One hundred thirty-two Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1946. [1] [2] Sixty of these were awarded as part of the post-service program, which provided fellowships to otherwise qualified artists and scholars who were taken away from their studies due to the war. [3]
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Arthur Ranous Wilmurt | Yale University | Creative writing | [29] | |
Fiction | Gwendolyn Brooks | Writing | Also won in 1947 | [30] [31] [32] | ||
Roger Lemelin | Also won in 1957 | [33] | ||||
Carson McCullers | Also won in 1942 | [34] [32] | ||||
James Still | Also won in 1941 | [35] | ||||
Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen Waugh | Research in Mexico | Also won in 1954 | [36] [32] | |||
Film | Maya Deren | [32] | ||||
Fine Arts | Eugene Berman | Painting | Also won in 1948 | [9] [7] | ||
Robert Noel Blair | Art Institute of Buffalo | Also won in 1951 | [37] [7] [38] | |||
Morris Cole Graves | [7] [39] | |||||
Mitchell Jamieson | Also won in 1948 | [40] [3] [7] | ||||
Berta Margoulies | Sculpture | [32] [7] [41] | ||||
Merritt Mauzey | Etchings: The Cotton Series | [7] [42] | ||||
Ruth Nickerson | Sculpture | [7] [43] | ||||
Music Composition | William Bergsma | Juilliard School of Music (visiting) | Composing | Also won in 1951 | [11] [12] | |
Henry Dreyfuss Brant | Also won in 1955 | [44] | ||||
Alexei Haieff | Also won in 1949 | [12] | ||||
Gian Carlo Menotti | Also won in 1947 | [12] | ||||
Harold Samuel Shapero | Also won in 1947 | [45] [12] | ||||
Louise Juliette Talma | Hunter College | Also won in 1947 | [32] [12] | |||
John Weedon Verrall | Mount Holyoke College | [45] [12] | ||||
Photography | Ansel Adams | Also won in 1948, 1959 | [11] | |||
Wayne Forest Miller | Black Chicagoans | Also won in 1947 | [46] [47] | |||
Wright Morris | Life in rural Nebraska | Also won in 1942, 1954 | [48] [49] | |||
Eliot Furness Porter | Also won in 1941 | [50] [51] | ||||
G. E. Kidder Smith | [52] | |||||
Poetry | Randall Jarrell | The Nation | Writing | [53] | ||
George Zabriskie | Marietta College | Also won in 1942 | [54] | |||
Humanities | American Literature | Richard Gordon Lillard | Indiana University | Part played in American history by the forest between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River | Also won in 1945 | [55] [24] |
Warren Stenson Tryon | Simmons College | History of Ticknor and Fields | [45] [24] | |||
Bibliography | William Richard Matthews | University of California, Los Angeles | Preparation of a descriptive bibliography of British diaries and memoirs | Also won in 1958 | [9] [24] | |
Biography | Robert Cecil Bald | Cornell University | John Donne | Also won in 1960 | [37] [56] [24] | |
Marie Kimball | Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation | Life of Thomas Jefferson for the period of 1776-1789 | Also won in 1945 | [3] [24] | ||
British History | Arthur J. Marder | University of Hawaii | History of British sea power in the dreadnought era | Also won in 1941, 1947 | [24] | |
Classics | Henry Rudolph Immerwahr | Monograph on popular speech in ancient Athens, based primarily on a collection of Athenian vase inscriptions | [29] [57] [58] [24] | |||
Alice Elizabeth Kober | Brooklyn College | Attempt to decipher the so-called Minoan scripts found at Knossos, Crete | [59] [32] [58] [24] | |||
James Henry Oliver | Columbia University | History of the Adriatic in antiquity | Also won in 1955 | [24] | ||
English Literature | Robert Hamilton Ball | Queens College, CUNY | [60] | |||
Jerome Hamilton Buckley | University of Wisconsin | Victorian literary and aesthetic theory in the light of 19th-century social conditions and intellectual values | Also won in 1963 | [61] [62] | ||
Gordon Sherman Haight | Yale University | Complete edition of the letters of George Eliot | Also won in 1953, 1960 | [29] | ||
Paul Harold Kocher | University of Washington | Relations between religion and science during the English Renaissance | Also won in 1955 | [24] | ||
Louis A. Landa | Also won in 1966 | [63] | ||||
Ernest Albert Strathmann | Pomona College | Life and works of Walter Raleigh as an exemplar of skeptical tendencies in Elizabethan thought | Also won in 1954 | [9] [24] | ||
Fine Arts Research | Jean Charlot | Smith College | History of modern Mexican mural painting | Also won in 1944 | [45] | |
Frederick Hartt | Monograph on the art of Giulio Romano and studies of the religious content in renaissance and baroque art | Also won in 1954 | [29] | |||
Folklore and Popular Culture | Louis Clark Jones | New York State College for Teachers | Contemporary folklore of the supernatural as found among various ethnic groups in New York state | [56] [58] | ||
Alan Lomax | [64] [58] | |||||
French History | Leo Gershoy | Sarah Lawrence College | Biography of Marshal Pétain | Also won in 1936, 1939, 1959 | [24] | |
General Nonfiction | Cedric Belfrage | [65] | ||||
