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

CategoryField of StudyFellowNotesRef
Creative ArtsFictionSaul BellowAlso won in 1948
Creative ArtsFictionHortense CalisherAlso won in 1952
Creative ArtsFictionMarie CampbellAlso won in 1944
Creative ArtsFictionKermit H. Hunter
Creative ArtsFictionAndré Langevin
Creative ArtsFine ArtEdris EckhardtAlso won in 1959
Creative ArtsFine ArtBen KamihiraAlso won in 1956
Creative ArtsFine ArtSeong Moy
Creative ArtsFine ArtHobson Pittman
Creative ArtsFine ArtSahl SwarzAlso won in 1958
Creative ArtsFine ArtDonald S. Thrall
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionWalter E. AschaffenburgAlso won in 1973
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionHenry Dreyfuss BrantAlso won in 1946
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionPeggy Glanville-HicksAlso won in 1957
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionHall Franklin OvertonAlso won in 1967
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionRussell Smith
Creative ArtsMusic CompositionHugo WeisgallAlso won in 1960, 1966
Creative ArtsPhotographerRobert FrankAlso won in 1956
Creative ArtsPhotographerTodd WebbAlso won in 1956
Creative ArtsPoetryBarbara Gibbs GolffingAlso won in 1956
Creative ArtsPoetryBarbara Howes
HumanitiesAmerican LiteratureHarold William Blodgett
HumanitiesAmerican LiteratureCharles Feidelson, Jr.
HumanitiesAmerican LiteratureJoseph N. FrankAlso won in 1975
HumanitiesAmerican LiteratureErnest SamuelsAlso won in 1971
HumanitiesBibliographyIrene Dakin Paden
HumanitiesBiographyIrvin EhrenpreisAlso won in 1961
HumanitiesBritish HistoryHessel Duncan Hall
HumanitiesClassicsEmmett L. Bennett, Jr.
HumanitiesClassicsJames Frank Gilliam
HumanitiesClassicsArthur Ernest Gordon
HumanitiesClassicsGeorge Emmanuel MylonasAlso won in 1968
HumanitiesClassicsJames Henry OliverAlso won in 1946
HumanitiesClassicsWilliam Kendrick PritchettAlso won in 1951
HumanitiesClassicsMorton Smith
HumanitiesEast Asian StudiesJohn Frank CadyAlso won in 1960
HumanitiesEast Asian StudiesCh'ên Shou-yi
HumanitiesEast Asian StudiesAlso won in 1952
HumanitiesEconomic HistoryBray HammondAlso won in 1950
HumanitiesEnglish LiteratureMark Eccles
HumanitiesEnglish LiteratureWilliam IrvineAlso won in 1962
HumanitiesEnglish LiteraturePaul Harold KocherAlso won in 1946
HumanitiesEnglish LiteratureCarl Woodring
HumanitiesFine Arts ResearchBartlett H. Hayes, Jr.
HumanitiesFine Arts ResearchHorst Woldemar JansonAlso won in 1948
HumanitiesFolklore and Popular CultureHarold CourlanderAlso won in 1948
HumanitiesFolklore and Popular CultureFrancis Peabody Magoun, Jr.
