| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Eliot Feld | | Dance | | |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Pearl Lang | Pearl Lang Dance Theater | Dance | Also won in 1960 | |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Murray Louis | Murray Louis Dance Company | Dance | Also won in 1973 | |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Yvonne Rainer | | A performance and a film | Also won in 1988 | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Terrence McNally | | | Also won in 1966 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | William H. Gass | Purdue University | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Jorge Ibargüengoitia | | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Cormac McCarthy | | Writing | Also won in 1976 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | James R. McConkey | Cornell University | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Thomas Rogers | Pennsylvania State University | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Scott Bartlett | | Serpent | | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Will Hindle | | Watersmith | | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Richard L. Myers | Kent State University | | Also won in 1971 | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Robert Nelson | San Francisco Art Institute | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Larry Bell | | Sculpture | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Daniel J. Christensen | | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Walter De Maria | | Sculpture | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Herbert Ferber | | Sculpture | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Tom S. Fricano | San Fernando Valley State College | Graphic arts | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Joseph Goto | | Sculpture and drawing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Walter S. H. Hamady | University of Wisconsin | Manual on the handmaking of paper | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Will Insley | | Two and three dimension space diagrams | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Irene S. Kubota | | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Alfred Leslie | | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert P. Mangold | School of Visual Arts | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert E. Morris | Hunter College, CUNY | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | John Opper | New York University | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert Andrew Parker | | Graphics | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert C. Postma | Lehman College | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Alan Saret | | Sculpture | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Myron S. Stout | | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert O. Swain | | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | | Temple University | Graphics | Also won in 1958, 1964 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Stephen Douglas Burton | | One Does Not Toy with Love | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | John Edmunds | | Composition | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | John Huggler | University of Massachusetts, Boston | Composition | Also won in 1962 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | | Smith College | Composition | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | George Russell | | Composition | Also won in 1972 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Harvey Sollberger | Columbia University | Composition | Also won in 1973 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | George T. Walker | Smith College | Composition | Also won in 1987 | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Chauncey Hare | | Photographic study of California interiors | Also won in 1971, 1976 | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Danny Lyon | | | Also won in 1978 | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Art Sinsabaugh | University of Illinois, Urbana | | | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Garry Winogrand | | Effect of media on events | Also won in 1964, 1978 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Michael Benedikt | Bennington College | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Edgar Bowers | Harpur College | Writing | Also won in 1958 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Jim Harrison | | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Anne Sexton | | Writing | | |
| Humanities | African Studies | Raymond K. Kent | University of California, Berkeley | History of the Sakalava people of western Madagascar | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Sacvan Bercovitch | University of California, San Diego | | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Ronald Gottesman | Indiana University | | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Alfred Kazin | Stony Brook University | | Also won in 1940, 1947, 1958 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | James E. Miller Jr. | University of Chicago | | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Stanford Anderson | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | David J. Jacob | Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates | Relationships between space and structure | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Richard Saul Wurman | | | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Oscar Yujnovsky | Torcuato di Tella Institute | | | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | G. Thomas Tanselle | University of Wisconsin | Republishing firm of B. W. Huebsch, 1900-1925 | | |
| Humanities | British History | Lewis Perry Curtis Jr. | University of California, Berkeley | Devolution movement and the decline of the landlord class in Ireland | | |
| Humanities | British History | James K. McConica | Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies | History of Oxford University in the Tudor period | | |
| Humanities | British History | Theodore K. Rabb | Princeton University | Biography of Sir Edwin Sandys | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Erich S. Gruen | University of California, Berkeley | Politics in the last decades of the Roman Republic | Also won in 1989 | |
| Humanities | Classics | Henry Schroder Robinson | American School of Classical Studies at Athens | | | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Chih-tsing Hsia | Columbia University | | | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Ivan Morris | Columbia University | | | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | W. Allyn Rickett | University of Pennsylvania | | | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Rondo Cameron | University of Wisconsin | History of 19th-century economic development | Also won in 1954 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Edward A. Bloom | Brown University | Neoclassical satire | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Marie Borroff | Yale University | 20th-century poetry | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Stanley Fish | University of California, Berkeley | Relationship between style and epistemology in 17th century prose and poetry | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | A. Bartlett Giamatti | Yale University | Impact of Italy and Italian Renaissance literature on 16th- and 17th-century English literature | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | John H. Hagan | SUNY Binghamton | Study of Charles Dickens' fiction in relation to his journalism | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Arthur