List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1951
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One hundred and fifty-four Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1951.[1][2] $568,000 was disbursed.[3]
1951 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Charles E. Butler | West Virginia University | Writing | [4][5] | |
| John Cheever | Also won in 1960 | [6] | ||||
| William Goyen | Also won in 1952 | [7][5] | ||||
| Fine Arts | Ross Abrams | College of William and Mary | Lithography | [8][5] | ||
| Robert Noel Blair | Art Institute of Buffalo | Painting | Also won in 1946 | [9][5] | ||
| Adolf Dehn | School at the Norton Museum of Art (visiting) | Travels in Europe | Also won in 1939 | [10][11] | ||
| Joseph DeMartini | Painting | [12][11][5] | ||||
| John Edward Heliker | Columbia University | [13][11][5] | ||||
| Lewis Iselin | Sculpture | [14][15][5] | ||||
| Malcolm Haynie Myers | University of Minnesota | Graphic arts | Also won in 1951 | [16][5] | ||
| Arthur Osver | Painting | Also won in 1949 | [11][5] | |||
| Richard Pousette-Dart | [17][5] | |||||
| Steve Raffo | Cooper Union | Also won in 1950 | [18][5] | |||
| David Smith | Sculpture | Also won in 1950 | [13][5] | |||
| Music Composition | Jacob Avshalomov | Columbia University | Composing | [19][5] | ||
| William Bergsma | Juilliard School of Music | Also won in 1946 | [3][5] | |||
| Ingolf Dahl | University of Southern California | Also won in 1960 | [19][20][5] | |||
| Roger John Goeb | Juilliard School of Music | Also won in 1950 | [21][22][5] | |||
| Robert Kurka | City College of New York | Also won in 1952 | [19][5] | |||
| Dai-keong Lee | Also won in 1945 | [23][5] | ||||
| Poetry | e. e. cummings | Writing | Also won in 1933 | [24][5] | ||
| Rosalie Moore | Also won in 1950 | [20][5] | ||||
| Humanities | American Literature | Jay Leyda | Also won in 1950 | [25] | ||
| Biography | Douglas Southall Freeman | George Washington | [26][27] | |||
| Horace Victor Gregory | Sarah Lawrence College | James McNeill Whistler | [13][5] | |||
| Elizabeth Stevenson | Atlanta Public Library | Henry Adams | Also won in 1958 | [28] | ||
| George Woodcock | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | [29][5] | ||||
| British History | Conyers Read | University of Pennsylvania | William Cecil, Lord Burghley | Also won in 1954 | [30][31][5] | |
| Classics | Edmund Grindlay Berry | University of Manitoba | Influence of Plutarch on Ralph Waldo Emerson | [29][5] | ||
| William Kendrick Pritchett | University of California, Berkeley | Incriptions from the marketplace of ancient Athens | Also won in 1955 | [20][5] | ||
| Edward Anthony Robinson | Fordham University | Cicero's De Legibus | [32][5] | |||
| William Pitkin Wallace | University College, Toronto | Coinage of ancient Greek city-states | Also won in 1960 | [29][5] | ||
| Constantine George Yavis | St. Louis University | Ancient Greek religious sacrifices | [33][5] | |||
| East Asian Studies | John K. Fairbank | Harvard University | Japanese historiography on China | Also won in 1959 | [2][31][5] | |
| Economic History | Robert Sabatino Lopez | Yale University | History of the guilds of southern European manufacturers of coins from the 4th to the 15th centuries | Also won in 1948 | [34][31][5] | |
| Education | Robert Benjamin Irwin | American Foundation for the Blind (retired) | History of work for the blind in the United States in the last 50 years | [24][5] | ||
| English Literature | Lily Bess Campbell | University of California, Los Angeles (retired) | Christian reaction to classical paganism in the renaissance in England | [20][35][5] | ||
| James Lowry Clifford | Columbia University | Early life of Samuel Johnson | Also won in 1965 | [36][5] | ||
| Thomas Wellsted Copeland | University of Chicago | Edmund Burke's writings on the French Revolution | Also won in 1963 | [37][5] | ||
| Joyce Hemlow | McGill University | Writings of Fanny Burney | Also won in 1960 and 1966 | [29][5] | ||
| Cecil Yelverton Lang | Yale University | Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne | [38][5] | |||
| William Dougald MacMillan III | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Dramatic works of John Dryden | [39][5] | |||
| George Winchester Stone, Jr. | George Washington University | History of dramatic performances in London, 1660-1800 | Also won in 1950 and 1963 | [40][5] | ||
| Folklore and Popular Culture | Benjamin Botkin | [41][5] | ||||
