List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1952
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One hundred and ninety-one scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1952.[1][2] $860,000 was disbursed between the recipients. The University of California system had the most awardees on its faculty (20), followed by Yale University (10).[3][4]
1952 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Hortense Calisher | Writing | Also won in 1955 | [5][6][7][8][9] | |
| André Giroux | Quebec Department of Trade and Commerce | [10][5][9] | ||||
| William Goyen | Half a Look of Cain: A Fantastical Narrative (published 1998) | Also won in 1951 | [11][5][12][9] | |||
| Vladimir Nabokov | Cornell University | Writing | Also won in 1943 | [13][14][15][5][9] | ||
| Byron Herbert Reece | The Ax and the Sword | Also won in 1957 | [5][16][9] | |||
| Wallace Stegner | Stanford University | Biographical studies of John Wesley Powell | Also won in 1949 and 1959 | [3][5][4][9] | ||
| Fine Arts | Saul Baizerman | Sculpture | [9] | |||
| Wilfred Roloff Beny | Painting | [10][9] | ||||
| Morris Atkinson Blackburn | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | [17][18][9] | ||||
| Stuart Davis | [19][9] | |||||
| Worden Day | Printmaking processes | Also won in 1961 | [20][9] | |||
| Ynez Johnston | Painting | [3][9] | ||||
| Misch Kohn | Institute of Design, Chicago | Wood engraving | Also won in 1953 | [21][9] | ||
| Eugene Mondt Powell | Painting | [8][9] | ||||
| Janet E. Turner | Stephen F. Austin State College | Wildlife themes | [22][9] | |||
| Music Composition | Bryan Dority | Composing | Also won in 1953 | [23][24][25][9] | ||
| Lou Silver Harrison | Black Mountain College | Also won in 1954 | [26][24][9] | |||
| Lockrem Harold Johnson | [23][24][9] | |||||
| Robert Kurka | City College of New York | Also won in 1951 | [24][9] | |||
| Charles M. Mills | [23][24][9] | |||||
| Robert Moffat Palmer | Cornell University | Also won in 1960 | [14][15][24][9] | |||
| Howard Swanson | [23][6][24][9] | |||||
| Ben Brian Weber | Also won in 1950 | [24][9] | ||||
| Photography | Roy Rudolph DeCarava | Life in Harlem | [27] | |||
| Poetry | Robert Stuart Fitzgerald | Writing | Also won in 1971 | [5][28][9] | ||
| Adrienne C. Rich | Also won in 1959 | [2][5][9] | ||||
| Richard Purdy Wilbur | Harvard University | Also won in 1963 | [2][5][9] | |||
| Humanities | American Literature | Gay Wilson Allen | New York University | Walt Whitman | Also won in 1959 | [4][9] |
| James Franklin Beard, Jr. | Dartmouth College | Letters and papers of James Fenimore Cooper | Also won in 1958 | [29][4][9] | ||
| Everett Carter | University of California, Berkeley | Age of realism in American letters | Also won in 1961 | [3][9] | ||
| Thomas H. Johnson | Lawrenceville School | Writings of Emily Dickinson | [30][9] | |||
| Architecture, Planning and Design | William Jordy | Yale University | Effects of the concept of the "City Beautiful" on city planning in the US | [28][4][9] | ||
| Elizabeth R. Sunderland | Duke University | The Charlieu Abbey in ancient Burgundy | [26][9] | |||
| Bibliography | Allen Tracy Hazen | Columbia University | The library of Horace Walpole | [31][9] | ||
| Biography | John Berryman | University of Cincinnati | Writing | Also won in 1966 (for poetry) | [5][32][9] | |
| Classics | Lionel Casson | New York University | Maritime commerce in Greek and Roman times | Also won in 1959 | [33][4][9] | |
| Solomon Katz | University of Washington | Bithynia as a client kingdom of the Roman Empire | [34][4][9] | |||
| James Anastasios Notopoulos | Trinity College | Homer as an oral poet | [35][28][9] | |||
| Brooks Otis | Hobart College | The originality of Roman thought | Also won in 1973 | [14][4][9] | ||
| Carl Angus Roebuck | University of Chicago | Economic and social development of the Ionian Greeks | [36][4][9] | |||
| Lily Ross Taylor | Bryn Mawr College | Roman politics in the last two centuries of the Republic | Also won in 1959 | [37][18][4][9] | ||
| Leon Edward Wright | Howard University | Healing miracles of the New Testament and their value for modern life | [6][38][9] | |||
| East Asian Studies | Ferdinand Lessing | University of California, Berkeley | Tibetan Buddhist symbolism | Also won in 1955 | [3][4][9] | |
| Education | Robert King Hall | Columbia University | Comparative education | Also won in 1945 and 1949 | [39][9] | |
| English Literature | F. Michael Krouse | University of Cincinnati | Milton's part, and that of his adversaries, in the controversies following the execution of Charles I of England | [32][4][9] | ||