C. Kirsch | University of Virginia | Tragicomic patterns in Jacobean and Caroline drama | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher | University of California, Berkeley | Resemblances and differences between the Romantics and the Victorians | Also won in 1987 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | John M. Robson | University of Toronto | | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Alan Roper | University of California, Los Angeles | | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Samuel Schoenbaum | Northwestern University | Critical history of Shakespeare biography | Also won in 1956 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Patricia M. Spacks | Wellesley College | | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | George A. Starr | University of California, Berkeley | Moral basis of the novels of Samuel Richardson | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | John M. Wallace | University of Chicago | Critical edition of the works of Anthony Ascham | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Alexander Welsh | University of Pittsburgh | Thematic definition in the English novel | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Virgil Keeble Whitaker | Stanford University | Interpretation of the works of Francis Bacon | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Dore Ashton | School of Visual Arts | Modern art | Also won in 1963 | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | John Coplans | Pasadena Art Museum | Critical study of Ellsworth Kelly | Also won in 1985 | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Edward A. Maser | University of Chicago | Franz Anton Maulbertsch | | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Robert A. Georges | University of California, Los Angeles | Research for his third book | | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | | Indiana University | | | |
| Humanities | French History | Robert Forster | Johns Hopkins University | European bourgeoisie | | |
| Humanities | French History | Robert M. Kingdon | University of Wisconsin | Reactions to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Anna Balakian | New York University | | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Victor Brombert | Yale University | Prison imagery in Romantic literature | Also won in 1954 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Diane Giguère | | | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Fredric R. Jameson | University of California, San Diego | | Also won in 1978 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Marcel Tetel | Duke University | Language and structure in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Erik Barnouw | Columbia University | | | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Gordon A. Craig | Stanford University | German and Austrian intelligentsias, 1770-1830 | Also won in 1982 | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Fritz Stern | Columbia University | | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Joachim Birke | University of Chicago | | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | | University of Wisconsin | Critical reception of Bertolt Brecht since 1930 | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Antonín Hrubý | University of Washington | | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | | Columbia University | | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | André von Gronicka | University of Pennsylvania | | Also won in 1957 | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | David C. Kubrin | Dartmouth College | 17th-century English cosmogony and the development of Newtonian physics | | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Donald Bertram McIntyre | Pomona College | Help in the design of a computer system for the proposed international data bank | | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Dwight L. Bolinger | Harvard University | | | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Ilse Lehiste | Ohio State University | | Also won in 1975 | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Wayne C. Booth | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1956 | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Seymour Chatman | University of California, Berkeley | Theory of style | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Albert S. Cook Jr. | University at Buffalo | Greek tragedy | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Geoffrey H. Hartman | Yale University | Transition of literary periods | Also won in 1986 | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Stanley Edgar Hyman | Bennington College | Critical study of Shakespeare's Iago | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Robert W. Langbaum | University of Virginia | Mysteries of identity as a theme in 19th century literature | | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | F. Donald Logan | Emmanuel College | | | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Beverly M. Boyd | University of Kansas | Chaucer and the world of books | | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Donald R. Howard | Johns Hopkins University | Critical study of the Canterbury Tales | Also won in 1984 | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Peter Dale Scott | University of California, Berkeley | Ancient and medieval vision literature | | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | | Boston College | | Also won in 1961 | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Barry S. Brook | Queens College, CUNY | | Also won in 1960 | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Richard L. Crocker | University of California, Berkeley | Early medieval sequence | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Henry A. Fischel | Indiana University | | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Arthur C. Danto | Columbia University | | Also won in 1982 | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | | Northwestern University | | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Richard C. Jeffrey | University of Pennsylvania | | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Norman Dret Kretzmann | Cornell University | Philosophy of language in the Middle Ages | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Richard H. Popkin | University of California, San Diego | History of skepticism | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Josiah D. Thompson | Haverford College | | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Bas van Fraassen | Yale University | Language theory | | |
| Humanities | Religion | Brian A. Gerrish | University of Chicago Divinity School | Life and thought of Ernst Troeltsch | | |
| Humanities | Religion | Gordon D. Kaufman | Harvard University | Research at University of Oxford | | |
