List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1959
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Three hundred and twenty-one scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1959.[1][2] More than $1,500,000 was disbursed, averaging about $3,000 per recipient.[3][4]
1959 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Merce Cunningham | Merce Cunningham Dance Company | Also won in 1954 | [5] | |
| Drama and Performance Art | William B. Branch | Writing | [6] | |||
| Fiction | Peter Feibleman | Novel Writing | [7] | |||
| Edmund Keeley | Princeton University | Also won in 1972 | [8] | |||
| Andrew Nelson Lytle | University of Florida | Also won in 1940, 1941 | [9] | |||
| William Manchester | Wesleyan University | [10][11] | ||||
| Mary McCarthy | Also won in 1949 | [12] | ||||
| Brian Moore | [13] | |||||
| J. Saunders Redding | Hampton Institute | Also won in 1944 | [14][15][16] | |||
| Philip Roth | [17] | |||||
| Wallace Stegner | Stanford University | Also won in 1949, 1952 | [18] | |||
| John Updike | [19] | |||||
| Bianca Van Orden | [11] | |||||
| Fine Arts | Albert Alcalay | Painting | [19] | |||
| Dennis Byng | Also won in 1958 | [20] | ||||
| Richard Callner | Purdue University | [21] | ||||
| Edmond Casarella | Brooklyn Museum Art School | Printmaking | [22] | |||
| Edris Eckhardt | Western Reserve University, Cleveland Institute of Art | Ceramics and glass sculpture | Also won in 1955 | [23][24] | ||
| Jerrold Davis | Painting | [18] | ||||
| Kahlil Gibran | Sculpture | Also won in 1960 | [19] | |||
| Leon Goldin | Painting | [25] | ||||
| Luise Clayborn Kaish | ||||||
| Barbara Hult Lekberg | University of the Arts in Philadelphia | Sculpture | Also won in 1957 | [26] | ||
| Lee Mullican | University of California, Los Angeles | Painting | [3] | |||
| Yutaka Ohashi | Also won in 1960 | [19] | ||||
| Bernard Perlin | Also won in 1954 | [27][22] | ||||
| Aubrey E. Schwartz | Harpur College, State University of New York | Printmaking | Also won in 1958 | [22] | ||
| Carol Summers | [22] | |||||
| Elbert Weinberg | Sculpture | [11] | ||||
| Ulfert Wilke | University of Louisville | Painting | Also won in 1960 | [28] | ||
| Jack Zajac | Pomona College | Sculpture | [29] | |||
| Music Composition | Gordon W. Binkerd | University of Illinois | Composing | [30][31][4][32] | ||
| Louis Calabro | Bennington College | Also won in 1954 | [33] | |||
| Chou Wen-chung | University of Illinois | Also won in 1957 | [30][4][32] | |||
| Halim El-Dabh | Also won in 1961 | [31] | ||||
| Lukas Foss | University of California, Los Angeles | Also won in 1945 | [3] | |||
| Ben Johnston | University of Illinois | [31][30][4] | ||||
| Karl Korte | Emma Willard School | Also won in 1970 | [31][34] | |||
| John La Montaine | Also won in 1960 | |||||
| Lawrence K. Moss | Mills College | Also won in 1968 | [18][31] | |||
| Mel Powell | Yale University | [11][31] | ||||
| Seymour J. Shifrin | University of California, Berkeley | Also won in 1956 | [18][32] | |||
| Yehudi Wyner | Hebrew Union College | Also won in 1976 | [32] | |||
| Photography | Ansel Adams | Also won in 1946, 1948 | [35][18] | |||
| Walker Evans | Also won in 1940, 1941 | [36] | ||||
| Helen Levitt | Color photography | Also won in 1960, 1981 | [37] | |||
| Poetry | James V. Cunningham | Brandeis University | Writing | Also won in 1966 | [19] | |
| Paul Hamilton Engle | University of Iowa | Also won in 1953, 1957 | [38][39] | |||
| Jorge Guillén | Princeton University | Influence of Mateo Aleman's Guzmán de Alfarache on the fiction of Spain, France, England, Germany and Holland from 1600 to 1750 | Also won in 1954 | [8][40] | ||
| Anthony Evan Hecht | Smith College | Writing | Also won in 1954 | [19] | ||
| Ted Hughes | University of Massachusetts | [19] | ||||
| Adrienne Rich Conrad | Also won in 1952 | [19] | ||||
| May Swenson | [41] | |||||
| Humanities | American Literature | Gay Wilson Allen | New York University | Also won in 1952 | ||