| Frederick A. Pottle | Yale University | Biographical studies of James Boswell | Also won in 1945 | [40][5][28][4] | ||
| James Kester Svendsen | University of Oklahoma | Place of science in Milton's thought and art | [41][9] | |||
| Aline Mackenzie Taylor | Tulane University | Forms of acting on the English stage in the 18th century | [9] | |||
| Fine Arts Research | Louise H. Burchfield | Cleveland Museum of Art | History, techniques, and aesthetics of the portrait miniature | [32][9] | ||
| Julius S. Held | Barnard College | Drawings of the Flemish painters | Also won in 1966 | [7][9] | ||
| George Kubler | Yale University | Architecture of the Spanish and Portuguese empires | Also won in 1943 and 1956 | [42][9] | ||
| Phyllis Williams Lehmann | Smith College | Greek cult buildings of the Hellenistic Age | [2][9] | |||
| Ralph Mayer | Permanence of casein painting | [43][9] | ||||
| Marvin Chauncey Ross | Walters Art Gallery | Seth Eastman | Also won in 1938, 1939, and 1948 | [44][38][4][9] | ||
| Libby Tannenbaum | Museum of Modern Art | Development of modern art in the 20th century | [9] | |||
| Folklore and Popular Culture | Arthur Leon Campa | Denver University | Spanish legends in the American Southwest | [20][9] | ||
| Wayland D. Hand | University of California, Los Angeles | Dictionary of American popular beliefs and superstitions | Also won in 1960 | [45][9] | ||
| French History | George P. Cuttino | Swarthmore College and Bryn Mawr College | History of European culture | Also won in 1944 | [46][18][4][9] | |
| Richard Wilder Emery | Queens College | Credit and trade in southern France, 1250-1350 | Also won in 1959 | [4][9] | ||
| Franklin Lewis Ford | Bennington College | History of Strasbourg under the Old Regime | [47][4][9] | |||
| J. Russell Major | Emory University | Estates General of France | Also won in 1967 | [48][4][9] | ||
| French Literature | Imbrie Buffum | Yale University | Baroque style in French literature, 1570-1650 | [28][9] | ||
| Donald Murdoch Frame | Columbia University | Development of Montaigne's thought | [9] | |||
| General Nonfiction | John Edward Pfeiffer | Recent theories of the evolution of the universe | Also won in 1954 | [49][9] | ||
| Roderick Seidenberg | Processes of change in human society | [18][9] | ||||
| German and East European History | William Clarence Askew | Colgate University | Relations of Italy with the Great Powers, 1896-1914 | [14][4][9] | ||
| German and Scandinavian Literature | Henry C. Hatfield | Columbia University | Rise of paganism in German literature | [50][4][9] | ||
| History of Science and Technology | Charles Donald O'Malley | Stanford University | Biographical studies of Andreas Vesalius | [3][4][9] | ||
| Italian History | Felix Gilbert | Bryn Mawr College | Political and historical ideas in Italy, 1494-1530 | [18][4][9] | ||
| Latin American History | Charles Gibson | State University of Iowa | Valley of Mexico peoples in colonial times | [51][4][9] | ||
| Linguistics | Giuliano Ugo Bonfante | Princeton University | Linguistic studies of hieroglyphic Hittite | [30][9] | ||
| Literary Criticism | Frederick Wilcox Dupee | Columbia University | Biographical studies of European and American writers, 1900-1950 | [5][9] | ||
| Renato Poggioli | Harvard University | Tragedy and the sense of the tragic | [2][9] | |||
| René Wellek | Yale University | History of literary criticism | Also won in 1951, 1956, and 1966 | [52][28][4][9] | ||
| Medieval Literature | George R. Coffman | University of North Carolina | The conservative middle class of 14th-century England, centering on John Gower | [26][4][9] | ||
| Kathrine Koller Diez | University of Rochester | Relationship between literature and changes in English thought in the 17th century | [14][4][9] | |||
| Francis Lee Utley | Ohio State University | Apocryphal stories of the flood, derived and amplified from the Biblical text | Also won in 1946 and 1947 | [32][9] | ||
| Alice Sperduti Wilson | Smith College | Petrarch's views on poetry, as precursors of Renaissance literary criticism | [2][4][9] | |||
| Music Research | Donald Jay Grout | Cornell University | Early 16th-century church music | Also won in 1951 | [14][15][24][9] | |
| Philosophy | Rudolf Carnap | University of Chicago | Boundary field between logic and mathematics | [53][9] | ||
| Roderick Firth | Swarthmore College | Foundations of empirical knowledge | [18][53][9] | |||
