Two hundred and forty-eight Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1955,[1][2] with grants totaling at $968,000.[3]
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
Creative Arts | Fiction | Saul Bellow | Also won in 1948 | [4][5][6] |
Hortense Calisher | Also won in 1952 | [5][6] | ||
Marie Campbell | Also won in 1944 | [7][8] | ||
Kermit H. Hunter | [9] | |||
André Langevin | [10] | |||
Fine Art | Edris Eckhardt | Also won in 1959 | [11] | |
Ben Kamihira | Also won in 1956 | [12][13] | ||
Seong Moy | [14] | |||
Hobson Pittman | [13] | |||
Sahl Swarz | Also won in 1958 | [15] | ||
Donald S. Thrall | [3] | |||
Music Composition | Walter E. Aschaffenburg | Also won in 1973 | [16] | |
Henry Dreyfuss Brant | Also won in 1946 | [17] | ||
Peggy Glanville-Hicks | Also won in 1957 | [18] | ||
Hall Franklin Overton | Also won in 1967 | [19] | ||
Russell Smith | [20] | |||
Hugo Weisgall | Also won in 1960, 1966 | [21] | ||
Photographer | Robert Frank | Also won in 1956 | [22] | |
Todd Webb | Also won in 1956 | [23] | ||
Poetry | Barbara Gibbs Golffing | Also won in 1956 | [24][25] | |
Barbara Howes | [26] | |||
Humanities | American Literature | Harold William Blodgett | [27][28] | |
Charles Feidelson, Jr. | [29] | |||
Joseph N. Frank | Also won in 1975 | [13] | ||
Ernest Samuels | Also won in 1971 | [30] | ||
Bibliography | Irene Dakin Paden | [31][32] | ||
Biography | Irvin Ehrenpreis | Also won in 1961 | [8][6] | |
British History | Hessel Duncan Hall | [33] | ||
Classics | Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. | [29][34] | ||
James Frank Gilliam | [35][34][36] | |||
Arthur Ernest Gordon | [31][34][32] | |||
George Emmanuel Mylonas | Also won in 1968 | [37][34] | ||
James Henry Oliver (de) | Also won in 1946 | [21][34] | ||
William Kendrick Pritchett | Also won in 1951 | [31][34][32] | ||
Morton Smith | [25][34] | |||
East Asian Studies | John Frank Cady | Also won in 1960 | [16] | |
Ch'ên Shou-yi | [38][39] | |||
Ferdinand Diederich Lessing (de) | Also won in 1952 | [40] | ||
Economic History | Bray Hammond | Also won in 1950 | [33] | |
English Literature | Mark Eccles | [41][42] | ||
William Irvine | Also won in 1962 | [31][32] | ||
Paul Harold Kocher | Also won in 1946 | [38][39] | ||
Carl Woodring | [41] | |||
Fine Arts Research | Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. | [43][25] | ||
Horst Woldemar Janson | Also won in 1948 | [44][42] | ||
Folklore and Popular Culture | Harold Courlander | Also won in 1948 | [45] | |
Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr. | [43] | |||
Frederic Ramsey, Jr. | Also won in 1953 | [13] | ||
Stith Thompson | [7] | |||
French Literature | Irving Putter | [31][32] | ||
German and East European History | Friedrich Engel-Janosi | [33] | ||
German and Scandinavian Literature | Liselotte Dieckmann | [37] | ||
George Clarence Schoolfield | [46] | |||
Detlev Walther Schumann | [2] | |||
History of Science and Technology | Eugene Maximilian Karl Geiling | [47] | ||
Marie Boas Hall | [43][25] | |||
Cyril Stanley Smith | Also won in 1978 | [48][42] | ||
Glenn Allen Sonnedecker | [41][42] | |||
Intellectual and Cultural History | Gertrude Himmelfarb | Also won in 1957 | [6] | |
Henry Stuart Hughes | [31][32] | |||