| Richard Davenport Birdsall | Connecticut College | Cultural history of New England, 1790-1815 | [11][42][43] | |||
| Merrell R. Davis | ||||||
| Richard Beale Davis | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Virginian culture in the Jeffersonian era | Also won in 1945 | [44][45][43] | ||
| Donald E. Stanford | Louisiana State University | Edward Taylor | [46] | |||
| Arlin Turner | Duke University | Sectionalism in Southern literature since the Civil War | Also won in 1947 | [2][47] | ||
| Architecture, Design and Planning | Ernest Born | Three-aisled timber hall in Europe | [18] | |||
| Walter W. Horn | University of California, Berkeley | [18] | ||||
| Bibliography | Robert G. Vosper | University of Kansas | ||||
| Biography | Marjorie Wilkins Campbell | William McGillivray | [13] | |||
| British History | Stephen B. Baxter | University of North Carolina | William III of England | Also won in 1973 | [47][42][43] | |
| Mark H. Curtis | University of California, Los Angeles | English Puritanism of the early 17th century | [3][42] | |||
| Margaret Hastings | Douglass College, Rutgers University | Origins and early history of the legal profession in England | [8][42][43] | |||
| Maurice duPont Lee, Jr. | Princeton University | Cabal ministry in Great Britain | [8][42][43] | |||
| Robert K. Webb | Columbia University | Also won in 1973 | [42][43] | |||
| Classics | Elias Joseph Bickerman | Columbia University | Also won in 1949 | [48][42][43] | ||
| Doris Taylor Bishop | Wheaton College | Trade in Mediterranean in second century B.C. | [19][42] | |||
| Lionel Casson | New York University | Also won in 1952 | [42][49] | |||
| Lloyd William Daly | University of Pennsylvania | History of alphabetization in antiquity and the Middle Ages | [50][40][42] | |||
| Sterling Dow | Harvard University | Studies in Greece in antiquity | Also won in 1934, 1966 | [51][52][19][53] [42][43] | ||
| George M. A. Grube | University of Toronto | History of literary criticism in ancient Greece and Rome | [13] | |||
| Lily Ross Taylor | Harvard University | Roman politics 220-44 B.C. | Also won in 1952 | [19][40][53][42] | ||
| Alexander Turyn | University of Illinois | Greek manuscripts of the 13th and 14th centuries | [30][4] | |||
| East Asian Studies | John K. Fairbank | Harvard University | Problems of overseas Chinese economic development and Southeast Asian nationalism | Also won in 1951 | [19][53][42][43] | |
| George Alexander Kennedy | Yale University | History of the Chinese language | [11] | |||
| Economic History | Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd | Cornell University | Factors which tended to stimulate or inhibit the economic developments of Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries | [54] | ||
| English Literature | Robert Martin Adams | Cornell University | Relation between English poetical practice and poetical theory in the 17th century | Also won in 1974 | [54] | |
| Harry Berger, Jr. | Yale University | Poetry of Edmund Spenser, with a special emphasis on The Faerie Queene | [11] | |||
| Vinton A. Dearing | University of California, Los Angeles | John Dryden | [3] | |||
| Ray Heffner | Indiana University | Shakespearian tragedies | [55][21] | |||
| Samuel Hynes | Swarthmore College | Ford Madox Ford and English letters, 1895-1914 | Also won in 1981 | [40] | ||
| J. Hillis Miller | Johns Hopkins University | Also won in 1965 | [56] | |||
| Karl F. Thompson | Michigan State University | Shakespeare's use of literary tradition | [57][58] | |||
| Stuart M. Tave | University of Chicago | [59][4] | ||||
| Fine Arts Research | Marvin Eisenberg | University of Michigan | Lorenzo Monaco | [58] | ||
| Sheldon Keck | Brooklyn Museum | Painting conservation methods in Europe | [22] | |||
| Folklore and Popular Culture | William Eugene Simeone | Southern Illinois University | 19th and 20th century Italian folklorists | [4][60] | ||
| French History | Richard Wilder Emery | Queens College | Also won in 1952 | [42][43] | ||
| Leo Gershoy | New York University | History of France, 1600-1789 | Also won in 1936, 1939, 1946 | [42][43][61] | ||
