Three hundred and forty-four scholars and artists were awarded a total of $1,500,000 Guggenheim Fellowships in 1957.[1] [2]
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Novel writing | [3] | |||
| Also won in 1967 | [4] | |||||
| [5] | ||||||
| [6] | ||||||
| Also won in 1946 | [7] | |||||
| Also won in 1952 | ||||||
| Also won in 1960 | [8] | |||||
| [9] | ||||||
| Fine Arts | Painting | [10] | ||||
| Printmaking | [11] [12] | |||||
| Creative design in enamels | ||||||
| Painting | Also won in 1963 | |||||
| Sculpture | Also won in 1958 | |||||
| [13] | ||||||
| Also won in 1959 | [14] | |||||
| [15] | ||||||
| Painting | [16] | |||||
| Music Composition | Composing | Also won in 1964 | [17] | |||
| Also won in 1953 | [18] | |||||
| Also won in 1959 | [19] | |||||
| Also won in 1968 | ||||||
| [20] | ||||||
| Also won in 1955 | [21] | |||||
| Also won in 1956 | [22] [23] | |||||
| TEO Productions | Also won in 1958 | |||||
| Also won in 1978 | ||||||
| Also won in 1963 | [24] | |||||
| Interpretive dance number King's Heart | [25] | |||||
| Photography | Uses of photography in social sciences | |||||
| Also won in 1956, 1968 | [26] | |||||
| Poetry | Writing | Also won in 1953, 1959 | [27] | |||
| [28] | ||||||
| Also won in 1958 | [29] | |||||
| Recording annals and writing the archaeology and other phases of the Etowah Indian Mounds from the poet's point of view | [30] | |||||
| Humanities | American Literature | 19th century archaeological discoveries in relation to the cultural history of the West | ||||
| [31] | ||||||
| Role of the poet in mid-century America | ||||||
| Richmond News Leader | Key themes and formal concepts in the literature of the South | |||||
| Regional basis of literary interpretations of the South | ||||||
| Architecture, Planning and Design | American architectural thought and expression, 1865-1914 | |||||
| [32] | ||||||
| Architecture on the West Coast of the United States | ||||||
| Bibliography | ||||||
| Biography | [33] | |||||
| [34] | ||||||
| British History | ||||||
| Transition from 18th to 19th century thought and opinion in England | ||||||
| The upper-class family in 18th century England | ||||||
| Also won in 1956 | [35] | |||||
| English seapower in the 20th century | Also won in 1941, 1946 | |||||
| Classics | Greek vase painting | Also won in 1973 | [36] | |||
| Also won in 1964 | [37] | |||||
| Roman colonization in the Republican period | ||||||
| [38] | ||||||
| Popular ethics in ancient Greece | ||||||
| Musical and poetical contests of the Greeks | ||||||
| Scholarly use of papyrological literature | ||||||
| East Asian Studies | Historical study of Chinese literature | |||||
| Buddhist influence on Burmese social thought | ||||||
| English Literature | Also won in 1944 | [39] | ||||
| Suspended judgement in Shakespeare's plays | ||||||
| [40] | ||||||
| Also won in 1949, 1970 | ||||||
| 18th century literature | [41] | |||||
| Relation between English literature and politics in the 18th century | Also won in 1979 | |||||
| Influence of certain English publishing firms on authors in the 20th century | ||||||
| Relationship of literature and politics in 18th century England | ||||||
| Elizabethan stage and methods of presenting plays | ||||||
| Also won in 1929, 1937 | [42] [43] | |||||
| Shakespeare's growth and development as a writer of tragedy | ||||||
| Complete poetical works of Sir Philip Sidney; history of Tudor poetry | Also won in 1947 | [44] | ||||
| Literature in the New World as known in Tudor England | [45] | |||||
| Richard Steele and Joseph Addison as editors of The Guardian | ||||||
| Also won in 1967 | ||||||
| Victorian popular poetry | ||||||
| Fine Arts Research | Naturalistic elements in medieval art | |||||
| The New York Times | [46] | |||||
| [47] | ||||||
| Folklore and Popular Culture | [48] | |||||
| History of the Anglo-American ballad since 1898 | [49] | |||||
| French Literature | ||||||
| French Literature | Contemporary Franco-German literary relations | [50] [51] | ||||
| Meaning of liberty in French thought of the 18th century | ||||||
| French novel of the 18th century | ||||||
