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 |
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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 |
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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
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1939
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1941
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