List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1964
Three hundred and twelve scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1964. More than $1,882,000 was disbursed.
1964 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Alwin T. Nikolais | Henry Street Playhouse | Choreography | Also won in 1967 | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performing Arts | Jan Alfred Hartman | Writing | |||
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performing Arts | Herbert H. Lieberman | Writing | |||
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performing Arts | Jack Carter Richardson | Columbia University | Writing | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Edward M. Hoagland | Writing | Also won in 1975 | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Robie Macauley | Kenyon Review | Writing | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Alan Richard Marcus | Writing | |||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Larry McMurtry | Rice University | Writing | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Reynolds Price | Duke University | Writing | ||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Kit Reed | Writing | |||
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Samuel Yellen | Indiana University | Writing | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert Maurice Broderson | Duke University | Painting | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Peter Grippe | Brandeis University | Sculpture | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert Mallary | Pratt Institute | Sculpture | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Michael Burton Mazur | Rhode Island School of Design | |||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | James McGarrell | Indiana University | Painting | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Anthony Padovano | University of Connecticut | Sculpture | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Gabor Peterdi | Yale School of Art | Printmaking | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert H. Rohm | Pratt Institute | Sculpture | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | James Rosati | Yale University | Sculpture | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frank Roth | School of Visual Arts | Painting | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jerome Anthony Savage | University of Illinois | Painting | ||
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Temple University | Also won in 1958, 1969 | |||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Dominick Argento | University of Minnesota | Composing | Also won in 1957 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Ernst Bacon | Wesleyan University | Composing | Also won in 1939, 1942 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | William Bolcom | Stanford University | Composing | Also won in 1968 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Michael C. Colgrass | Composing | Also won in 1967 | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Gene Gutchë | Composing | Also won in 1963 | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert Helps | Composing | |||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Ulysses Kay | Broadcast Music, Inc. | Composing | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Donald H. Keats | Antioch College | Composing | Also won in 1972 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Ezra Laderman | Composing | Also won in 1956, 1958 | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Marvin David Levy | Composing | Also won in 1960 | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert Lombardo | University of Hartford | Composing | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Roger Reynolds | Composing | |||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Halsey Stevens | University of Southern California | Composing | Also won in 1971 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Lester Trimble | University of Maryland | Composing | ||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Donald Waxman | Composing | |||
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Charles Whittenberg | Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center | Composing | Also won in 1963 | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Robert Adelman | Context of contemporary affluence | |||
| Creative Arts | Photography | William Ralph Current | Prehistoric dwelling sites in the American Southwest | |||
| Creative Arts | Photography | Dave Heath | Human condition in the United States | Also won in 1963 | ||
| Creative Arts | Photography | Garry Winogrand | American life | Also won in 1969, 1978 | ||
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Robert Bly | Writing | Also won in 1972 | ||
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Philip Booth | Wellesley College | Writing | Also won in 1958 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Robert Creeley | University of New Mexico | Writing | Also won in 1971 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Jack Gilbert | Juniata College | Writing | ||
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Jerome Mazzaro | State University of New York at Cortland | Writing | ||
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Robert Sward | Cornell University | Writing | ||
| Creative Arts | Poetry | James Wright | Macalester College | Writing | Also won in 1978 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Joseph L. Blotner | University of Virginia | William Faulkner | Also won in 1967 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | William Merriam Gibson | New York University | Critical study of Mark Twain, emphasizing the "despair group" of his writings | Also won in 1976 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | William Henry Gilman | University of Rochester | Also won in 1960 | ||
| Humanities | American Literature | Richard Warren Schickel | American comic novel from 1945 to present | |||
