List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1961

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Two hundred and sixty five scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1961. More than $1,350,000 was disbursed.

Category Field of Study Fellow Institutional association Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Choreography Paul Taylor Paul Taylor Dance Company Also won in 1966, 1983 Drama and Performance Art Robert Goode Hogan Creative writing in drama Curtis A. Harnack Sarah Lawrence College John C. Keats Paule Burke Marshall Grace Paley Greenwich Village Peace Center Mordecai Richler Fine Arts Harold Altman University of Wisconsin Drawing and printmaking Also won in 1960 Edward Colker Worden Day Also won in 1952 Arthur Deshaies Creative printmaking Gray Foy Drawing Robert W. Hansen Occidental College David Vincent Hayes Sculpting Daniel U. Newman Painting John W. Rhoden Sculpting George Warren Rickey Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tulane University Sculpting Also won in 1960 Arnold Franchetti University of Hartford Karl George Kohn Pomona College Burrill Phillips University of Illinois Also won in 1942 John Szarkowski Study of Quetico Provincial Park Superior National Forest in Canada and the United States Also won in 1954 Kay Boyle Eminent figures in German history Also won in 1934 Kenneth Koch George Edwin Starbuck Houghton Mifflin Company Architecture, Planning and Design Harold Edelman Stanley Salzman Pratt Institute, New York School of Interior Design Eduard Sekler Harvard University Urban design Also won in 1963 Bibliography Donald C. Gallup Yale University Bibliographical studies of the works of Ezra Pound Also won in 1968 Biography Irvin Ehrenpreis Indiana University Life of Jonathan Swift Also won in 1955 British History Sidney Alexander Burrell Barnard College Margaret Gay Davies Pomona College Continuing work started by her father on economic fluctuations in the Restoration Period of England William Roger Graham University of Saskatchewan Second volume of biography on Arthur Meighen Alfred M. Gollin University of California, Los Angeles Also won in 1964, 1971 Thomas H. D. Mahoney Massachusetts Institute of Technology Edmund Burke and the American Revolution Herbert Hoffman Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Also won in 1972 Cedric Hubbell Whitman Harvard University Aristophanes as a comic poet Also won in 1976 Economic History Charles Issawi Columbia University Also won in 1968 English Literature John Lewis Bradley Mount Holyoke College Life and works of Henry Mayhew Lowry Nelson, Jr. University of California, Los Angeles Frank W. Wadsworth University of California, Los Angeles Revivals of Elizabethan plays in 19th century United States and England Fine Arts Research Wen Fong Princeton University Curtis Howard Shell Wellesley College Florentine painting of early Renaissance French History David Duckworth Bien Princeton University Jere Clemens King University of California, Los Angeles Wallace Fowlie Bennington College Work of Marcel Proust Also won in 1947 Lawrence Elliot Harvey Dartmouth College Writings of Samuel Beckett Georges Markow Totevy Princeton University General Nonfiction Ben Haig Bagdikian Providence Journal, Evening Bulletin Development of contemporary American press Italian Literature Eric William Cochrane Jr University of Chicago History of Florence Linguistics Nicholas C. Bodman Foreign Service Institute Tibeto Burman languages Literary Criticism Robert Brustein Columbia University Murray Krieger University of Illinois Classic vision in post Renaissance literature Also won in 1956 Richard Eugene Sullivan Michigan State University History of Christian monasticism from the fourth to the 10th century David C. Fowler University of Washington Also won in 1975 Robert Kaske University of North Carolina Heroism and the hero in Old English poetry Also won in 1977 Paul Murray Kendall Ohio University Warwick the Kingmaker Also won in 1957 Joseph Szövérffy University of Alberta History of vernacular lyric poetry in the Middle Ages Also won in 1969 Erik Wahlgren University of California, Los Angeles William R. Polk Harvard University Relations of U. S. and Arab World Wallace I. Matson University of California, Berkeley Explanatory concepts Religion Peter de Beauvoir Brock University of Alberta History of pacificism James Alvin Sanders Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School Also won in 1972 Russian History Alexander Dallin Columbia University Martin Edward Malia University of California, Berkeley Russian radial intelligentsia from 1825 to 1917 Spanish and Portuguese Literature Willis R. Barnstone Wesleyan University Life and works of Antonio Machado Edward Glaser University of Michigan Dorothy Jeakins Los Angeles Civic Light Opera United States History Arthur Bestor University of Illinois American constitutional development Also won in 1953 Paul Wilbur Glad Coe College United States from World War I to the Great Depression Hugh Dodge Hawkins Amherst College American university presidents, 1865 1915 Samuel Eliot Morison Richard B. Morris City College of New York Also won in 1947, 1982 Natural Sciences Applied Mathematics Bernard Budiansky Harvard University Theory of thin shells