Two hundred and sixty-five scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1961. More than $1,350,000 was disbursed.[1]
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Also won in 1966, 1983 | [2] [3] | |||
| Drama and Performance Art | Creative writing in drama | |||||
| Fiction | Writing | Also won in 1970 | [4] | |||
| [5] | ||||||
| [6] | ||||||
| [7] | ||||||
| Greenwich Village Peace Center | [8] | |||||
| [9] | ||||||
| Fine Arts | Drawing and printmaking | Also won in 1960 | ||||
| Printmaking | Also won in 1958 | [10] | ||||
| [11] | ||||||
| Also won in 1952 | [12] | |||||
| Creative printmaking | ||||||
| Painting | [13] | |||||
| Drawing | [14] | |||||
| [15] | ||||||
| Sculpting | ||||||
| Printmaking | [16] [17] | |||||
| Painting | [18] | |||||
| Sculpting | [19] | |||||
| Sculpting | Also won in 1960 | [20] | ||||
| Music Composition | Composing | Also won in 1959 | [21] | |||
| [22] [23] | ||||||
| [24] | ||||||
| Also won in 1942 | ||||||
| Also won in 1960 | ||||||
| Photography | Youth in America | [25] | ||||
| Study of Quetico Provincial Park-Superior National Forest in Canada and the United States | Also won in 1954 | [26] | ||||
| Poetry | Writing | [27] | ||||
| Eminent figures in German history | Also won in 1934 | [28] | ||||
| Burke-Dowling-Adams | Writing | [29] | ||||
| [30] | ||||||
| Humanities | American Literature | Idea of progress in American literature | Also won in 1952 | |||
| Work on proposed bibliography of regional literature and drama in the U.S. | [31] | |||||
| Pastoral impulse in American literature and thought | Also won in 1965 | |||||
| American short story between 1940 and 1960 | [32] | |||||
| Architecture, Planning and Design | [33] | |||||
| [34] | ||||||
| Also won in 1963 | ||||||
| [35] | ||||||
| Bibliography | Also won in 1968 | |||||
| [36] | ||||||
| Biography | Also won in 1955 | [37] | ||||
| British History | [38] | |||||
| [39] | ||||||
| [40] | ||||||
| Also won in 1964, 1971 | ||||||
| [41] | ||||||
| Classics | Origin of early Christian political philosophy | |||||
| [42] | ||||||
| Also won in 1972 | ||||||
| [43] | ||||||
| Aristophanes as a comic poet | Also won in 1976 | |||||
| East Asian Studies | Social and political history of Southeast Asia since 1950 | |||||
| Associated Press | Origins of colonialism in the Far East | |||||
| Also won in 1971 | [44] [45] | |||||
| Economic History | Also won in 1968 | [46] [47] | ||||
| English Literature | ||||||
| Also won in 1975 | ||||||
| Joseph Frank | Poetry of the period from 1641 to 1660 | Also won in 1958 | ||||
| Also won in 1960, 1972 | [48] | |||||
| Shakespeare's history plays in relation to Elizabethan historical and political thought | [49] | |||||
| Also won in 1972 | ||||||
| English language prompt books of Shakespeare's plays | Also won in 1968 | |||||
| [50] | ||||||
| Revivals of Elizabethan plays in 19th century United States and England | ||||||
| Also won in 1970 | [51] | |||||
| Fine Arts Research | [52] [53] | |||||
| Florentine painting of early Renaissance | ||||||
| Folklore and Popular Culture | Relationship of Russian and Balto-Finnic folklore and linguistics | Also won in 1966 | ||||
| [54] | ||||||
| French History | [55] [56] | |||||
| French Literature | [57] [58] | |||||
| Also won in 1947 | ||||||
| Origins and development of the concept of art for art's sake in 19th century French literature | ||||||
| [59] | ||||||
| Also won in 1977 | [60] | |||||
| [61] | ||||||
| General Nonfiction | Providence Journal, Evening Bulletin | Development of contemporary American press | ||||
| Christian Science Monitor | Family farm in contemporary U.S. | |||||
| German and East European History | Philosophical foundations of historical knowledge | Also won in 1954 | ||||
| German and Scandinavian Literature | ||||||
| Goethe's West–östlicher Divan | ||||||
| Also won in 1951 | [62] | |||||
| Italian Literature | ||||||
| Modern Italian novel | ||||||
| Latin American Literature | Unemployment faced by New Spain during the 17th and 18th centuries | [63] | ||||
| Linguistics | [64] | |||||
| Literary Criticism | [65] | |||||
| Classic vision in post-Renaissance literature | Also won in 1956 | |||||
| Aspects of the short poem | ||||||
| Medieval History | [66] | |||||
| History of Christian monasticism from the fourth to the 10th century | [67] | |||||
