List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1957
Three hundred and forty-four scholars and artists were awarded a total of $1,500,000 Guggenheim Fellowships in 1957.
1957 U. S. and Canadian Fellows
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Holger Cahill | Novel writing | |||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Alfred Chester | Novel writing | Also won in 1967 | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Lucy Daniels | Novel writing | |||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Borden Deal | Novel writing | |||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Herbert Gold | State University of Iowa | Novel writing | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Robert Conroy Goldston | Novel writing | |||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Roger Lemelin | Novel writing | Also won in 1946 | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Byron Herbert Reece | Young Harris College | Novel writing | Also won in 1952 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Mary Lee Settle | Novel writing | Also won in 1960 | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Adele Wiseman | Novel writing | |||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | William Barnett | Philadelphia Museum School of Art | Painting | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frederick G. Becker | St. Louis School of Fine Arts | Printmaking | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Virgil David Cantini | University of Pittsburgh | Creative design in enamels | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Carmen Cicero | Roselle Park High School | Painting | Also won in 1963 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert Aaron Frame | Pasadena School of Fine Arts | Painting | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Paul Theodore Granlund | Minneapolis School of Art | Sculpture | Also won in 1958 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Dimitri Hadzi | Sculpture | |||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Barbara Hult Lekberg | University of the Arts in Philadelphia | Sculpture | Also won in 1959 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Max Loehr | University of Michigan | |||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Joseph S. Sheppard | Dickinson College | Painting | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Dominick Argento | University of Minnesota | Composing | Also won in 1964 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Mark Bucci | Composing | Also won in 1953 | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Chou Wen-chung | Columbia University | Composing | Also won in 1959 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Jacob Druckman | Composing | Also won in 1968 | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Earl George | Syracuse University | Composing | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Peggy Glanville-Hicks | Composing | Also won in 1955 | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Edmund Thomas Haines | Sarah Lawrence College | Composing | Also won in 1956 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Attilio Joseph Macero | TEO Productions | Composing | Also won in 1958 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Ned Rorem | Composing | Also won in 1978 | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert Starer | Juilliard School | Composing | Also won in 1963 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Gregory Tucker | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Composing | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | David Van Vactor | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Composing | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Juilliard School | Interpretive dance number King's Heart | |||
| Creative Arts | Photography | John Collier Jr. | Uses of photography in social sciences | |||
| Creative Arts | Photography | W. Eugene Smith | Also won in 1956, 1968 | |||
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Paul Hamilton Engle | University of Iowa | Writing | Also won in 1953, 1959 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Marcia Nardi | Writing | |||
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Alastair Reid | Writing | Also won in 1958 | ||
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Jonathan C. Williams | Recording annals and writing the archaeology and other phases of the Etowah Indian Mounds from the poet's point of view | |||
| Humanities | American Literature | Curtis Dahl | Wheaton College | 19th century archaeological discoveries in relation to the cultural history of the West | ||
| Humanities | American Literature | Charles Andrew Fenton | Yale University | Completion of previously started biography about Stephen Vincent Benét | ||
| Humanities | American Literature | Robert Clay Humphrey | University of North Carolina, Greensboro | Role of the poet in mid-century America | ||
| Humanities | American Literature | Henry Dan Piper | California Institute of Technology | |||
| Humanities | American Literature | Northwestern University | ||||
| Humanities | American Literature | Louis Decimus Rubin Jr. | Richmond News Leader | Key themes and formal concepts in the literature of the South | ||
| Humanities | American Literature | Albert Douglass Van Nostrand | Brown University | |||
| Humanities | American Literature | Richard Walser | North Carolina State College | Regional basis of literary interpretations of the South | ||
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | W. Burlie Brown | Tulane University | American architectural thought and expression, 1865-1914 | ||
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | William Bell Dinsmoor | ||||
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Allan Bernard Temko | San Francisco Chronicle, University of California, Berkeley | Architecture on the West Coast of the United States | ||
| Humanities | Bibliography | Ernst Maximilian Posner | American University | History of archives administration | ||
| Humanities | Biography | Flora Anne Armitage | ||||
| Humanities | Biography | Clark University | ||||
| Humanities | Biography | Laura Fermi | Benito Mussolini | |||
| Humanities | British History | Joseph O. Baylen | Delta State College | W. T. Stead | ||
