# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1955

Two hundred and forty-eight Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1955, with grants totaling at $968,000.

## 1955 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Saul Bellow | Also won in 1948 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Hortense Calisher | Also won in 1952 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Marie Campbell | Also won in 1944 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Kermit H. Hunter | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | André Langevin | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Art | Edris Eckhardt | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Art | Ben Kamihira | Also won in 1956 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Art | Seong Moy | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Art | Hobson Pittman | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Art | Sahl Swarz | Also won in 1958 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Art | Donald S. Thrall | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Walter E. Aschaffenburg | Also won in 1973 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Henry Dreyfuss Brant | Also won in 1946 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Peggy Glanville-Hicks | Also won in 1957 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Hall Franklin Overton | Also won in 1967 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Russell Smith | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Hugo Weisgall | Also won in 1960, 1966 |
| Creative Arts | Photographer | Robert Frank | Also won in 1956 |
| Creative Arts | Photographer | Todd Webb | Also won in 1956 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Barbara Gibbs Golffing | Also won in 1956 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Barbara Howes | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Harold William Blodgett | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Charles Feidelson, Jr. | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Joseph N. Frank | Also won in 1975 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Ernest Samuels | Also won in 1971 |
| Humanities | Bibliography | Irene Dakin Paden | |
| Humanities | Biography | Irvin Ehrenpreis | Also won in 1961 |
| Humanities | British History | Hessel Duncan Hall | |
| Humanities | Classics | Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. | |
| Humanities | Classics | James Frank Gilliam | |
| Humanities | Classics | Arthur Ernest Gordon | |
| Humanities | Classics | George Emmanuel Mylonas | Also won in 1968 |
| Humanities | Classics | James Henry Oliver (de) | Also won in 1946 |
| Humanities | Classics | William Kendrick Pritchett | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | Classics | Morton Smith | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | John Frank Cady | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Ch'ên Shou-yi | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Ferdinand Diederich Lessing (de) | Also won in 1952 |
| Humanities | Economic History | Bray Hammond | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Mark Eccles | |
| Humanities | English Literature | William Irvine | Also won in 1962 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Paul Harold Kocher | Also won in 1946 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Carl Woodring | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Horst Woldemar Janson | Also won in 1948 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Harold Courlander | Also won in 1948 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr. | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Frederic Ramsey, Jr. | Also won in 1953 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Stith Thompson | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Irving Putter | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Friedrich Engel-Janosi | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Liselotte Dieckmann | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | George Clarence Schoolfield | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Detlev Walther Schumann | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Eugene Maximilian Karl Geiling | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Marie Boas Hall | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Cyril Stanley Smith | Also won in 1978 |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Glenn Allen Sonnedecker | |
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Gertrude Himmelfarb | Also won in 1957 |
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Henry Stuart Hughes | |
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Gerhard Strassman Masur (es) | |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Bernard Weinberg | Also won in 1945 |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | Robert Cooper West | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Peter Alexis Boodberg | Also won in 1938, 1963 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Denzel Raybourne Carr | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Henry R. Kahane | Also won in 1962 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Max Weinreich | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Gaines Post (fr) | Also won in 1939 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Brian Tierney | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Kemp Malone | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Rossell Hope Robbins | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Yury Arbatsky (de) | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Noah Greenberg | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Eta Harich-Schneider | Also won in 1953, 1954 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Bernard Stambler | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Oliver Strunk | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Walter Lincoln Woodfill | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Ernest Bender | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Jacob Joel Finkelstein | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Irving Marmer Copi | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Philip Merlan | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Charles Egerton Osgood | Also won in 1972 |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Josephine Waters Bennett | Also won in 1944 |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | William Nelson | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Craig R. Thompson | Also won in 1942, 1954, 1968 |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Franklin B. Williams, Jr. | |
| Humanities | Russian Studies | Wacław Lednicki (pl) | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | Science Writing | Gobind Behari Lal | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Dmitry Cizevsky | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | José de Onís | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Oliver Howard Hauptmann | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Monroe Lippman | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Charles Ensign Rogers | |
| Humanities | United States History | John Richard Alden | |
| Humanities | United States History | Thomas B. Alexander | |
| Humanities | United States History | Shelby Foote | Also won in 1956, 1959 |
| Humanities | United States History | Norman Francis Furniss | |
| Humanities | United States History | Eric Frederick Goldman | |
| Humanities | United States History | Edward Chase Kirkland | |
| Humanities | United States History | Bessie Louise Pierce | Also won in 1957 |
| Humanities | United States History | George Wilson Pierson | |