| Humanities | Religion | Robert A. Kraft | University of Pennsylvania | | | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Sears R. Jayne | Hunter College | English poetry of the Renaissance | Also won in 1954 | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Loren R. Graham | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Nicholas V. Riasanovsky | University of California, Berkeley | Comparative study of Russian and French intelligentsias in the first half of the 19th century | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Alfred E. Senn | University of Wisconsin | Anti-Tsarist Russian émigrés in Switzerland, 1914-1917 | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Adam B. Ulam | Harvard University | | Also won in 1956 | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Simon Karlinsky | University of California, Berkeley | History of Russian drama as literature | Also won in 1977 | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Robert A. Maguire | Columbia University | | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Arthur L.-F. Askins | University of California, Berkeley | Hispano-Portuguese poetry of the 16th century | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Ricardo Gullón | University of Texas | Ideologies underlying Hispanic literary modernism | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | | Columbia University | | | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Bernard F. Dukore | City University of New York | | | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | A. C. Scott | University of Wisconsin | Historical study of the Indonesian theatre | | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Louis Sheaffer | | | Also won in 1959, 1962 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Roger H. Brown | American University | | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Alain Clément | | | | |
| Humanities | United States History | William W. Freehling | University of Michigan | History of the American South, 1850-1861 | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Gary B. Nash | University of California, Los Angeles | | | |
| Humanities | United States History | John Webb Pratt | Stony Brook University | | | |
| Humanities | United States History | John W. Shy | University of Michigan | | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Clark C. Spence | University of Illinois, Urbana | | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Stephan Thernstrom | Brandeis University | | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Russell F. Weigley | Temple University | History of American strategic thought | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Alfred Fabian Young | Northern Illinois University | Urban Jeffersonians | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Ivan Frisch | University of California, Berkeley | Theory of communication networks | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Ralph Greif | University of California, Berkeley | Heat transfer in radiating flows | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Fritz John | New York University | | Also won in 1962 | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Daniel D. Joseph | University of Minnesota | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Anthony E. Siegman | Stanford University | Quantum electronics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Edward A. Frieman | Princeton University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Martin Harwit | Cornell University | Infrared astronomy | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | George A. Seielstad | California Institute of Technology | Extragalactic radio astronomy | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Thomas H. Stix | Princeton University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Alar Toomre | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John M. Alexander | Stony Brook University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Joseph Cerny III | University of California, Berkeley | Nuclear chemistry | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Lawrence F. Dahl | University of Wisconsin | Experimental studies in inorganic chemistry | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Howard Ted Davis | University of Minnesota | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert Gomer | University of Chicago | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | | Bell Telephone Laboratories | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | David R. Kearns | University of California, Riverside | Quantum chemistry | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Larry Kevan | University of Kansas | Experimental studies in radiation chemistry | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | James L. Kinsey | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Victor W. Laurie | Princeton University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Franklin A. Long | Cornell University | Physical chemistry | Also won in 1956 | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | C. Bradley Moore | University of California, Berkeley | Molecular collision processes | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Edward V. Sayre | New York University | Research at Oxford University's Laboratory for Archaeometry and the History of Art | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John A. Schellman | University of Oregon | Protein structure | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Gabor A. Somorjai | University of California, Berkeley | Physical chemistry | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | James H. Swinehart | University of California, Davis | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert E. Thach | Harvard University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Michael A. Harrison | University of California, Berkeley | Theoretical studies in programming languages | | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Thomas Kailath | Stanford University | Applications of the innovations concept in estimation and detection theory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Alfred G. Fischer | Princeton University | Deep sea sediment | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Seymour O. Schlanger | University of California, Riverside | Limestones in the Swiss Alps to determine ancient climates in the region | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | | Yale University | Australian geological deposits | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Henry Stommel | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Lionel Edward Weiss | University of California, Berkeley | Structural geology | Also won in 1961 | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | | California Institute of Technology | Development of urban atmosphere models for air resource management | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | L. E. Scriven | University of Minnesota | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Richard A. Askey | University of Wisconsin | Orthogonal polynomials | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Paul J. Cohen | Stanford University | Set theory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Richard V. Kadison | University of Pennsylvania | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Robert B. Bradfield | University of California, Berkeley | Clinical nutrition | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Rubin Bressler | Duke University School of Medicine | Effects of pharmacologic agents on the metabolism of the pancreas and on insulin secretion | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Irwin M. Freedberg | Harvard Medical School | Research at the Weizmann Institute | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Marion E. Hodes | Indiana University Medical Center | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Eric A. Barnard | University at Buffalo | Biochemical evolution in chymotrypsins | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Elmer L. Becker | Georgetown University | Research at Sir William Dunn School of Pathology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jacob J. Blum | Duke University | Hydrodynamic interaction between adjacent cilia | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John E. Casida | University of California, Berkeley | Aspects of the biotoxiology of insecticide chemicals | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Bernard F. Erlanger | Columbia University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Lucille