Three hundred and three scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1959.[1] More than $1,400,000 was disbursed.
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Pearl Lang Dance Theater | Also won in 1969 | [2] | ||
| Drama and Performance Art | Creative writing | [3] | ||||
| Fiction | Writing | [4] [5] | ||||
| Also won in 1951 | [6] [7] | |||||
| Also won in 1957 | [8] | |||||
| Also won in 1966 | [9] | |||||
| [10] | ||||||
| Fine Arts | Drawing and printmaking | Also won in 1961 | ||||
| [11] | ||||||
| Painting | [12] | |||||
| Printmaking | ||||||
| Painting in Holland and England | [13] | |||||
| Creative printmaking | [14] | |||||
| Sculpting | [15] | |||||
| Also won in 1959 | ||||||
| Painting | [16] | |||||
| Lithographs | ||||||
| Sculpture | [17] | |||||
| Painting | Also won in 1959 | |||||
| Painting | [18] | |||||
| Sculpting | Also won in 1961 | |||||
| Painting | Also won in 1959 | |||||
| Music Composition | Composing | [19] | ||||
| Also won in 1951 | ||||||
| Also won in 1953 | [20] | |||||
| Also won in 1953 | [21] | |||||
| Also won in 1959 | ||||||
| Also won in 1964 | ||||||
| Also won in 1952 | [22] | |||||
| Also won in 1961 | ||||||
| Also won in 1956 | [23] | |||||
| Also won in 1955, 1966 | [24] | |||||
| Photography | Changing American scene | Also won in 1962, 1977 | [25] | |||
| Color photography | Also won in 1959, 1981 | [26] | ||||
| Poetry | Writing | [27] | ||||
| [28] | ||||||
| Humanities | American Literature | Mark Twain's career as a Washington newspaper correspondent and its influence upon his literary development | [29] [30] | |||
| The hero in American literature | ||||||
| Also won in 1964 | [31] | |||||
| Architecture, Planning and Design | ||||||
| German and Austrian architecture of the 18th century | [32] | |||||
| Great Chicago Fair of 1893 and its impact on American life and culture | ||||||
| [33] [34] | ||||||
| Bibliography | [35] | |||||
| Biography | Also won in 1946 | |||||
| Also won in 1954 | ||||||
| British History | ||||||
| Also won in 1936, 1945, 1953 | [36] [37] | |||||
| British Parliament from 1690-1948 | [38] | |||||
| Classics | ||||||
| Attic and South Italian vase-painting | ||||||
| Epicureanism as a systematic philosophy | [39] | |||||
| [40] | ||||||
| History and interpretation of certain Roman panel reliefs of the Antonine period | [41] | |||||
| Also won in 1951 | [42] | |||||
| East Asian Studies | History of southeast Asia | Also won in 1955 | [43] | |||
| Organizational practices of the Chinese Communists, from their formative period to the present | ||||||
| English Literature | [44] | |||||
| [45] | ||||||
| Also won in 1946, 1953 | ||||||
| Also won in 1951, 1966 | [46] | |||||
| Also won in 1961, 1972 | [47] | |||||
| Harry Thornton Moore | Collected volume of D. H. Lawrence's works | Also won in 1958 | ||||
| [48] | ||||||
| Milton's conception and presentation of the central themes of the Christian faith | Also won in 1963 | |||||
| Also won in 1972 | ||||||
| Moral philosophy of the 16th century and its influence on Shakespeare's works | [49] | |||||
| Henry James' conception of structure in the novel | [50] | |||||
| Fine Arts Research | Venetian art in relation to Dutch and Flemish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries | |||||
| Also won in 1947, 1967 | [51] | |||||
| Folklore and Popular Culture | Also won in 1952 | |||||
| French History | ||||||
| Idea of progress in historical thought | [52] | |||||
| French Literature | German Romantic movement in its European context in the late 18th and early 19th centuries | |||||
| 20th century French fables | [53] | |||||
| Also won in 1959 | [54] | |||||
| [55] | ||||||
| General Nonfiction | [56] | |||||
| German and East European History | Development of the German Confederation as a barrier to Russian penetration into Europe | |||||
| Comparative study of the careers and writings of Friedrich Naumann and Walther Rathenau, as illuminating certain intellectual and social dilemmas of German society in the period 1880 to 1920 | ||||||
| German and Scandinavian Literature | ||||||
| Bryn Mawr College | [57] | |||||
| Also won in 1927 | ||||||
| Also won in 1926 | [58] | |||||
| German syntax in the late medieval period | ||||||
| Iberian and Latin American History | ||||||
| Italian History | Also won in 1948 | [59] | ||||
| Italian Literature | ||||||
| Latin American Literature | ||||||
| Linguistics | ||||||
| Literary Criticism | Role of metaphor and analogy in Western thought | Also won in 1957 | ||||
| Also won in 1953 | ||||||
| Also won in 1964 | ||||||
| Also won in 1964 | ||||||
| Medieval History | Ethical thought and influence of the theologians in Paris of the 12th and 13th centuries | Also won in 1983 | ||||
