Three hundred and twenty-one scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1959.[1] [2] More than $1,500,000 was disbursed, averaging about $3,000 per recipient.[3]
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Choreography | Merce Cunningham Dance Company | Also won in 1954 | [4] | ||
Drama and Performance Art | Writing | [5] | ||||
Fiction | Novel Writing | [6] | ||||
Also won in 1972 | ||||||
Also won in 1940, 1941 | [7] | |||||
Also won in 1949 | [8] | |||||
[9] | ||||||
Also won in 1944 | [10] [11] | |||||
[12] | ||||||
Also won in 1949, 1952 | ||||||
Fine Arts | Painting | [13] | ||||
Also won in 1958 | ||||||
Printmaking | ||||||
Ceramics and glass sculpture | Also won in 1955 | [14] [15] | ||||
Painting | ||||||
Sculpture | Also won in 1960 | |||||
Sculpture | Also won in 1957 | [16] | ||||
Painting | ||||||
Also won in 1960 | ||||||
Also won in 1954 | [17] | |||||
Printmaking | Also won in 1958 | |||||
Sculpture | [18] | |||||
Painting | Also won in 1960 | [19] | ||||
Sculpture | [20] | |||||
Music Composition | Composing | |||||
Also won in 1954 | [21] | |||||
Also won in 1957 | ||||||
Also won in 1961 | ||||||
Also won in 1945 | ||||||
[22] | ||||||
Also won in 1970 | [23] [24] | |||||
Also won in 1960 | ||||||
Also won in 1968 | ||||||
Also won in 1956 | ||||||
Also won in 1976 | [25] | |||||
Photography | Also won in 1946, 1948 | [26] | ||||
Also won in 1940, 1941 | [27] | |||||
Color photography | Also won in 1960, 1981 | [28] | ||||
Poetry | Writing | Also won in 1966 | ||||
Also won in 1953, 1957 | [29] | |||||
Influence of Mateo Aleman's Guzmán de Alfarache on the fiction of Spain, France, England, Germany and Holland from 1600 to 1750 | Also won in 1954 | |||||
Writing | Also won in 1954 | |||||
Also won in 1952 | ||||||
[30] | ||||||
Humanities | American Literature | Also won in 1952 | ||||
Cultural history of New England, 1790-1815 | [31] | |||||
Virginian culture in the Jeffersonian era | Also won in 1945 | [32] | ||||
Sectionalism in Southern literature since the Civil War | Also won in 1947 | |||||
Architecture, Design and Planning | Three-aisled timber hall in Europe | |||||
Bibliography | ||||||
Biography | ||||||
British History | Also won in 1973 | [33] | ||||
English Puritanism of the early 17th century | ||||||
Origins and early history of the legal profession in England | [34] | |||||
Cabal ministry in Great Britain | ||||||
Also won in 1973 | ||||||
Classics | Also won in 1949 | [35] | ||||
Trade in Mediterranean in second century B.C. | ||||||
Also won in 1952 | [36] | |||||
History of alphabetization in antiquity and the Middle Ages | [37] | |||||
Studies in Greece in antiquity | Also won in 1934, 1966 | [38] [39] | ||||
History of literary criticism in ancient Greece and Rome | ||||||
Roman politics 220-44 B.C. | Also won in 1952 | |||||
Greek manuscripts of the 13th and 14th centuries | ||||||
East Asian Studies | Problems of overseas Chinese economic development and Southeast Asian nationalism | Also won in 1951 | [40] | |||
Economic History | Factors which tended to stimulate or inhibit the economic developments of Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries | [41] | ||||
English Literature | Relation between English poetical practice and poetical theory in the 17th century | Also won in 1974 | ||||
Poetry of Edmund Spenser, with a special emphasis on The Faerie Queene | ||||||
Shakespearian tragedies | [42] [43] | |||||
Ford Madox Ford and English letters, 1895-1914 | Also won in 1981 | |||||
Also won in 1965 | ||||||
Shakespeare's use of literary tradition | [44] | |||||
[45] | ||||||
Fine Arts Research | ||||||
Painting conservation methods in Europe | [46] | |||||
Folklore and Popular Culture | 19th and 20th century Italian folklorists | [47] | ||||
French History | Also won in 1952 | |||||
History of France, 1600-1789 | Also won in 1936, 1939, 1946 | [48] [49] | ||||
Also won in 1966 | ||||||
French Literature | Literary creation in 17th century France | |||||
Also won in 1966 | [50] | |||||
Also won in 1960 | ||||||
Dramatic and scenic qualities of Molière's plays | ||||||
General Nonfiction | American Indian dances and their importance to Indian culture | [51] | ||||
Natural history of Martha's Vineyard | Also won in 1967 | |||||
German and East European History | ||||||
German and Scandinavian Literature | German popular literature of the 16th century | |||||
History of Science and Technology | Also won in 1967 | |||||
Iberian and Latin American History | History of Spain in the Napoleonic era, 1800-1814 | Also won in 1984 | ||||
Italian History | Poetry of Petrarch in Europe | |||||
Italian Literature | ||||||
Linguistics | Theory of Romance etymology | Also won in 1948, 1966 | ||||
[52] | ||||||
Literary Criticism | European novelists in 19th and 20th centuries | |||||
Medieval History | Historians of the Middle Ages | |||||
Music Research | Early 15th century Cypriot-French music | |||||
Experimentation in measuring the quality of string instruments | Also won in 1962 | [53] | ||||
Also won in 1960 | ||||||