| Humanities | British History | John Leonard Clive | Harvard University | Transition from 18th to 19th century thought and opinion in England | ||
| Humanities | British History | Paul H. Hardacre | Vanderbilt University | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | ||
| Humanities | British History | J. Jean Hecht | Haverford College | The upper-class family in 18th century England | ||
| Humanities | British History | Gustave Lanctot | Ottawa University | Also won in 1956 | ||
| Humanities | British History | Arthur J. Marder | University of Hawaii | English seapower in the 20th century | Also won in 1941, 1946 | |
| Humanities | Classics | Darrell Arlynn Amyx | University of California, Berkeley | Greek vase painting | Also won in 1973 | |
| Humanities | Classics | George Eckel Duckworth | Princeton University | Virgil as the poet of Augustan Rome | ||
| Humanities | Classics | University of North Dakota | Also won in 1964 | |||
| Humanities | Classics | Philip Levine | Harvard University | |||
| Humanities | Classics | Paul Lachlan MacKendrick | University of Wisconsin | Roman colonization in the Republican period | ||
| Humanities | Classics | John Brodie McDiarmid | University of Washington | |||
| Humanities | Classics | Lionel Pearson | Stanford University | Popular ethics in ancient Greece | ||
| Humanities | Classics | Wilson Gerson Rabinowitz | University of California, Berkeley | Certain writings by Aristotle | ||
| Humanities | Classics | Renata von Scheliha | Musical and poetical contests of the Greeks | |||
| Humanities | Classics | Herbert Chayyim Youtie | University of Michigan | Scholarly use of papyrological literature | ||
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Shih-Hsiang Chen | University of California, Berkeley | Historical study of Chinese literature | ||
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | James Robert Hightower | Harvard University | |||
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Emanuel Sarkisyanz | Bishop College | Buddhist influence on Burmese social thought | ||
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Robert Shafer | University of California | Sino-Tibetan languages | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Donald Lemen Clark | Also won in 1944 | |||
| Humanities | English Literature | Arthur Morse Eastman | University of Michigan | Suspended judgement in Shakespeare's plays | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Thomas Cary Duncan Eaves | University of Arkansas | Samuel Richardson | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Richard David Ellmann | Northwestern University | Also won in 1949, 1970 | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Arthur Friedman | University of Chicago | 18th century literature | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Donald Johnson Greene | University of California, Riverside | Relation between English literature and politics in the 18th century | Also won in 1979 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Bruce Harkness | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Influence of certain English publishing firms on authors in the 20th century | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Benjamin B. Hoover | University of Washington | Relationship of literature and politics in 18th century England | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Richard Meredith Hosley | University of Missouri | Elizabethan stage and methods of presenting plays | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | John Henderson Long | Morehead State College | Shakespeare's use of performed music in his plays | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Thomas Francis Parkinson | University of California, Berkeley | Later poetry by William Butler Yeats | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford | University of Texas | 19th century literary forgeries | Also won in 1929, 1937 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Irving Ribner | Tulane University | Shakespeare's growth and development as a writer of tragedy | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | William Andrew Ringler Jr. | Washington University in St. Louis | Complete poetical works of Sir Philip Sidney; history of Tudor poetry | Also won in 1947 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert Wentworth Rogers | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Alexander Pope | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Eleanor Rosenberg | Barnard College | Literature in the New World as known in Tudor England | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | John Calhoun Stephens Jr. | Emory University | Richard Steele and Joseph Addison as editors of The Guardian | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Wilfred Healey Stone | Stanford University | E. M. Forster | Also won in 1967 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Alvin Whitley | University of Wisconsin | Victorian popular poetry | ||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Mills College | Naturalistic elements in medieval art | |||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | John Goldsmith Phillips | Metropolitan Museum | Works of Andrea del Verrocchio and the young Leonardo da Vinci | ||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Harvard University | ||||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Aline B. Saarinen | The New York Times | |||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Pauline Simmons | ||||
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | George Korson | Pennsylvania Folklore Society | Anthracite region | ||
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | David Park McAllester | Wesleyan University | Navajo ceremonial chants | ||
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Donald Knight Wilgus | Western Kentucky University | History of the Anglo-American ballad since 1898 | ||
| Humanities | French Literature | Joel Colton | Duke University | Léon Blum and French Socialism | ||
| Humanities | French Literature | Carl Albert Viggiani | Wesleyan University | Works by Albert Camus | ||
| Humanities | French Literature | Connecticut College | Contemporary Franco-German literary relations | |||