| John Baptist Wolf | University of Minnesota | Also won in 1966 | [42][43] | |||
| French Literature | Jean-Jacques Demorest | Cornell University | Literary creation in 17th century France | [54] | ||
| René Girard | Johns Hopkins University | Also won in 1966 | [56] | |||
| Frédéric Grover | Swarthmore College | Pierre Drieu La Rochelle | Also won in 1960 | [40] | ||
| Jacques Eugene Henri Guicharnaud | Yale University | Dramatic and scenic qualities of Molière's plays | [11] | |||
| Mario Leon Maurin | Bryn Mawr College | Andre Suares | [40] | |||
| General Nonfiction | Reginald Laubin | American Indian dances and their importance to Indian culture | [62] | |||
| Ruthven Todd | Martha's Vineyard | Natural history of Martha's Vineyard | Also won in 1967 | [19] | ||
| German and East European History | Herbert H. Rowen | Elmira College | [42][43] | |||
| German and Scandinavian Literature | Eli Sobel | California Institute of Technology | German popular literature of the 16th century | [3] | ||
| History of Science and Technology | Robert Edwin Schofield | University of Kansas | Also won in 1967 | [42][43] | ||
| Iberian and Latin American History | Richard Herr | Yale University | History of Spain in the Napoleonic era, 1800-1814 | Also won in 1984 | [11][42][43] | |
| Italian History | Edward Williamson | Wesleyan University | Poetry of Petrarch in Europe | [10][11] | ||
| Italian Literature | George Thomas Romani | Northwestern University | [4][42][43] | |||
| Linguistics | Yakov Malkiel | University of California, Berkeley | Theory of Romance etymology | Also won in 1948, 1966 | [18] | |
| Uriel Weinreich | Columbia University | [63] | ||||
| Literary Criticism | Dorothy Van Ghent | Brandeis University | European novelists in 19th and 20th centuries | [19] | ||
| Medieval History | Benoît Lacroix | University of Montreal | Historians of the Middle Ages | [13] | ||
| Music Research | Richard H. Hoppin | University of Texas | Early 15th century Cypriot-French music | [64] | ||
| Carleen M. Hutchins | Experimentation in measuring the quality of string instruments | Also won in 1962 | [65] | |||
| Lawrence Morton | Ojai Festivals | Igor Stravinsky | Also won in 1960 | [3] | ||
| Claude Victor Palisca | University of Illinois | Humanism in Italian musical thought in the 15th and 16th centuries | Also won in 1981 | [30][4] | ||
| Boris Schwarz | Queens College | |||||
| Near Eastern Studies | George Georgiades-Arnakis | University of Texas | Establishment of the Seljuk and Ottoman Turks in Asia Minor | [64][42][43] | ||
| Walter Fischel | University of California, Berkeley | Jews in India and Asia | [18] | |||
| Theodor Gaster | Dropsie College | Religious community of the Samaritans | Also won in 1954 | [40] | ||
| Nahum Norbert Glatzer | Brandeis University | Jewish literature and scholarship | [19][42][43] | |||
| Philosophy | George Kimball Plochmann | Southern Illinois University | Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein | [4][60] | ||
| Hilary Putnam | Princeton University | Role of necessary truths in theoretical science, especially the nature of mathematical knowledge | [8] | |||
| Morris Weitz | Ohio State University | Hamlet | [24] | |||
| Religion | Horton Davies | Princeton University | History of Christian worship in England from 1750 to 1950 | Also won in 1964 | [40][42] | |
| Robert McQueen Grant | University of Chicago | Also won in 1950, 1953 | [59][4] | |||
| James Moody Gustafson | Yale University Divinity School | Significance of the work of Jesus Christ for moral life | Also won in 1967 | [11] | ||
| Hugh Thomson Kerr | Princeton University | Bearing of symbolism upon the development of religious ideas | [8] | |||
| Krister Stendahl | Harvard Divinity School | Emergence of Christianity out of Judaic origins | Also won in 1974 | [19][53] | ||
| Kenneth W. Underwood | Wesleyan University | Ethical significance of the new social and political functions of American businessmen | [10][11] | |||