Charles Danne Graham, Jr. University of Pennsylvania David Okrent Argonne National Laboratory High temperature experiments Also won in 1977 Ronald Samuel Rivlin Brown University Hans Jürgen Eduard Schmitt Harvard University Scattering of electromagnetic waves from acoustic disturbances Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Horace Albert Barker University of California, Berkeley Biochemistry of the cobamide coenzymes Also won in 1941 Robert Hugh Cole Brown University Equilibrium and relaxation theories of dielectrics Also won in 1955 Robert Maurice Hexter Mellon Institute Problem of predicting the electronic and vibrational spectra of molecular crystals Kenneth Keith Innes Vanderbilt University Organic molecular structure Herbert August Laitinen University of Illinois High temperature electrochemistry Also won in 1953 Charles Norwood Reilley University of North Carolina Metal chelate relations Raymond E. Shapiro United States Department of Agriculture Soil factors in soil plant relationships William Spindel Rutgers University–Newark Rare oxygen isotopes Thomas Tamotsu Sugihara Clark University Effects of angular momentum and excitation energy in high energy fission Kenneth Berle Wiberg University of Washington Benjamin Widom Cornell University Long range correlations in fluids Also won in 1968 Charles David Keeling Scripps Institution of Oceanography Paul E. Potter Illinois Geological Survey Primary directional properties in sedimentary rocks William Wilson Mullins Carnegie Institute of Technology Theoretical problems relating to shapes and rates of changes of surfaces under various environmental conditions Sheldon Judson Princeton University Also won in 1966 W. Barclay Kamb California Institute of Technology Relation between state of stress and preferred orientation of ice crystals in selected glaciers of the Alps Also won in 1959 George Whitelaw Mackey Harvard University Topological groups Also won in 1949, 1970 Dana Charles Brooks Cornell University Medical College Basis of electrical activity in the mammilian brain Robert James Gorlin University of Minnesota Oral pathology book preparation Henry Orson Wheeler Columbia University Molecular and Cellular Biology Seymour Benzer Purdue University Cellular control mechanisms Malcolm Stephen Gordon University of California, Los Angeles Charles Allen West University of California, Los Angeles Enzymatic mechanisms and intermediates involved in the biosynthesis of the gibberellins Organismic Biology and Ecology George A. Bartholomew University of California, Los Angeles Otto Kinne University of Toronto Lawrence B. Slobodkin University of Michigan Also won in 1974 Leroy Carlton Stevens, Jr. Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory Microscopic tumors in early stages of development Hans Pieter Roetert Frederikse National Bureau of Standards Physical properties of oxide semi conductors Bernard G. Harvey University of California, Berkeley Nuclear stripping and pick up reactions Jabez Curry Street Harvard University High energy particle physics Herbert Bashford Currier University of California Physiology of callose and associated phenomena in plant cells Also won in 1954 Carl Leslie Withner Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Brooklyn College Orchids Statistics Roy Radner University of California Problems of organization Also won in 1965 Joseph John Spengler Duke University Development of economic thought Political Science Harry V. Jaffa Ohio State University Wladyslaw W. Kulski Syracuse University National interests in contemporary France Also won in 1969 Norman Dunbar Palmer University of Pennsylvania Harold Brenner Pepinsky Ohio State University Sociology Renée Claire Fox University of Pennsylvania Sarah Grilo Painting Also won in 1963 David Manzur Londoño University of the Andes Painting Also won in 1962 Armando Morales Engraving Also won in 1958 Music Composition Mario Davidovsky Composing Also won in 1960 Humanities History of Science and Technology Alair de Oliveira Gomes Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Natural Sciences Mathematics José Barros Neto Yale University Also won in 1962 Elon Lages Lima Brazilian Center for Research in Physics Also won in 1963 Juan Carlos Merlo University of Buenos Aires Also won in 1962 Nelson Onuchic São Paulo State University Also won in 1962 Molecular and Cellular Biology Emiliano Cabrera Juárez National School of Biological Sciences, Mexico Mitzy Canessa University of Chile Also won in 1959 Neuroscience Adolfo Davidovich Guerberof Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Organismic Biology and Ecology Federico Medem National University of Colombia Systematics of Colombian turtles, snakes and lizards Also won in 1952 Francisco Nemenzo University of the Philippines Genaro O. Ranit University of the Philippines Also won in 1960 Leonila Vázquez García National Autonomous University of Mexico Physics Jacobo Rapaport University of Chile Plant Science Hernán Caballero Delpino University of Concepción Milán Jorge Dimitri National Parks, Argentina Faustino Miranda González National Autonomous University of Mexico Manual of trees in southeastern Mexico Social Sciences Anthropology and Cultural Studies Felipe Landa Jocano National Museum of the Philippines