| Humanities | French Literature | Durand Echeverria | Brown University | Meaning of liberty in French thought of the 18th century | ||
| Humanities | French Literature | Emory University | French novel of the 18th century | |||
| Humanities | French Literature | Armand Hoog | Princeton University | |||
| Humanities | French Literature | Georges J. Joyaux | Michigan State University | Influence of North African writers on contemporary French letters | ||
| Humanities | French Literature | Félix-Antoine Savard | ||||
| Humanities | French Literature | Haverford College | Attitudes and values of villages in two contrasting regions of rural France | |||
| Humanities | German and East European History | Klemens von Klemperer | Smith College | Alternatives to the Anschluss of Austria | ||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Robert Livingston Beare | ||||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Sigurd Burckhardt | Ohio State University | Comparative study of the dramatic poetry of Shakespeare and Goethe | ||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Walter G. Johnson | University of Washington | Research in Stockholm | Also won in 1964 | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | James Woodrow Marchand | Washington University in St. Louis | Dating Old High German and Gothic manuscripts | ||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | André von Gronicka | Columbia University | Also won in 1969 | ||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Werner Vordtriede | University of Wisconsin | Conception of the poet in German Romanticism | ||
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Giorgio Diaz de Santillana | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Vincenzio Viviani | ||
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Ernest Joseph Burrus | St. Louis University | Documents in Italian archives bearing on Latin American history | ||
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Joseph Newman | ||||
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Watt Stewart | New York State College for Teachers | Business activities of Minor Cooper Keith in Costa Rica | ||
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Walter M. Simon | Cornell University | History of European positivism in the 19th century | ||
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Gertrude Himmelfarb | Development of Darwin's thought and of contemporary response to his work | Also won in 1955 | ||
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | [Frank E. Manuel|Frank Edward Kern|Edward Manuel] | Brandeis University | Mythology and primitive religion in 18th century thought | ||
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Meyer H. Abrams | Cornell University | Also won in 1960 | ||
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | John Jacob Enck | University of Wisconsin | Restoration comedy | ||
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Martin Price | Yale University | Ideas of order in representative 18th century English writers | Also won in 1971 | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Wilbur Samuel Howell | Princeton University | Theories of logic and rhetoric in 18th century England | Also won in 1948 | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Joseph Holmes Summers | University of Connecticut | Milton's Paradise Lost | ||
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Albert B. Friedman | Harvard University | Also won in 1965 | ||
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Paul Murray Kendall | Ohio University | Warwick the Kingmaker | Also won in 1961 | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Durant Waite Robertson Jr. | Princeton University | Poetry of Chaucer in the light of medieval tradition | ||
| Humanities | Music Research | Karl J. Geiringer | Boston University | |||
| Humanities | Music Research | Michigan State University | Italian instrumental ensemble music of the early 17th century | |||
| Humanities | Music Research | Walter H. Rubsamen | University of California, Los Angeles | 15th century Italian vocal music | Also won in 1947 | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Eric Werner | Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | Liturgy and their influence on the history of church and synagogue music | ||
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | George Makdisi | University of Michigan | History of Islamic socio-religious movements in the 11th century | Also won in 1966 | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Jacob J. Rabinowitz | Hebrew University | |||
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Arthur Võõbus | Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary | Syrian monasticism from the 2nd to the 5th century, A.D. | Also won in 1958, 1968 | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Lewis White Beck | University of Rochester | Immanuel Kant's ethical theory | ||
| Humanities | Philosophy | Burton Spencer Dreben | Harvard University | |||
| Humanities | Philosophy | William Bernard Peach | Duke University | Richard Price and British moral philosophy | ||
| Humanities | Religion | Ralph Harper | Bard College | Also won in 1965 | ||
| Humanities | Religion | John Thomas McNeill | Union Theological Seminary | Works of John Calvin | ||
| Humanities | Renaissance History | University of Oregon | The concept of 'the learned poet' in Renaissance England | |||
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Paul O. Kristeller | Columbia University | Philosophical and humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance from the 14th to the 16th centuries | Also won in 1968 | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Marc Raeff | Clark University | The nobility's relationships to the Russian state, 1725-1861 | Also won in 1987 | |
| Humanities | Science Writing | Donald Greame Kelley | ||||