| Medieval Literature | [68] | |||||
| Also won in 1975 | [69] | |||||
| Also won in 1977 | [70] | |||||
| Also won in 1957 | [71] | |||||
| History of vernacular lyric poetry in the Middle Ages | Also won in 1969 | [72] | ||||
| Music Research | Music of the 20th century | [73] | ||||
| Origin and development of the English anthem | ||||||
| Near Eastern Studies | Contemporary Israel | |||||
| Also won in 1962 | ||||||
| Also won in 1937, 1938 | [74] | |||||
| Relations of U.S. and Arab World | ||||||
| Philosophy | Work on book tenatively titled To Make Men Seekers - A Theory of American Education | [75] | ||||
| Explanatory concepts | ||||||
| [76] | ||||||
| Religion | ||||||
| Intellectual history of the 16th and 17th centuries, with reference to religious thought in the reformed areas of Protestantism | [77] | |||||
| Also won in 1972 | [78] | |||||
| Russian History | [79] | |||||
| Russian radial intelligentsia from 1825 to 1917 | ||||||
| Slavic Literature | [80] | |||||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | [81] | |||||
| [82] [83] | ||||||
| Theatre Arts | [84] | |||||
| [85] | ||||||
| United States History | American constitutional development | Also won in 1953 | ||||
| University of Virginia | [86] [87] | |||||
| [88] | ||||||
| American university presidents, 1865-1915 | ||||||
| Also won in 1968 | [89] | |||||
| [90] | ||||||
| Also won in 1947, 1982 | [91] | |||||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Theory of thin shells | [92] | |||
| [93] | ||||||
| High temperature experiments | Also won in 1977 | |||||
| [94] | ||||||
| [95] | ||||||
| Scattering of electromagnetic waves from acoustic disturbances | ||||||
| Mathematical theories of elastic and plastic solids | ||||||
| Communications systems that utilize new modes of wave propagation | [96] | |||||
| Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Biochemistry of the cobamide coenzymes | Also won in 1941 | ||||
| Chemistry | Statistical mechanics transport processes in mixtures | |||||
| Transfer of excitation energy between molecules in solution | ||||||
| [97] | ||||||
| Equilibrium and relaxation theories of dielectrics | Also won in 1955 | |||||
| Low temperature research and studies in the theory of magnetism | [98] | |||||
| Problem of predicting the electronic and vibrational spectra of molecular crystals | [99] | |||||
| Organic molecular structure | [100] | |||||
| Also won in 1953 | ||||||
| Organic chemistry | ||||||
| Thermodynamics of solutions | Also won in 1972 | |||||
| [101] [102] | ||||||
| Metal chelate relations | ||||||
| Application of physical and chemical methods to problems of organic structure determination | ||||||
| Chemical effects of nuclear transformations | Also won in 1973 | |||||
| Thermodynamic theory of reactive shock waves and detonations | [103] | |||||
| Soil factors in soil-plant relationships | ||||||
| [104] | ||||||
| [105] | ||||||
| Effects of angular momentum and excitation energy in high-energy fission | ||||||
| New techniques for investigations in organic chemistry | Also won in 1945 | |||||
| [106] | ||||||
| [107] [108] | ||||||
| Long-range correlations in fluids | Also won in 1968 | |||||
| Earth Science | [109] | |||||
| [110] | ||||||
| Primary directional properties in sedimentary rocks | ||||||
| Properties of rocks deformed by flow in the solid state | Also won in 1969 | |||||
| Engineering | Improved methods of design for control of crack and formation in concrete structures | |||||
| Kinematics of mechanisms | Also won in 1967 | [111] | ||||
| Theoretical problems relating to shapes and rates of changes of surfaces under various environmental conditions | ||||||
| Geography and Environmental Studies | [112] | |||||
| Also won in 1966 | [113] | |||||
| Relation between state of stress and preferred orientation of ice crystals in selected glaciers of the Alps | Also won in 1959 | |||||
| Historical and regional geography of Sinkiang | ||||||
| Mathematics | University of California, Berkeley | |||||
| Geophysical fluid dynamics | ||||||
| Also won in 1954 | [114] [115] | |||||
| Topological groups | Also won in 1949, 1970 | |||||
| Medicine and Health | Responses to diseases in various marine intervertebrates | |||||
| [116] | ||||||