| Glenn Raymond Morrow | University of Pennsylvania | Studies of Plato's laws and of Greek legislation and political tradition | Also won in 1956 | [54][18][4][9] | ||
| Religion | Leonard J. Trinterud | McCormick Theological Seminary | Rise of Puritanism in England | [4][9] | ||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Bruce W. Wardropper | Johns Hopkins University | Religious parodies of Spanish secular literature | Also won in 1959 | [38][9] | |
| United States History | Maynard Geiger | Biographical studies of Junípero Serra | [4][9] | |||
| Carl Parcher Russell | Yosemite National Park | History of the American West, especially the trade goods and equipment of fur traders and trappers | Also won in 1953 | [3][4][9] | ||
| Francis Butler Simkins | Longwood College | Jefferson Davis | [55][38][4][9] | |||
| Kenneth Milton Stampp | University of California, Berkeley | "Negro slavery in the US, 1820-1860" | Also won in 1967 | [6][4][9] | ||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Ivan S. Sokolnikoff | University of California, Los Angeles | Two-dimensional boundary value problems in the field of the mathematical theory of elasticity | Also won in 1959 | [45][9] |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | Samuel Herrick | Rocket navigation | Also won in 1945 | [56][45][9] | ||
| Chemistry | William Andrew Bonner | Stanford University | Asymmetric synthesis of organic compounds | [3][9] | ||
| George Edward Boyd | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Studies of the statistical thermodynamics of macromolecules and of the physical chemistry of ion exchange polymers | [57][25][9] | |||
| Herbert Philip Broida | National Bureau of Standards | Mechanism of gaseous combustion | [38][9] | |||
| Alan Frank Clifford | Illinois Institute of Technology | Hydrogen fluoride solvent system | Also won in 1951 | [58][9] | ||
| Jerry Donohue | California Institute of Technology | Methods and results of the X-ray analysis of the structure of crystalline proteins and the nature of the hydrogen bond | [59][45][9] | |||
| William Dulaney Gwinn | University of California, Berkeley | Molecular structure and molecular spectroscopy | [3][9] | |||
| Ralph Stanley Halford | Columbia University | Vibrational spectra of molecular crystals | [60][9] | |||
| Kenneth W. Hedberg | California Institute of Technology | Structures of gas molecules by the electron diffraction method | [45][9] | |||
| Terrell Leslie Hill | Naval Medical Research Institute | Thermodynamic function of the liquid state | [38][9] | |||
| Nathan Kornblum | Purdue University | Control of the course of substitution reactions involving bidentate anions | [61] | |||
| Leonard Norman Liebermann | University of California, San Diego | Absorption of sounds in liquid | [9] | |||
| John D. Roberts | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | The occurrence and the structures of non-classical cationic intermediates in organic reactions | Also won in 1954 | [2][9] | ||
| Charles Wiesner | University of New Brunswick | Structure of mold metabolites | [10][9] | |||
| Earth Science | Daniel I. Axelrod | University of California, Los Angeles | Certain late tertiary floras of Western North America | [45][9] | ||
| Perry Byerly | University of California, Berkeley | West Indian earthquakes | Also won in 1928 | [3][9] | ||
| Jeffery Earl Dawson | Cornell University | Chemical properties of peat soil | [15][9] | |||
| Konrad Bates Krauskopf | Stanford University | Formation of ore deposits | [3][9] | |||
| Engineering | Howard Wilson Emmons | Harvard University | Formation and rate of growth of turbulent bursts | [2][9] | ||
| Geography and Environmental Studies | Dan Stanislawski | University of Texas | Structure of Portuguese society | Also won in 1967 | [4][9] | |
| Mathematics | Chieh-Chien Chang | Johns Hopkins University | Application of mathematics to aeronautical problems | [38][9] | ||
| Einar Hille | Yale University | Semi-groups | [28][9] | |||
| Isidore Isaac Hirschman, Jr. | Washington University in St. Louis | Fourier analysis and synthesis | [62][9] | |||
| John Myhill | Yale University | Theory of general recursive functions and its metamathematical applications | [28][53][9] | |||
| Arthur Everett Pitcher | Lehigh University | Theory of critical levels and critical points of a function on a space and its subspaces | [18][9] | |||
| Raphaël Salem | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Problems in the field of trigonometric series and related fields | [2][9] | |||
| Edwin Spanier | University of Chicago | Duality in homotopy theory | [63][64][9] | |||
