Seventy-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1940.[1][2]
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Fiction | Hermann J. Broch | Also won in 1941 | [3][4] |
Ward Allison Dorrance | [5] | |||
Edwin Moultrie Lanham | [6][7] | |||
Andrew Nelson Lytle | Also won in 1941, 1959 | [8] | ||
Christine Weston | [9] | |||
Fine Arts | Bernard Arnest | [8][10] | ||
Lawrence Louis Barrett | [11] | |||
Richmond Barthé | Also won in 1941 | [12][7] | ||
Miguel Covarrubias | Also won in 1933 | [8][13] | ||
John Hovannes | [14] | |||
Henry Lee McFee | [8] | |||
Tracy Montminy | Appointed as Elizabeth Tracy | [15][16] | ||
Herman Palmer | [17][7] | |||
Ruth Reeves | Also won in 1941 | [18] | ||
Carl Schaefer | [19] | |||
Harry Wickey | Also won in 1939 | [20][7] | ||
Music Composition | Marc Blitzstein | Also won in 1941 | [21][4] | |
Alvin Etler | Also won in 1941, 1963 | [21][2][7] | ||
Earl Robinson | Also won in 1941 | [21][8][7] | ||
William Howard Schuman | Also won 1939 | [22][7] | ||
Photography | Walker Evans | Also won in 1941, 1959 | [23] | |
Edward Weston | Also won in 1939 | [24] | ||
Poetry | Lloyd Frankenberg | [25][4] | ||
Delmore Schwartz | Also won in 1941 | [8][15][25][4] | ||
Theatre Arts | Howard Bay | [26] | ||
Humanities | American Literature | Alfred Kazin | Also won in 1947, 1958, 1969 | [8][4] |
Architecture, Planning, and Design | Gregory Ain | [27] | ||
Biography | Richmond C. Beatty | [8] | ||
Fine Arts Research | Robert Chester Smith | [28] | ||
Carl Zigrosser | Also won in 1939 | [29] | ||
General Nonfiction | John Dos Passos | Also won in 1939, 1942 | [30][8][15][31] | |
German and East European History | Lewis Galantière | [32][7] | ||
Intellectual and Cultural History | Hans Kohn | [33][4] | ||
Medieval Literature | Louis Furman Sas | [34] | ||
Near Eastern Studies | Richard F. S. Starr | [35] | ||
Philosophy | Otis Hamilton Lee | [7] | ||
Paul Marhenke | [36] | |||
United States History | Howard Wolf | Also won in 1939 | [37][8] | |
Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Arthur C. Cope | [2] | |
Aristid von Grosse | Also won in 1941 | [7] | ||
Geography and Environmental Studies | Raymond E. Crist | Also won in 1953 | [38] | |
Earth Science | Chester Stock | Also won in 1939 | [39] | |
Harold Ernest Vokes | [40] | |||
Mathematics | Jesse Douglas | Also won in 1941 | [41] | |
Gordon Pall | [19] | |||
Raymond Louis Wilder | [42] | |||
Aurel Friedrich Wintner | [31] | |||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | David Lion Drabkin | [43] | ||
John T. Edsall | Also won in 1953 | [15] | ||
Raymund Lull Zwemer | [44] | |||
Neuroscience | Berry Campbell | Also won in 1941 | [45] | |
Organismic Biology & Ecology | Myron Gordon | Also won in 1938 | [46] | |
Gregory Pincus | Also won in 1939 | [4] | ||
Physics | David Mathias Dennison | [47] | ||
Plant Science | Stanley A. Cain | [2][8] | ||
Katherine Esau | [36] | |||
George Thomas Johnson | Also won in 1941 | [48] | ||
Franklin P. Metcalf (ast) | [49] | |||
Henry K. Svenson (de) | [50] | |||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Luther S. Cressman | Also won in 1949 | [51] |
Alfred Irving Hallowell | [52] | |||
Isabel Truesdell Kelly | Also won in 1941 | [36] | ||
Alfred Métraux | Also won in 1938 | [53] | ||
Economics | Wassily W. Leontief | Also won in 1950 | [15] | |
James Ackley Maxwell | [19] | |||
Nathan Reich | [19][4] | |||
Frank A. Southard Jr. | [54][7] | |||
Political Science | Donald Grant Creighton | [19] | ||
Warren Aldrich Roberts | [55] | |||
Francis Reginald Scott | [19] | |||
Psychology | George Katona | Also won in 1941 | [56] | |
Sociology | Edward Franklin Frazier | [12] |
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes | Ref |
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Humanities | Linguistics | J. Eugene Garro | [57] | |
Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Nabor Carrillo | Also won in 1941 | [58][59] |
Carlos Nicholson Jefferson (es) | [59] | |||
Medicine and Health | Hugo Pablo Chiodi | Also won in 1939 | [60][59] | |
Eduardo Etzel | [59] | |||
Raúl Palacios von Helms | Also won in 1939 | [61][59] | ||
Nilson Torres de Rezende | Also won in 1941 | [59] | ||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Américo S. Albrieux Murdoch | Also won in 1941 | [59] | |
Fernando G. Huidobro Toro | [59] | |||
Ciro A. Peluffo | [59] | |||
Maurício Rocha e Silva | Also won in 1941 | [59] | ||
Physics | Mário Schenberg | Also won in 1941 | [62][59] | |
Facundo Bueso Sanllehí | Also won in 1941 | [59] | ||
Plant Science | Carlos Arnaldo Krug | [59] | ||
José Pérez Carabia (es) | [59] | |||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Jorge C. Muelle (es) | [63] | |
Arthur Ramos de Araujo Pereira (pt) | [64] | |||
Economics | Jorge Kingston | Also won in 1947 | [65] | |
Political Science | Santos Primo Amadeo | Also won in 1941 | [66] |