| French Literature | Alfred Adler | Central Michigan College | French vernacular literature in the Middle Ages | [42][5] | ||
| Gilbert Chinard | Princeton University | Also won in 1956 | [43] | |||
| André Benjamin Delattre | University of Pennsylvania | Correspondence between Voltaire and the Tronchin brothers | Also won in 1941 | [30][5] | ||
| Herbert Dieckmann | Harvard University | Development and structure of Diderot's thought | Also won in 1948 | [2][5] | ||
| Claude André Vigée | Brandeis University | Critical study of Rainer Maria Rilke's posthumous poems and their translation into French | [2][44][5] | |||
| General Nonfiction | Joseph James Mathews | Emory University | History of newspaper foreign correspondents from the late 18th century to World War I | [28][45][31][5] | ||
| German and East European History | Jerome Blum | Princeton University | Origin, spread, decline, and final abolition of serfdom in central and eastern Europe | Also won in 1971 | [30][31][5] | |
| Leften Stavros Stavrianos | Northwestern University | History of the Balkan Peninsula | [37][31][5] | |||
| German and Scandinavian Literature | Heinrich Edmund Karl Henel | University of Wisconsin | Works of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer | Also won in 1954 | [29][46][5] | |
| Walter Friedrich Naumann | Works of Franz Grillparzer | Also won in 1961 | [46][5] | |||
| Iberian and Latin American History | Woodrow Borah | University of California, Berkeley | Socioeconomic study of the Mixteca Alta area of Mexico during the colonial period | Also won in 1958 | [20][5] | |
| Intellectual and Cultural Studies | Golo Mann | Scripps College | Limits between scientific investigation and speculative interpretation of history | [20][31][5] | ||
| Italian Literature | A. William Salomone | New York University | Italian social and economic history, 1550-1700 | [31][5] | ||
| Linguistics | Norman E. Eliason | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | History of the English language in North Carolina | [39][5] | ||
| Albrecht Goetze | Yale University | [47] | ||||
| Alo Raun | Pacific Lutheran College | Morphology and syntax of the Finno-Ugric languages | [48][5] | |||
| Literary Criticism | Philip Rahv | New York University and Partisan Review | Critical study of Dostoevsky | [41][5] | ||
| Ernest Lee Tuveson | University of California, Berkeley | Influence of progressivism on the literary imagination of Shelley | [20][5] | |||
| René Wellek | Yale University | History of literary criticism | Also won in 1952, 1956, and 1966 | [49][5] | ||
| Medieval Literature | E. Talbot Donaldson | Studies of the three versions of Piers Plowman | Also won in 1977 | [48][5] | ||
| Walter J. Ong | English Renaissance literary history, particularly Peter Ramus | Also won in 1949 | [2][35][5] | |||
| Music Research | Donald Jay Grout | Cornell University | Music of the early 16th century | Also won in 1952 | [35][5] | |
| Leo Franz Schrade | Yale University | History of church music from the beginning of the Christian era to the 16th century | Also won in 1956 | [50][5] | ||
| Oliver Strunk | Princeton University | Music of the Byzantine liturgy | Also won in 1955 | [30][5] | ||
| Arnold Olaf Sungaard | Bennington College | [44][5] | ||||
| Near Eastern Studies | Paul Julius Alexander | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | Byzantine history of the Middle Ages | Also won in 1965 | [31][5] | |
| Henri Frankfort | University of Chicago and University of London | Arts of the ancient Near East | [37][5] | |||
| Richard Nelson Frye | Harvard University | Middle Persian historical inscriptions and dialects of central Iran | Also won in 1975 | [2][5] | ||
| Hal Lehrman | Internal problems of Israel | Also won in 1953 | [41][5] | |||
| Philosophy | Richard Milton Martin | University of Pennsylvania | Semantics and logical systems | [30][5] | ||
| Rulon Seymour Wells, III | Yale University | Studies of meaning, with emphasis on natural languages | [51][5] | |||
| Religion | William Henry Paine Hatch | Episcopal Theological School (Emeritus) | Principal uncial manuscripts of the New Testmant | Also won in 1953 | [2] [5] | |
| Russian History | Robert Francis Byrnes | Rutgers University | Antisemitism in France during the Dreyfus Affair | [48][30][41][31][5] | ||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Ruth Lee Kennedy | Smith College | Changes in Spanish dress in the 17th century and of their significance in literary and artistic chronology | [2][44][52][5] | ||