| Humanities | American Literature | Eleanor M. Tilton | Barnard College | Edits of over 1,000 letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson | ||
| Humanities | American Literature | Hyatt Howe Waggoner | Brown University | Critical history of American poetry | Also won in 1971 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Christof A. Wegelin | University of Oregon | American genre of international fiction, that is, of fiction dealing with confrontation between Americans and Europeans | ||
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Clay Lancaster | Studies in the development of Kentucky architecture | Also won in 1953 | ||
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Janko Ivan Rasic | Design of a contemporary museum of classical sculpture in Aphrodisias, Turkey | |||
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Lloyd Rodwin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | National policies for urban and regional planning in developing countries | ||
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Bernard Rudofsky | Museum of Modern Art | Nonformal, nonclassified architecture with particular reference to communal art | Also won in 1963, 1971 | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Paolo Soleri | Also won in 1967 | |||
| Humanities | Bibliography | Thomas R. Buckman | Libraries of Kansas | Organization of the book trade and the book distribution abroad | ||
| Humanities | Biography | Howard Mumford Jones | Harvard University | American thought | Also won in 1932, 1935 | |
| Humanities | British History | Alfred M. Gollin | Also won in 1961, 1971 | |||
| Humanities | British History | Mary Peter Mack | Columbia University | British political thought in the 20th century | ||
| Humanities | British History | Leonard M. Thompson | University of California, Los Angeles | Also won in 1981 | ||
| Humanities | British History | David E. Underdown | University of Virginia | Politics of the English Puritan Revolution | Also won in 1991 | |
| Humanities | Classics | William Musgrave Calder | Columbia University | Dramatic techniques of Sophocles | ||
| Humanities | Classics | George E. Dimock | Smith College | The Odyssey | ||
| Humanities | Classics | University of North Dakota | Compilation of a modern Greek-English dictionary | Also won in 1957 | ||
| Humanities | Classics | George A. Kennedy | Haverford College | |||
| Humanities | Classics | Ramsay MacMullen | Brandeis University | Patterns of unrest in the Roman Empire | ||
| Humanities | Classics | Emily Townsend Vermeule | Boston University | Aesthetics of late Mycenaean and Minoan art | ||
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Kenneth K. Chen | Princeton University | |||
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Howard S. Hibbett | Harvard University | Psychological novel in Japan since 1900 | ||
| Humanities | Economic History | Thomas C. Smith | Stanford University | History of Japanese corporate societies | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Martin Carey Battestin | University of Virginia | Editing of three major novels by Henry Fielding -- Joseph Andrews; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling; and Amelia | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | David M. Bevington | University of Virginia | Divine right of kings and related topics in the early Renaissance theater | Also won in 1981 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Kalman Aaron Burnim | Tufts University | Biographical dictionary of stage performers in London, 1669-1800 | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Jack Parker Dalton | Edition of the 66 notebooks used by James Joyce in writing Finnegans Wake | Also won in 1966 | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert Allen Durr | Syracuse University | Work on his book Poetic Vision and the Psychedelic Experience | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Brendan Peter O Hehir | University of California, Berkeley | The prince as a poetic principle in English Augustan poetry | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | F. David Hoeniger | University of Toronto | Shakespeare and the natural history of his time | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Irving Howe | Hunter College | Idea of modernism in European and American literature during the last hundred years | Also won in 1971 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | George Morrow Kahrl | Elmira College | David Garrick | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Ralph James Kaufmann | University of Rochester | English tragedy and intellectual history | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Maynard Mack | Yale University | Alexander Pope | Also won in 1942, 1982 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Thomas A. McFarland | Western Reserve University | Also won in 1973 | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Samuel I. Mintz | City College of New York | Thomas Hobbes | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Arthur Mizener | Cornell University | |||
| Humanities | English Literature | Daniel Seltzer | Harvard University | Development of Shakespeare's ethical view and artistic method | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Jack Clifford Stillinger | University of Illinois | University of Illinois | Keats, Wordsworth, and English romanticism | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Harold Earl Toliver | Ohio State University | Also won in 1975 | ||
| Humanities | English Literature | Andrew Winchester Turnbull | Life of Thomas Wolfe | |||
| Humanities | English Literature | John E. Unterecker | Columbia University | Yeats and the Abbey Theater | ||
| Humanities | Film, Video, and Radio Studies | Pauline Kael | University of California, Berkeley | Relationship of film to other arts and other popular media | ||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | John Walker McCoubrey | University of Pennsylvania | |||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Jules Prown | Yale University | Life and works of 18th-century American artist John Singleton Copley | ||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Donald Robertson | Tulane University | |||