| Influence of North African writers on contemporary French letters | ||||||
| [52] | ||||||
| Attitudes and values of villages in two contrasting regions of rural France | ||||||
| German and East European History | ||||||
| German and Scandinavian Literature | [53] | |||||
| Also won in 1964 | ||||||
| Dating Old High German and Gothic manuscripts | ||||||
| Also won in 1969 | ||||||
| History of Science and Technology | ||||||
| Iberian and Latin American History | Documents in Italian archives bearing on Latin American history | |||||
| [54] | ||||||
| Intellectual and Cultural History | History of European positivism in the 19th century | |||||
| Development of Darwin's thought and of contemporary response to his work | Also won in 1955 | |||||
| Mythology and primitive religion in 18th century thought | ||||||
| Literary Criticism | Also won in 1960 | [55] | ||||
| Ideas of order in representative 18th century English writers | Also won in 1971 | |||||
| Theories of logic and rhetoric in 18th century England | Also won in 1948 | |||||
| Milton's Paradise Lost | ||||||
| Medieval Literature | Also won in 1965 | |||||
| Also won in 1961 | ||||||
| Poetry of Chaucer in the light of medieval tradition | ||||||
| Music Research | ||||||
| Italian instrumental ensemble music of the early 17th century | ||||||
| 15th century Italian vocal music | Also won in 1947 | |||||
| Liturgy and their influence on the history of church and synagogue music | [56] [57] | |||||
| Near Eastern Studies | History of Islamic socio-religious movements in the 11th century | Also won in 1966 | ||||
| [58] | ||||||
| Syrian monasticism from the 2nd to the 5th century, A.D. | Also won in 1958, 1968 | |||||
| Philosophy | Immanuel Kant's ethical theory | [59] | ||||
| Richard Price and British moral philosophy | [60] | |||||
| Religion | Also won in 1965 | [61] | ||||
| Works of John Calvin | ||||||
| Renaissance History | The concept of 'the learned poet' in Renaissance England | [62] | ||||
| Philosophical and humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance from the 14th to the 16th centuries | Also won in 1968 | |||||
| Russian History | The nobility's relationships to the Russian state, 1725-1861 | Also won in 1987 | ||||
| Science Writing | [63] | |||||
| Slavic Literature | Also won in 1964, 1976 | [64] | ||||
| Russian short story | ||||||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | [65] | |||||
| Philosophic attitudes of 19th and 20th century novels, with particular emphasis on the emotional impact of modern science on the literary mind | ||||||
| Intellectual history of modern Spain | Also won in 1950 | |||||
| Also won in 1972 | ||||||
| United States History | 1877 railroad strikes and labor riots in the USA | |||||
| [66] | ||||||
| Impact of American immigrant groups on US foreign policies | ||||||
| Also won in 1967 | ||||||
| British contributions to the development of the American West | Also won in 1964 | |||||
| Scientific agriculture in the Old South | [67] | |||||
| Herbert Hoover and the American enterprise | ||||||
| [68] | ||||||
| Also won in 1955 | ||||||
| History of higher education in the USA | Also won in 1968 | |||||
| The part played by the search for health in westward migration in the USA | ||||||
| Scottish leadership and capital in the development of the lower Lake Michigan area in the 19th century | ||||||
| History of the South, 1913-1946 | ||||||
| US Senate and American foreign policy, 1931-1941 | ||||||
| History of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 | ||||||
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Antennae and ultra-high frequency phenomena | Also won in 1937 | [69] | ||
| Fluid dynamics of high-speed and high-temperature gas flows | ||||||
| [70] | ||||||
| Problems of applied statistical mechanics | ||||||
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | Solar influences on the Earth's upper atmosphere | |||||
| Chemistry | Applications of equations of change to engineering | [71] | ||||
| Electronic structure of certain functional groups | ||||||
| [72] | ||||||