| Luis Monguió | Mills College | Peruvian poetry between the two world wars | [20][5] | |||
| United States History | Arthur Cecil Bining | University of Pennsylvania | Comparative study of the growth of iron and steel industries of the US and Great Britain | [30][31][5] | ||
| Julian P. Boyd | Princeton University | [53] | ||||
| Mildred Campbell | Vassar College | English emigration in the 17th and 18th centuries | [31][5] | |||
| Michael Kraus | City College of New York | Cultural cross currents between Europe and America in the 19th century | [31][5] | |||
| Dumas Malone | Columbia University | Thomas Jefferson | Also won in 1958 | [31][5] | ||
| William Quentin Maxwell | United States Sanitary Commission in the Civil War | [54][31][5] | ||||
| Edouard A. Stackpole | The Inquirer and Mirror | Discoveries and explorations of New England whaling men | Also won in 1963 | [2][44][5] | ||
| Willard Mosher Wallace | Wesleyan University | Benedict Arnold | [31][5] | |||
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Su-Shu Huang | University of Chicago | Theory of broadening of spectral lines | [37][46][5] | |
| Chemistry | Harrison Brown | [55] | ||||
| Alan Frank Clifford | Illinois Institute of Technology | Hydrogen fluoride solvent system | Also won in 1952 | [37][5] | ||
| Robert Brainard Corey | California Institute of Technology | Structure of proteins | [20][5] | |||
| Farrington Daniels | University of Wisconsin | Solar energy utlization | [56] | |||
| Harry George Drickamer | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | [57] | ||||
| Albert Leon Henne | Ohio State University | Chemistry of organic fluorides | [58][5] | |||
| Frederick Albert Matsen | University of Texas | Electronic spectra of aromatic molecules | [59][5] | |||
| Walter John Moore | Catholic University of America | Structural inorganic chemistry of solids | [48][40][5] | |||
| Ralph Pearson | Northwestern University | Rates of ionization of oxygen-hydrogen bonds | [37][5] | |||
| R. Nelson Smith | Pomona College | Surface chemistry | [3][20][5] | |||
| Harold R. Snyder | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Configuration of nitrogen in organic compounds | 1939 fellowship postponed until 1951 | [60] | ||
| Carl Swenson Vestling | [61] | |||||
| Earth Science | Bryan Patterson | Chicago Natural History Museum | South American tertiary fossil vertebrates | Also won in 1954 | [37][5] | |
| Mathematics | Ralph Fox | Princeton University | Topology of three-dimensional manifolds | [30][5] | ||
| Nathan Jacobson | Yale University | Abstract algebra | [41][5] | |||
| Irving Ezra Segal | University of Chicago | Mathematical aspects of quantum mechanics | Also won in 1946 and 1967 | [37][41][5] | ||
| Max Shiffman | Stanford University | Topology and differential geometry | [3][20][41][5] | |||
| Medicine and Health | George Edward Burch | Tulane University Medical School | [62] | |||
| Joseph Wiley Ferrebee | Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital | Reactions between immune globulins and vascular tissues | [63][5] | |||
| Richard W. Lippman | Cedars of Lebanon Hospital | Renal function | Also won in 1950 | [20][5] | ||
| Shih-Chun Wang | Columbia University Medical School | Physiology of the autonomic nervous system | [64][5] | |||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Howard Alan Bern | University of California, Berkeley | Hormone-enzyme relationships | [20][5] | ||
| Frederick A. Fuhrman | Stanford University | Metabolic processes involved in active ion transport in animal tissues | [3][20][5] | |||
| Ruth Hoffmann Hubbard | Harvard University | Biochemistry of human vision | [2][5] | |||
| Walter Lee Hughes | Some specific groupings of purified proteins | [2][5] | ||||
| Edna B. Kearney | Case Western Reserve University | Intermediary metabolism of microorganisms | Collaboration with Thomas Peter Singer | [65][5] | ||
| Albert L. Lehninger | University of Chicago | Mechanisms of enzymatic phosphorylations | Also won in 1962 | [37][5] | ||
| Douglas Alfred Marsland | New York University | Mechanism of cell division | Also won in 1959 | [66][5] | ||
| Charles Vernon Robinson | New England Center Hospital | Physiology of unicellular organisms, especially by the application of radioactive tracer techniques | [2][5] | |||
| William C. Rose | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | [67] | ||||