HumanitiesFolklore and Popular CultureFrederic Ramsey, Jr.Also won in 1953
HumanitiesFolklore and Popular CultureStith Thompson
HumanitiesFrench LiteratureIrving Putter
HumanitiesGerman and East European HistoryFriedrich Engel-Janosi
HumanitiesGerman and Scandinavian LiteratureLiselotte Dieckmann
HumanitiesGerman and Scandinavian LiteratureGeorge Clarence Schoolfield
HumanitiesGerman and Scandinavian LiteratureDetlev Walther Schumann
HumanitiesHistory of Science and TechnologyEugene Maximilian Karl Geiling
HumanitiesHistory of Science and TechnologyMarie Boas Hall
HumanitiesHistory of Science and TechnologyCyril Stanley SmithAlso won in 1978
HumanitiesHistory of Science and TechnologyGlenn Allen Sonnedecker
HumanitiesIntellectual and Cultural HistoryGertrude HimmelfarbAlso won in 1957
HumanitiesIntellectual and Cultural HistoryHenry Stuart Hughes
HumanitiesIntellectual and Cultural History
HumanitiesItalian LiteratureBernard WeinbergAlso won in 1945
HumanitiesLatin American LiteratureRobert Cooper West
HumanitiesLinguisticsPeter Alexis BoodbergAlso won in 1938, 1963
HumanitiesLinguisticsDenzel Raybourne Carr
HumanitiesLinguisticsHenry R. KahaneAlso won in 1962
HumanitiesLinguisticsMax WeinreichAlso won in 1956
HumanitiesMedieval HistoryAlso won in 1939
HumanitiesMedieval HistoryBrian TierneyAlso won in 1956
HumanitiesMedieval LiteratureKemp Malone
HumanitiesMedieval LiteratureRossell Hope Robbins
HumanitiesMusic ResearchAlso won in 1956
HumanitiesMusic ResearchNoah Greenberg
HumanitiesMusic ResearchEta Harich-SchneiderAlso won in 1953, 1954
HumanitiesMusic ResearchBernard Stambler
HumanitiesMusic ResearchOliver StrunkAlso won in 1951
HumanitiesMusic ResearchWalter Lincoln Woodfill
HumanitiesNear Eastern StudiesErnest Bender
HumanitiesNear Eastern StudiesJacob Joel Finkelstein
HumanitiesPhilosophyIrving Marmer Copi
HumanitiesPhilosophyPhilip Merlan
HumanitiesPhilosophyCharles Egerton OsgoodAlso won in 1972
HumanitiesRenaissance HistoryJosephine Waters BennettAlso won in 1944
HumanitiesRenaissance HistoryWilliam Nelson
HumanitiesRenaissance HistoryCraig R. ThompsonAlso won in 1942, 1954, 1968
HumanitiesRenaissance HistoryFranklin B. Williams, Jr.
HumanitiesRussian StudiesAlso won in 1956
HumanitiesScience WritingGobind Behari Lal
HumanitiesSlavic LiteratureDmitry Cizevsky
HumanitiesSpanish and Portuguese LiteratureJosé de Onís
HumanitiesSpanish and Portuguese LiteratureOliver Howard Hauptmann
HumanitiesTheatre ArtsMonroe Lippman
HumanitiesTheatre ArtsCharles Ensign Rogers
HumanitiesUnited States HistoryJohn Richard Alden
HumanitiesUnited States HistoryThomas B. Alexander
HumanitiesUnited States HistoryShelby FooteAlso won in 1956, 1959
HumanitiesUnited States HistoryNorman Francis Furniss
HumanitiesUnited States HistoryEric Frederick Goldman
HumanitiesUnited States HistoryEdward Chase Kirkland
HumanitiesUnited States HistoryBessie Louise PierceAlso won in 1957
HumanitiesUnited States HistoryGeorge Wilson Pierson
HumanitiesUnited States HistoryFrank Everson Vandiver
Natural ScienceApplied MathLeslie Stephen George Kovasznay
Natural ScienceApplied MathWulf Bernard KunkelAlso won in 1972
Natural ScienceApplied MathJames Edward Storer
Natural ScienceAstronomy and AstrophysicsLouis Craig Green
Natural ScienceAstronomy and AstrophysicsMartin Schwarzschild
Natural ScienceAstronomy and AstrophysicsJohn Hughes Tinlot
Natural ScienceChemistryIsadore Amdur
Natural ScienceChemistryPaul Doughty BartlettAlso won in 1971
Natural ScienceChemistryMilton Burton
Natural ScienceChemistryRobert Hugh ColeAlso won in 1961
Natural ScienceChemistry
Natural ScienceChemistryJohn Courtney Decius
Natural ScienceChemistryPaul DelahayAlso won in 1971
Natural ScienceChemistryStanley Jerome CristolAlso won in 1980
Natural ScienceChemistryGeorge Dawson Halsey, Jr.