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Irving Sandler | New York University; The New York Post | American abstract expressionism | ||
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Richard Mercer Dorson | Indiana University | Uses of oral tradition to the historian | Also won in 1949, 1971 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | University at Buffalo | Mécislas Golberg | |||
| Humanities | French Literature | University of Wisconsin | ||||
| Humanities | French Literature | Princeton University | ||||
| Humanities | French Literature | Basil James Guy | University of California, Berkeley | Prince Charles de Ligne and his works | ||
| Humanities | French Literature | Renée Riese Hubert | San Fernando Valley State College | Functions of visual elements in the French prose-poem | ||
| Humanities | French Literature | Gita May | Columbia University | Intellectual and emotional temper of the direct heirs of the French Enlightenment who played a significant role during the French Revolution | ||
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Emile Capouya | New School for Social Research | Book publishing in the United States | ||
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Franklin A. Russell | Natural history of the St. Lawrence maritime region | |||
| Humanities | German and East European History | Andreas Tietze | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Humanities | German and East European History | Peter F. Sugar | University of Washington | |||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | University of California, Berkeley | Mythology of nihilism in German literature | |||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Walter G. Johnson | University of Washington | Booktrade in contemporary Sweden | Also won in 1957 | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Michael Mann | University of California, Berkeley | Romanticism in German literature and music, 1780-1840 | ||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Swarthmore College | Book about G. C. Lichtenberg | Also won in 1968 | ||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | William G. Moulton | Princeton University | |||
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Theodore Joseph Ziolkowski | Columbia University | Time in the modern German novel | ||
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Asger Hartvig Aaboe | Yale University | Ancient mathematical astronomy | ||
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Thomas Neville Bonner | University of Cincinnati | History of the United States home front during World War II | Also won in 1958 | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Gerald Joseph Gruman | Lake Erie College | Work on a book concerning people of the 19th and early 20th centuries to tried to cope with the problems and ageing and death | ||
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Brooke Hindle | New York University | Transit of technology to the United States in the period 1783 to 1812 | ||
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Townsend Miller | Enrique IV | |||
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Richard McGee Morse | Yale University | General theory of Latin American urban history | ||
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Gian N. Orsini | University of Wisconsin | |||
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Aldo S. Bernardo | Harpur College | Relationship between the 14th-century poet Petrarch and Laura | ||
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | José Juan Arrom | Yale University | Contemporary Spanish-American literature in relation to its cultural environment | Also won in 1947 | |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | Mario Rodríguez | University of Southern California | |||
| Humanities | Linguistics | Henrik Birnbaum | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Humanities | Linguistics | Isidore Dyen | Yale University | Language limit problem | Also won in 1949 | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Mary Rosamond Haas | University of California, Berkeley | American Indian languages | ||
| Humanities | Linguistics | Gene M. Schramm | University of California, Berkeley | Generative morphophonemic analysis of literary Hebrew with primary emphasis on the verbal system | ||
| Humanities | Linguistics | University of California, Berkeley | Slavic linguistics | |||
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Robert B. Heilman | University of Washington | Also won in 1975 | ||
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Eric Donald Hirsch | Yale University | General theory of textual interpretation | ||
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | John O. McCormick | Rutgers University | Also won in 1979 | ||
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Richard M. Ohmann | Wesleyan University | Syntactic foundations of literary style | ||
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | M. L. Rosenthal | New York University | British poetry and poetic criticism since World War II | Also won in 1960 | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Maurice Valency | Columbia University | Dramatic works of Chekhov, Pirandello, and Shaw | Also won in 1960 | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Thomas N. Bisson | Brown University | |||
| Humanities | Medieval History | Peter Riesenberg | Washington University in St. Louis | |||
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Morton Wilfred Bloomfield | Harvard University | Problems of medieval narrative | Also won in 1949 | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Curt F. Bühler | Morgan Library & Museum | Edition of Stephen Scrope's Epistle of Othea | Also won in 1976 | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Richard M. Hazelton | Washington University in St. Louis | |||