| Renaissance History | William James Bouwsma | University of California, Berkeley | Fra Paolo Sarpi | [18][42][43] | ||
| Eugene F. Rice Jr. | Cornell University | Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples | [42][43][54] | |||
| Russian History | Leopold H. Haimson | University of Chicago | [4][42][43] | |||
| Victor S. Mamatey | Florida State University | Work on a companion volume to his book on the World War on diplomacy of the United States in East Central Europe | [42][43][66] | |||
| Marc Szeftel | Cornell University | Constitutional development of the Russian monarchy from 1905 to 1917 | [42][43][54] | |||
| Eduard Táborský | University of Texas | First decade of the Communist experiment in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1958 | [64] | |||
| Slavic Literature | James Ferrell | University of Michigan | Comparative studies in grammar of Slavic languages | [57][58] | ||
| George Gibian | Smith College | Russian and French fiction | [19] | |||
| Milada Součková | Harvard University | Modern Czech literature | [19] | |||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Gustavo Correa | University of Pennsylvania | Religious symbolism in Benito Perez Galdos' novels | [50][40] | ||
| John C. Dowling | Texas Technological College | Leandro Fernández de Moratín | [64][67] | |||
| Elias L. Rivers | Dartmouth College | Complete works of Garcilaso de la Vega | [68][69] | |||
| Eloise Roach | Austin High School | Work on two books: a translation of work by Juan Ramon Jimenez and a translation of works of Latin American poets | [64][70] | |||
| Bruce W. Wardropper | Ohio State University | Elegy in Spanish literature | Also won in 1952 | [24] | ||
| Theatre Arts | Philip H. Highfill, Jr. | George Washington University | Biographical study of performers on the London stage between 1720 and 1801 | [71] | ||
| Basil Langton | Boston University, Manhattan School of Music | Stagecraft of George Bernard Shaw | [19] | |||
| Richard A. Moody | Indiana University | American plays and actors on the 19th century English stage | [55][21] | |||
| United States History | Gerald M. Capers | Tulane University | New Orleans in the American Civil War | [46][42][43] | ||
| Noble E. Cunningham Jr. | University of Richmond | Practical operation of the Jeffersonian Republican Party, 1801-1809 | [42][43][16] | |||
| Alexander DeConde | University of Michigan | Diplomatic and political history of Franco-American relations, 1797-1801 | Also won in 1967 | [57][42][43][58] | ||
| Don E. Fehrenbacher | Stanford University | State-making process in American history | Also won in 1984 | [18][42][43] | ||
| Shelby Foote | American Civil War | Also won in 1955, 1956 | [45] | |||
| Dewey W. Grantham, Jr. | Vanderbilt University | Progressive movement in the South from 1900 to 1920 | [45][9][42][43] | |||
| Morton Keller | University of Pennsylvania | Political and social influence of the large American life insurance companies, 1890-1910 | [50][42][43] | |||
| Horace Samuel Merrill | University of Maryland | Nature of the role of American political conservatives and conservatism, 1896-1912 | [56][42][43][71] | |||
| Samuel Milner | United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Fall of Java in World War II and the fate of its American defenders | [43][71] | |||
| Chase Curran Mooney | Indiana University | William H. Crawford | [55][42][43][21] | |||
| Charles K. O'Neill | Kentucky neutrality during 1861 and 1862 | Also won in 1958 | [11] | |||
| Charles P. Roland | Tulane University | Albert Sidney Johnston | [46][42][43] | |||
| Philip Van Doren Stern | [42] | |||||
| Reynold Millard Wik | Mills College | Impact of Henry Ford's thinking on American farmers | [18][42][43] | |||
| Oscar Osburn Winther | Indiana University | History of the American frontier | [55][42][43][21] | |||
| C. Vann Woodward | Johns Hopkins University | Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War, 1865-1877 | Also won in 1945 | [56][42][43] | ||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Lawrence E. Malvern | Michigan State University | Nonuniform straining of materials with a definite yield point under dynamic loading | [57][58] | |