| Medieval Literature | [60] | |||||
| 15th century English translation of Guy de Chauliac's Chirurgia Magna | ||||||
| Music Research | Also won in 1969 | [61] [62] | ||||
| [63] | ||||||
| Also won in 1959 | [64] | |||||
| Johann Ernst Eberlin's music | [65] | |||||
| History of music theory during the 15th century | [66] | |||||
| Near Eastern Studies | ||||||
| [67] | ||||||
| Philosophy | ||||||
| [68] [69] | ||||||
| Religion | Also won in 1966 | [70] | ||||
| Relations between the Christian concept of Providence and the secular concepts interacting with it since the 17th century | Also won in 1965 | [71] | ||||
| Protestant thought in the United States, 1870-1914 | ||||||
| Renaissance History | Politics and society in Florence, 1382-1417 | |||||
| [72] | ||||||
| Russian History | ||||||
| [73] | ||||||
| Slavic Literature | ||||||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Theory and practice of Spanish Golden Age thought, 1500-1600 | |||||
| [74] | ||||||
| Also won in 1973 | ||||||
| Theatre Arts | Arts of the theatre abroad | Also won in 1934, 1935 | ||||
| Houston Chronicle | Theatre, music and art in America at mid-20th-century | |||||
| United States History | [75] | |||||
| Political history of the United States from 1877-1897 | [76] | |||||
| National learned societies in the United States | [77] | |||||
| Also won in 1953 | ||||||
| The Baptist in colonial New England | [78] | |||||
| [79] | ||||||
| Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions with special reference to the question of the relationship between liberty and authority in free society | ||||||
| William Byrd II's letters | [80] | |||||
| [81] | ||||||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Also won in 1954 | [82] | |||
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | Factors affecting the resolution of a cascaded type of image converter | |||||
| Generation and propagation of radio waves in the sun's atmosphere | Also won in 1980 | |||||
| [83] | ||||||
| [84] | ||||||
| Also won in 1982 | [85] | |||||
| [86] | ||||||
| Effect of dust and haze particles on heat radiation in the atmosphere | Also won in 1956 | |||||
| Also won in 1953 | ||||||
| [87] | ||||||
| Chemistry | ||||||
| [88] | ||||||
| [89] | ||||||
| New ways to determine the age of rocks under oceans | [90] | |||||
| Also won in 1946, 1966 | ||||||
| Chlorine atom reactions | ||||||
| Kinetics of acid-catalysed slow proton transfer reaction with special emphasis on aromatic substitution | [91] | |||||
| Microwave and radio-frequency spectroscopy | ||||||
| Chemical reactions at high temperatures and pressures | ||||||
| Application of conformational principles to the chemistry of natural products | Also won in 1976 | |||||
| Theoretical and experimental studies of molecular complexes | ||||||
| [92] | ||||||
| Isotope effects and isotopic tracers with relation to the mechanisms of organic reactions | ||||||
| Electronic effect of molecular grouping in certain aromatic organic substances | [93] | |||||
| [94] | ||||||
| Isolation of toxic properties of the plant family amaryllidaceae for possible development of new medical drugs | ||||||
| Earth Science | ||||||
| [95] [96] | ||||||
| [97] [98] | ||||||
| [99] | ||||||
| Also won in 1953 | ||||||
| Engineering | ||||||
| Theory of plastic flow and fracture | ||||||
| Field of vibrations of nonlinear bi-modal systems | ||||||
| Geography and Environmental Studies | ||||||
| Mathematics | [100] | |||||
| Ring theory and the theory of finite groups | Also won in 1968 | |||||
| [101] | ||||||
| [102] | ||||||
| Medicine and Health | ||||||
| Columbia University | [103] | |||||
| Medical education | [104] | |||||
| [105] | ||||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Also won in 1953, 1975 | |||||
| [106] | ||||||
| Chemical processes involved in the manufacture of protein by normal and cancer cells | Also won in 1957 | |||||
| [107] | ||||||
| Botany and plant genetics in agronomy, studies of certain gene complexes in maize | ||||||
| Immunity to the oriental blood fluke, a parasitic infection in some areas of the Philippines | [108] | |||||
| Lipid transport and metabolism | ||||||
| Chemistry of the proteins of the microsomal particles of cells | Also won in 1975 | |||||
| Chemical bases of heredity | ||||||
| Field of gastric acid production | [109] | |||||
| Interaction of unrelated plant viruses | ||||||
| Viruses and nucleic acids to prove all cancers are caused by viruses | ||||||
| United system of diagnosing insect diseases | ||||||
| Aphid transmission of legume viruses | [110] | |||||
| Also won in 1972 | ||||||
| Ecology of microbes as related to their physiology and metabolism | Also won in 1975 | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Normal avian development by analysis of malformations of diverse origin | |||||