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Jerome Taylor | University of Chicago | Literary theory during the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries | ||
| Humanities | Music Research | Jan P. LaRue | New York University | Background of the classical symphony | ||
| Humanities | Music Research | Gilbert Reaney | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Humanities | Music Research | Hans Tischler | Roosevelt University | Evolution of the musical and poetic styles of the early 13th century motet | ||
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | George T. Dennis | Loyola Marymount University | Detailed examination of the writings of the Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus | ||
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Norman Golb | University of Chicago | Economic, social, and religious history of the Jews of Fatima, Egypt | Also won in 1966 | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Alan Ross Anderson | Yale University | Concept of entailment or logical consequence | ||
| Humanities | Philosophy | Stephen Francis Barker | Ohio State University | |||
| Humanities | Philosophy | Paul Edwards | New York University | Contemporary existentialists | ||
| Humanities | Philosophy | John Rawls | Harvard University | Concept of justice | Also won in 1977 | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Julius Rudolph Weinberg | University of Wisconsin | |||
| Humanities | Religion | Josef Lewis Altholz | University of Minnesota | English Christian churches of the 19th century | ||
| Humanities | Religion | Horton Davies | Princeton University | Also won in 1959 | ||
| Humanities | Religion | William R. Farmer | Southern Methodist University | Origins of the Christian religion in Palestine and Syria | ||
| Humanities | Religion | Paul L. Holmer | Yale University | Critical reassessment of theological language | ||
| Humanities | Religion | Helmut Heinrich Koester | Harvard Divinity School | Growth and development of the so-called Gospel tradition in second century | ||
| Humanities | Religion | Millard Richard Shaull | Princeton Theological Seminary | |||
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Lauro Martines | Reed College | Political role of the lawyer in Renaissance Florence | ||
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Gerald Strauss | Indiana University | Intellectual and social history of Germany and the 16th century | Also won in 1972 | |
| Humanities | Russian History | George Fischer | Cornell University | |||
| Humanities | Russian History | David Joravsky | Brown University | |||
| Humanities | Russian History | University of California, Los Angeles | ||||
| Humanities | Russian History | University of Washington | ||||
| Humanities | Russian History | Serge Aleksandr Zenkovsky | Stetson University | Impact of Eastern European religious movements in the 17th and 18th centuries and how they tied in with the rise of capitalism in Russia in the 19th century | ||
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Yale University | Narrative art of Nikolai Gogol | Also won in 1957, 1976 | ||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Wayne State University | ||||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Miguel Enguídanos | University of Texas | Life and works of Rubén Darío | ||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | University of Pennsylvania | Castilian mind in literature from Cantar de mio Cid to Calderón | |||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | University of California, Berkeley | Lope de Vega's prose | Also won in 1950 | ||
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Paul Richard Olson | Johns Hopkins University | |||
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Anthony Caputi | Cornell University | |||
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Richard Gilman | Postwar theater in Europe and the United States | |||
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Andrew Joseph Sabol | Brown University | Music of the English Court masque in the early 17th century | ||
| Humanities | United States History | David H. Donald | Johns Hopkins University | Also won in 1985 | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Gilbert C. Fite | University of Oklahoma | Work on his book The Agricultural Frontier, 1865-1890 | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Frank Freidel | Harvard University | Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Jack Phillip Greene | Western Reserve University | |||
| Humanities | United States History | William Greenleaf | University of New Hampshire | Impact of the American Civil War on business organization and leadership | ||
| Humanities | United States History | William Turrentine Jackson | University of California, Davis | British mining investments at the turn of the century | Also won in 1957 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Edward Lurie | Wayne State University | |||
| Humanities | United States History | Walter T. K. Nugent | Indiana University | Urban and agrarian tensions in America after the Civil War | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Clarence L. Ver Steeg | Northwestern University | Changing concepts of liberty in early America | ||
| Humanities | United States History | Francis Russell | Life of Warren G. Harding in relation to his time | Also won in 1965 | ||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Ralph Bolgiano | Cornell University | |||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | George Francis Carrier | Harvard University | Analytical investigations of questions in fluid dynamics | Also won in 1968 | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Chieh Su Hsu | University of California, Berkeley | Oscillations of thin elastic shells | ||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Victor Henry Rumsey | University of California, Berkeley | Sources of radio waves | ||
