland News History of American press associationsAlso won in 1939 [42] [9]
Natural SciencesChemistry Arthur C. Cope Bryn Mawr College Tautomerism and the chemistry of tautomeric systems [2]
Aristid von Grosse Catalytic reactions of organic compounds and investigations of the products of neutron bombardment of uranium, protactinium, and thorium Also won in 1941 [3]
Geography and Environmental Studies Raymond E. Crist University of Illinois Human geography of the Venezuelan Andes Also won in 1953 [43] [44]
Earth Science Chester Stock Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California Institute of Technology Vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance of MexicoAlso won in 1939 [45]
Harold Ernest Vokes American Museum of Natural History Fossil remains of spineless animals in Lebanon [46]
Mathematics Jesse Douglas Also won in 1941 [47]
Gordon Pall McGill University Arithmetical properties of quadratic forms [21]
Raymond Louis Wilder University of Michigan Topology, particularly in the theory of locally connected spaces and of general manifolds [48] [49]
Aurel Friedrich Wintner Johns Hopkins University Mathematical theory of probability and statistics [35]
Molecular and Cellular Biology David Lion Drabkin University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Biological oxidation-reduction processes [50] [24]
John T. Edsall Harvard Medical School Physical chemistry of amino acids, peptides, proteins and related compoundsAlso won in 1953 [17]
Raymund Lull Zwemer Columbia University Medical School Factors involved in the maintenance, by living cells, of a differential permeability to electrolytes [51]
Neuroscience Berry Campbell University of Oklahoma Research at Yale University Also won in 1941 [52]
Organismic Biology & Ecology Myron Gordon Also won in 1938 [53]
Gregory Pincus Clark University Zoological investigationsAlso won in 1939 [5]
Physics David Mathias Dennison University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Molecular structure [54] [49]
Plant Science Stanley A. Cain University of Tennessee Concepts and methods of geobotany [2] [9]
Katherine Esau University of California, Davis Anatomy and physiology of vascular plants [41]
George Thomas Johnson Washington University, St. Louis Biologic and taxonomic sudy of tropical American lichensAlso won in 1941 [55] [56]
Franklin P. Metcalf  [ ast ] Lingnan University Monograph on the flora of Fukien Province [57]
Henry K. Svenson  [ de ] Brooklyn Botanical Garden Plant evolution [58]
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural Studies Luther S. Cressman University of Oregon Indian culture of the Southwestern United States, compared with the culture of ancient Indian races of south-central Oregon Also won in 1949 [59]
Alfred Irving Hallowell University of Pennsylvania Personality in primitive communities [60] [24]
Isabel Truesdell Kelly University of California, Berkeley Ethnographic and archeological investigations in southwestern MexicoAlso won in 1941 [41]
Alfred Métraux Also won in 1938 [61]
Economics Wassily W. Leontief Harvard University Mathematical economicsAlso won in 1950 [17]
James Ackley Maxwell Clark University Impact of federalism upon federal and state finance in the United States [21]
Nathan Reich Hunter College Relationship between political democracy and economic organization [21] [5]
Frank A. Southard Jr. Cornell University Foreign exchange policies of several Latin American countries [62] [3]
Law Percy Elwood Corbett McGill University "The community of states and its law" [21]
Political Science Donald Grant Creighton University of Toronto Development of Canadian nationality, 1850-present [21]
Warren Aldrich Roberts Cleveland College Mine taxation in the United States [63]
Francis Reginald Scott McGill University Nature and development of the Canadian constitution [21]
Psychology George Katona Psychology of learning, with special reference to the differences in learning by understanding and learning by memorization and drillAlso won in 1941 [64]
Sociology Edward Franklin Frazier Howard University Comparative study of the Negro family in the West Indies and Brazil [14]

1940 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
HumanitiesLinguistics J. Eugene Garro Archaeological Museum of AncashNative languages of Peru [65]
Natural SciencesEarth Science Nabor Carrillo Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Soil mechanics in its application to the construction of foundations of buildings and damsAlso won in 1941 [66] [67]
Carlos Nicholson Jefferson  [ es ] National University of San Agustín Comparative studies of the climates of the Peruvian and Californian coasts [67] [68]
Medicine and Health Hugo Pablo Chiodi University of Buenos Aires Respiratory phenomena caused by muscular activity in health and diseaseAlso won in 1939 [69] [67]
Eduardo Etzel Clemente Ferreira Tuberculosis Institute Technical studies of thoracic surgery in relation to the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis [67]
Raúl Palacios von Helms Bacteriological Institute of Chile Rabies Also won in 1939 [70] [67]
Nilson Torres de Rezende NeurophysiologyAlso won in 1941 [67]
Molecular and Cellular Biology Américo S. Albrieux Murdoch Institute of Endocrinology, Montevideo Hormone therapyAlso won in 1941 [67]
Fernando G. Huidobro Toro Catholic University of Chile Chemical transmission of nerve impulses [67]
Ciro A. Peluffo Institute of Hygiene, Montevideo Artificially induced microbiological variation [67]
Maurício Rocha e Silva Biological Institute Pharmacological properties of trypsin Also won in 1941 [67]
Physics Mário Schenberg University of São Paulo Application of nuclear and atomic physics to astrophysicsAlso won in 1941 [71] [67]
Facundo Bueso Sanllehí University of Puerto Rico Band spectraAlso won in 1941 [67]
Plant Science Carlos Arnaldo Krug Instituto Agronômico de Campinas Genetic investigations of citrus and other major crop plants of Brazil [67]
José Pérez Carabia  [ es ] La Salle College Flora of Cuba [67]
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural Studies Jorge C. Muelle  [ es ] Museo de la Nación [72]
Arthur Ramos de Araujo Pereira  [ pt ] University of Brazil Cultural anthropology [73]
Economics Jorge Kingston Also won in 1947 [74]
Political Science Santos Primo Amadeo University of Puerto Rico Comparative study of constitutional law in Argentina and the United StatesAlso won in 1941 [75]

See also

References

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