| Also won in 1965 | ||||||
| Studies leading to a generic revision of the families Vespidae and Sphecidae in North America | ||||||
| Manner in which certain fishes and crabs are protected from the stinging cells and feeding reactions of the anemone among whose poisonous tentacles they live | Also won in 1952 | [111] | ||||
| Nutrition of isolated animal organs | ||||||
| Cell growth and population dynamics | ||||||
| [112] | ||||||
| [113] | ||||||
| Physics | [114] | |||||
| [115] | ||||||
| Plastic deformation of body-centered cubic crystals | ||||||
| Theoretical high-energy particle physics | ||||||
| Also won in 1953 | ||||||
| [116] | ||||||
| Historical, geographical, and factual development of the field of X-ray crystallography | [117] | |||||
| Also won in 1953 | ||||||
| Molecular vibration intensities | [118] | |||||
| Relationship of one particle to another in the nucleus of the atom | ||||||
| [119] | ||||||
| Surfaces of solids by means of the quadrupole interaction in nuclear magnetic resonance of techniques | ||||||
| Heat and mass transfer | [120] | |||||
| [121] | ||||||
| Theoretical physics of elementary particles | Also won in 1973 | |||||
| Measurement of specific heat at very low temperatures | [122] | |||||
| Electronic structure of metals | ||||||
| [123] | ||||||
| Experimental properties of superconducting elements | ||||||
| Theoretical studies in elementary particle physics | Also won in 1953, 1967 | |||||
| [124] | ||||||
| [125] | ||||||
| [126] | ||||||
| Also won in 1968 | ||||||
| Plant Sciences | Roles of direct processes vs. chance processes in the genetic populations of certain plants | Also won in 1954 | ||||
| Experimental plant embryology | [127] | |||||
| History of fire in the development and structure of vegetarion in areas of Mediterranean climate | ||||||
| Etiology, epidemiology and control of diseases affecting coniferous plantation species in Europe | ||||||
| [128] | ||||||
| Statistical genetics and its application to plant breeding | ||||||
| Relations between organisms and their environment in prehistoric times in the East African tropics | ||||||
| [129] | ||||||
| Also won in 1953 | ||||||
| [130] | ||||||
| Statistics | [131] | |||||
| Statistical problems in epidemiology and in biological research | ||||||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | [132] | ||||
| [133] | ||||||
| Chouteau family | Also won in 1947 | [134] | ||||
| Economics | Certain governments in stimulating economic growth | |||||
| Mathematical economics | [135] | |||||
| Comparative studies of economic nationalism in Malaya and in the Philippines | ||||||
| Interaction between industrial development and trade among the major Western industrial nations since the Napoleonic wars | ||||||
| Theory of economic organization, with special reference to forms of organization and the behavior of economic units | ||||||
| European industrial conflicts with their counterparts in countries just beginning to industrialize | ||||||
| Governmental decision making and its effect on industry | ||||||
| Law | ||||||
| British Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956 | ||||||
| Political Science | [136] | |||||
| Psychology | [137] | |||||
| Also won in 1950 | [138] [139] | |||||
| Effect upon human thinking of motivational and emotional conditions | [140] | |||||
| Sociology |
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Writing | [141] | |||
| Fine Arts | Painting | Also won in 1959 | ||||
| Sculpting | ||||||
| Painting | Also won in 1959 | |||||
| Painting | Also won in 1958, 1959 | [142] | ||||
| Music Composition | Composing | Also won in 1961 | [143] | |||
| Also won in 1946 | ||||||
| Poetry | Also won in 1948, 1949 | [144] | ||||
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | [145] | ||||
| General Nonfiction | Also won in 1959 | |||||
| Iberian and Latin American History | ||||||
| Literary Criticism | Also won in 1947 | [146] | ||||
| Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | |||||
| Chemistry | ||||||
| Earth Science | ||||||
| Mathematics | ||||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Also won in 1959 | |||||
| Neuroscience | Also won in 1962 | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | ||||||
| Also won in 1957 | ||||||
| Also won in 1961 | [147] | |||||
| National Council of Research, Rio de Janeiro | Also won in 1959 | |||||
| Physics | ||||||
| Plant Science | Luis A. Camargo Gutiérrez | Also won in 1958 | [148] | |||
| Also won in 1978 | ||||||
| Tucumán Agricultural Experiment Center | Also won in 1956 | |||||
| Also won in 1959 | ||||||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | |||||
| Political Science | [149] |