| André Weil | Borderline problems between number theory and algebraic geometry | Also won in 1944 | [64][9] | |||
| Medicine and Health | Elvira Goettsch | Natural history of disease, particularly renal disorders | [45][9] | |||
| Arnold Bernard Scheibel | University of Tennessee, Memphis | Fine structure of the pre- and post-synaptic elements of the human spinal cord | Also won in 1958 | [25][9] | ||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Halvor Niels Christensen | Tufts College | Biosynthesis of proteins | [2][9] | ||
| Corwin Herman Hansch | Pomona College | Mechanism of action of plant growth hormones by means of radioactive tracers | Also won in 1966 | [45] | ||
| Niels Haugaard | University of Pennsylvania | Enzymatic breakdown of proteins | [54][18][9] | |||
| James Angus Jenkins | University of California, Berkeley | Genetics of cultivated tomato | Also won in 1944 | [3][9] | ||
| James W. Moulder | University of Chicago | Bacterial metabolism of serine | [65][9] | |||
| Aaron Novick | Genetics and physiology of micro-organisms | [66][9] | ||||
| Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen | University of Cincinnati | Physiology of the camel and other desert mammals | With Knut Schmidt-Neilsen | [32][9] | ||
| Knut Schmidt-Nielsen | With Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen | [32][9] | ||||
| Harold Hill Smith | Cornell University | [14][15] | ||||
| John Henry Welsh | Harvard University | Fundamental mechanism of action of acetylcholine | [2][9] | |||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | William Steel Creighton | City College of New York | Distribution of ants in the southwestern US | Also won in 1951 | [67][9] | |
| Demorest Davenport | University of California, Santa Barbara | Relations between parasites and their hosts | Also won in 1960 | [68][9] | ||
| Herbert Girton Deignan | United States National Museum | Avifaunal distribution and variation of certain areas of Southeast Asia | [38][9] | |||
| Richard Marshall Eakin | University of California, Berkeley | Amphibian pituitary glands | [3][9] | |||
| Gordon Enoch Gates | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Tropical earthworms | Also won in 1953 | [2][9] | ||
| Carl L. Hubbs | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Freshwater fish of Northeast Mexico | [69][9] | |||
| I. Michael Lerner | University of California, Berkeley | Genetics of populations under artificial selection | Also won in 1947 and 1956 | [3][9] | ||
| Jane M. Oppenheimer | Bryn Mawr College | Embryological development of the brain of bony fish | Also won in 1942 | [18][9] | ||
| Dixy Lee Ray | University of Washington | Biology of soil amebae | [70][9] | |||
| S. Dillon Ripley II | Yale University | Birds of the Moluccan Islands | [28][9] | |||
| Dorothea Rudnick | Albertus Magnus College | A study, using a chick embryo, of the enzyme systems assumed to initiate protein syntheses | [28][9] | |||
| Ernest Edward Williams | Harvard University | Structures of fossil and living land tortoises | Also won in 1981 | [2][9] | ||
| Physics | Theodore H. Berlin | Johns Hopkins University | Theory of the mechanism of condensation of gases based on a statistical model | [38][9] | ||
| Richard Gildart Fowler | University of Oklahoma | Radiation processes in gas discharges | [41][9] | |||
| Darragh E. Nagle | University of Chicago | Interactions between mesons and nucleons | [9] | |||
| Hertha Dorothea Elisabeth Sponer | Duke University | Quantum mechanical methods for calculating structure properties of complex molecules | [26][9] | |||
| Plant Science | Norman Hill Boke | University of Oklahoma | Histogenic study of shoot development in certain cacti | [41][9] | ||
| Harold Johnston Brodie | Indiana University | Biology of the Nidulariaceae fungi | [71][9] | |||
| Clair Alan Brown | Louisiana State University | Louisiana lignite compared with European lignite | [72][9] | |||
| Marion Stilwell Cave | University of California, Berkeley | Evolutionary status of lower plant groups | [3][9] | |||
| Herschel Lewis Roman | University of Washington | Genetics of yeast | [73][9] | |||
| Rolf Singer | University of Tucumán (visiting) | Mycological flora of South America | Also won in 1942 | [74][9] | ||
| Truman George Yuncker | DePauw University | Plant life of the Tongan Islands | [75][9] | |||
| Statistics | Harold A. Freeman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Statistical methods applied to industrial problems | [2][38][9] | ||
