List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1941

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

1941 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsFictionHermann J. BrochThe Death of VirgilAlso won in 1940[3]
Wilbur Joseph CashWriting[4][5]
Brainard CheneyThe Nashville Banner[5]
Edwin Corle[6]
Oliver La Farge[6][7]
Andrew Nelson LytleThe Charlotte NewsAlso won in 1940, 1959[5]
James StillAlso won in 1946[5]
Fine ArtsRichmond BarthéSculptureAlso won in 1940[8]
Federico CastellonPaintingAlso won in 1950[9]
Thomas CraigPainting: Impoverished people in the Southwest United States[10][11]
Lee JacksonPainting[12]
Bruce Mitchell[13][14][15]
Leonard PytlakPrintmaking[16][14]
Ruth ReevesAncient and modern textiles of South AmericaAlso won in 1940[14][17]
Marion SanfordSculptureAlso won in 1942[8]
Music CompositionPaul BowlesCompositions including The Wind Remains[18][19]
Hunter JohnsonComposingAlso won in 1954[4][5][14][18]
Marc BlitzsteinAlso won in 1940[20]
Alvin EtlerAlso won in 1940, 1963[21]
Earl RobinsonDramatization of Carl Sandburg's The People, YesAlso won in 1940[22][11]
PhotographyWalker EvansNew York subway portraitsAlso won in 1940, 1959[23]
Dorothea LangeAmerican social scene in rural communities[6][11]
Eliot Furness PorterBird photographyAlso won in 1946[24][25][26]
PoetryReuel DenneyWriting[27]
Norman Rosten[28]
Delmore SchwartzAlso won in 1940[29]
HumanitiesBritish HistoryArthur J. MarderBritish sea power in the dreadnought era, with reference to the German naval menace from 1905-1914Also won in 1946, 1947[29][30]
David Harris WillsonUniversity of MinnesotaBiography of James IAlso won in 1943, 1948, 1963[31]
ClassicsEric Alfred HavelockUniversity of TorontoAlso won in 1943[32]
Doro LeviInstitute for Advanced StudiesMosaics of Antioch-on-the-OrontesAlso won in 1942[33]
Economic HistoryWilliam Thomas EasterbrookBrandon College[34]
English LiteratureGordon Norton RayHarvard UniversityPreparation of a definitive edition of letters and private papers of ThackerayAlso won in 1942, 1945, 1956[29][30]
Mark SchorerHarvard UniversityRelationship between ideas and forms in the poetry of William BlakeAlso won in 1942, 1948, 1973[30]
Fine Arts ResearchSaul S. WeinbergArchaeological study of the Aegean region and the Near East in the Neolithic period and early Bronze AgeAlso won in 1942[26]
French LiteratureAndré Benjamin DelattreWayne State UniversityEdition of the correspondence of Voltaire with Theodore, François, and Jean-Robert TronchinAlso won in 1951[35]
General NonfictionCarey McWilliamsCalifornia State Division of Immigration and HousingPlantation labor in HawaiiAlso won in 1944[6][11]
Gustavus MyersHistory of Bigotry in the United States (published 1943)Also won in 1942[36]
History of Science and TechnologyEdward RosenCity University of New YorkAlso won in 1945[37]
Iberian & Latin American HistoryLewis HankeLibrary of CongressSpanish discovery, exploration, and administration of America[38]
Helen Sullivan MimsBook on the history of the democratic tradition of SpainAlso won in 1942[39]
LinguisticsGeorge L. TragerYale UniversityLanguages 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[28]
Literary CriticismArthur James Marshall SmithMichigan State CollegeCritical and historical study of Canadian poetry[35]
Spanish and Portuguese LiteratureEduardo Neale-SilvaUniversity of WisconsinThe Spanish-American novel[40]
United States HistoryLewis Eldon AthertonUniversity of Missouri[5]
Albert Katz WeinbergInstitute for Advanced StudyHistorical evolution of American nationalism[41]
Natural SciencesAstrology and AstrophysicsMaud Worcester MakemsonVassar CollegeProblems of Mayan astronomy[42][43]
Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyHorace Albert BarkerUniversity of CaliforniaBacteriological biochemistryAlso won in 1961[6][11][43]
ChemistryVerner SchomakerCalifornia Institute of TechnologySpectroscopic study of molecules[6][11][43]
Aristid von GrosseColumbia UniversityProcesses to utilize uranium-235 as a source of atomic powerAlso won in 1940[38][31][43]
Earth ScienceErnst Cleveland AbbeUniversity of MinnesotaBearing of historical, climactic, and geological factors on the vegetation of a heavily glaciated region in the eastern subarctic[31][43]
William Christian KrumbeinUniversity of ChicagoDynamical processes by which sedimentary particles are abraded, changed in shape, and sorted into deposits found in nature[26][43]
