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Seventy-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1940. A total of $165,000 was disbursed.

1940 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Creative Arts Fiction Hermann J. Broch Princeton University (visiting) The Death of Virgil Also won in 1941
Ward Allison Dorrance University of Missouri Writing
Edwin Moultrie Lanham Herald Tribune Novel about the Southwest
Andrew Nelson Lytle Writing Also won in 1941, 1959
Christine Weston
Fine Arts Bernard Arnest Broadmoor Academy Painting
Lawrence Louis Barrett
Richmond Barthé Sculpture: Memorial to James Weldon Johnson Also won in 1941
Miguel Covarrubias Book preparation Also won in 1933
John Hovannes Sculpture
Henry Lee McFee Painting
Elizabeth Tracy
Herman Palmer Graphic arts: Wild and domesticated animals
Ruth Reeves Living materials for modern textile designs Also won in 1941
Carl Schaefer Painting: Life of an American farmer
Harry Wickey Sculpture Also won in 1939
Music Composition Marc Blitzstein Musical stage composition Also won in 1941
Alvin Etler Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Composition Also won in 1941, 1963
Earl Robinson Full-length ballad-operetta based on The People, Yes Also won in 1941
William Howard Schuman Sarah Lawrence College Composition Also won 1939
Photography Walker Evans New York subway portraits Also won in 1941, 1959
Edward Weston California Also won in 1939
Poetry Lloyd Frankenberg Writing
Delmore Schwartz Also won in 1941
Theatre Arts Howard Bay Scenic design
Humanities American Literature Alfred Kazin New York Herald Tribune 20th-century American prose Also won in 1947, 1958, 1969
Architecture, Planning, and Design Gregory Ain Development of low-cost housing
Biography Richmond C. Beatty Vanderbilt University James Russell Lowell
Fine Arts Research Robert Chester Smith Library of Congress Preparation of a history of the fine arts in Brazil from pre-Columbian times to present
Carl Zigrosser Weyhe Gallery Art research Also won in 1939
General Nonfiction John Dos Passos Essays on the basis of the present American conceptions of freedom of thought Also won in 1939, 1942
German and East European History Lewis Galantière Treatise on the character of the German people
Intellectual and Cultural History Hans Kohn Smith College History of nationalism
Medieval Literature Louis Furman Sas City College of New York Origins of Romance languages
Near Eastern Studies Richard F. S. Starr Hope House Art of the ancient Near East
Philosophy Otis Hamilton Lee Vassar College Nature of philosophic inquiry
Paul Marhenke University of California, Berkeley Treatise on the sensational and perceptual basis of knowledge in the nature of a critique of the subjectivistic premise of the modern theories of knowledge
United States History Howard Wolf Cleveland News History of American press associations Also won in 1939
Natural Sciences Chemistry Arthur C. Cope Bryn Mawr College Tautomerism and the chemistry of tautomeric systems
Aristid von Grosse Catalytic reactions of organic compounds and investigations of the products of neutron bombardment of uranium, protactinium, and thorium Also won in 1941
Geography and Environmental Studies Raymond E. Crist University of Illinois Human geography of the Venezuelan Andes Also won in 1953
Earth Science Chester Stock Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California Institute of Technology Vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance of Mexico Also won in 1939
Harold Ernest Vokes American Museum of Natural History Fossil remains of spineless animals in Lebanon
Mathematics Jesse Douglas Also won in 1941
Gordon Pall McGill University Arithmetical properties of quadratic forms
Raymond Louis Wilder University of Michigan Topology, particularly in the theory of locally connected spaces and of general manifolds
Aurel Friedrich Wintner Johns Hopkins University Mathematical theory of probability and statistics
Molecular and Cellular Biology David Lion Drabkin University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Biological oxidation-reduction processes
John T. Edsall Harvard Medical School Physical chemistry of amino acids, peptides, proteins and related compounds Also won in 1953
Raymund Lull Zwemer Columbia University Medical School Factors involved in the maintenance, by living cells, of a differential permeability to electrolytes
Neuroscience Berry Campbell University of Oklahoma Research at Yale University Also won in 1941
Organismic Biology & Ecology Myron Gordon Also won in 1938
Gregory Pincus Clark University Zoological investigations Also won in 1939
Physics David Mathias Dennison University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Molecular structure
Plant Science Stanley A. Cain University of Tennessee Concepts and methods of geobotany
Katherine Esau University of California, Davis Anatomy and physiology of vascular plants
George Thomas Johnson Washington University, St. Louis Biologic and taxonomic sudy of tropical American lichens Also won in 1941
Franklin P. Metcalf [ast] Lingnan University Monograph on the flora of Fukien Province
Henry K. Svenson [de] Brooklyn Botanical Garden Plant evolution
Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Luther S. Cressman University of Oregon Indian culture of the Southwestern United States, compared with the culture of ancient Indian races of south-central Oregon Also won in 1949
Alfred Irving Hallowell University of Pennsylvania Personality in primitive communities
Isabel Truesdell Kelly University of California, Berkeley Ethnographic and archeological investigations in southwestern Mexico Also won in 1941
Alfred Métraux Also won in 1938
Economics Wassily W. Leontief Harvard University Mathematical economics Also won in 1950
James Ackley Maxwell Clark University Impact of federalism upon federal and state finance in the United States
Nathan Reich Hunter College Relationship between political democracy and economic organization
Frank A. Southard Jr. Cornell University Foreign exchange policies of several Latin American countries
Law Percy Elwood Corbett McGill University "The community of states and its law"
Political Science Donald Grant Creighton University of Toronto Development of Canadian nationality, 1850-present
Warren Aldrich Roberts Cleveland College Mine taxation in the United States
Francis Reginald Scott McGill University Nature and development of the Canadian constitution
Psychology George Katona Psychology of learning, with special reference to the differences in learning by understanding and learning by memorization and drill Also won in 1941
Sociology Edward Franklin Frazier Howard University Comparative study of the Negro family in the West Indies and Brazil

