# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1950

One hundred and fifty-eight Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1950. This marked the 25th anniversary of the fellowship.

## 1950 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Lincoln Barnett | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Eleanor Clark | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Eleanor Green | Also won in 1949 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Peter M. H. Taylor | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Janet Lewis Winters | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Federico Castellon | Also won in 1941 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Milton Goldstein | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Martin Jackson | Also won in 1949 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Malcolm Haynie Myers | Also won in 1951 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Steve Raffo | Also won in 1951 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Andrée Ruellan | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | David Smith | Also won in 1951 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Benton Murdoch Spruance | Also won in 1962 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Elliott Carter | Also won in 1945 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Irving Gifford Fine | Also won in 1958 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Roger John Goeb | Also won in 1951 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Gerald Raymond Kechley | Also won in 1949 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Harry Partch | Also won in 1943, 1944 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Leo Smit | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert E. Ward | Also won in 1949, 1966 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Ben Brian Weber | Also won in 1952 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Rosalie Moore | Also won in 1951 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Theodore Roethke | Also won in 1945 |
| Creative Arts | Theatre Arts | Boris Aronson | |
| Creative Arts | Theatre Arts | Rosamond Gilder | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Jay Leyda | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Howard I. Chapelle | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Christopher Tunnard | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | Lawrence Clark Powell | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | Biography | Victor Wolfgang von Hagen | Also won in 1949 |
| Humanities | British History | William Haller | Also won in 1947, 1956 |
| Humanities | Classics | Aubrey Diller (de) | |
| Humanities | Classics | Gilbert Arthur Highet | |
| Humanities | Classics | Chester G. Starr | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Harold Robert Isaacs | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Bray Hammond | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Northrop Frye | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Davis Philoon Harding | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Virgil Barney Heltzel | Also won in 1949, 1965 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Edward Niles Hooker | Also won in 1942 |
| Humanities | English Literature | George Winchester Stone, Jr. | Also won in 1951, 1963 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Hugh Thomas Swedenberg | |
| Humanities | English Literature | John Harold Wilson | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Albert William Christ-Janer | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Richard Krautheimer | Also won in 1953, 1963 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Martin Sebastian Soria (es) (pl) | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Edgar Wind | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Herbert Norman Halpert | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Marshall Winslow Stearns | |
| Humanities | French Literature | M. Amelia Klenke | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Georges Claude May | Also won in 1984 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Diana Trilling | Also won in 1991 |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Dietrich Gerhard (de) | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Jean Hamilton Hubener | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Victor Lange | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Marshall Clagett | Also won in 1946 |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Charles S. Singleton | Also won in 1954, 1962 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Robert Fowkes | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | W. Cabell Greet | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Henry M. Hoenigswald | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Helge Kökeritz (sv) | Also won in 1943 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Richard Harter Fogle (de) | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Walter B. C. Watkins | Also won in 1946 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Herbert Bloch | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Pearl Kibre | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Gerhart B. Ladner (de) | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Isabel Pope Conant | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Edith Porada | Also won in 1982 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Kenneth Meyer Setton | Also won in 1949 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Monroe Curtis Beardsley | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Max Black | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Ernest Nagel | Also won in 1934 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Gregory Vlastos | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | Religion | Robert McQueen Grant | Also won in 1953, 1959 |
| Humanities | Russian History | Bertram D. Wolfe | Also won in 1949, 1953 |
| Humanities | South Asian Studies | Franklin Edgerton | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Stephen Gilman | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | María Rosa Lida de Malkiel | Also won in 1949 |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Juan López-Morillas (es) | Also won in 1957 |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Edwin Seth Morby (es) (fr) | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert Donald Clark | |
| Humanities | United States History | John Hope Franklin | Also won in 1973 |
| Humanities | United States History | George Edwin McMillan | |
| Humanities | United States History | James Z. Rabun | |
| Humanities | United States History | Charles Maurice Wiltse | Also won in 1949 |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Harry Richard Seiwell | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Bart Jan Bok | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Dave Fultz | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert Arnold Alberty | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Sidney William Benson | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Bryce L. Crawford | Also won in 1972 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Norman Henry Cromwell | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William Garfield Dauben (de) | Also won in 1965 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Paul Mead Doty | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Theodore A. Geissman | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Frederick Otto Koenig | Also won in 1949 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Lester Peter Kuhn | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Blaine C. McKusick | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Milton David Soffer | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Francis John Turner | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Ralph Philip Boas, Jr. | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Samuel Eilenberg | Also won in 1974 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Philip Hartman | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Norman Earl Steenrod | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Richard W. Lippman | Also won in 1951 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Samuel Robert Means Reynolds | Also won in 1937 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Stephen Polyak | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | M. C. Terry | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Gerhardt von Bonin | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Ernest Borek | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edward Charles Cantino | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Frank Host Dickey | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Arthur William Galston | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Irving Goodman | Also won in 1949 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Evan Charles Horning | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert E. Hungate | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Frank Harris Johnson | Also won in 1944, 1945 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Michael Kasha | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Kenneth James McCallum | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | F. H. L. Taylor | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Kenneth V. Thimann | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Hans Handforth Zinsser | Also won in 1949 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | William Eugene Berg | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Herbert Friedmann | Also won in 1953, 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Francis Harper | Also won in 1951 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Harlow Burgess Mills | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Francis Joseph Ryan | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Ray Fred Smith | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George Willard Wharton, Jr | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Julian Himely Bigelow | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Sidney Michael Dancoff | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | David A. Lind | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Julian Ellis Mack | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Lauriston C. Marshall | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Edgar Anderson | Also won in 1943, 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Howard Scott Gentry | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Sergius Harry Mamay (es) | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Nicholas Polunin (es) | Also won in 1951 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Charles Madeira Rick, Jr. | Also won in 1948 |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Emil J. Gumbel | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | George Kingsley Zipf | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Edward Wyllys Andrews, IV | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | David Bidney | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Hjalmar R. Holand | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Walter Taylor | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Wassily W. Leontief | Also won in 1940 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Charles Edward Lindblom | Also won in 1985 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | W. Rupert Maclaurin | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Edwin G. Nourse | Also won in 1951 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Robert Alan Dahl | Also won in 1978 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Samuel J. Konefsky | Also won in 1951 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Samuel Lubell | Also won in 1953 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Bernard Schwartz | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Julian Towster | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Eric Herman Wilhelm Voegelin | Also won in 1955 |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Jean Evans | Also won in 1955 |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Mary Henle | Also won in 1960 |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Wolfram Eberhard | Also won in 1951 |

## 1950 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Juan Cruz Reyes | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Alvaro Ortega | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Francisco Cuevas Cancino (es) | |
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Juan Larrea y Celayeta (es) | Also won in 1949 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Simão Mathias | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Marcos Tschapek | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Ismael Escobar Vallejo | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Mischa Cotlar | Also won in 1952 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Augusto A. Camara | Also won in 1951 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Luis Vargas García Alons | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Francisco J. S. Lara | Also won in 1951 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Osvaldo Argentino Peso | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Raúl Esteban Trucco | Also won in 1949 |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | José Bebin Bustamante | Also won in 1951 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Abelardo Moreno Bonilla | Also won in 1949 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Dioscoro S. Rabor | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Ramón Ferreyra Huerta (es) | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | José Cuatrecasas | Also won in 1951 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Henri Alain Liogier | Also won in 1953, 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Veridiana Victoria Rossetti | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Alberto Soriano | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Milciades Chaves Chamorro | |