Natural ScienceChemistryGeorge Simms Hammond
Natural ScienceChemistryHarold Hart
Natural ScienceChemistryRalph A. James
Natural ScienceChemistryDavid Lipkin
Natural ScienceChemistryLynne L. Merritt, Jr.
Natural ScienceChemistryRichard M. Noyes
Natural ScienceChemistryIsadore PerlmanAlso won in 1962
Natural ScienceChemistryHenry Rapoport
Natural ScienceChemistryCalvin Lee Stevens
Natural ScienceChemistryJulian M. Sturtevant
Natural ScienceChemistryHenry TaubeAlso won in 1949
Natural ScienceChemistryAlfred Lawrence Wilds
Natural ScienceChemistryJohn Warren Williams
Natural ScienceEarth ScienceIsaac Barshad
Natural ScienceEarth ScienceKenneth E. CasterAlso won in 1943, 1954
Natural ScienceEarth ScienceErnst Cloos
Natural ScienceEarth ScienceMaurice EwingAlso won in 1938, 1939, 1953
Natural ScienceEarth ScienceRichard Holmes Merriam
Natural ScienceMathematicsPhilip J. Davis
Natural ScienceMathematicsMarshall Hall, Jr.Also won in 1970
Natural ScienceMathematicsEdwin HewittAlso won in 1945
Natural ScienceMathematicsGerhard Paul Hochschild
Natural ScienceMathematicsArthur J. Lohwater
Natural ScienceMathematicsEdward James McShane
Natural ScienceMathematicsAlfred TarskiAlso won in 1941, 1942
Natural ScienceMathematicsAlexander WeinsteinAlso won in 1954
Natural ScienceMathematicsGeorge W. Whitehead
Natural ScienceMathematicsDaniel Zelinsky
Natural ScienceMedicine and HealthDavid K. Detweiler
Natural ScienceMedicine and HealthOskar Hirsch
Natural ScienceMedicine and HealthCyril Norman Hugh Long
Natural ScienceMedicine and HealthMalcolm Ray MillerAlso won in 1966
Natural ScienceMedicine and HealthLloyd Milton Nyhus
Natural ScienceMedicine and HealthDonal Sheehan
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyThomas Foxen Anderson
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyPaul Delos Boyer
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyWaldo E. CohnAlso won in 1962
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyEverett Ross Dempster
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyRaymond Nicholas Doetsch
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyRoy Philip ForsterAlso won in 1948
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyWilliam Zev HassidAlso won in 1962
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyRobert W. Holley
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyLloyd L. Ingraham
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyJoseph Logan Irvin
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyNicholas NicolaidesAlso won in 1956
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyMan Chiang NiuAlso won in 1954
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyDaniel J. O'Kane
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyJohn Thomas Reid
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyMark A. Stahmann
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyHenry Burr Steinbach
Natural ScienceMolecular and Cellular BiologyGordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland
Natural ScienceNeuroscienceRonald Grant
Natural ScienceNeuroscienceStephen William Kuffler
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyCharles Mitchill Bogert
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyRobert Kyle Burns
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyRada Dyson-Hudson
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyGerhard Fankhauser
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyHerbert FriedmannAlso won in 1950, 1953
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyAubrey Gorbman
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyJudson Linsley Gressitt
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyBenjamin Vincent Hall