| Otto J. M. Smith | University of California, Berkeley | Optimum design of systems with unalterable elements and uncontrollable disturbances | [18] | |||
| Ivan S. Sokolnikoff | California Institute of Technology | Linear theory of elasticity | Also won in 1952 | [3] | ||
| Tchen Chan-Mou | Bureau of Standards, Howard University | Plasma physics and magnetohydrodynamics | [71] | |||
| Chia-Shun Yih | University of Michigan | Comparative study of stratified flows, rotational flows and flows in a magnetic field | [57][58] | |||
| Astronomy and Astrophysics | Kinsey Anderson | State University of Iowa | High energy particles in solarterrestial processes | [38][39] | ||
| Thomas Michael Donahue | University of Pittsburgh | Sodium twilight airglow | [72] | |||
| Chemistry | Bernard M. Abraham | Argonne National Laboratory | Liquid helium | [4][73] | ||
| John G. Aston | Penn State | Rotation and migration in the solid state | [72][40] | |||
| Marshall Fixman | Harvard University | Diffusion constant of simple liquids in terms of intermolecular force potential | [19][53] | |||
| Clifford S. Garner | University of California, Los Angeles | Kinetics and mechanisms of substitution reactions of transition metal complexes | [3] | |||
| Sidney Golden | Brandeis University | Quantum mechanical foundations of chemical reaction rate theory | [19] | |||
| William Lee Jolly | University of California, Berkeley | Chemical bonds and their properties | [18] | |||
| Nelson J. Leonard | University of Illinois | Chemistry of natural products, especially alkaloids | Also won in 1967 | [30][4] | ||
| Richard C. Lord | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Biophysics | [19] | |||
| Howard V. Malmstadt | University of Illinois | New quantitatives emission spectrochemical techniques | [30][4] | |||
| Stuart A. Rice | University of Illinois | Statistical theory of transport phenomena in dense media | [59][30][4] | |||
| John Ross | Brown University | |||||
| Walter A. Schroeder | California Institute of Technology | Total structure of human hemoglobin | [3] | |||
| Gilbert Stork | Columbia University | |||||
| Milton Tamres | University of Michigan | Saturated cyclic compounds | [57][58] | |||
| Harry H. Wasserman | Yale University | Use of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the determination of structure of natural products | [11] | |||
| Earth Science | William H. Easton | University of Southern California | Carboniferous paleontology and stratigraphy in Europe | [3] | ||
| Charles Meyer | University of California, Berkeley | Types of copper deposits in Africa and Europe | [18] | |||
| Ben M. Page | Stanford University | Gravity tectonics in southern Europe | [18] | |||
| Arie Poldervaart | Columbia University | Origin of rocks and rock formations | [74] | |||
| Francis John Turner | University of California, Berkeley | Field of metamorphic petrology | Also won in 1950 | [18] | ||
| George Veronis | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Mathematical fluid dynamics | Also won in 1966 | [19] | ||
| Engineering | Andreas Acrivos | University of California, Berkeley | Basic aspects of fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transfer | Also won in 1976 | [18] | |
| Frederick A. Brooks | University of California, Davis | Field of agricultural micro-climatology | [18] | |||
| Hermann A. Haus | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Magnetohydrodynamics | [19] | |||
| Guy M. Pound | Carnegie Tech | Theory relating to kinetics of processes involving point and line imperfections in solid lattices | [72] | |||
| Genetics | Allan B. Burdick | Purdue University | Irradiation quantitative genetics in Drosophila | [21] | ||
| Geography and Environmental Studies | W. Barclay Kamb | California Institute of Technology | Relation between state of stress and preferred orientation of ice crystals in selected glaciers of the Alps | Also won in 1961 | [3] | |