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Victor Erlich | University of Washington | Research in London and Bristol | Also won in 1964, 1976 | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Yale University | Russian short story | |||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Ohio State University | Literary style of Miguel de Unamuno | |||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Sherman Hinkle Eoff | Washington University in St. Louis | Philosophic attitudes of 19th and 20th century novels, with particular emphasis on the emotional impact of modern science on the literary mind | ||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Princeton University | Blanco White | |||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Brown University | Intellectual history of modern Spain | Also won in 1950 | ||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Juan Marichal | Bryn Mawr College | Manuel Azaña | Also won in 1972 | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Walter T. Pattison | University of Minnesota | |||
| Humanities | United States History | Robert V. Bruce | Boston University | 1877 railroad strikes and labor riots in the USA | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Lyman Henry Butterfield | Harvard University | |||
| Humanities | United States History | Louis L. Gerson | University of Connecticut | Impact of American immigrant groups on US foreign policies | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Robert V. Hine | University of California, Riverside | Edward, Richard, and Benjamin Kern | Also won in 1967 | |
| Humanities | United States History | William Turrentine Jackson | University of California, Davis | British contributions to the development of the American West | Also won in 1964 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Weymouth Tyree Jordan | Florida State University | Scientific agriculture in the Old South | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Aubrey Christian Land | University of Nebraska | The merchant-planter class of the Chesapeake Colonies | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Robert Alexander Lively | Princeton University | Herbert Hoover and the American enterprise | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Richard Lowitt | Connecticut College | George W. Norris | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Andrew Forest Muir | Polytechnic Institute, Rice Institute | William Marsh Rice | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Bessie Louise Pierce | University of Chicago | History of the city of Chicago | Also won in 1955 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Frederick Rudolph | Williams College | History of higher education in the USA | Also won in 1968 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Helen C. Shugg | The part played by the search for health in westward migration in the USA | |||
| Humanities | United States History | Alice Elizabeth Smith | Wisconsin State Historical Society | Scottish leadership and capital in the development of the lower Lake Michigan area in the 19th century | ||
| Humanities | United States History | George Brown Tindall | Louisiana State University | History of the South, 1913-1946 | ||
| Humanities | United States History | John Chalmers Vinson | University of Georgia | US Senate and American foreign policy, 1931-1941 | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Bell Irvin Wiley | Emory University | History of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 | ||
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Ronold W. P. King | Harvard University | Antennae and ultra-high frequency phenomena | Also won in 1937 | |
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Geoffrey Stuart Stephen Ludford | University of Maryland | Mathematical theory of compressible flow | ||
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Shih-I Pai | University of Maryland | Fluid dynamics of high-speed and high-temperature gas flows | ||
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | William Prager | Brown University | |||
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Shan-Fu Shen | University of Maryland | Hydrodynamic stability | ||
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Armand Siegel | Boston University | Problems of applied statistical mechanics | ||
| Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Masahisa Sugiura | University of Alaska | Solar influences on the Earth's upper atmosphere | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Robert Byron Bird | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Applications of equations of change to engineering | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Gordon M. Barrow | Northwestern University | Electronic structure of certain functional groups | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Gunnar Bror Bergman | California Institute of Technology | |||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Warren William Brandt | Purdue University | Certain aspects of gas chromatography | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Norman Henry Cromwell | University of Nebraska | Organic reaction mechanisms | Also won in 1950 | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Victor R. Deitz | United States Naval Research Laboratory | |||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Renato Dulbecco | California Institute of Technology | |||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Paul Stephen Farrington | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Harold Leo Friedman | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Garman Harbottle | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Chemical consequences of nuclear transformation in certain crystalline solids | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Edward L. King | University of Wisconsin | Kinetics and mechanisms of chemical reactions in solution | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | David Emerson Mann | National Bureau of Standards | Nature and origin of potential barriers hindering internal rotation in molecules | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Foil A. Miller | Mellon Institute | Nuclear magnetic resonance | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Rollie John Myers Jr. | University of California, Berkeley | Chemical reactions of radicals, atoms and ions | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Martin A. Paul | Harpur College | Kinetics and mechanisms of nitration reactions in the solvent acetic anhydride | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Raymond Pepinsky | Pennsylvania State University | Crystal design of salts of complex and organic ions | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Lloyd Hilton Reyerson | University of Minnesota | Also won in 1927 | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Ernest Haywood Swift | California Institute of Technology | |||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Argonne National Laboratory | Thermodynamic properties of liquid Helium-3-Helium-4 mixtures | |||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | John Edward Wertz | University of Minnesota | Interactions of unpaired electron systems with their environment in the solid state | ||