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologySol Kramer
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyErnest Albert LachnerAlso won in 1959
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyVictor C. Twitty
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologySylvan Meryl Rose
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyLloyd Eugene Rozeboom
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyCarroll M. Williams
Natural ScienceOrganismic Biology and EcologyMildred Stratton Wilson
Natural SciencePhysicsHerbert L. Anderson
Natural SciencePhysicsPeter Axel
Natural SciencePhysicsCalvin M. Class
Natural SciencePhysicsArthur H. ComptonAlso won in 1926, 1959
Natural SciencePhysicsGiuseppe Cocconi
Natural SciencePhysicsBurton Lehman Henke
Natural SciencePhysicsClyde A. Hutchison, Jr.Also won in 1972
Natural SciencePhysicsNorman Myles Kroll
Natural SciencePhysicsRobert Briggs Leachman
Natural SciencePhysicsArnold Nordsieck
Natural SciencePhysicsGeorge Thomas Reynolds
Natural SciencePhysicsGeorge Placzek
Natural SciencePhysicsRaymond ShelineAlso won in 1956, 1964
Natural SciencePhysicsTheodore Soller
Natural SciencePhysicsRobert Dean Spence
Natural SciencePhysicsCharles Hard Townes
Natural SciencePhysicsEdwin Albrecht Uehling
Natural SciencePhysicsRobert Lee Walker
Natural SciencePhysicsJoseph WeberAlso won in 1962
Natural SciencePhysicsFrancis Dudley Williams
Natural SciencePlant ScienceJohn Grieve BaldAlso won in 1963
Natural SciencePlant Science
Natural SciencePlant ScienceFrank Edwin Egler
Natural SciencePlant ScienceWilbert Keith Kennedy
Natural SciencePlant ScienceGleb Krotkov
Natural SciencePlant ScienceJames Kucyniak
Natural SciencePlant ScienceLouis Kimball Mann
Natural SciencePlant ScienceCharles Duncan MichenerAlso won in 1966
Natural SciencePlant ScienceHarold E. MooreAlso won in 1946
Natural SciencePlant ScienceM. Rosalind Morris
Natural SciencePlant ScienceHarry H. Murakishi
Natural SciencePlant ScienceLindsay Shepherd Olive
Natural SciencePlant ScienceWilliam Jacob Robbins
Natural SciencePlant ScienceRudolf M. SchusterAlso won in 1967
Natural SciencePlant ScienceSanford Marvin Siegel
Natural SciencePlant ScienceJohn Maurice Tucker
Natural ScienceStatisticsErich L. LehmannAlso won in 1966, 1979
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural StudiesArthur J. O. AndersonAlso won in 1957
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural StudiesDavid Crockett GrahamAlso won in 1952
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural StudiesKatharine LuomalaAlso won in 1959
Social SciencesAnthropology and Cultural StudiesEdward H. SpicerAlso won in 1941
Social SciencesEconomicsStephen Enke
Social SciencesEconomicsJohn Kenneth Galbraith
Social SciencesEconomicsCarl Kaysen
Social SciencesEconomicsJohn Marion Letiche
Social SciencesEconomicsEdith Tilton Penrose
Social SciencesEconomicsWarren Candler ScovilleAlso won in 1948
Social SciencesEconomicsArthur Smithies
Social SciencesEconomicsWilliam Spencer Vickrey
Social SciencesEconomicsArthur N. Young
Social SciencesLawPhilip B. KurlandAlso won in 1949
Social SciencesLawClyde Wilson Summers
Social SciencesPolitical ScienceDouglass Cater, Jr.
Social SciencesPolitical ScienceJohn Hamilton Hallowell
Social SciencesPolitical ScienceJohn D. Montgomery
Social SciencesPolitical ScienceDavid B. Truman
Social SciencesPolitical ScienceEric Herman Wilhelm VoegelinAlso won in 1950
Social SciencesPsychologyJerome Seymour Bruner
Social SciencesPsychologyJean EvansAlso won in 1950
Social SciencesPsychologyJohn Langworthy Fuller
Social SciencesPsychologyA. Arthur SchillerAlso won in 1949, 1962
Social SciencesSociologyJean Robertson Burnet
Social SciencesSociologyRobert Francis WinchAlso won in 1974