| James Jerome Parsons | University of California, Berkeley | Woodland utilization and the herding economy of southern Spain and Portugal | [18] | |||
| Mathematics | Lipman Bers | New York University | Also won in 1978 | |||
| Bertram Kostant | University of California, Berkeley | Fields of algebraic geometry, and Lie theory | [18] | |||
| Lynn H. Loomis | Harvard University | Abstract analysis | [19][53] | |||
| Monroe H. Martin | University of Maryland | Uniqueness of solutions to linear and non-linear boundary problems for partial differential equations | [56][71] | |||
| Teruhisa Matsusaka | Northwestern University | [4] | ||||
| Medicine and Health | Harry W. Fritts Jr. | Bellevue Hospital | ||||
| Jack D. McCarthy | University Hospital | Endocrine diseases and hormone-linked cancers | [57][58] | |||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Morton I. Dolin | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Nucleic acid function and synthesis in micro-organisms | [45] | ||
| Eric Ellenbogen | University of Pittsburgh | Hydrogen bonds in the mechanism of action of trypsin | [72] | |||
| Robert Norman Feinstein | Argonne National Laboratory | Cathepsins relative to irradiation | [4][73] | |||
| Norman H. Giles | Yale University | Chemically induced mutations in neurospora crassa affecting the enzyme adenylosuccinase | Also won in 1965 | [11] | ||
| Clarke T. Gray | Leonard Wood Memorial, Harvard Medical School | Metabolism | [19][53] | |||
| Irwin Clyde Gunsalus | University of Illinois | Biological systems at the molecular level | Also won in 1949, 1967 | [75][30][4] | ||
| Lowell P. Hager | Harvard University | Biological studies | [19][53] | |||
| Douglas Alfred Marsland | New York University | Also won in 1951 | [76] | |||
| Pauline A. Miller | Harvard Medical School | Tetanus toxin | Also won in 1958 | [19][53] | ||
| Clark Phares Read | Johns Hopkins University | [56] | ||||
| Austen Riggs II | University of Texas | Biochemistry of hemoglobin | [64] | |||
| S. J. Singer | Yale University | Localization of particular proteins and other substances within cells | [11] | |||
| Ben E. Sheffy | Cornell University | Nutritional factors affecting the host-virus relationship at the cellular level | [77][54] | |||
| Thomas Peter Singer | Edsel B. Ford Institute for Medical Research | Cytochrome-reducing dehydrogenases | Also won in 1951 | [57][58] | ||
| Jen Tsi Yang | American Viscose Corporation | Protein configurations in non-aqueous media | [40] | |||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Hans Abplanalp | University of California, Davis | Role of inbreeding effects in closed interbreeding populations | [18] | ||
| John Davis | University of California, San Diego | Arizona and Strickland's woodpeckers | [18] | |||
| James Norman Dent | University of Virginia | [16] | ||||
| Theodosius Dobzhansky | Columbia University | |||||
| Frederick Ernest Joseph Fry | University of Toronto | Environmental physiology | [13] | |||
| Philip Strong Humphrey | Yale University | Anatomy and development of the trachea and associated structure of Argentine waterfowl | [11] | |||
| Paul David Hurd, Jr. | University of California, Berkeley | Studies of the New World carpenter bees | [18] | |||
| Ernest Albert Lachner | United States National Museum | Certain tropical marine fish families | Also won in 1955 | [71] | ||
| John Alexander Moore | Columbia University | |||||
| Colin Pittendrigh | Princeton University | Cells as living clocks | [8] | |||
| Charles G. Sibley | Cornell University | Recent research in avian biology | [54] | |||
| John Philip Trinkaus | Yale University | Stability of cell type in differentiating epidermal cells | [11] | |||
| Physics | Robert Adolph Becker | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Nuclear synthesis in the stars | Also won in 1958 | [30][4] | |
| Felix Bloch | Stanford University | Relaxation processes and their extension to applications at low temperatures | [18] | |||