Gerhard Strassman Masur (es) | [49] | |||
Italian Literature | Bernard Weinberg | Also won in 1945 | [30][6][42] | |
Latin American Literature | Robert Cooper West | [50] | ||
Linguistics | Peter Alexis Boodberg | Also won in 1938, 1963 | [51] | |
Denzel Raybourne Carr | [31][32] | |||
Henry R. Kahane | Also won in 1962 | [2][34] | ||
Max Weinreich | Also won in 1956 | [6] | ||
Medieval History | Gaines Post (fr) | Also won in 1939 | [52] | |
Brian Tierney | Also won in 1956 | [33] | ||
Medieval Literature | Kemp Malone | [53] | ||
Rossell Hope Robbins | [54] | |||
Music Research | Yury Arbatsky (de) | Also won in 1956 | [34] | |
Noah Greenberg | [6][42] | |||
Eta Harich-Schneider | Also won in 1953, 1954 | [55] | ||
Bernard Stambler | [56] | |||
Oliver Strunk | Also won in 1951 | [13] | ||
Walter Lincoln Woodfill | [13][42] | |||
Near Eastern Studies | Ernest Bender | [57][13] | ||
Jacob Joel Finkelstein | [29][6] | |||
Philosophy | Irving Marmer Copi | [3] | ||
Philip Merlan | [38][34][39] | |||
Charles Egerton Osgood | Also won in 1972 | [2] | ||
Renaissance History | Josephine Waters Bennett | Also won in 1944 | [42] | |
William Nelson | [42] | |||
Craig R. Thompson | Also won in 1942, 1954, 1968 | [57][41][58][42] | ||
Franklin B. Williams, Jr. | [33][42] | |||
Russian Studies | Wacław Lednicki (pl) | Also won in 1956 | [31][32] | |
Science Writing | Gobind Behari Lal | [59] | ||
Slavic Literature | Dmitry Cizevsky | [43][42] | ||
Spanish and Portuguese Literature | José de Onís | [58][60] | ||
Oliver Howard Hauptmann | [36] | |||
Theatre Arts | Monroe Lippman | [50] | ||
Charles Ensign Rogers | [43][25] | |||
United States History | John Richard Alden | [61] | ||
Thomas B. Alexander | [62] | |||
Shelby Foote | Also won in 1956, 1959 | [63] | ||
Norman Francis Furniss | [64][60] | |||
Eric Frederick Goldman | [13] | |||
Edward Chase Kirkland | [25] | |||
Bessie Louise Pierce | Also won in 1957 | [65] | ||
George Wilson Pierson | [29] | |||
Frank Everson Vandiver | [37] | |||
Natural Science | Applied Math | Leslie Stephen George Kovasznay | [21] | |
Wulf Bernard Kunkel | Also won in 1972 | [31][32] | ||
James Edward Storer | [43] | |||
Astronomy and Astrophysics | Louis Craig Green | [13] | ||
Martin Schwarzschild | [13] | |||
John Hughes Tinlot | [66] | |||
Chemistry | Isadore Amdur | [43] | ||
Paul Doughty Bartlett | Also won in 1971 | [67] | ||
Milton Burton | [8] | |||
Robert Hugh Cole | Also won in 1961 | [25] | ||
Burris Bell Cunningham (de) | [31][32] | |||
John Courtney Decius | [68] | |||
Paul Delahay | Also won in 1971 | [50] | ||
Stanley Jerome Cristol | Also won in 1980 | [60] | ||
George Dawson Halsey, Jr. | [69] | |||
George Simms Hammond | [36] | |||
Harold Hart | [3] | |||
Ralph A. James | [70][39] | |||
David Lipkin | [37] | |||
Lynne L. Merritt, Jr. | [7][8] | |||
Richard M. Noyes | [71] | |||
Isadore Perlman | Also won in 1962 | [31][6][32] | ||
Henry Rapoport | [31][32] | |||
Calvin Lee Stevens | [3] | |||
Julian M. Sturtevant | [29] | |||
Henry Taube | Also won in 1949 | [72][73] | ||
Alfred Lawrence Wilds | [41] | |||
John Warren Williams | [74] | |||
Earth Science | Isaac Barshad | [31][6][32] | ||
Kenneth E. Caster (de) | Also won in 1943, 1954 | [75] | ||