Josef Berger | Democratic National Committee | Soviet Union, "especially concerning its young citizens" | Also won in 1938 | [66] [40] [3] [24] | ||
German and East European History | Hans Rosenberg | Brooklyn College | History of the Prusso-German Junkers as a social class | Also won in 1945 | [57] [59] [24] | |
German and Scandinavian Literature | Alrik Gustafson | University of Minnesota | Biography of August Strindberg | Also won in 1945 | [18] [24] [19] | |
History of Science and Technology | Marshall Clagett | Columbia University | Richard Swineshead and his place in the history of science in general and the history of physics and calculus in particular | Also won in 1950 | [24] | |
Herbert Silvette | University of Virginia School of Medicine | Life of Philemon Holland | [3] [24] | |||
Latin American Literature | Robert Hayward Barlow | History of the empire of Montezuma | Also won in 1947 | [58] [24] | ||
Linguistics | Roman Jakobson | [58] | ||||
Wolf Leslau | École libre des hautes études | Languages, traditional history, and folklore of Ethiopia | Also won in 1947 | [57] [24] | ||
Literary Criticism | Huntington Brown | University of Minnesota | Types of prose style | [19] | ||
Walter B. C. Watkins | Also won in 1950 | [67] | ||||
William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr | Yale University | Relationship between form and content in literay art | [29] | |||
Medieval Literature | Mary Hatch Marshall | Colby College | History of medieval religious plays | Also won in 1945 | [32] [24] | |
Robert Armstrong Pratt | Queens College | Intellectual development of Chaucer | Also won in 1954 | [59] | ||
Theodore Silverstein | University of Kansas City | Bernard Silvestris and his place in the history of science and learning | [20] [24] | |||
Francis Lee Utley | Ohio State University | Apocryphal stories of the Flood, derived and amplified from Biblical text | Also won in 1947, 1952 | [24] | ||
Music Research | Edward Elias Lowinsky | Black Mountain College | Also won in 1976 | [57] | ||
Emanuel Winternitz | Metropolitan Museum of Art | [57] | ||||
Philosophy | Nelson Goodman | Tufts College | Applied logic | [45] | ||
Maurice Mandelbaum | Swarthmore College | Ethical theory | [49] | |||
Russian History | George P. Fedotov | Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary | History of the Russian religious mind in the Middle Ages | [24] | ||
United States History | Holman Hamilton | Inner history of Zachary Taylor's administration | [55] [24] | |||
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | Political-intellectual history of the period of the New Deal | [35] [45] [24] | ||||
Natural Sciences | Applied Science | Chaim Leib Pekeris | Also won in 1968, 1972 | [68] | ||
Astronomy and Astrophysics | Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand | Swarthmore College | Orbital motion in double and multiple stars by photographic observations | [49] | ||
Chemistry | William Howard Barnes | McGill University | Comparative studies of X-ray diffraction methods for the determination of the structure of crystalline materials | [33] | ||
Paul Antoine Giguère | Laval University | Molecular structure of hydrogen peroxide by the spectroscopic method | Also won in 1948 | [33] | ||
James Lynn Hoard | Cornell University | Special methods of analyzing the X-ray data used in the determination of crystal structure | Also won in 1960, 1966 | [37] [56] | ||
Mathematics | Richard Hubert Bruck | University of Wisconsin | Theory of loops | [62] | ||
Paul Erdős | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | Also won in 1945 | [69] | |||
Mark Kac | Random processes and their applications to statistical physics, with particular emphasis on applications to Brownian motion and random noise | [56] | ||||
Paul Charles Rosenbloom | Brown University | [45] | ||||
Irving Ezra Segal | Institute for Advanced Study | Also won in 1951, 1967 | [70] | |||
Abraham H. Taub | University of Washington | Shock waves; differential geometry | Also won in 1953 | [71] [72] | ||
John William Theodore Youngs | Purdue University | [55] | ||||
Medicine and Health | Evelyn Anderson Haymaker | University of California | [11] [32] | |||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Daniel I. Arnon | University of California | Also won in 1962 | [11] | ||
Arthur Charles Giese | Stanford University | Fundamental nature of the effect of ultraviolet radiation on protoplasma | Also won in 1958 | [11] | ||
Walter John Nickerson | Wheaton College | Taxonomy and comparative biochemistry of yeasts | [45] [32] | |||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Robert Ballentine | Columbia University | [73] | |||
Rolf Ling Bolin | Stanford University | Lantern fish and their classification based on specimens in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia | [11] | |||
Wilbert McLeod Chapman | California Academy of Sciences | [11] | ||||
A. Starker Leopold | Pan American Union | [74] | ||||