| Natural Science | Chemistry | George Landis Zimmerman | Bryn Mawr College | |||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Jacob A. Bjerknes | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | John Edwin Brush | Rutgers University | Land use and settlement in Old Piscataway Township, New Jersey | ||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Don Kirkham | Iowa State University | Fertility of intensely cultivated soils of Belgium | ||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Merle Charles Prunty Jr. | University of Georgia | Effect of contemporary occupance forms on plantation landholdings in the South | ||
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Howel Williams | University of California, Berkeley | Central American and the West Indian volcanoes | Also won in 1949 | |
| Natural Science | Engineering | Diogenes James Angelakos | University of California, Berkeley | Electromagnetic radiation from regions filled with anisotropic materials | ||
| Natural Science | Engineering | Edward Walter Comings | Purdue University | High pressure technology; European education in chemical engineering | ||
| Natural Science | Engineering | Ladislas Goldstein | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | High energy condensed discharges in the heavy rare gases | ||
| Natural Science | Engineering | André Laurent Jorissen | Cornell University | |||
| Natural Science | Engineering | Erik Leonard Mollo-Christensen | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Unsteady aerodynamics | ||
| Natural Science | Engineering | Herbert Mark Neustadt | U.S. Naval Academy | Also won in 1956 | ||
| Natural Science | Engineering | George William Preckshot | University of Minnesota | |||
| Natural Science | Engineering | Stanley Eugene Rauch | University of California, Santa Barbara | Certain characteristics of systems of nonlinear differential equations | ||
| Natural Science | Engineering | Paul Southworth Symonds | Brown University | |||
| Natural Science | Engineering | Mahinder S. Uberoi | University of Michigan | Turbulent motion of fluids | ||
| Natural Science | Geography and Environmental Studies | Robert Eric Dickinson | Syracuse University | |||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | William Werner Boone | Catholic University | Also won in 1977 | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Charles L. Dolph | University of Michigan | Partial differential equations as they occur in the applied mathematical fields of scattering and fluid mechanisms | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Harish-Chandra | Institute for Advanced Study | Research in Paris | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Orville Goodwin Harrold Jr. | University of Tennessee | Three-dimensional topologies | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Kenkichi Iwasawa | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | George Daniel Mostow | Johns Hopkins University | Compact Lie transformation groups | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Jerzy Neyman | University of California, Berkeley | Statistical studies toward a theory of the spatial distribution of galaxies | ||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Erich Rothe | University of Michigan | |||
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Leo Reino Sario | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Herbert Leon Borison | University of Utah | Forebrain and hindbrain structures in the regulation of visceral activities | ||
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Averill Abraham Liebow | Yale University School of Medicine | Pathophysiology of pulmonary circulation | ||
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Frederick Sargent, II | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Physiological mechanisms of sweat gland fatigue | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Christian B. Anfinsen Jr. | National Institutes of Health | |||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jay Vern Beck | Brigham Young University | Methods of isolation and mass propagation of iron-oxidizing bacteria | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edward George Boettiger | University of Connecticut | Insect flight muscle | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Ernest Borek | City College of New York | Also won in 1950 | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jefferson M. Crismon | Stanford University | Mechanisms of inactivation of certain amines in peripheral blood vessels | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Thomas Timothy Crocker | University of California, Irvine | |||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Tihamer Zoltan Csaky | University of North Carolina | Mechanism of carbohydrate transfers in biological systems | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Sanford S. Elberg | University of California, Berkeley | Effectiveness of the vaccine developed to prevent Brucella infection in cattle | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Wilburn John Eversole | University of New Mexico | Endocrine regulation of salt and water metabolism | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Paul Fredric Fenton | Brown University | Stephen Vincent Benét | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Halvor Orin Halvorson | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Studies of micro-organisms important in food microbiology | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John William Kelly | Medical College of Virginia | Use of micro-spectrophotometry | Also won in 1960 | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Richard Fuller Kimball | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Nucleic