Ernst Cloos (de) | [76] | |||
Maurice Ewing | Also won in 1938, 1939, 1953 | [77] | ||
Richard Holmes Merriam | [34][39] | |||
Mathematics | Philip J. Davis | [33] | ||
Marshall Hall, Jr. | Also won in 1970 | [16] | ||
Edwin Hewitt | Also won in 1945 | [78] | ||
Gerhard Paul Hochschild | [2] | |||
Arthur J. Lohwater | [3] | |||
Edward James McShane | [33][49] | |||
Alfred Tarski | Also won in 1941, 1942 | [31][32] | ||
Alexander Weinstein | Also won in 1954 | [21][33][6] | ||
George W. Whitehead | [43] | |||
Daniel Zelinsky | [30][6] | |||
Medicine and Health | David K. Detweiler | [57][13] | ||
Oskar Hirsch (sv) (de) | [43] | |||
Cyril Norman Hugh Long | [79] | |||
Malcolm Ray Miller | Also won in 1966 | [31][32] | ||
Lloyd Milton Nyhus | [80] | |||
Donal Sheehan | [81] | |||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Thomas Foxen Anderson | [57][13] | ||
Paul Delos Boyer | [82][83] | |||
Waldo E. Cohn | Also won in 1962 | [84] | ||
Everett Ross Dempster | [31][32] | |||
Raymond Nicholas Doetsch | [21][33] | |||
Roy Philip Forster | Also won in 1948 | [85][25] | ||
William Zev Hassid | Also won in 1962 | [31][32] | ||
Robert W. Holley | [86][28] | |||
Lloyd L. Ingraham | [31][32] | |||
Joseph Logan Irvin | [87] | |||
Nicholas Nicolaides | Also won in 1956 | [88] | ||
Man Chiang Niu | Also won in 1954 | [32] | ||
Daniel J. O'Kane | [57][13] | |||
John Thomas Reid | [28] | |||
Mark A. Stahmann | [41] | |||
Henry Burr Steinbach | [83] | |||
Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland | [3] | |||
Neuroscience | Ronald Grant | [31][32] | ||
Stephen William Kuffler | [21] | |||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Charles Mitchill Bogert | [89] | ||
Robert Kyle Burns | [21] | |||
V. Rada Dyson-Hudson | [90] | |||
Gerhard Fankhauser | [13] | |||
Herbert Friedmann | Also won in 1950, 1953 | [91] | ||
Aubrey Gorbman | [92] | |||
Judson Linsley Gressitt | [93] | |||
Benjamin Vincent Hall | [94] | |||
Sol Kramer | [6] | |||
Ernest Albert Lachner | Also won in 1959 | [33] | ||
Victor C. Twitty | [95] | |||
Sylvan Meryl Rose | [2] | |||
Lloyd Eugene Rozeboom | [21] | |||
Carroll M. Williams | [43] | |||
Mildred Stratton Wilson | [96] | |||
Physics | Herbert L. Anderson | [97] | ||
Peter Axel | [2] | |||
Calvin M. Class | [98] | |||
Arthur H. Compton | Also won in 1926, 1959 | [5] | ||
Giuseppe Cocconi | [28] | |||
Burton Lehman Henke | [38][39] | |||
Clyde A. Hutchison, Jr. | Also won in 1972 | [99] | ||
Norman Myles Kroll | [100] | |||
Robert Briggs Leachman | [101][102] | |||
Arnold Nordsieck | [2] | |||
George Thomas Reynolds | [13] | |||
George Placzek | [13] | |||
Raymond Sheline | Also won in 1956, 1964 | [103][104] | ||
Theodore Soller | [43][25] | |||
Robert Dean Spence | [3] | |||
Charles Hard Townes | [105] | |||
Edwin Albrecht Uehling | [106] | |||
Robert Lee Walker | [39] | |||
Joseph Weber | Also won in 1962 | [21][33] | ||
Francis Dudley Williams | [16] | |||
Plant Science | John Grieve Bald | Also won in 1963 | [39] | |
Robert Theodore Clausen (es) | [28] | |||
Frank Edwin Egler | [107] | |||
Wilbert Keith Kennedy | [28] | |||
Gleb Krotkov | [108] | |||
James Kucyniak | [10] | |||
Louis Kimball Mann | [31][32] | |||
Charles Duncan Michener | Also won in 1966 | [109] | ||
