Thirty-eight scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1933. Arnold and Lucile Blanch were the first couple to both win a Guggenheim award in the same year.
1933 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Fiction Leonard Ehrlich Writing Also won in 1934 Younghill Kang New York University East Goes West (published 1937) Also won in 1934 Glenway Wescott Writing Fine Arts Arnold Blanch Byrdcliffe Colony Painting Lucile Blanch Painting and lithography Louis Bouché Painting Miguel Covarrubias Also won in 1940 Emil Ganso Georgina Klitgaard Mary Lightfoot Tarleton Sculpture Gwen Lux Carlotta Petrina Book illustrations Also won in 1935 Music Composition George Antheil Composing Also won in 1932 Paul Nordoff Also won in 1935 Poetry Louise Bogan Writing E. E. Cummings Also won in 1951 George Dillon Also won in 1932 Humanities Biography Matthew Josephson Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Staël Classics Kenneth Scott Western Reserve University Religious and political history of the Roman Empire, particularly the development of Roman emperor worship in the 1st century, A.D. French History Lowell Joseph Ragatz George Washington University Social and economic structure of the French Antilles during the 17th and 18th centuries Natural Sciences Chemistry Herrick Lee Johnston Ohio State University Advances in molecular spectra and their application to problems in chemical equilibria and to photochemistry Carl Robert Noller Stanford University Determination of the constitution of naturally occurring organic compounds, especially the sapogenins and sterols Mathematics Charles F. Roos American Association for the Advancement of Science Dynamical economics Organismic Biology and Ecology Arthur Loveridge Museum of Comparative Zoology Vanishing vertebrate fauna of the tropical rain forests remnants in East Africa Also won in 1938 Physics Kenneth Bainbridge Franklin Institute Nuclear physics Also won in 1934 Francis Bitter Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company Magnetism, with special reference to the structure of crystals Thomas Charles Poulter Iowa Wesleyan College Antarctic expedition with Richard Byrd Plant Sciences Barbara McClintock California Institute of Technology Genetics Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Alfredo Barrera Vásquez National Autonomous University of Mexico Translation of the Chilam Balam and Maya linguistics Also won in 1934 Economics Henry Schultz University of Chicago Mathematical and statistical economics in Europe
1933 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Art Music Composition Juan José Castro Teatro Colón and Buenos Aires Philharmonic Composing Humanities Economic History Eugenio Pereira Salas Children's Lyceum N°1, Santiago History of commercial relations between the United States and Spanish America, especially Chile Iberian and Latin American History Herminio Portell Vilá University of Havana Historical relationship between Cuba and the United States, with particular attention to the question of annexation Also won in 1931 and 1932 Natural Sciences Engineering David Segura y Gama National Autonomous University of Mexico Organization and functioning of metallurgical laboratories with special reference to the treatment of precious metals Medicine and Health José Matias Cid Hospital Psiquiátrico Agudo Avila Rosario Pathology of the central nervous system Juan Farill y Solares Department of Public Health, Mexico Clinical theory and orthopedics with special reference to the nonsurgical treatment of deformities in children Also won in 1932 Organismic Biology and Ecology Enrique Beltrán National Autonomous University of Mexico Marine biology and protozoology Also won in 1932 Plant Sciences José A. Nolla University of Puerto Rico Inheritance of disease resistance in tobacco Also won in 1932
See also Guggenheim Fellowship List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1932 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1934
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