1940 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Humanities Linguistics J. Eugene Garro Archaeological Museum of Ancash Native languages of Peru
Natural Sciences Earth Science Nabor Carrillo Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Soil mechanics in its application to the construction of foundations of buildings and dams Also won in 1941
Carlos Nicholson Jefferson [es] National University of San Agustín Comparative studies of the climates of the Peruvian and Californian coasts
Medicine and Health Hugo Pablo Chiodi University of Buenos Aires Respiratory phenomena caused by muscular activity in health and disease Also won in 1939
Eduardo Etzel Clemente Ferreira Tuberculosis Institute Technical studies of thoracic surgery in relation to the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis
Raúl Palacios von Helms Bacteriological Institute of Chile Rabies Also won in 1939
Nilson Torres de Rezende Neurophysiology Also won in 1941
Molecular and Cellular Biology Américo S. Albrieux Murdoch Institute of Endocrinology, Montevideo Hormone therapy Also won in 1941
Fernando G. Huidobro Toro Catholic University of Chile Chemical transmission of nerve impulses
Ciro A. Peluffo Institute of Hygiene, Montevideo Artificially induced microbiological variation
Maurício Rocha e Silva Biological Institute Pharmacological properties of trypsin Also won in 1941
Physics Mário Schenberg University of São Paulo Application of nuclear and atomic physics to astrophysics Also won in 1941
Facundo Bueso Sanllehí University of Puerto Rico Band spectra Also won in 1941
Plant Science Carlos Arnaldo Krug Instituto Agronômico de Campinas Genetic investigations of citrus and other major crop plants of Brazil
José Pérez Carabia [es] La Salle College Flora of Cuba
Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Jorge C. Muelle [es] Museo de la Nación
Arthur Ramos de Araujo Pereira [pt] University of Brazil Cultural anthropology
Economics Jorge Kingston Also won in 1947
Political Science Santos Primo Amadeo University of Puerto Rico Comparative study of constitutional law in Argentina and the United States Also won in 1941

See also

References

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