| Herbert Ellis Robbins | University of North Carolina | Probability theory and mathematical statistics | Also won in 1975 | [26][9] | ||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Joseph Benjamin Birdsell | University of California, Los Angeles | Processes of evolution in primitive human populations | Also won in 1946 | [45][9] |
| David Crockett Graham | West China Union University (retired) | Ch'iang peoples of southwest China | Also won in 1955 | [4][9] | ||
| Richard C. Rudolph | University of California, Los Angeles | History of Chinese archaeology | Also won in 1959 | [45][4][9] | ||
| Economics | Raymond Adrien de Roover | Wells College | Medieval financial history | Also won in 1949 | [4][9] | |
| John Thomas Dunlop | Harvard University | Wages and prices under collective bargaining | [2][9] | |||
| George Alexander Elliott | University of Toronto | Theory of international trade | [10][9] | |||
| George Herbert Hildebrand | University of California, Los Angeles | Wages, employment, and unemployment in postwar Italy | Also won in 1957 | [45][9] | ||
| William Orville Jones | Stanford University | Economics of production distribution and consumption of the manioc root | [3][9] | |||
| Law | Thomas Irwin Emerson | Yale University | Studies, mainly from a legal point of view, of the fundamental rights and obligations of the individual citizen in a modern democratic society | [28][9] | ||
| Political Science | Hannah Arendt | Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. | Totalitarian elements in Marxism | [5][4][9] | ||
| Psychology | Herbert G. Birch | City College of New York | Role of learning in the maternal behavior of the rat | [9] | ||
| William C. H. Prentice | Swarthmore College | Interactions between perception and memory | [18][9] | |||
| Sociology | Henry M. Pachter | Deutsche Zeitung | Recent changes in the social status of the intelligentsia | [4][9] | ||
| John Lawrence Thomas | St. Louis University | Cultural pluralism in the US | [4][62][9] | |||
| Nathan Laselle Whetten | University of Connecticut | Rural life in Guatemala | [28][4][9] |
1952 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Edgar Austin Mittelhölzer | Writing | [5][9] | ||
| Fine Arts | Antonio Frasconi | Also won in 1953 | [76] | |||
| José Vela Zanetti | Painted a mural for the United Nations | Also won in 1951 | [77] | |||
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Erwin Walter Palm | Also won in 1953 | [78] | ||
| Education | Carlos Cueto Fernandini | [79] | ||||
| Iberian and Latin American History | John Horace Parry | University College of the West Indies | Municipal government in the Spanish Indies, from the Conquest to independence | Also won in 1956 | [4][9] | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | José Adem | Also won in 1951 | [80] | ||
| Mischa Cotlar | Ergodic theory | Also won in 1950 | [81] | |||
| Medicine and Health | Ephraim Donoso | Also won in 1951 | [82] | |||
| José A. Knaudt | [83] | |||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Guillermo Arroyave | University of Rochester | [84] | |||
| Silvio Bruzzone | Also won in 1965 | [85] | ||||
| Ranwel Caputto | National University of Córdoba | [86] | ||||
| Carlos Méndez Domínguez | [87] | |||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Antenor Leitão de Carvalho | Research at Stanford University | Also won in 1947 | [88] | ||
| José Cândido de Melo Carvalho | Also won in 1953 | [89] | ||||
| Ronald Gordon Fennah | Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture | Entomology of the Lesser Antilles | [9] | |||
| Zacarias de Jesús | [90] | |||||
| Frederico Lane | Also won in 1957 | [91] | ||||
| Federico Medem | Also won in 1961 | [92] | ||||
| Francisco de Asis Monrós | University of Tucumán | Visiting principal museums in the US | [93] | |||
| Plant Science | Jorge León | Studies at Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Gardens | Also won in 1951 | [94] | ||
| Alicia Lourteig | Also won in 1951 | [95] | ||||
| José Antonio Molina Rosito | Taxonomy of vascular plants from Mexico, Central America, and the Antilles | [96] | ||||
| María Muntañola de Monró | [97] | |||||
| Edgard Sant'Anna Normanha | [98] | |||||
| Jorge Eduardo Wright | [99] | |||||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Luis Duque Gómez | Instituto Etnológico Nacional | Historic monuments and archaeological sites of Colombia | [100] | |
| Roberto Pineda Giraldo | [101] | |||||
| Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda | Also won in 1964 | [101] | ||||
| Douglas MacRae Taylor | The Black Carib language of British Honduras | [9] |