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Theodore Yaotsu Wu | California Institute of Technology | |||
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | William Liller | Harvard University | Telescopic observations of the emission component of an ionized calcium line in cool stars | ||
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Albert Simon | General Atomics | |||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Kenneth Leslie Babcock | University of California, Berkeley | Chemical properties of alkali soil | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Russell A. Bonham | Indiana University | Electron scattering from atoms and molecules | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John Green Burr | North American Aviation Science Center | |||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert Norman Clayton | University of Chicago | Metamorphism of rocks in geothermal areas | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Theodore A. Geissman | University of California, Los Angeles | Also won in 1950 | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | James Briggs Hendrickson | Brandeis University | Relation of the structure and biosynthesis of natural products to the phylogeny of the plant families from which they derive | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John R. Huizenga | Argonne National Laboratory | Nuclear fission of elements in the vicinity of gold at moderate excitation energies | Also won in 1973 | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Richard M. Lemmon | University of California, Berkeley | Radiation chemistry and DNA and RNA | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Bruno Linder | Florida State University | Many-body aspects of intermolecular forces and an attempt to relate thermodynamic potentials to dissipative functions | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Wilmer Glenn Miller | University of Iowa | Polymer-solvent interactions using synthetic polypeptides | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Ronald Lewis Sass | Rice University | Electron spin resonance and self-consistent molecular orbital treatment of charge-transfer complexes | ||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Paul von Ragué Schleyer | Princeton University | |||
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Eugene Earle van Tamelen | Stanford University | Chemical research laboratory visits | Also won in 1973 | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Owen Howard Wheeler | University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez | |||
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | William Ross Ashby | University of Illinois | Development of a theory of mechanisms that are part determinate and part stochastic, and the application of this theory to systems, especially the cerebral, that have distributed memory | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | John McDougall Christie | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | William R. Dickinson | Stanford University | Geological research in New Zealand and the Fiji Islands | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | James Freeman Gilbert | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Also won in 1972 | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Myra Keen | Stanford University | Technical methods for the investigation of living invertebrates in use at the principal marine stations in Europe and the United States | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Arcie Lee McAlester | Yale University | Early Paleozoic bivalve molluscs | ||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Leon Theodore Silver | California Institute of Technology | |||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Raúl Alberto Zardini | University of Buenos Aires | |||
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | John Atwater Duffie | University of Wisconsin | |||
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Jacques Wayne Duffy | Brown University | |||
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | John Frank Elliott | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Process dynamics and control as applied to metallurgical systems | ||
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Wilbert James Lick | Harvard University | Fundamental characteristics of energy transfer by radiation in conjugation with conduction and convection | ||
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Daniel D. Perlmutter | University of Illinois | Aspects of reactor behavior | ||
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | John Melville Roberts | Rice University | Interaction between point defects and moving dislocations in anisotropic metal crystals | ||
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Lambert Tall | Lehigh University | |||
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | David John Benney | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Non-linear oscillations in fluid motions | ||
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | David A. Buchsbaum | Brandeis University | Zeta functions of semisimple algebras over number fields | ||
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Bernard M. Dwork | Johns Hopkins University | Also won in 1975 | ||
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Sigurdur Helgason | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Theory of functions on symmetric spaces | ||
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | James Johnston Stoker | New York University | Differential geometry | Also won in 1973 | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Alan Clifford Aisenberg | Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University Medical School | Immunological investigations related to human disease | ||
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Carleton B. Chapman | University of Texas Southwestern Medical School | Cardiac failure | ||
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Robert Eugene Johnson | University of Illinois | Interrelationships of metabolism, physical environment, physical work, and nutritional stress | ||