| Dana Charles Brooks | Basis of electrical activity in the mammilian brain | [117] | ||||
| Oral pathology book preparation | ||||||
| Gastric physiology | [118] | |||||
| [119] | ||||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Cellular control mechanisms | |||||
| Also won in 1935, 1937 | [120] | |||||
| Biochemistry | [121] | |||||
| [122] | ||||||
| Molecular structure and biological specificity of ribonucleic acid synthesized in virus-infected bacteria | ||||||
| Nephrotic syndrome in rats | Also won in 1974 | |||||
| Amino acid sequence of proteins | ||||||
| Mechanism of control of certain aspects of cell metabolism in heart muscle | Also won in 1970 | |||||
| Fatty acids in plant tissues | Also won in 1968 | |||||
| Immunology and protein synthesis | [123] | |||||
| Enzymatic mechanisms and intermediates involved in the biosynthesis of the gibberellins | ||||||
| Elimination of wheat leaf rust as a major disease problem | [124] | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | ||||||
| Comparison of certain vectors of plant viruses | ||||||
| How do some birds, mammals and fish manage to live in, or drink, either fresh or salt water? | [125] | |||||
| [126] | ||||||
| Also won in 1974 | [127] | |||||
| [128] [129] | ||||||
| Microscopic tumors in early stages of development | ||||||
| Comparative studies of sound production as means of communication in certain fish species | ||||||
| Physics | High-energy physics | |||||
| Quantum field theory on the structure of elementary particles | Also won in 1971 | |||||
| Also won in 1954 | [130] | |||||
| Physical properties of oxide semi-conductors | ||||||
| Biophysics | ||||||
| Nuclear magnetism at low temperatures | Also won in 1969 | [131] | ||||
| Nuclear stripping and pick-up reactions | ||||||
| Photonuclear reactions | ||||||
| Optical model of the nucleus | Also won in 1956 | [132] | ||||
| High-energy particle physics | ||||||
| Proton as revealed by high-energy electrons | ||||||
| Plant Science | Critical study of certain groups of early land plants | Also won in 1951, 1958 | [133] | |||
| Physiology of callose and associated phenomena in plant cells | Also won in 1954 | |||||
| Relation of root-rotting organisms to residues of crop plants and weeds | ||||||
| Effect that two or more viruses in combination have on plant growth and the role they play in diseases of plants | [134] | |||||
| [135] | ||||||
| Statistics | Problems of organization | Also won in 1965 | ||||
| Application of group theory to statistics | ||||||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Comparative American Indian linguistics | ||||
| Economics | Economic characteristics of technology, particularly in metal-working industries | |||||
| Government regulation in Spanish industry | ||||||
| Present-day economic organization in Eastern Europe | ||||||
| [136] | ||||||
| Development of economic thought | ||||||
| Yugoslavia as decentralized socialist economy | ||||||
| Law | [137] | |||||
| Political Science | [138] | |||||
| National interests in contemporary France | Also won in 1969 | [139] | ||||
| Non-military conflict and competition between Russia and the West | ||||||
| Also won in 1953 | ||||||
| Development of Egypt from 1800 to the present | ||||||
| Psychology | Adjustment to auditory disability | |||||
| [140] | ||||||
| [141] | ||||||
| Sociology | ||||||
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Escuela de Bellas Artes, Montevideo | Also won in 1982 | [142] [143] | ||
| Painting | Also won in 1963 | [144] | ||||
| Painting | Also won in 1962 | [145] [146] | ||||
| Engraving | Also won in 1958 | [147] [148] | ||||
| Music Composition | Composing | Also won in 1960 | [149] | |||
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | |||||
| Iberian and Latin American History | Also won in 1963 | [150] | ||||
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Also won in 1962 | [151] [152] | |||
| Also won in 1963 | [153] | |||||
| Also won in 1962 | [154] | |||||
| Also won in 1962 | [155] | |||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | National School of Biological Sciences, Mexico | [156] | ||||
| Also won in 1959 | [157] | |||||
| Neuroscience | [158] | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Systematics of Colombian turtles, snakes and lizards | Also won in 1952 | [159] |