George Prior WoollardSeismic, gravitational, and magnetic investigations of the geologic structure underlying the North American Atlantic coastal plainAlso won in 1942[44][43]
MathematicsRichard Dagobert BrauerUniversity of TorontoModern algebra, with special reference to the theory of groups of finite order and their characters[45][43]
Jesse DouglasCalculus of variation and geometryAlso won in 1940[46][43]
Deane MontgomerySmith CollegeAction of topographical transformation of groups on various types of spaces, particularly on Euclidean spaces and manifolds[29][31][30][43]
Alfred TarskiHarvard UniversityMathematical logic and the logical foundations of mathematicsAlso won in 1942, 1955[29][43]
Molecular and Cellular BiologyI. L. ChaikoffUniversity of CaliforniaRadioactive phosphorus and iodine in "tracer studies" of metabolic processes in animals[6][11][43]
John Thomas MedlerNutritional requirements and the chemistry of salivary secretions of certain insects[7][43]
NeuroscienceKenneth Stewart ColeColumbia UniversityElectrical aspects of the structure and function of living nerve[47][43]
Berry CampbellUniversity of Oklahoma School of MedicineIntegrative mechanisms of the spinal cord, with reference to the basic locomotor patterns of behaviorAlso won in 1940[48][43]
Organismic Biology and EcologyDietrich H. BodensteinStanford UniversityMetamorphosis in insectsAlso won in 1942[6][43]
Cornelius Becker PhilipUnited States Public Health ServiceBook on ticks and their relation to animal and human diseases[38][31][43]
Benjamin P. SonnenblickQueens College, CUNYEmbryology of the fruit fly, with special reference to the cytology and differentiation of the organs and organ systems in the larva[49][43]
PhysicsWillard LibbyUniversity of CaliforniaApplication of atom smashing methods to the chemistry of living thingsAlso won in 1951, 1959[6][11][43]
Wilson M. PowellKenyon CollegeCosmic ray research, particularly a cloud chamber study of the abundance and energy distribution of slow protons and mesotrons at high altitudesAlso won in 1942[50][43]
Harvey Elliott WhiteUniversity of CaliforniaSpectroscopic analysis of the gases of Mauna Loa Volcano[6][11][43]
Volney Colvin WilsonUniversity of ChicagoDevelopment of machinery for the production of high energy x-rays[26][43]
Plant ScienceAdriance Sherwood FosterUniversity of CaliforniaCyto-histological study of the growth of buds of tropical ferns in HawaiiAlso won in 1948[6][11][43]
Margaret FulfordUniversity of CincinnatiTaxonomic study of the Hepaticae of Mexico and Central America[51][5][43]
George Thomas JohnsonBotanical field work and collection in South AmericaAlso won in 1940[52]
Social ScienceAnthropology and Cultural StudiesRoy Franklin BartonSt. Andrew's SchoolTranslation of the HudhudAlso won in 1945[11][43]
Isabel Truesdell KellyUniversity of CaliforniaEthnographic and archaeologic investigations in JaliscoAlso won in 1940[6][11][43]
Dorothy Mary SpencerUniversity of PennsylvaniaMunda peopleAlso won in 1945[13][43]
Edward H. SpicerUniversity of ArizonaComparative study of the influences of contact with other cultures upon the Yaqui communities of Mexico and ArizonaAlso won in 1955[7][43]
EconomicsMerrill Kelley BennettStanford UniversityCompetition between wheat and rice as food in Hawaii[6][11][43]
Paul Theodore EllsworthUniversity of CincinnatiEconomy of Chile, 1920-1940[51][5]
Clarence Dickinson Long, Jr.Wesleyan UniversityHistory of unemployment in the United StatesAlso won in 1942[28]
Political ScienceEugene Alfred ForseyMcGill University[53]
Gerald Sanford GrahamQueen's University[38][53]
Francis D. WormuthIndiana University[5]
PsychologyRudolf ArnheimApplication of the principles and methods of Gestalt psychology to art analysisAlso won in 1942[54][43]
Solomon E. AschBrooklyn CollegeBook on the formation and change of opinion and attitudeAlso won in 1943[55][56][43]
Edward GirdenBrooklyn CollegeComparative investigation of the neurophysicological determinants of the phenomena of dissociationAlso won in 1958[56][43]
George KatonaPsychology of learning, with special reference to the differences in learning by understanding and learning by memorization and drillAlso won in 1940[57][43]
SociologyEdward Prince HutchinsonLibrary of CongressSocioeconomic significance of population[1][29][38]