| Richard Raymond Carlson | State University of Iowa | Analyzing work done in low energy nuclear physics research at the state university | [38][39] | |||
| Arthur H. Compton | Washington University in St. Louis | Also won in 1926, 1955 | [78] | |||
| Michael Danos | National Bureau of Standards | Quantum mechanical foundation of the phenomenological theory of the photonuclear giant resonance | [71] | |||
| Robert Jay Finkelstein | University of California, Los Angeles | Elementary particle theory | [3] | |||
| Andrew V. Granato | University of Illinois | Applications of finite strain theory to perfect and nearly perfect crystals | [30][4] | |||
| Paul V. C. Hough | University of Michigan | Techniques important in high energy nuclear physics and strange particle physics | Also won in 1973 | [57][58] | ||
| Karl Uno Ingard | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Plasma physics | [19] | |||
| James A. Krumhansl | National Carbon Company | Theory of thermal, electrical, and thermoelectric transport | [24] | |||
| Willard Libby | United States Atomic Energy Commission | Physical inorganic chemistry | Also won in 1941, 1951 | [3][71] | ||
| Boyce McDaniel | Cornell University | Elementary particle interaction using high energy X-rays | [54] | |||
| Richard H. Milburn | Harvard University | Experimental physics | [19][53] | |||
| Donald J. Montgomery | Michigan State University | Fundamental processes involved in static electrification of solids | [57][58] | |||
| Louis Shreve Osborne | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | High energy physics | [19] | |||
| Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky | Stanford University | Also won in 1973 | [18] | |||
| William Paul | Harvard University | Techniques of high pressures | [19][53] | |||
| Vincent Zetterberg Peterson | California Institute of Technology | Photoproduction of mesons and hyperons by high energy X-rays | [3] | |||
| Louis Rosen | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Spin-orbit force in nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering | [79] | |||
| Robert G. Sachs | University of Wisconsin | Theoretical studies in particle physics | [59][20] | |||
| John A. Sauer | Penn State | High polymers in relation to molecular structure | [72][40] | |||
| John P. Schiffer | Argonne National Laboratory | Average properties of nuclear energy levels | [4][59][73] | |||
| Carl M. York, Jr. | University of Chicago | [4] | ||||
| Thomas J. Ypsilantis | University of California, Berkeley | Theoretical study of the nucleon-nucleon force problem | [18] | |||
| Plant Science | Donovan Stewart Correll | Texas Research Foundation | Also won in 1946 | [80][64] | ||
| Jack R. Harlan | ||||||
| Paul Clifford Hutchison | University of California, Berkeley | Cacti of Peru | [18] | |||
| Robert A. Nilan | Washington State College | Action of various mutagens on chromosome breakage in seeds | [81] | |||
| Karl Sax | Harvard University | Physiology of tree dwarfing | [19][53] | |||
| Richard C. Starr | Indiana University | Sexual reproduction in algae | [55][21] | |||
| Edward C. Stone | University of California, Berkeley | Naturalization of Monterey pine in the Southern Hemisphere | [18] | |||
| Frederick Whatley | University of California, Berkeley | Role of Krebs cycle enzymes in photosynthesis | [18] | |||
| Statistics | Allan Birnbaum | Columbia University | ||||
| Leo A. Goodman | University of Chicago | [4] | ||||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Katharine Luomala | University of Hawaii | Polynesian and Micronesian anthropology | Also won in 1955 | [82] |
| Richard C. Rudolph | California Institute of Technology | Chinese archaeology, from early to modern times | Also won in 1952 | [3] | ||
| Economics | Francis M. Bator | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Investment allocation in low-income countries | [19] | ||
| M. Gardner Clark | Cornell University | Labor productivity in the iron and steel industry with main emphasis on the USSR in comparison to the US and other selected countries | [54] | |||
