List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1951

One hundred and fifty-four Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1951. $568,000 was disbursed.

1951 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Fiction Charles E. Butler West Virginia University Writing John Cheever Also won in 1960 William Goyen Also won in 1952 Fine Arts Ross Abrams College of William and Mary Lithography Robert Noel Blair Art Institute of Buffalo Painting Also won in 1946 Adolf Dehn School at the Norton Museum of Art (visiting) Travels in Europe Also won in 1939 Joseph DeMartini Painting John Edward Heliker Columbia University Lewis Iselin Sculpture Malcolm Haynie Myers University of Minnesota Graphic arts Also won in 1951 Arthur Osver Painting Also won in 1949 Richard Pousette-Dart Steve Raffo Cooper Union Also won in 1950 David Smith Sculpture Also won in 1950 Music Composition Jacob Avshalomov Columbia University Composing William Bergsma Juilliard School of Music Also won in 1946 Ingolf Dahl University of Southern California Also won in 1960 Roger John Goeb Juilliard School of Music Also won in 1950 Robert Kurka City College of New York Also won in 1952 Dai-keong Lee Also won in 1945 Poetry e. e. cummings Writing Also won in 1933 Rosalie Moore Also won in 1950 Humanities American Literature Jay Leyda Also won in 1950 Biography Douglas Southall Freeman George Washington Horace Victor Gregory Sarah Lawrence College James McNeill Whistler Elizabeth Stevenson Atlanta Public Library Henry Adams Also won in 1958 George Woodcock Pierre-Joseph Proudhon British History Conyers Read University of Pennsylvania William Cecil, Lord Burghley Also won in 1954 Classics Edmund Grindlay Berry University of Manitoba Influence of Plutarch on Ralph Waldo Emerson William Kendrick Pritchett University of California, Berkeley Inscriptions from the marketplace of ancient Athens Also won in 1955 Edward Anthony Robinson Fordham University Cicero's De Legibus William Pitkin Wallace University College, Toronto Coinage of ancient Greek city-states Also won in 1960 Constantine George Yavis St. Louis University Ancient Greek religious sacrifices East Asian Studies John K. Fairbank Harvard University Japanese historiography on China Also won in 1959 Economic History Robert Sabatino Lopez Yale University History of the guilds of southern European manufacturers of coins from the 4th to the 15th centuries Also won in 1948 Education American Foundation for the Blind (retired) History of work for the blind in the United States in the last 50 years English Literature Lily Bess Campbell University of California, Los Angeles (retired) Christian reaction to classical paganism in the renaissance in England James Lowry Clifford Columbia University Early life of Samuel Johnson Also won in 1965 Thomas Wellsted Copeland University of Chicago Edmund Burke's writings on the French Revolution Also won in 1963 Joyce Hemlow McGill University Writings of Fanny Burney Also won in 1960 and 1966 Cecil Yelverton Lang Yale University Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne William Dougald MacMillan III University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Dramatic works of John Dryden George Winchester Stone, Jr. George Washington University History of dramatic performances in London, 1660-1800 Also won in 1950 and 1963 Folklore and Popular Culture Benjamin Botkin French Literature Alfred Adler Central Michigan College French vernacular literature in the Middle Ages Gilbert Chinard Princeton University Also won in 1956 André Benjamin Delattre University of Pennsylvania Correspondence between Voltaire and the Tronchin brothers Also won in 1941 Herbert Dieckmann Harvard University Development and structure of Diderot's thought Also won in 1948 Claude André Vigée Brandeis University Critical study of Rainer Maria Rilke's posthumous poems and their translation into French General Nonfiction Joseph James Mathews Emory University History of newspaper foreign correspondents from the late 18th century to World War I German and East European History Jerome Blum Princeton University Origin, spread, decline, and final abolition of serfdom in central and eastern Europe Also won in 1971 Leften Stavros Stavrianos Northwestern University History of the Balkan Peninsula German and Scandinavian Literature Heinrich Edmund Karl Henel University of Wisconsin Works of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Also won in 1954 Walter Friedrich Naumann Works of Franz Grillparzer Also won in 1961 Iberian and Latin American History Woodrow Borah University of California, Berkeley Socioeconomic study of the Mixteca Alta area of Mexico during the colonial period Also won in 1958 Intellectual and Cultural Studies Golo Mann Scripps College Limits between scientific investigation and speculative interpretation of history Italian Literature New York University Italian social and economic history, 1550-1700 Linguistics Norman E. Eliason University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill History of the English language in North Carolina Albrecht Goetze Yale University Alo Raun Pacific Lutheran College Morphology and syntax of the Finno-Ugric languages Literary Criticism Philip Rahv New York University and Partisan Review Critical study of Dostoevsky Ernest Lee Tuveson University of California, Berkeley Influence of progressivism on the literary imagination of Shelley René Wellek Yale University History of literary criticism Also won in 1952, 1956, and 1966 Medieval Literature E. Talbot Donaldson Studies of the three versions of Piers Plowman Also won in 1977 Walter J. Ong English Renaissance literary history, particularly Peter Ramus Also won in 1949 Music Research Donald Jay Grout Cornell University Music of the early 16th century Also won in 1952 Leo Franz Schrade Yale University History of church music from the beginning of the Christian era to the 16th century Also won in 1956 Oliver Strunk Princeton University Music of the Byzantine liturgy Also won in 1955 Arnold Olaf Sungaard Bennington College Near Eastern Studies Paul Julius Alexander Hobart and