Humanism in Italian musical thought in the 15th and 16th centuries | Also won in 1981 | |||||
Near Eastern Studies | Establishment of the Seljuk and Ottoman Turks in Asia Minor | |||||
Jews in India and Asia | ||||||
Also won in 1954 | ||||||
Jewish literature and scholarship | ||||||
Philosophy | ||||||
Role of necessary truths in theoretical science, especially the nature of mathematical knowledge | ||||||
Hamlet | ||||||
Religion | Horton Davies | History of Christian worship in England from 1750 to 1950 | Also won in 1964 | [54] | ||
Also won in 1950, 1953 | ||||||
Significance of the work of Jesus Christ for moral life | Also won in 1967 | |||||
Bearing of symbolism upon the development of religious ideas | ||||||
Emergence of Christianity out of Judaic origins | Also won in 1974 | |||||
Ethical significance of the new social and political functions of American businessmen | ||||||
Renaissance History | ||||||
Russian History | ||||||
Work on a companion volume to his book on the World War on diplomacy of the United States in East Central Europe | [55] | |||||
Constitutional development of the Russian monarchy from 1905 to 1917 | ||||||
First decade of the Communist experiment in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1958 | ||||||
Slavic Literature | ||||||
Russian and French fiction | ||||||
Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Religious symbolism in Benito Perez Galdos' novels | |||||
[56] | ||||||
[57] [58] | ||||||
Work on two books: a translation of work by Juan Ramon Jimenez and a translation of works of Latin American poets | [59] | |||||
Elegy in Spanish literature | Also won in 1952 | |||||
Theatre Arts | Biographical study of performers on the London stage between 1720 and 1801 | |||||
American plays and actors on the 19th century English stage | ||||||
United States History | [60] | |||||
Practical operation of the Jeffersonian Republican Party, 1801-1809 | ||||||
Diplomatic and political history of Franco-American relations, 1797-1801 | Also won in 1967 | |||||
State-making process in American history | Also won in 1984 | |||||
Also won in 1955, 1956 | [61] | |||||
Progressive movement in the South from 1900 to 1920 | ||||||
Political and social influence of the large American life insurance companies, 1890-1910 | ||||||
Nature of the role of American political conservatives and conservatism, 1896-1912 | ||||||
Fall of Java in World War II and the fate of its American defenders | ||||||
Kentucky neutrality during 1861 and 1862 | Also won in 1958 | |||||
Impact of Henry Ford's thinking on American farmers | ||||||
History of the American frontier | ||||||
Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War, 1865-1877 | Also won in 1945 | |||||
Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | |||||
Optimum design of systems with unalterable elements and uncontrollable disturbances | ||||||
Also won in 1952 | ||||||
Astronomy and Astrophysics | High energy particles in solarterrestial processes | [62] | ||||
[63] | ||||||
Chemistry | Liquid helium | [64] [65] | ||||
Rotation and migration in the solid state | ||||||
Diffusion constant of simple liquids in terms of intermolecular force potential | ||||||
Kinetics and mechanisms of substitution reactions of transition metal complexes | ||||||
Quantum mechanical foundations of chemical reaction rate theory | ||||||
Chemical bonds and their properties | ||||||
Also won in 1967 | ||||||
Biophysics | ||||||
New quantitatives emission spectrochemical techniques | ||||||
Statistical theory of transport phenomena in dense media | ||||||
Saturated cyclic compounds | ||||||
Use of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the determination of structure of natural products | ||||||
Earth Science | Carboniferous paleontology and stratigraphy in Europe | |||||
Types of copper deposits in Africa and Europe | ||||||
Gravity tectonics in southern Europe | ||||||
Origin of rocks and rock formations | [66] | |||||
Also won in 1950 | ||||||
Mathematical fluid dynamics | Also won in 1966 | |||||
Engineering | Basic aspects of fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transfer | Also won in 1976 | [67] | |||
Field of agricultural micro-climatology | ||||||
Theory relating to kinetics of processes involving point and line imperfections in solid lattices | ||||||
Genetics | Irradiation quantitative genetics in Drosophila | |||||
Geography and Environmental Studies | Relation between state of stress and preferred orientation of ice crystals in selected glaciers of the Alps | Also won in 1961 | ||||
Woodland utilization and the herding economy of southern Spain and Portugal | ||||||
Mathematics | Also won in 1978 | |||||
Abstract analysis | ||||||
Uniqueness of solutions to linear and non-linear boundary problems for partial differential equations | [68] | |||||
Medicine and Health | ||||||
Endocrine diseases and hormone-linked cancers | ||||||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Nucleic acid function and synthesis in micro-organisms | |||||
Also won in 1965 | ||||||
Metabolism | ||||||