| Organic reaction mechanisms | Also won in 1950 | [73] | ||||
| [74] | ||||||
| Chemical consequences of nuclear transformation in certain crystalline solids | ||||||
| Kinetics and mechanisms of chemical reactions in solution | ||||||
| Nature and origin of potential barriers hindering internal rotation in molecules | ||||||
| Nuclear magnetic resonance | ||||||
| Chemical reactions of radicals, atoms and ions | ||||||
| [75] | ||||||
| Crystal design of salts of complex and organic ions | ||||||
| Also won in 1927 | [76] | |||||
| Thermodynamic properties of liquid Helium-3-Helium-4 mixtures | ||||||
| Interactions of unpaired electron systems with their environment in the solid state | ||||||
| [77] | ||||||
| Earth Science | ||||||
| Fertility of intensely cultivated soils of Belgium | ||||||
| Effect of contemporary occupance forms on plantation landholdings in the South | ||||||
| Central American and the West Indian volcanoes | Also won in 1949 | |||||
| Engineering | Electromagnetic radiation from regions filled with anisotropic materials | [78] | ||||
| High pressure technology; European education in chemical engineering | ||||||
| High energy condensed discharges in the heavy rare gases | ||||||
| [79] | ||||||
| Unsteady aerodynamics | ||||||
| Also won in 1956 | [80] | |||||
| [81] | ||||||
| Turbulent motion of fluids | ||||||
| Geography and Environmental Studies | ||||||
| Mathematics | Catholic University | Also won in 1977 | [82] | |||
| Partial differential equations as they occur in the applied mathematical fields of scattering and fluid mechanisms | ||||||
| Research in Paris | [83] | |||||
| Three-dimensional topologies | ||||||
| Compact Lie transformation groups | [84] | |||||
| Statistical studies toward a theory of the spatial distribution of galaxies | ||||||
| Medicine and Health | Forebrain and hindbrain structures in the regulation of visceral activities | [85] [86] | ||||
| Physiological mechanisms of sweat gland fatigue | ||||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | [87] | |||||
| Insect flight muscle | ||||||
| Also won in 1950 | [88] | |||||
| Mechanisms of inactivation of certain amines in peripheral blood vessels | ||||||
| [89] | ||||||
| Mechanism of carbohydrate transfers in biological systems | [90] | |||||
| Effectiveness of the vaccine developed to prevent Brucella infection in cattle | ||||||
| Endocrine regulation of salt and water metabolism | ||||||
| Also won in 1960 | [91] | |||||
| [92] | ||||||
| [93] | ||||||
| [94] | ||||||
| Nervous mechanisms regulating stomach functions; absorptive mechanisms in the intestines | [95] | |||||
| [96] | ||||||
| [97] | ||||||
| Plant disease bacteria | Also won in 1968 | |||||
| Also won in 1950 | ||||||
| Metabolism and biochemistry of sub-cellular particles | [98] | |||||
| Genetic control of metabolism | ||||||
| Fundamental studies on proteins | ||||||
| Acquired immunity to virus infections in plants | ||||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Ticks found on reptiles | |||||
| Also won in 1971 | [99] | |||||
| Taxonomy of spiders | Also won in 1958 | [100] | ||||
| Songs and calls of Mexican birds | [101] | |||||
| Periodic cycles in vertebrate populations | ||||||
| Also won in 1949 | ||||||
| Breeding activity of birds at equatorial latitudes | ||||||
| Northern Prairie Warbler and marketable title to land | [102] | |||||
| Comparative biology of copper accumulation in animals | ||||||
| Isolation of crustacean hormones | [103] | |||||
| Activity and metabolism of marine animals at various temperatures | ||||||
| Biochemical mechanisms of cellular differentiation | ||||||
| Inhibition of cell division | [104] | |||||
| Physics | Stability and overturn of sea water columns in winter cooling | [105] | ||||
| Nuclear and electron spin magnetic resonance | ||||||
| Theoretical physics of the fundamental particles | ||||||
| Electron theory of alloys | ||||||
| Physics of the neutrino and its interactions with atomic nuclei | [106] | |||||
| Low-lying odd-parity levels in heavy even-even nuclei | ||||||
| Also won in 1958 | [107] | |||||
