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Eighty-five Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1941.[1][2]

1941 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

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Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Creative Arts Fiction Hermann J. Broch The Death of Virgil Also won in 1940 [3]
Wilbur Joseph Cash Writing [4][5]
Brainard Cheney The Nashville Banner [5]
Edwin Corle [6]
Oliver La Farge [6][7]
Andrew Nelson Lytle The Charlotte News Also won in 1940, 1959 [5]
James Still Also won in 1946 [5]
Fine Arts Richmond Barthé Sculpture Also won in 1940 [8]
Federico Castellon Painting Also won in 1950 [9]
Thomas Craig Painting: Impoverised people in the Southwest United States [10][11]
Lee Jackson Painting [12]
Bruce Mitchell [13][14][15]
Leonard Pytlak Printmaking [16][14]
Ruth Reeves Ancient and modern textiles of South America Also won in 1940 [14][17]
Marion Sanford Sculpture Also won in 1942 [8]
Music Composition Paul Bowles Composition [18]
Hunter Johnson Also won in 1954 [4][5][14][18]
Marc Blitzstein Also won in 1940 [19]
Alvin Etler Also won in 1940, 1963 [20]
Earl Robinson Dramatization of Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes Also won in 1940 [21][11]
Photography Walker Evans New York subway portraits Also won in 1940, 1959 [22]
Dorothea Lange American social scene in rural communities [6][11]
Eliot Furness Porter Bird photography Also won in 1946 [23][24][25]
Poetry Reuel Denney Writing [26]
Norman Rosten [27]
Delmore Schwartz Also won in 1940 [28]
Humanities British History Arthur J. Marder British sea power in the dreadnought era, with reference to the German naval menace from 1905-1914 Also won in 1946, 1947 [28][29]
David Harris Willson University of Minnesota Biography of James I Also won in 1943, 1948, 1963 [30]
Classics Eric Alfred Havelock University of Toronto Also won in 1943 [31]
Doro Levi Institute for Advanced Studies Mosaics of Antioch-on-the-Orontes Also won in 1942 [32]
Economic History William Thomas Easterbrook Brandon College [33]
English Literature Gordon Norton Ray Harvard University Preparation of a definitive edition of letters and private papers of Thackeray Also won in 1942, 1945, 1956 [28][29]
Mark Schorer Harvard University Relationship between ideas and forms in the poetry of William Blake Also won in 1942, 1948, 1973 [29]
Fine Arts Research Saul S. Weinberg Archaeological study of the Aegean region and the Near East in the Neolithic period and early Bronze Age Also won in 1942 [25]
French Literature André Benjamin Delattre Wayne State University Edition of the correspondence of Voltaire with Theodore, François, and Jean-Robert Tronchin Also won in 1951 [34]
General Nonfiction Carey McWilliams California State Division of Immigration and Housing Plantation labor in Hawaii Also won in 1944 [6][11]
Gustavus Myers History of Bigotry in the United States (published 1943) Also won in 1942 [35]
History of Science and Technology Edward Rosen City University of New York Also won in 1945 [36]
Iberian & Latin American History Lewis Hanke Library of Congress Spanish discovery, exploration, and administration of America [37]
Helen Sullivan Mims Book on the history of the democratic tradition of Spain Also won in 1942 [38]
Linguistics George L. Trager Yale University Languages of Slavic-speaking immigrants and their families in Pennsylvania coal and iron mining communities, and the mutual influences these languages have on each other, on the language of the immigrants' children, and on the English of the immigrants themselves [27]
Literary Criticism Arthur James Marshall Smith Michigan State College Critical and historical study of Canadian poetry [34]
Spanish and Portuguese Literature Eduardo Neale-Silva University of Wisconsin The Spanish-American novel [39]
United States History Lewis Eldon Atherton University of Missouri [5]
Albert Katz Weinberg Institute for Advanced Study Historical evolution of American nationalism [40]
Natural Sciences Astrology and Astrophysics Maud Worcester Makemson Vassar College Problems of Mayan astronomy [41][42]
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Horace Albert Barker University of California Bacteriological biochemistry Also won in 1961 [6][11][42]
Chemistry Verner Schomaker California Institute of Technology Spectroscopic study of molecules [6][11][42]
Aristid von Grosse Columbia University Processes to utilize uranium-235 as a source of atomic power Also won in 1940 [37][30][42]
Earth Science Ernst Cleveland Abbe [pt] University of Minnesota Bearing of historical, climactic, and geological factors on the vegetation of a heavily glaciated region in the eastern subarctic [30][42]
William Christian Krumbein University of Chicago Dynamical processes by which sedimentary particles are abraded, changed in shape, and sorted into deposits found in nature [25][42]
George Prior Woollard Seismic, gravitational, and magnetic investigations of the geologic structure underlying the North American Atlantic coastal plain Also won in 1942 [43][42]
Mathematics Richard Dagobert Brauer University of Toronto Modern algebra, with special reference to the theory of groups of finite order and their characters [44][42]
Jesse Douglas Calculus of variation and geometry Also won in 1940 [45][42]
Deane Montgomery Smith College Action of topographical transformation of groups on various types of spaces, particularly on Euclidean spaces and manifolds [28][30][29][42]
Alfred Tarski Harvard University Mathematical logic and the logical foundations of mathematics Also won in 1942, 1955 [28][42]
Molecular and Cellular Biology I. L. Chaikoff University of California Radioactive phosphorous and iodine in "tracer studies" of metabolic processes in animals [6][11][42]
John Thomas Medler Nutritional requirements and the chemistry of salivary secretions of certain insects [7][42]
Neuroscience Kenneth Stewart Cole Columbia University Electrical aspects of the structure and function of living nerve [46][42]
Berry Campbell [d] University of Oklahoma School of Medicine Integrative mechanisms of the spinal cord, with reference to the basic locomotor patterns of behavior Also won in 1940 [47][42]
Organismic Biology and Ecology Dietrich H. Bodenstein [de] Stanford University Metamorphosis in insects Also won in 1942 [6][42]
Cornelius Becker Philip United States Public Health Service Book on ticks and their relation to animal and human diseases [37][30][42]
Benjamin P. Sonnenblick Queens College, CUNY Embryology of the fruit fly, with special reference to the cytology and differentiation of the organs and organ systems in the larva [48][42]
Physics Willard Libby University of California Application of atom smashing methods to the chemistry of living things Also won in 1951, 1959 [6][11][42]
Wilson M. Powell Kenyon College Cosmic ray research, particularly a cloud chamber study of the abundance and energy distribution of slow protons and mesotrons at high altitudes Also won in 1942 [49][42]
Harvey Elliott White University of California Spectroscopic analysis of the gases of Mauna Loa Volcano [6][11][42]
Volney Colvin Wilson University of Chicago Development of machinery for the production of high energy x-rays [25][42]
Plant Science Adriance Sherwood Foster University of California Cyto-histological study of the growth of buds of tropical ferns in Hawaii Also won in 1948 [6][11][42]
Margaret Fulford University of Cincinnati Taxonomic study of the Hepaticae of Mexico and Central America [50][5][42]
George Thomas Johnson Botanical field work and collection in South America Also won in 1940 [51]
Social Science Anthropology and Cultural Studies Roy Franklin Barton [ru] St. Andrew's School Translation of the Hudhud Also won in 1945 [11][42]
Isabel Truesdell Kelly University of California Ethnographic and archaeologic investigations in Jalisco Also won in 1940 [6][11][42]
Dorothy Mary Spencer University of Pennsylvania Munda people Also won in 1945 [13][42]
Edward H. Spicer University of Arizona Comparative study of the influences of contact with other cultures upon the Yaqui communities of Mexico and Arizona Also won in 1955 [7][42]
Economics Merrill Kelley Bennett Stanford University Competition between wheat and rice as food in Hawaii [6][11][42]
Paul Theodore Ellsworth University of Cincinnati Economy of Chile, 1920-1940 [50][5]
Clarence Dickinson Long, Jr. Wesleyan University History of unemployment in the United States Also won in 1942 [27]
Political Science Eugene Alfred Forsey McGill University [52]
Gerald Sanford Graham Queen's University [37][52]
Francis D. Wormuth Indiana University [5]
Psychology Rudolf Arnheim Application of the principles and methods of Gestalt psychology to art analysis Also won in 1942 [53][42]
Solomon E. Asch Brooklyn College Book on the formation and change of opinion and attitude Also won in 1943 [54][55][42]
Edward Girden Brooklyn College Comparative investigation of the neurophysicological determinants of the phenomena of dissociation Also won in 1958 [55][42]
George Katona Psychology of learning, with special reference to the differences in learning by understanding and learning by memorization and drill Also won in 1940 [56][42]
Sociology Edward Prince Hutchinson Library of Congress Socioeconomic significance of population [1][28][37]