acid and protein content of parts of the protozoan cell | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Irvin E. Liener | University of Minnesota | |||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Boris Magasanik | Harvard University | |||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Harry Wilbur Seeley Jr. | Cornell University | |||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Alvin Ferner Sellers | University of Minnesota | Nervous mechanisms regulating stomach functions; absorptive mechanisms in the intestines | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Martin Sonenberg | Cornell University Medical College | |||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | David B. Sprinson | Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons | |||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Mortimer Paul Starr | University of California, Davis | Plant disease bacteria | Also won in 1968 | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Kenneth V. Thimann | Harvard University | Also won in 1950 | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Oscar Touster | Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | Metabolism and biochemistry of sub-cellular particles | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Philip Wagner | University of Texas | Genetic control of metabolism | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Philip E. Wilcox | University of Washington | Fundamental studies on proteins | ||
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Cecil Edmund Yarwood | University of California, Berkeley | Acquired immunity to virus infections in plants | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George Anastos | University of Maryland | Ticks found on reptiles | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John Tyler Bonner | Princeton University | Role of cell variations in the development of cellular slime molds | Also won in 1971 | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Arthur Merton Chickering | Albion College | Taxonomy of spiders | Also won in 1958 | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Louie Irby Davis | Songs and calls of Mexican birds | |||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Paul Lester Errington | Iowa State College | Periodic cycles in vertebrate populations | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George Evelyn Hutchinson | Yale University | Biological limnology | Also won in 1949 | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Karl Frank Lagler | University of Michigan | |||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Alden H. Miller | University of California, Berkeley | Breeding activity of birds at equatorial latitudes | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John Luther Mohr | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Val Nolan Jr. | Indiana University | Northern Prairie Warbler and marketable title to land | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Donald Frederick Poulson | Yale University | Comparative biology of copper accumulation in animals | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Albert Glenn Richards | University of Minnesota | |||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Bradley T. Scheer | University of Oregon | Isolation of crustacean hormones | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Frank John Vernberg | Duke University | Activity and metabolism of marine animals at various temperatures | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Charles Edward Wilde Jr. | University of Pennsylvania | Biochemical mechanisms of cellular differentiation | ||
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Walter LeRoy Wilson | University of Vermont College of Medicine | Inhibition of cell division | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Arnold B. Arons | Amherst College, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Stability and overturn of sea water columns in winter cooling | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Nicolaas Bloembergen | Harvard University | Nuclear and electron spin magnetic resonance | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Owen Chamberlain | University of California, Berkeley | Theoretical physics of the fundamental particles | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Morrel H. Cohen | University of Chicago | Electron theory of alloys | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Clyde Lorrain Cowan | Los Alamos Laboratory | Physics of the neutrino and its interactions with atomic nuclei | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Jay Gregory Dash | Los Alamos Laboratory | Critical velocity in liquid Helium-2 | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Robert Briggs Day | Los Alamos Laboratory | Low-lying odd-parity levels in heavy even-even nuclei | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Claude Geoffrion | Also won in 1958 | |||
| Natural Science | Physics | Roy Jay Glauber | Harvard University | Interactions of elementary particles | Also won in 1972 | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Edwin L. Goldwasser | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Effect of nucleon recoils in photo-meson production | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Melville Saul Green | National Bureau of Standards | Theoretical researches in statistical mechanics of time-depenedent phenomena | Also won in 1973 | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Dieter Kurath | Argonne National Laboratory | Methods for the calculation of nuclear properties | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | John Selden Kirby-Smith | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Radiation biology and biophysics | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Leo Silvio Lavatelli | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Nature of the interactions of pions with nucleons | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | John Hundale Lawrence | ||||