S. Hurley | University of California, Davis | Influence of nutritional factors during prenatal development and the interaction of nutrition and genetics at this time | Also won in 1962 | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Arthur Kornberg | Stanford University | Application of physical chemical techniques to problems of membrane structure | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edmund Chi Chien Lin | Harvard Medical School | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jack Preiss | University of California, Davis | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Frank W. Putnam | Indiana University | Research at University of Cambridge | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Gunther Siegmund Stent | University of California, Berkeley | History of molecular biology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Howard E. Evans | Harvard University | | Also won in 1958 | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | James R. King | Washington State University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | J. M. J. de Wet | University of Illinois, Urbana | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Norma J. Lang | University of California, Davis | Basic questions of cellular metabolism | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Richard E. Norris | University of Washington | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Peter H. Raven | Stanford University | Plant biosystematics and evolution | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Samuel M. Berman | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center | Elementary particle physics | Also won in 1977 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Charles K. Bockelman | Yale University | Nuclear physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Ralph Bray | Purdue University | Research at Oxford University and Technion | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Manuel Cardona | Brown University | Vacuum-UV optical properties of semiconductors | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Theodore G. Castner Jr. | University of Rochester | Solid state physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Alan Garen | Yale University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Ivar Giaever | General Electric Research & Development Center | Biophysics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Erwin L. Hahn | University of California, Berkeley | Concepts of pulsed coherent quantum phenomena | Also won in 1961 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Martin L. Perl | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | Elementary particle physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | David Pines | University of Illinois, Urbana | | Also won in 1962 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Norman S. Shiren | IBM Watson Research Center | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Roy Weinstein | Northeastern University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Lee White | Stanford University | Solid state physics | Also won in 1977 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Fredrik Zachariasen | California Institute of Technology | Elementary particle physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | C. Frederick Mosteller | Harvard University | | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Albert Damon | Harvard University | | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Hilda Kuper | University of California, Los Angeles | | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Alan Parkhurst Merriam | Indiana University | | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Frank T. Siebert Jr. | | Penobscot dictionary | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | G. William Skinner | Stanford University | Local system in traditional China and their modern transformation | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | George R. Feiwel | University of Tennessee | Comparative study of economic revisionism in selected East European countries | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Edward J. Kane | Boston College | Forecasting the long-range behavior of interest rates | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Albert Rees | Princeton University | | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Joseph E. Stiglitz | Yale University | Economic analysis | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Robert Triffin | Yale University | International monetary reform | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Burton A. Weisbrod | University of Wisconsin | Theory of the nonprofit sector of the economy | | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Elliot W. Eisner | Stanford University | Theoretical studies in curriculum development and art education | | |
| Social Sciences | Education | W. Lee Hansen | University of Wisconsin | Economic and social determinants of the demand for education in American society | | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Luther Harmon Zeigler | University of Oregon | | | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Edward T. Price | University of Oregon | Historical study of courthouse squares in the eastern United States | | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | John Henry Warkentin | York University | | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Harry D. Krause | University of Illinois, Urbana | | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Donald T. Trautman | Harvard University | | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Kenneth M. Dolbeare | University of Wisconsin | Citizen participation in public policy implementation | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Joseph Hamburger | Yale University | 19th-century political thought | Also won in 1965 | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Wladyslaw W. Kulski | Duke University | Current Soviet foreign policy | Also won in 1961 | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Gerhard Loewenberg | Mount Holyoke College | | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Douglas W. Rae | Yale University | Theory of political constitutions | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Bruce M. Russett | Yale University | International politics | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Frank J. Sorauf | University of Minnesota | | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Margaret Brenman Gibson | Austen Riggs Center | Psychoanalytic study of the creative individual | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Murray Glanzer | New York University | Research at the Hebrew University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Richard S. Lazarus | University of California, Berkeley | Theoretical studies of the psycho-physiology of stress | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Herbert S. Terrace | Columbia University | | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Bernard Weiner | University of California, Los Angeles | | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Harry A. Wilmer | University of California Medical Center | Book about his experience running an adolescent ward for patients involved with drug use | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Robert M. Marsh | Brown University | | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Philip Rieff | University of Pennsylvania | Theory of culture | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Patricia Cayo Sexton | New York University | | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Melvin M. Tumin | Princeton University | | | |