| Thomas Peter Singer | Case Western Reserve University | Intermediary metabolism of microorganisms | Collaboration with Edna B. Kearney; also won in 1959 | [65][5] | ||
| Roger Yate Stanier | University of California, Berkeley | Biochemical mechanisms of oxidative metabolism in bacteria | Also won in 1945 and 1967 | [20][5] | ||
| Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale | Upjohn Company | Resistance of microorganisms to the actions of antibiotics | [42][5] | |||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Oliver L. Austin | Birds of Japan | [2][44][5] | |||
| Rachel Carson | US Fish and Wildlife Service | Ecology of seashore animals on the Atlantic coast | [40][54][5] | |||
| William Steel Creighton | University of Colorado (visiting) | Distribution of ants in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico | Also won in 1952 | [68][5] | ||
| Maxwell John Dunbar | McGill University | Arctic marine biology | [29][5] | |||
| Richard Benedict Goldschmidt | University of California, Berkeley | [69] | ||||
| Francis Harper | William Bartram | Also won in 1950 | [70][30][5] | |||
| Clarence Cook Little | Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory | [71] | ||||
| Joe Truesdell Marshall, Jr. | University of Arizona | Birds of the oak-prine association in the mountains of southern Arizona and northern Mexico | [52][5] | |||
| Herbert Holdsworth Ross | University of Illinois | Evolution and geographical distribution of the caddisflies | [37][5] | |||
| Alexander Frank Skutch | Evolution of ornamental plumage, song, and social cooperation in birds | Also won in 1946 | [72][54][5] | |||
| Curt Stern | University of California, Berkeley | Differentiation in relation to genes | Also won in 1962 | [20][5] | ||
| Albert Tyler | California Institute of Technology | Physiology of animal fertilization | [20][5] | |||
| Physics | Willard Libby | University of Chicago | Methods of historical dating by radiocarbon content | Also won in 1941 and 1959 | [37][5] | |
| Mael A. Melvin | Theory of generalized symmetry | Also won in 1956 | [73][5] | |||
| John Rader Platt | University of Chicago | Electronic spectra of conjugated organic molecules | [37][5] | |||
| Plant Science | Henry N. Andrews, Jr. | Washington University in St. Louis and Missouri Botanical Garden | Petrified plants of the central coal fields of the United States | Also won in 1958 and 1961 | [74][5] | |
| Sterling Howard Emerson | California Institute of Technology | Interrelated gene controlled reactions in the fungus neurospora | [20][5] | |||
| E. D. Merrill | Research on the British Museum's Malaysian collection | [75] | ||||
| Eldon Henry Newcomb | University of Wisconsin | Respiratory processes in plants | [46][5] | |||
| Nicholas Polunin | Botany of the Arctic | Also won in 1950 | [29][5] | |||
| Albert N. Steward | University of Nanking (visiting) | Vascular plants of the lower Yangtze Valley | [2][5] | |||
| Leland Shanor | University of Illinois | Fungus exoparasites of insects | [37][5] | |||
| Statistics | Leonard Jimmie Savage | University of Chicago | Mathematical statistics | Also won in 1958 and 1967 | [37][5] | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Kenneth Earl Kidd | Royal Ontario Museum | French, English, and Dutch trade goods imported into northeastern North America during the French regime | [29][5] | |
| Bertram Shirley Kraus | University of Arizona | Inheritance of human dental traits | [52][5] | |||
| Walter Collins O'Kane | [76] | |||||
| Economics | Richard A. Musgrave | University of Michigan | Theory of public finance | Also won in 1965 | [42][5] | |
| Edwin G. Nourse | Possibilities of an approach to dynamic stabilization of free enterprise within the structure of free government | Also won in 1950 | [20][40][24][5] | |||
| Siegfried V. Wantrup | University of California, Berkeley | Economics of stream and flood control | Also won in 1947 | [20][5] | ||
| William Rulon Williamson | Research toward a book on taxation in social budgeting | [40][5] | ||||
| Law | Albert A. Ehrenzweig | University of California, Berkeley | Legal questions concerning losses caused by hazardous enterprise | [20][5] | ||
| Alpheus Thomas Mason | Biography of Harlan Fiske Stone | [77] | ||||
| Samuel E. Thorne | Yale University | History of English law in the reign of Queen Elizabeth | Also won in 1948, 1956 | [44][35][5] | ||
