List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1954

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Two hundred and forty three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1954. |
| Drama and Performing Arts || W. Denis Johnston || ||
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| rowspan="3" | Fiction || Stephen Becker || ||
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| Naum Gabo || ||
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| Edward L. Haber || ||
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| Bernard Perlin || Also won in 1959 ||
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| Henry Rox || ||
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| John Williams Taylor || ||
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| Lou Silver Harrison || Also won in 1952 ||
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| Hunter Johnson || Also won in 1941 ||
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| Robert L. Sanders || ||
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| Eugene Herbert Weigel || ||
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| rowspan="4" | Poetry || Jorge Guillén || Also won in 1959 ||
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| Anthony Evan Hecht || Also won in 1959 ||
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| rowspan="94" | Humanities || American History || Carl Julius Bode || ||
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| Architecture, Planning and Design || Kenneth John Conant || Also won in 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930 ||
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| rowspan="2" | Biography || Mary Wells Knight Ashworth || ||
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| Samuel Flagg Bemis || Also won in 1960 ||
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| Russell Amos Kirk || ||
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| rowspan="6" | Classics || Milton Vasil Anastos || Also won in 1966 ||
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| Truesdell Sparhawk Brown || ||
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| Jakob Aall Ottesen Larsen || ||
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| Economic History || Rondo Emmett Cameron || Also won in 1969 ||
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| Sydney Joseph Freedberg || Also won in 1949 ||
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| Adja Yunkers || Also won in 1949 ||
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| Folklore and Popular Culture || Marius Barbeau || Also won in 1956 ||
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| rowspan="2" | French History || Arthur Layton Funk || ||
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| Louis R. Gottschalk || Also won in 1928 ||
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| rowspan="4" | French Literature || Victor H. Brombert || Also won in 1969 ||
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| Norman Lewis Torrey || Also won in 1932 ||
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| rowspan="5" | General Nonfiction || James Baldwin || ||
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| David T. W. McCord || ||
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| John Edward Pfeiffer || Also won in 1952 ||
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| rowspan="2" | German and East European History || Hajo Holborn || Also won in 1961 ||
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| Bernhard Blume || Also won in 1963 ||
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| Heinrich Edmund Karl Henel || Also won in 1951 ||
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| Hermann J. Weigand || ||
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| rowspan="3" | History of Science and Technology || Carl Benjamin Boyer || ||
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| Charles Coulston Gillispie || Also won in 1970 ||
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| Thomas S. Kuhn || ||
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| Intellectual and Cultural History || Carl Emil Schorske || ||
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| rowspan="3" | Literary Criticism || Mary Ethel Dichmann || ||
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| Samuel Holt Monk || ||
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| Paul Henry Lang || ||
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| Kenneth Levy || ||
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| Ann Louise Perkins || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Renaissance History || Sears Reynolds Jayne || Also won in 1969 ||
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| Juan Roura Parella || ||
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| Walter Prescott Webb || Also won in 1938 ||
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| Rubin Richard Wohl || ||
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| Harold Levine || ||
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| Chia Chiao Lin || Also won in 1960 ||
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| Milton Denman Van Dyke || ||
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| Donald James Cram || ||
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| David Newton Hume || ||
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| Walter McClellan Lauer || ||
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| Chester Thomas O'Konski || ||
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| Max Tofield Rogers || ||
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| William Frederick Sager || ||
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| Charles Gardner Swain || ||
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| Stanley Gerald Thompson || Also won in 1965 ||
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| Fritiof Melvin Fryxell || ||
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| Peter H. Misch || ||
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| Bryan Patterson || Also won in 1951 ||
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| Herbert Edgar Wright, Jr. || ||
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| Osman Kamel Mawardi || ||
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| Dennis Granville Shepherd || ||
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| Shiing Shen Chern || Also won in 1966 ||
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| Friederich Ignaz Mautner || ||
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| Ladislas J. Meduna || ||
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| Julian Tobias || ||
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| Louis Paul Dugal || ||
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| Hans Gaffron || ||
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| Teru Hayashi || ||
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| Norman H. Horowitz || ||
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| Hardin Blair Jones || ||
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| William N. Lipscomb || Also won in 1972 ||
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| Peter Reed Morrison || ||
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| Man Chiang Niu || Also won in 1955 ||
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| Cornelis Bernardus van Niel || Also won in 1944 ||
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| Gerard R. Wyatt || ||
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| Arthur Grover Humes || ||
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| Yoshio Kondo || Also won in 1953 ||
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| Eugene Rabinowitch || ||
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| Edward Shearman Ross || ||
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| rowspan="10" | Physics || Herman Feshbach || ||
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| Henry M. Foley || ||
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| William A. Fowler || Also won in 1961 ||
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| George Fred Koster || ||
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| John Henry Manley || ||
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| Norman F. Ramsey, Jr. || ||
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| rowspan="11" | Plant Science || Robert Wayne Allard || Also won in 1960 ||
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| Ralph O. Erickson || ||
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| Johannes Max Proskauer || ||
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| Hallam Leonard Movius, Jr. || ||
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| John P. Carter || ||
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| Walter Galenson || ||
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| Melvin Warren Reed || ||
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| Lorie Tarshis || ||
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| Leslie W. Dunbar || ||
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| Carl J. Friedrich || Also won in 1951 ||
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| Arthur Maass || ||
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| Malcolm Jarvis Proudfoot || ||
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Category Field of Study Fellow Notes Ref Creative Arts Fiction George Lamming René Marqués Fine Arts Rafael Tufiño Music Composition Juan A. Orrego Salas Also won in 1945 Norberto José Palleroni Also won in 1953, 1955 Raulino Reitz Also won in 1968