Biological systems at the molecular level | Also won in 1949, 1967 | [69] | ||||
Biological studies | ||||||
Also won in 1951 | [70] | |||||
Also won in 1958 | ||||||
Biochemistry of hemoglobin | ||||||
Localization of particular proteins and other substances within cells | ||||||
Nutritional factors affecting the host-virus relationship at the cellular level | [71] | |||||
Cytochrome-reducing dehydrogenases | Also won in 1951 | |||||
Protein configurations in non-aqueous media | ||||||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Role of inbreeding effects in closed interbreeding populations | |||||
Arizona and Strickland's woodpeckers | ||||||
[72] | ||||||
Environmental physiology | ||||||
Anatomy and development of the trachea and associated structure of Argentine waterfowl | ||||||
Studies of the New World carpenter bees | ||||||
Certain tropical marine fish families | Also won in 1955 | |||||
Cells as living clocks | ||||||
Recent research in avian biology | ||||||
Stability of cell type in differentiating epidermal cells | ||||||
Physics | Also won in 1958 | |||||
Relaxation processes and their extension to applications at low temperatures | ||||||
Analyzing work done in low energy nuclear physics research at the state university | ||||||
Also won in 1926, 1955 | [73] | |||||
Elementary particle theory | ||||||
Applications of finite strain theory to perfect and nearly perfect crystals | ||||||
Techniques important in high energy nuclear physics and strange particle physics | Also won in 1973 | [74] | ||||
Plasma physics | ||||||
Theory of thermal, electrical, and thermoelectric transport | ||||||
Physical inorganic chemistry | Also won in 1941, 1951 | |||||
Elementary particle interaction using high energy X-rays | ||||||
Experimental physics | ||||||
Fundamental processes involved in static electrification of solids | ||||||
Also won in 1973 | ||||||
Techniques of high pressures | ||||||
Photoproduction of mesons and hyperons by high energy X-rays | ||||||
[75] | ||||||
Theoretical studies in particle physics | [76] | |||||
High polymers in relation to molecular structure | ||||||
Average properties of nuclear energy levels | ||||||
Theoretical study of the nucleon-nucleon force problem | ||||||
Plant Science | Also won in 1946 | [77] [78] | ||||
Cacti of Peru | ||||||
Action of various mutagens on chromosome breakage in seeds | [79] | |||||
Physiology of tree dwarfing | ||||||
Sexual reproduction in algae | ||||||
Naturalization of Monterey pine in the Southern Hemisphere | ||||||
Role of Krebs cycle enzymes in photosynthesis | ||||||
Statistics | ||||||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Polynesian and Micronesian anthropology | Also won in 1955 | [80] | ||
Chinese archaeology, from early to modern times | Also won in 1952 | |||||
Economics | Investment allocation in low-income countries | |||||
Labor productivity in the iron and steel industry with main emphasis on the USSR in comparison to the US and other selected countries | ||||||
Inequality of incomes | ||||||
Interrelationship of fiscal policies and growth of American economy | ||||||
Practices of hiring and conditions of employment among dock workers at certain European ports compared to the Port of New York | ||||||
Legal and institutional protection of individual job security in advanced industrial societies | ||||||
Organizational variables in economic development | ||||||
Local financial developments in Turin, Italy during the past four centuries | ||||||
Comparative rates and patterns of labor mobility in Britain, France and the United States | ||||||
Law | Military justice | [81] | ||||
Political Science | History of economic ideas in the United States Supreme Court | |||||
Decision-making process in British politics | ||||||
Political pamphleteers in English and American history | ||||||
Also won in 1936, 1957 | ||||||
United States antitrust laws | ||||||
Modern legal theory | ||||||
Psychology | Social psychology, with particular reference to the acquaintance process | |||||
Prenatal development from a behavioral standpoint | [82] | |||||
Sociology | Relation between internal migration and industrialization in Mexico during the last 30 years | |||||
Girard College case |
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Creative Arts | Fiction | Novel writing | ||||
Fine Arts | Also won in 1958 | [83] | ||||
Bolivian art and landscape | Also won in 1958, 1960 | [84] | ||||
Music Composition | Composing | Also won in 1958 | ||||
Humanities | General Nonfiction | Also won in 1960 | ||||
Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Also won in 1939 | |||||
Natural Sciences | Mathematics | |||||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Also won in 1961 | |||||
Also won in 1960 | ||||||
Also won in 1956, 1958 | ||||||
Neuroscience | Also won in 1968 | |||||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Fish culture in fresh water ponds | Also won in 1957 | ||||
Also won in 1954 | ||||||
Plant Science | Also won in 1958 | |||||
Also won in 1958 | ||||||
Also won in 1960 |