| Political Science | Alexander Brady | University of Toronto | Democratization of the British state in the 20th century and the effects on the democratic process upon the traditional British political system | [29][5] | ||
| George Hathaway Dession | Yale University | Research for a book tentatively titled The Technique of Public Order | [78][5] | |||
| Carl J. Friedrich | Harvard University | Conflict between the concept of civil liberties and the doctrine of "reason of state" | Also won in 1954 | [2][44][5] | ||
| William Weed Kaufmann | Yale University | Process of making decisions in foreign affairs, as illustrated by the British and American experience in the 19th and 20th centuries | [44][5] | |||
| Samuel J. Konefsky | Brooklyn College | Book about the Supreme Court, tentatively titled Holmes and Brandeis: A Study in the Influence of Ideas | Also won in 1950 | [24][5] | ||
| Louise Overacker | Wellesley College | Labor parties of Australia and New Zealand | [2][3][44][5] | |||
| Alice Fleenor Sturgis | Structure and operation of some of the larger national organizations of the United States | [3][20][5] | ||||
| Psychology | Fritz Heider | University of Kansas | Work on The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations (published 1958) | Also won in 1947 | [79][5] | |
| Anne Roe | Creative process in science and its relation to personality | [80][5] | ||||
| Sociology | Wolfram Eberhard | University of California, Berkeley | Social structure of southeastern Anatolia | Also won in 1950 | [20][5] | |
| T. Lynn Smith | University of Florida | Demographic studies of the peoples of Latin America | Also won in 1953 | [81][5] | ||
| Kimball Young | Northwestern University | Rise and functioning of plural marriage among the Mormons | [20][37][5] |
1951 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Pierre Marcelin | Writing | [82] | ||
| Philippe Thoby-Marcelin | [82] | |||||
| Fine Arts | José Vela Zanetti | Mural for the United Nations | Also won in 1952 | [83] | ||
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Edmundo O'Gorman | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | [84] | ||
| Medieval History | José Luis Romero | Research at Harvard University | Also won in 1969 | [85] | ||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Amado Alonso | Harvard University | History of medieval Spanish pronunciation and its development into modern form | [2][5] | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | João José Bigarella | University of Arizona (student) | [86] | ||
| Carlos de Paula Couto | National Museum of Brazil | Also won in 1949, 1966 | [87] | |||
| Mathematics | José Adem | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Also won in 1952 | [88] | ||
| Medicine and Health | Augusto A. Camara | University of Michigan | Also won in 1950 | [89] | ||
| Ephraim Donoso | Mount Sinai Hospital | Also won in 1952 | [90] | |||
| Roberto E. Mancini | Instituto Nacional de Endocrinologia | [91] | ||||
| Juan García Ramos | Instituto Nacional de Cardiología | Also won in 1948 | [92] | |||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Danko Brncic | University of São Paulo | Research with Theodosius Dobzhansky | Also won in 1969 | [93] | |
| Francisco J. S. Lara | Hopkins Marine Station | Also won in 1950 | [94] | |||
| Neuroscience | José Bebin | National University of San Marcos | Also won in 1950 | [95] | ||
| Mario Altamirano | Instituto Central de Neurología | [96] | ||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Raymond Millard Cable | Purdue University | Marine trematodes parasitic in fishes in the region of Puerto Rico | [97] | ||
| Plant Science | Domingo Cozzo | [98] | ||||
| José Cuatrecasas | Also won in 1950 | [99] | ||||
| Luis E. Gregory | United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry | [100] | ||||
| Jorge León | Instituto Interamericano de Ciencias Agrícolas | Research at Washington University in St. Louis and Missouri Botanical Garden | Also won in 1952 | [101] | ||
| Alicia Lourteig | Also won in 1952 | [102] | ||||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Ricardo Alegría | Doctoral studies at Harvard University | Also won in 1953 | [103] | |
| Pedro Carrasco Pizana | [104] | |||||
| Julio César Cubillos | Research with Emil Haury at the University of Arizona | [105] | ||||
| Geography and Environmental Studies | Leví Marrero Artiles | Ministry of Education (Cuba) | [106] | |||
| Sociology | José Vicente Freitas Marcondes | Instituto de Direito Social | [107] |