William Smith Colleges Byzantine history of the Middle Ages Also won in 1965 Henri Frankfort University of Chicago and University of London Arts of the ancient Near East Richard Nelson Frye Harvard University Middle Persian historical inscriptions and dialects of central Iran Also won in 1975 Hal Lehrman Internal problems of Israel Also won in 1953 Philosophy Richard Milton Martin University of Pennsylvania Semantics and logical systems Rulon Seymour Wells, III Yale University Studies of meaning, with emphasis on natural languages Religion William Henry Paine Hatch Episcopal Theological School (Emeritus) Principal uncial manuscripts of the New Testmant Also won in 1953 Russian History Robert Francis Byrnes Rutgers University Antisemitism in France during the Dreyfus Affair Spanish and Portuguese Literature Ruth Lee Kennedy Smith College Changes in Spanish dress in the 17th century and of their significance in literary and artistic chronology Luis Monguió Mills College Peruvian poetry between the two world wars United States History Arthur Cecil Bining University of Pennsylvania Comparative study of the growth of iron and steel industries of the US and Great Britain Julian P. Boyd Princeton University Mildred Campbell Vassar College English emigration in the 17th and 18th centuries Michael Kraus City College of New York Cultural cross currents between Europe and America in the 19th century Dumas Malone Columbia University Thomas Jefferson Also won in 1958 William Quentin Maxwell United States Sanitary Commission in the Civil War Edouard A. Stackpole The Inquirer and Mirror Discoveries and explorations of New England whaling men Also won in 1963 Willard Mosher Wallace Wesleyan University Benedict Arnold Natural Sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Su-Shu Huang University of Chicago Theory of broadening of spectral lines Chemistry Harrison Brown Alan Frank Clifford Illinois Institute of Technology Hydrogen fluoride solvent system Also won in 1952 Robert Brainard Corey California Institute of Technology Structure of proteins Farrington Daniels University of Wisconsin Solar energy utilization Harry George Drickamer University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Albert Leon Henne Ohio State University Chemistry of organic fluorides Frederick Albert Matsen University of Texas Electronic spectra of aromatic molecules Walter John Moore Catholic University of America Structural inorganic chemistry of solids Ralph Pearson Northwestern University Rates of ionization of oxygen-hydrogen bonds R. Nelson Smith Pomona College Surface chemistry Harold R. Snyder University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Configuration of nitrogen in organic compounds 1939 fellowship postponed until 1951 Carl Swenson Vestling Earth Science Bryan Patterson Chicago Natural History Museum South American tertiary fossil vertebrates Also won in 1954 Mathematics Ralph Fox Princeton University Topology of three-dimensional manifolds Nathan Jacobson Yale University Abstract algebra Irving Ezra Segal University of Chicago Mathematical aspects of quantum mechanics Also won in 1946 and 1967 Max Shiffman Stanford University Topology and differential geometry Medicine and Health George Edward Burch Tulane University Medical School Joseph Wiley Ferrebee Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital Reactions between immune globulins and vascular tissues Richard W. Lippman Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Renal function Also won in 1950 Shih-Chun Wang Columbia University Medical School Physiology of the autonomic nervous system Molecular and Cellular Biology Howard Alan Bern University of California, Berkeley Hormone-enzyme relationships Frederick A. Fuhrman Stanford University Metabolic processes involved in active ion transport in animal tissues Ruth Hoffmann Hubbard Harvard University Biochemistry of human vision Walter Lee Hughes Some specific groupings of purified proteins Edna B. Kearney Case Western Reserve University Intermediary metabolism of microorganisms Collaboration with Thomas Peter Singer Albert L. Lehninger University of Chicago Mechanisms of enzymatic phosphorylations Also won in 1962 Douglas Alfred Marsland New York University Mechanism of cell division Also won in 1959 Charles Vernon Robinson New England Center Hospital Physiology of unicellular organisms, especially by the application of radioactive tracer techniques William C. Rose University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Thomas Peter Singer Case Western Reserve University Intermediary metabolism of microorganisms Collaboration with Edna B. Kearney; also won in 1959 Roger Yate Stanier University of California, Berkeley Biochemical mechanisms of oxidative metabolism in bacteria Also won in 1945 and 1967 Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale Upjohn Company Resistance of microorganisms to the actions of antibiotics Organismic Biology and Ecology Oliver L. Austin Birds of Japan Rachel Carson US Fish and Wildlife Service Ecology of seashore animals on the Atlantic coast William Steel Creighton University of Colorado (visiting) Distribution of ants in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico Also won in 1952 Maxwell John Dunbar McGill University Arctic marine biology Richard Benedict Goldschmidt University of California, Berkeley Francis Harper William Bartram Also won in 1950 Clarence Cook Little Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory Joe Truesdell Marshall, Jr. University of Arizona Birds of the oak-prine association in the mountains of southern Arizona and northern Mexico Herbert Holdsworth Ross University of Illinois Evolution and geographical distribution of the caddisflies Alexander Frank Skutch Evolution of ornamental plumage, song, and social cooperation in birds Also won in 1946 Curt Stern University of California, Berkeley Differentiation in relation to genes Also won in 1962 Albert Tyler California Institute of Technology Physiology of animal fertilization Physics Willard Libby University of Chicago Methods of historical dating by radiocarbon conten