| Natural Science | Physics | Joseph S. Levinger | Louisiana State University | Theory of the nuclear photoelectric effect | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Ralph Stuart Mackay Jr. | University of California, Berkeley, University of California Medical Center | Also won in 1956 | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Allan Henry Morrish | University of Minnesota | Solid state at low temperatures | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Lorne Albert Page | University of Pittsburgh | Photons, electrons, and positrons by precision beta ray and gamma ray spectroscopy techniques | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | Robert Vivian Pound | Harvard University | Nuclear moments of short-lived nuclear states | Also won in 1971 | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Frederick Reines | Los Alamos Laboratory | Physics of the neutrino and its interaction with the atomic nucleus | ||
| Natural Science | Physics | University of California, Los Angeles | Thermoelastic waves in metals at low temperatures | |||
| Natural Science | Physics | Ellis Philip Steinberg | Argonne National Laboratory | Process of nuclear fission | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Enrique Balech | Ministry of the Navy (Argentina) | Also won in 1958 | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Lawrence Rogers Blinks | Stanford University | Bioelectric phenomena | Also won in 1939, 1948 | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | University of Montreal | ||||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Alden Springer Crafts | University of California, Davis | Herbicidal chemicals | Also won in 1938 | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Emanuel Epstein | University of California | |||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Donald Sankey Farner | Washington State College | Physiological cycles of birds | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Leslie Andrew Garay | Harvard University | |||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Charles William Hagen Jr. | Indiana University | Differentiation within plant species | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Leonard Machlis | University of California, Berkeley | Physiology of the water mold Allomyces | ||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Roy Overstreet | University of California, Berkeley | Mineral absorption by plant and animal cells | Also won in 1945 | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Daniel Altman Roberts | University of Florida | |||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Stanley George Stephens | ||||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Rufus Henney Thompson | ||||
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Harry Ernest Wheeler | ||||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Arthur J. O. Anderson | New Mexico Museum of Art | Aztec accounts of Spanish colonization | Also won in 1955 | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Ralph Leon Beals | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Svend E. Frederiksen | Also won in 1958 | |||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Alfred Vincent Kidder | ||||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Donald Stanley Marshall | Peabody Museum of Salem, Harvard University | Mangaia in Polynesian dialects | ||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Sidney Wilfred Mintz | Yale University | Haitian internal marketing system | ||
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | John Howland Rowe | University of California, Berkeley | Incas during Spanish colonial rule | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Arnold C. Harberger | University of Chicago | |||
| Social Sciences | Economics | George Herbert Hildebrand | University of California, Los Angeles | Also won in 1952 | ||
| Social Sciences | Economics | Gerald Marvin Meier | Wesleyan University | International trade and economic development in the British tropics, 1870-1914 | Also won in 1958 | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Lawrence Arthur Cremin | Teachers College at Columbia University, The Spencer Foundation | History of American educational thought, 1880-1940 | ||
| Social Sciences | Education | Alfred Novak | Michigan State University | Teaching of natural science | ||
| Social Sciences | Law | George Lee Haskins | University of Pennsylvania | Early colonial law | ||
| Social Sciences | Law | John O. Honnold Jr. | University of Pennsylvania Law School | Law governing sales of goods under civil law systems | ||
| Social Sciences | Law | Leonard Williams Levy | Brandeis University | Provisions against compulsory self-incrimination in Anglo-American law | ||
| Social Sciences | Law | Arthur Selwyn Miller | Emory University | Domestic goals of modern nation-states in relation to international trade | ||
| Social Sciences | Political Science | George Arthur Codding Jr. | University of Pennsylvania | International postal communication | ||
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Howard Jay Graham | Los Angeles County Law Library | History of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution | Also won in 1953 | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Lennox Algernon Mills | University of Minnesota | Also won in 1936, 1959 | ||
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Theodore Lucien Shay | Willamette University | Hindu principles on current Indian political policy | ||
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Magda B. Arnold | Loyola University, Chicago, Spring Hill College | |||
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Andrew Laurence Comrey Jr. | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Herschel Leibowitz | University of Wisconsin | Sensory and neurophysiological correlates of perception | ||
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Richard Lester Solomon | Harvard University | |||
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Leonard Broom | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Ronald Freedman | University of Michigan | University of Michigan | ||
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Herbert Hyman | Columbia University | Comparative study of public opinion on civil liberties in the USA and Great Britain | ||
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Marvin Eugene Wolfgang | University of Pennsylvania | Florentine contributions to the history and philosophy of punishment for crime | Also won in 1968 |