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 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 Urbana-Champaign 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 Perelman 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 College of Physicians and Surgeons 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 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 in St. Louis Biologic and taxonomic sudy of tropical American lichens Also won in 1941 Lingnan University Monograph on the flora of Fukien Province Brooklyn Botanic 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 of Art and Design 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 Humanities Linguistics J. Eugene Garro Archaeological Museum of Ancash Native languages of Peru Natural Sciences Earth Science Nabor Carrillo National Autonomous University of Mexico Soil mechanics in its application to the construction of foundations of buildings and dams Also won in 1941 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 Pontifical 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 La Salle College Flora of Cuba Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Museo de la Nación Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 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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