| Alfred H. Conrad | Harvard University | Inequality of incomes | [19][53] | |||
| Otto Eckstein | Harvard University | Interrelationship of fiscal policies and growth of American economy | [19][53] | |||
| Robert Eisner | Northwestern University | [4] | ||||
| Bert F. Hoselitz | University of Chicago | [4] | ||||
| Vernon H. Jensen | Cornell University | Practices of hiring and conditions of employment among dock workers at certain European ports compared to the Port of New York | [54] | |||
| Frederic Meyers | University of California, Los Angeles | Legal and institutional protection of individual job security in advanced industrial societies | [3] | |||
| Andreas G. Papandreou | University of California, Berkeley | Organizational variables in economic development | [18] | |||
| Lloyd B. Saville | Duke University | Local financial developments in Turin, Italy during the past four centuries | [2][47] | |||
| Gerald G. Somers | University of Wisconsin | Comparative rates and patterns of labor mobility in Britain, France and the United States | [20] | |||
| Law | Joseph M. Snee | Georgetown University Law School | Military justice | [83][71] | ||
| Political Science | Donald Dewey | Duke University | History of economic ideas in the United States Supreme Court | [2][47][42] | ||
| William S. Livingston | University of Texas | Decision-making process in British politics | [64] | |||
| Robert G. McCloskey | Harvard University | Political pamphleteers in English and American history | [19][53] | |||
| Lennox Algernon Mills | University of Minnesota | Also won in 1936, 1957 | ||||
| Eugene V. Rostow | Yale University | United States antitrust laws | [11] | |||
| Judith N. Shklar | Harvard University | Modern legal theory | [19][53] | |||
| Herbert Spiro | Harvard University | Constitutional politics of Rhodesia and Nyasaland | [19][53] | |||
| Psychology | Theodore Newcomb | University of Michigan | Social psychology, with particular reference to the acquaintance process | [57][58] | ||
| William Robert Thompson | Wesleyan University | Prenatal development from a behavioral standpoint | [10][11] | |||
| Sociology | Robert Galen Burnight | University of Connecticut | Relation between internal migration and industrialization in Mexico during the last 30 years | [11] | ||
| Milton M. Gordon | Wellesley College | Girard College case | [19] | |||
| Adolph S. Tomars | City College of New York | History of opera in the US and abroad | [84] |
1959 Latin American and Caribbean oFellows
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Victor Stafford Reid | Novel writing | |||
| Fine Arts | Marcelo Silvestre Bonevardi | Also won in 1958 | [85] | |||
| María Luisa Pacheco | Bolivian art and landscape | Also won in 1958, 1960 | [86] | |||
| Music Composition | Luis Antonio Escobar | Composing | Also won in 1958 | |||
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Rosa Chacel | Also won in 1960 | |||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Raimundo Lida | Harvard University | Religious and philosophical thought of Francisco de Quevedo | Also won in 1939 | [19][53] | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Juan Jorge Schäffer | Universidad de la República | |||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Mitzy Canessa | Also won in 1961 | ||||
| Angel O. Pogo | Also won in 1960 | |||||
| Rodrigo Zeledón Araya | University of Costa Rica | Research at Johns Hopkins University | Also won in 1956, 1958 | |||
| Neuroscience | Pablo Rudomín Zevnovaty | Also won in 1968 | ||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Herminio R. Rabanal | Fish culture in fresh water ponds | Also won in 1957 | |||
| Pedro Wygodzinsky | Also won in 1954 | |||||
| Plant Science | Ernesto Foldats Andins | Central University of Venezuela | Also won in 1958 | |||
| Sebastian Alberto Guarrera | ||||||
| Eduardo Quisumbing | National Museum of Natural History, Manila | Also won in 1958 | ||||
| Oscar Tovar | Also won in 1960 |