| Interactions of elementary particles | Also won in 1972 | |||||
| Effect of nucleon recoils in photo-meson production | [108] | |||||
| Theoretical researches in statistical mechanics of time-depenedent phenomena | Also won in 1973 | |||||
| Methods for the calculation of nuclear properties | [109] | |||||
| Radiation biology and biophysics | ||||||
| Nature of the interactions of pions with nucleons | ||||||
| [110] | ||||||
| Also won in 1956 | [111] | |||||
| Solid state at low temperatures | ||||||
| Photons, electrons, and positrons by precision beta ray and gamma ray spectroscopy techniques | ||||||
| Nuclear moments of short-lived nuclear states | Also won in 1971 | |||||
| Physics of the neutrino and its interaction with the atomic nucleus | ||||||
| Thermoelastic waves in metals at low temperatures | ||||||
| Plant Science | Also won in 1958 | [112] | ||||
| Bioelectric phenomena | Also won in 1939, 1948 | |||||
| [113] | ||||||
| Herbicidal chemicals | Also won in 1938 | |||||
| [114] | ||||||
| Physiological cycles of birds | [115] | |||||
| [116] | ||||||
| Differentiation within plant species | [117] | |||||
| Mineral absorption by plant and animal cells | Also won in 1945 | |||||
| [118] | ||||||
| [119] | ||||||
| [120] | ||||||
| [121] | ||||||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Aztec accounts of Spanish colonization | Also won in 1955 | [122] [123] | ||
| Also won in 1958 | [124] | |||||
| [125] | ||||||
| Mangaia in Polynesian dialects | [126] | |||||
| Haitian internal marketing system | ||||||
| Incas during Spanish colonial rule | ||||||
| Economics | ||||||
| Also won in 1952 | ||||||
| International trade and economic development in the British tropics, 1870-1914 | Also won in 1958 | |||||
| Education | History of American educational thought, 1880-1940 | |||||
| Teaching of natural science | [127] | |||||
| Law | Early colonial law | [128] | ||||
| Law governing sales of goods under civil law systems | ||||||
| Provisions against compulsory self-incrimination in Anglo-American law | ||||||
| Domestic goals of modern nation-states in relation to international trade | ||||||
| Political Science | International postal communication | [129] | ||||
| Also won in 1953 | [130] | |||||
| Also won in 1936, 1959 | ||||||
| Hindu principles on current Indian political policy | [131] [132] | |||||
| Psychology | [133] | |||||
| Sensory and neurophysiological correlates of perception | ||||||
| Sociology | ||||||
| Comparative study of public opinion on civil liberties in the USA and Great Britain | ||||||
| Florentine contributions to the history and philosophy of punishment for crime | Also won in 1968 |
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Painting | ||||
| Also won in 1953 | [134] | |||||
| [135] | ||||||
| [136] | ||||||
| Music Composition | Composing | Also won in 1958 | ||||
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | |||||
| History of Science and Technology | ||||||
| Iberian and Latin American History | Also won in 1966 | |||||
| Linguistics | Also won in 1945, 1948 | |||||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | |||||
| Mathematics | Also won in 1949, 1958 | [137] | ||||
| Medicine and Health | ||||||
| Also won in 1937, 1938, 1968 | [138] | |||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | ||||||
| Also won in 1956 | ||||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Also won in 1964 | [139] | ||||
| Birds in Puerto Rico | [140] | |||||
| Also won in 1958 | ||||||
| [141] | ||||||
| Also won in 1952 | ||||||
| Also won in 1960 | ||||||
| Fish culture in fresh water ponds | Also won in 1959 | [142] | ||||
| Physics | All possible cases of dipole radiation in the presence of a dissipative half-space | Also won in 1935, 1936, 1937 | ||||
| Plant Science | National University of Tucumán | Also won in 1957 | ||||
| Also won in 1975 | ||||||
| Also won in 1958, 1980 | ||||||
| Also won in 1950, 1953 | [143] | |||||
| Also won in 1955 | ||||||
| Also won in 1955 | ||||||
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | |||||
| Also won in 1958 | ||||||
| Economics | [144] |