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Thomas Taylor White | University of Washington | |||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | A. Earl Bell | Purdue University | Extension of population genetics theory | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Ramsey Bronk | Columbia University | Manner in which energy is supplied for active transport and protein synthesis by mucosal cells of the small intestine | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Machlin Buchanan | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Biochemical aspects of the action of nerve growth factors isolated from Sarcoma 180 tumor, snake venom, and mouse salivary glands | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Willy Burgdorfer | Rocky Mountain Laboratories | Dynamics of viral and Rickettsial infection in tissues of arthropod vectors by means of cytochemical and immunochemical staining procedures and electronmicroscopy | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Frederick Hiltman Carpenter | University of California, Berkeley | Synthesis of insulin | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Walter Drake | University of Illinois | Genetic mechanisms at the molecular level, with particular reference to mutation and recombination in viruses | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Thomas Eisner | Cornell University | Also won in 1972 | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Ernest Peter Geiduschek | University of Chicago | Phage genetics | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Paul Griminger | Rutgers University | Vitamins and metabolism | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Terrell Hunter Hamilton | University of Texas | Mechanism whereby estrogen induces synthesis of ribonucleic acids and proteins | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edward James Hehre | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Biological synthesis of complex carbohydrates | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Bernard Norman Jaroslow | Argonne National Laboratory | Quantitative changes in maturation and proliferation of antibody-forming cells with and without exposure to radiation | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Nathan Oram Kaplan | Brandeis University | Human biochemical genetics and molecular biology | Also won in 1974 | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edwin L. Schmidt | University of Minnesota | Microorganisms that form nitrate nitrogen | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jordan J. Tang | University of Oklahoma | Catalytic action of proteolytic enzymes | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John R. Vallentyne | Cornell University | Biogeochemical studies | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Harold Wasserman | Cornell University | Also won in 1971 | ||
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | George A. Zentmyer | University of California, Riverside | Jarrah Forest pandemics | ||
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Edith K. MacRae | University of Illinois | Photoreceptor systems in Turbellarians in terms of fine structure and possible mechanism | ||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Norman John Berrill | McGill University | |||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Melvin Joseph Cohen | University of Oregon | Central and peripheral nervous system of Arthropoda using combined electrophysiological, hostological, and behavioral techniques | ||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Vincent Gaston Dethier | University of Pennsylvania | Also won in 1972 | ||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Charles Remington Goldman | University of California, Davis | Alpine lakes and their contents | ||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Marcos Kogan | Oswaldo Cruz Foundation | Also won in 1967 | ||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Peter Robert Marler | University of California, Berkeley | Field study of East African monkeys | ||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Donald More Maynard | University of Michigan | |||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Powers S. Messenger | University of California, Berkeley | Climatic factors in control of insects | ||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Boyd L. O'Dell | University of Missouri | Origin and metabolism of aortic elastin | ||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Robert Keith Selander | University of Texas | Adaptive significance and relationships of mating systems and sexual dimorphism in birds | ||
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Richard Douglas Taber | Montana State University | Relations of man to free living animals in West Punjab, Pakistan | ||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Myer Bloom | University of British Columbia | Magnetic resonance | ||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Mark Bolsterli | University of Minnesota | Nuclear scattering and reaction theory | ||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Nina Byers | University of California, Los Angeles | |||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Thomas R. Carver | Princeton University | |||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Thomas Fulton | Johns Hopkins University | |||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Sulamith Goldhaber | University of California, Berkeley | High energy particles | ||
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Lee Grodzins | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Theory of nuclear reactions and of experimental techniques for the measurement of the magnetic moments of nuclear excited states | Also won in 1971 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Norton Mark Hintz | University of Minnesota | Current nucleon models | ||
| Natural Sciences |