Alexander Frank Skutch | Also won in 1951 | [75] | ||||
Lemen Jonathan Wells | University of Minnesota | Research at Carnegie Laboratory of Embryology | [18] [58] [19] | |||
Physics | Wayne Eskett Hazen | University of California | Cosmic rays at high altitude | Also won in 1953 | [2] [11] | |
Shuichi Kusaka | Research at the California Institute of Technology and the Institute for Advanced Study with J. Robert Oppenheimer and Wolfgang Pauli | [2] [37] [70] | ||||
William George McMillan | Research at the University of Chicago | [2] | ||||
Robert Leroy Platzman | Research with Niels Bohr at University of Copenhagen | [2] | ||||
James Alfred Van Allen | Johns Hopkins University | Atomic energy | [2] [40] | |||
Plant Science | Bernard Boivin | Classification of plants | [33] | |||
Hugh Carson Cutler | Harvard University | Preparation of an illsutrated flora of the orchidaceae | Also won in 1942 | [45] | ||
Francis Raymond Fosberg | United States Department of Agriculture | Monograph of the genus Cinchona | [40] [3] | |||
Harold E. Moore | Also won in 1955 | [76] | ||||
Albert Charles Smith | Harvard University | Botanical explorations of the Fiji Islands | [45] | |||
Thomas Wallace Whitaker | United States Department of Agriculture | Also won in 1958 | [9] | |||
Statistics | Theodore W. Anderson | Columbia University | [22] | |||
Henry Scheffé | University of California, Los Angeles | Research at the University of California, Berkeley | [9] [22] | |||
Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Gregory Bateson | [58] | |||
Joseph Benjamin Birdsell | Also won in 1952 | [58] | ||||
James Alfred Ford | [58] | |||||
Clyde K. Kluckhohn | Harvard University | Anthropology of contemporary problems | [45] [64] [58] [24] | |||
Weston La Barre | [64] [58] | |||||
Morris Swadesh | Also won in 1947 | [64] [58] | ||||
Economics | Philip D. Bradley | Harvard University | Public finance in certain Latin American republics | [45] | ||
Sanford Alexander Mosk | University of California | [11] | ||||
Political Science | Harwood Lawrence Childs | Princeton University | Public opinion, based in part on his experience in the Office of War Information | Also won in 1937 | [24] [70] | |
Mitchell Franklin | Tulane University | Edward Livingston and his influence on Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian jurists, on the French jurists of Louisiana, on the constitutional thought of Andrew Jackson, and on the codification theory of Bentham | [24] | |||
Willmoore Kendall | Analysis of the political writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau "from the standpoint of the debate about majority-rule in the modern state" | [40] [3] [24] | ||||
Franz Leopold Neumann | Bureau of Intelligence and Research; Columbia University | Possible principles of joint action by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union in the disputed areas | [40] [57] | |||
Walter Bernhard Schiffer | Institute for Advanced Study | Conflicting theoretical ideas underlying the League of Nations | Also won in 1944 | [57] [24] [70] | ||
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Fine Arts | José Alonso | Also won in 1945 | [77] | ||
Music Composition | Alberto Evaristo Ginastera | Composing | Also won in 1942, 1969 | [78] | ||
Héctor Tosar | Also won in 1960 | [79] | ||||
Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Joao Batista Vilanova Artigas | [80] | |||
Iberian and Latin American History | Carlos Bosch García | El Colegio de México | Mexican diplomatic history | [14] | ||
Julio Le Riverend Brusone | Development of the sugar industry in Cuba from its beginning until 1860 | [14] | ||||
Latin American Literature | R. Fernando Alegría | [81] | ||||
Linguistics | Cecilio Lopez | [58] | ||||
Philosophy | José María Ferrater Mora | University of Santiago | Also won in 1948 | [82] | ||
Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Paris Pişmiş | National Astronomical Observatory | [83] | ||
Earth Science | Elysiário Távora Filho | University of Brazil | [84] | |||
Medicine and Health | René Honorato Cienfuegos | University of Chile | [85] | |||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Otto Guilherme Bier | Also won in 1941, 1945 | [86] | |||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | João Moojen de Oliveira | Ministry of Education and Public Health | [87] | |||
Luis René Rivas y Díaz | Colegio De La Salle | Also won in 1945 | [88] | |||
Bernardo Villa Ramírez | University of Kansas | Also won in 1945 | [89] | |||
Plant Sciences | Moisés Kramer | [90] | ||||
Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Pedro Armillas | National Institute of Anthropology and History; National School of Anthropology and History | Comparative studies of the pre-Columbian cultures of the southeastern United States and of Mexico and Central America | [58] [14] | |
Psychology | Horacio José Ambrosio Rimoldi | Research with Louis Leon Thurstone | [91] |