Harold E. Moore | Also won in 1946 | [28] | ||
M. Rosalind Morris | [61] | |||
Harry H. Murakishi | [110] | |||
Lindsay Shepherd Olive (sv) (de) | [111] | |||
William Jacob Robbins | [42] | |||
Rudolf M. Schuster | Also won in 1967 | [9] | ||
Sanford Marvin Siegel | [104] | |||
John Maurice Tucker | [31][32] | |||
Statistics | Erich L. Lehmann | Also won in 1966, 1979 | [31][32] | |
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Arthur J. O. Anderson | Also won in 1957 | [102] |
David Crockett Graham | Also won in 1952 | [60] | ||
Katharine Luomala | Also won in 1959 | [112] | ||
Edward H. Spicer | Also won in 1941 | [113] | ||
Economics | Stephen Enke | [39] | ||
John Kenneth Galbraith | [43][5] | |||
Carl Kaysen | [43] | |||
John Marion Letiche | [31][32] | |||
Edith Tilton Penrose | [21] | |||
Warren Candler Scoville | Also won in 1948 | [39] | ||
Arthur Smithies | [114] | |||
William Spencer Vickrey | [115] | |||
Arthur N. Young | [116] | |||
Law | Philip B. Kurland | Also won in 1949 | [117] | |
Clyde Wilson Summers | [57][46] | |||
Political Science | Douglass Cater, Jr. | [33] | ||
John Hamilton Hallowell | [9] | |||
John D. Montgomery | [43][25] | |||
David B. Truman | [118] | |||
Eric Herman Wilhelm Voegelin | Also won in 1950 | [50] | ||
Psychology | Jerome Seymour Bruner | [43] | ||
Jean Evans | Also won in 1950 | [119] | ||
John Langworthy Fuller | [25] | |||
A. Arthur Schiller (de) | Also won in 1949, 1962 | [34] | ||
Sociology | Jean Robertson Burnet | [10] | ||
Robert Francis Winch | Also won in 1974 | [30] |
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
Creative Arts | Fiction | Samuel Selvon | Also won in 1968 | [120] |
Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Isabel Gutiérrez del Arroyo | [121] | |
Literary Criticism | Edilberto K. Tiempo | [122] | ||
Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Carlos Otto Rüdiger Jaschek | Appointed as Rüdiger Jaschek | [123] |
Jorge Sahade | Also won in 1953 | [124] | ||
Chemistry | Manuel García Morín | Also won in 1954 | [125] | |
Earth Science | Arturo Alcaraz | [126] | ||
Alfredo de la Torre y Callejas | Also won in 1956 | [127] | ||
Nicolas L. Galvez | [128] | |||
Molecular and Cellular Biology | Alberto Cazorla Talleri | [129] | ||
Norberto José Palleroni | Also won in 1953, 1954 | [130] | ||
José Ramírez de Arellano | Also won in 1956 | [131] | ||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Jorge de Alba Martinez | [132] | ||
J. Enrique Avila Laguna | Also won in 1956 | [133] | ||
Margarita Bravo Hollis (es) (de) | [134] | |||
Paulo Emilio Vanzolini | Also won in 1949, 1958 | [135] | ||
Plant Science | Alvaro Santos Costa | [136] | ||
Fausto Folquer | Also won in 1957 | [137] | ||
Gustavo Huertas González | Also won in 1954 | [138] | ||
Edgardo Raúl Montaldi | Also won in 1957 | [139] | ||
Victor Manuel Patiño Rodríguez | Also won in 1956, 1965 | [140] | ||
Alcides Ribeiro Teixeira | [141] | |||
Jorge A. Soria Vasco | Also won in 1957 | [142] | ||
Alfonso Trejos-Willis (es) | Also won in 1954 | [143] | ||
Jorge Helios Morello Wyler | Also won in 1954, 1958 | [144] | ||
Social Sciences | Psychology | Mariano Dy-Liacco Obias | [145] | |
Sociology | Segundo Bernal | [146] |