1941 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

CategoryField of StudyFellowInstitutional associationResearch topicNotesRef
Creative ArtsFictionRamón SenderBook on the civilization resulting from the Spanish-Indian amalgam following the Spanish conquest[58][59]
Fine ArtsAntonio Rodríguez LunaAlso won in 1942[59]
HumanitiesEducationOlga CossettiniDr. G. Carrasco Experimental SchoolElementary and vocational education in the United States[60]
Natural SciencesEarth ScienceNabor CarrilloNational University of MexicoSoil mechanics and its application to the construction of building and dam foundationsAlso won in 1940[61][43]
EngineeringAugusto José DurelliPhotoelastic method of determining stresses and the application of this method to practical problems in reinforced concrete design[62][43]
Medicine and HealthWashington BuñoInstitute of Endocrinology (Montevideo)EndocrinologyAlso won in 1947[63][43]
Aníbal Cipriano da Silveira SantosJuqueri Psychiatric HospitalElectrical activity of the cortex of the brain and its variations under pathological conditions[64][43]
José Ribeiro do ValleInstituto Butantan[65]
Nilson Torres de RezendeNeurophysiologyAlso won in 1940[66][43]
Luis Vargas FernándezResearch at University of WashingtonAlso won in 1942[67]
Molecular and Cellular BiologyAmérico S. Albrieux MurdochInstitute of Endocrinology (Montevideo)Endocrinology, particularly hormone therapyAlso won in 1940[68][43]
Otto Guilherme BierBiological Institute (São Paulo)Quantitative chemical studies of immunity phenomenaAlso won in 1945, 1946[69][43]
Efrén Carlos del PozoNational School of Biological SciencesElectrical stimulation of muscleAlso won in 1942[70][43]
Maurício Rocha e SilvaBiological Institute (São Paulo)Pharmacological properties of trypsinAlso won in 1940[71][43]
PhysicsMário SchenbergUniversity of São PauloApplication of nuclear and atomic physics to astrophysicsAlso won in 1940[72][43]
Facundo Bueso SanllehíUniversity of Puerto RicoBand spectraAlso won in 1940[73][43]
Plant ScienceAgesilau Antonio BitancourtBiological Institute (São Paulo)Virus diseases and of on other economic plants[43]
Edgar do Amaral GranerInstituto Agronômico de São PauloCytogenetics of corn and tobacco[74][43]
Juan Ignacio ValenciaNational University of CuyoTaxonomic and morphological studies of South American forage plantsAlso won in 1942, 1943[75][43]
Social SciencePolitical ScienceSantos Primo AmadeoUniversity of Puerto RicoComparative study of the constitutional law of the Argentine Republic and the United StatesAlso won in 1940[76]

See also

References

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