1941 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

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Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref
Creative Arts Fiction Ramón Sender Book on the civilization resulting from the Spanish-Indian amalgam following the Spanish conquest [57][58]
Fine Arts Antonio Rodríguez Luna Also won in 1942 [58]
Humanities Education Olga Cossettini Dr. G. Carrasco Experimental School Elementary and vocational education in the United States [59]
Natural Sciences Earth Science Nabor Carrillo National University of Mexico Soil mechanics and its application to the construction of building and dam foundations Also won in 1940 [60][42]
Engineering Augusto José Durelli Photoelastic method of determining stresses and the applicaiton of this method to practical problems in reinforced concrete design [61][42]
Medicine and Health Washington Buño Institute of Endocrinology (Montevideo) Endocrinology Also won in 1947 [62][42]
Aníbal Cipriano da Silveira Santos [pt] Juqueri Psychiatric Hospital Electrical activity of the cortex of the brain and its variations under pathological conditions [63][42]
José Ribeiro do Valle [pt] Instituto Butantan [64]
Nilson Torres de Rezende Neurophysiology Also won in 1940 [65][42]
Luis Vargas Fernández Research at University of Washington Also won in 1942 [66]
Molecular and Cellular Biology Américo S. Albrieux Murdoch Institute of Endocrinology (Montevideo) Endocrinology, particularly hormone therapy Also won in 1940 [67][42]
Otto Guilherme Bier [pt] Biological Institute (São Paulo) Quantitative chemical studies of immunity phenomena Also won in 1945, 1946 [68][42]
Efrén Carlos del Pozo National School of Biological Sciences Electrical stimulation of muscle Also won in 1942 [69][42]
Maurício Rocha e Silva Biological Institute (São Paulo) Pharmacological properties of trypsin Also won in 1940 [70][42]
Physics Mário Schenberg University of São Paulo Application of nuclear and atomic physics to astrophysics Also won in 1940 [71][42]
Facundo Bueso Sanllehí University of Puerto Rico Band spectra Also won in 1940 [72][42]
Plant Science Agesilau Antonio Bitancourt Biological Institute (São Paulo) Virus diseases and of on other economic plants [42]
Edgar do Amaral Graner Instituto Agronômico de São Paulo Cytogenetics of corn and tobacco [73][42]
Juan Ignacio Valencia National University of Cuyo Taxonomic and morphological studies of South American forage plants Also won in 1942, 1943 [74][42]
Social Science Political Science Santos Primo Amadeo University of Puerto Rico Comparative study of the constitutional law of the Argentine Republic and the United States Also won in 1940 [75]

See also

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References

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