List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1955
Two hundred and forty-eight Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1955, with grants totaling at $968,000.
1955 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes | Ref |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Saul Bellow | Also won in 1948 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Hortense Calisher | Also won in 1952 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Marie Campbell | Also won in 1944 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Kermit H. Hunter | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | André Langevin | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Art | Edris Eckhardt | Also won in 1959 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Art | Ben Kamihira | Also won in 1956 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Art | Seong Moy | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Art | Hobson Pittman | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Art | Sahl Swarz | Also won in 1958 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Art | Donald S. Thrall | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Walter E. Aschaffenburg | Also won in 1973 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Henry Dreyfuss Brant | Also won in 1946 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Peggy Glanville-Hicks | Also won in 1957 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Hall Franklin Overton | Also won in 1967 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Russell Smith | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Hugo Weisgall | Also won in 1960, 1966 | |
| Creative Arts | Photographer | Robert Frank | Also won in 1956 | |
| Creative Arts | Photographer | Todd Webb | Also won in 1956 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Barbara Gibbs Golffing | Also won in 1956 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Barbara Howes | ||
| Humanities | American Literature | Harold William Blodgett | ||
| Humanities | American Literature | Charles Feidelson, Jr. | ||
| Humanities | American Literature | Joseph N. Frank | Also won in 1975 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Ernest Samuels | Also won in 1971 | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | Irene Dakin Paden | ||
| Humanities | Biography | Irvin Ehrenpreis | Also won in 1961 | |
| Humanities | British History | Hessel Duncan Hall | ||
| Humanities | Classics | Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. | ||
| Humanities | Classics | James Frank Gilliam | ||
| Humanities | Classics | Arthur Ernest Gordon | ||
| Humanities | Classics | George Emmanuel Mylonas | Also won in 1968 | |
| Humanities | Classics | James Henry Oliver | Also won in 1946 | |
| Humanities | Classics | William Kendrick Pritchett | Also won in 1951 | |
| Humanities | Classics | Morton Smith | ||
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | John Frank Cady | Also won in 1960 | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Ch'ên Shou-yi | ||
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Also won in 1952 | ||
| Humanities | Economic History | Bray Hammond | Also won in 1950 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Mark Eccles | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | William Irvine | Also won in 1962 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Paul Harold Kocher | Also won in 1946 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Carl Woodring | ||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. | ||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Horst Woldemar Janson | Also won in 1948 | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Harold Courlander | Also won in 1948 | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr. | ||
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Frederic Ramsey, Jr. | Also won in 1953 | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Stith Thompson | ||
| Humanities | French Literature | Irving Putter | ||
| Humanities | German and East European History | Friedrich Engel-Janosi | ||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Liselotte Dieckmann | ||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | George Clarence Schoolfield | ||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Detlev Walther Schumann | ||
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Eugene Maximilian Karl Geiling | ||
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Marie Boas Hall | ||
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Cyril Stanley Smith | Also won in 1978 | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Glenn Allen Sonnedecker | ||
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Gertrude Himmelfarb | Also won in 1957 | |
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Henry Stuart Hughes | ||
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | |||
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Bernard Weinberg | Also won in 1945 | |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | Robert Cooper West | ||
| Humanities | Linguistics | Peter Alexis Boodberg | Also won in 1938, 1963 | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Denzel Raybourne Carr | ||
| Humanities | Linguistics | Henry R. Kahane | Also won in 1962 | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Max Weinreich | Also won in 1956 | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Also won in 1939 | ||
| Humanities | Medieval History | Brian Tierney | Also won in 1956 | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Kemp Malone | ||
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Rossell Hope Robbins | ||
| Humanities | Music Research | Also won in 1956 | ||
| Humanities | Music Research | Noah Greenberg | ||
| Humanities | Music Research | Eta Harich-Schneider | Also won in 1953, 1954 | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Bernard Stambler | ||
| Humanities | Music Research | Oliver Strunk | Also won in 1951 | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Walter Lincoln Woodfill | ||
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Ernest Bender | ||
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Jacob Joel Finkelstein | ||
| Humanities | Philosophy | Irving Marmer Copi | ||
| Humanities | Philosophy | Philip Merlan | ||
| Humanities | Philosophy | Charles Egerton Osgood | Also won in 1972 | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Josephine Waters Bennett | Also won in 1944 | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | William Nelson | ||
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Craig R. Thompson | Also won in 1942, 1954, 1968 | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Franklin B. Williams, Jr. | ||
| Humanities | Russian Studies | Also won in 1956 | ||
| Humanities | Science Writing | Gobind Behari Lal | ||
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Dmitry Cizevsky | ||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | José de Onís | ||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Oliver Howard Hauptmann | ||
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Monroe Lippman | ||
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Charles Ensign Rogers | ||
| Humanities | United States History | John Richard Alden | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Thomas B. Alexander | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Shelby Foote | Also won in 1956, 1959 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Norman Francis Furniss | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Eric Frederick Goldman | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Edward Chase Kirkland | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Bessie Louise Pierce | Also won in 1957 | |
| Humanities | United States History | George Wilson Pierson | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Frank Everson Vandiver | ||
| Natural Science | Applied Math | Leslie Stephen George Kovasznay | ||
| Natural Science | Applied Math | Wulf Bernard Kunkel | Also won in 1972 | |
| Natural Science | Applied Math | James Edward Storer | ||
| Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Louis Craig Green | ||
| Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Martin Schwarzschild | ||
| Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | John Hughes Tinlot | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Isadore Amdur | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Paul Doughty Bartlett | Also won in 1971 | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Milton Burton | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Robert Hugh Cole | Also won in 1961 | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | |||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | John Courtney Decius | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Paul Delahay | Also won in 1971 | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Stanley Jerome Cristol | Also won in 1980 | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | George Dawson Halsey, Jr. | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | George Simms Hammond | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Harold Hart | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Ralph A. James | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | David Lipkin | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Lynne L. Merritt, Jr. | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Richard M. Noyes | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Isadore Perlman | Also won in 1962 | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Henry Rapoport | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Calvin Lee Stevens | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Julian M. Sturtevant | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Henry Taube | Also won in 1949 | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Alfred Lawrence Wilds | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | John Warren Williams | ||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Isaac Barshad | ||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Kenneth E. Caster | Also won in 1943, 1954 | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Ernst Cloos | ||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Maurice Ewing | Also won in 1938, 1939, 1953 | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Richard Holmes Merriam | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Philip J. Davis | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Marshall Hall, Jr. | Also won in 1970 | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Edwin Hewitt | Also won in 1945 | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Gerhard Paul Hochschild | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Arthur J. Lohwater | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Edward James McShane | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Alfred Tarski | Also won in 1941, 1942 | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Alexander Weinstein | Also won in 1954 | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | George W. Whitehead | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Daniel Zelinsky | ||
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | David K. Detweiler | ||
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Oskar Hirsch | ||
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Cyril Norman Hugh Long | ||
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Malcolm Ray Miller | Also won in 1966 | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Lloyd Milton Nyhus | ||
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Donal Sheehan | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Thomas Foxen Anderson | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Paul Delos Boyer | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Waldo E. Cohn | Also won in 1962 | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Everett Ross Dempster | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Raymond Nicholas Doetsch | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Roy Philip Forster | Also won in 1948 | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | William Zev Hassid | Also won in 1962 | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert W. Holley | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Lloyd L. Ingraham | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Joseph Logan Irvin | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Nicholas Nicolaides | Also won in 1956 | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Man Chiang Niu | Also won in 1954 | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Daniel J. O'Kane | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Thomas Reid | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Mark A. Stahmann | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Henry Burr Steinbach | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland | ||
| Natural Science | Neuroscience | Ronald Grant | ||
| Natural Science | Neuroscience | Stephen William Kuffler | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Charles Mitchill Bogert | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Robert Kyle Burns | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Rada Dyson-Hudson | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Gerhard Fankhauser | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Herbert Friedmann | Also won in 1950, 1953 | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Aubrey Gorbman | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Judson Linsley Gressitt | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Benjamin Vincent Hall | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Sol Kramer | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Ernest Albert Lachner | Also won in 1959 | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Victor C. Twitty | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Sylvan Meryl Rose | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Lloyd Eugene Rozeboom | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Carroll M. Williams | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Mildred Stratton Wilson | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Herbert L. Anderson | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Peter Axel | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Calvin M. Class | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Arthur H. Compton | Also won in 1926, 1959 | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Giuseppe Cocconi | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Burton Lehman Henke | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Clyde A. Hutchison, Jr. | Also won in 1972 | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Norman Myles Kroll | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Robert Briggs Leachman | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Arnold Nordsieck | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | George Thomas Reynolds | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | George Placzek | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Raymond Sheline | Also won in 1956, 1964 | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Theodore Soller | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Robert Dean Spence | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Charles Hard Townes | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Edwin Albrecht Uehling | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Robert Lee Walker | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Joseph Weber | Also won in 1962 | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Francis Dudley Williams | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | John Grieve Bald | Also won in 1963 | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | |||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Frank Edwin Egler | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Wilbert Keith Kennedy | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Gleb Krotkov | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | James Kucyniak | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Louis Kimball Mann | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Charles Duncan Michener | Also won in 1966 | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Harold E. Moore | Also won in 1946 | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | M. Rosalind Morris | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Harry H. Murakishi | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Lindsay Shepherd Olive | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | William Jacob Robbins | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Rudolf M. Schuster | Also won in 1967 | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Sanford Marvin Siegel | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | John Maurice Tucker | ||
| Natural Science | Statistics | Erich L. Lehmann | Also won in 1966, 1979 | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Arthur J. O. Anderson | Also won in 1957 | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | David Crockett Graham | Also won in 1952 | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Katharine Luomala | Also won in 1959 | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Edward H. Spicer | Also won in 1941 | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Stephen Enke | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | John Kenneth Galbraith | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Carl Kaysen | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | John Marion Letiche | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Edith Tilton Penrose | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Warren Candler Scoville | Also won in 1948 | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Arthur Smithies | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | William Spencer Vickrey | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Arthur N. Young | ||
| Social Sciences | Law | Philip B. Kurland | Also won in 1949 | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Clyde Wilson Summers | ||
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Douglass Cater, Jr. | ||
| Social Sciences | Political Science | John Hamilton Hallowell | ||
| Social Sciences | Political Science | John D. Montgomery | ||
| Social Sciences | Political Science | David B. Truman | ||
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Eric Herman Wilhelm Voegelin | Also won in 1950 | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Jerome Seymour Bruner | ||
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Jean Evans | Also won in 1950 | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | John Langworthy Fuller | ||
| Social Sciences | Psychology | A. Arthur Schiller | Also won in 1949, 1962 | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Jean Robertson Burnet | ||
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Robert Francis Winch | Also won in 1974 |