| Humanities | United States History | Frank Everson Vandiver | |
| Natural Science | Applied Math | Leslie Stephen George Kovasznay | |
| Natural Science | Applied Math | Wulf Bernard Kunkel | Also won in 1972 |
| Natural Science | Applied Math | James Edward Storer | |
| Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Louis Craig Green | |
| Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Martin Schwarzschild | |
| Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | John Hughes Tinlot | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Isadore Amdur | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Paul Doughty Bartlett | Also won in 1971 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Milton Burton | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Robert Hugh Cole | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Burris Bell Cunningham (de) | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | John Courtney Decius | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Paul Delahay | Also won in 1971 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Stanley Jerome Cristol | Also won in 1980 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | George Dawson Halsey, Jr. | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | George Simms Hammond | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Harold Hart | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Ralph A. James | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | David Lipkin | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Lynne L. Merritt, Jr. | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Richard M. Noyes | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Isadore Perlman | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Henry Rapoport | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Calvin Lee Stevens | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Julian M. Sturtevant | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Henry Taube | Also won in 1949 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Alfred Lawrence Wilds | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | John Warren Williams | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Isaac Barshad | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Kenneth E. Caster (de) | Also won in 1943, 1954 |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Ernst Cloos (de) | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Maurice Ewing | Also won in 1938, 1939, 1953 |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Richard Holmes Merriam | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Philip J. Davis | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Marshall Hall, Jr. | Also won in 1970 |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Edwin Hewitt | Also won in 1945 |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Gerhard Paul Hochschild | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Arthur J. Lohwater | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Edward James McShane | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Alfred Tarski | Also won in 1941, 1942 |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Alexander Weinstein | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | George W. Whitehead | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Daniel Zelinsky | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | David K. Detweiler | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Oskar Hirsch (sv) (de) | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Cyril Norman Hugh Long | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Malcolm Ray Miller | Also won in 1966 |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Lloyd Milton Nyhus | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Donal Sheehan | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Thomas Foxen Anderson | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Paul Delos Boyer | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Waldo E. Cohn | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Everett Ross Dempster | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Raymond Nicholas Doetsch | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Roy Philip Forster | Also won in 1948 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | William Zev Hassid | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert W. Holley | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Lloyd L. Ingraham | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Joseph Logan Irvin | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Nicholas Nicolaides | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Man Chiang Niu | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Daniel J. O'Kane | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Thomas Reid | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Mark A. Stahmann | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Henry Burr Steinbach | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland | |
| Natural Science | Neuroscience | Ronald Grant | |
| Natural Science | Neuroscience | Stephen William Kuffler | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Charles Mitchill Bogert | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Robert Kyle Burns | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Rada Dyson-Hudson | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Gerhard Fankhauser | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Herbert Friedmann | Also won in 1950, 1953 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Aubrey Gorbman | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Judson Linsley Gressitt | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Benjamin Vincent Hall | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Sol Kramer | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Ernest Albert Lachner | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Victor C. Twitty | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Sylvan Meryl Rose | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Lloyd Eugene Rozeboom | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Carroll M. Williams | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Mildred Stratton Wilson | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Herbert L. Anderson | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Peter Axel | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Calvin M. Class | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Arthur H. Compton | Also won in 1926, 1959 |
| Natural Science | Physics | Giuseppe Cocconi | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Burton Lehman Henke | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Clyde A. Hutchison, Jr. | Also won in 1972 |
| Natural Science | Physics | Norman Myles Kroll | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Robert Briggs Leachman | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Arnold Nordsieck | |
| Natural Science | Physics | George Thomas Reynolds | |
| Natural Science | Physics | George Placzek | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Raymond Sheline | Also won in 1956, 1964 |
| Natural Science | Physics | Theodore Soller | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Robert Dean Spence | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Charles Hard Townes | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Edwin Albrecht Uehling | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Robert Lee Walker | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Joseph Weber | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Science | Physics | Francis Dudley Williams | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | John Grieve Bald | Also won in 1963 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Robert Theodore Clausen (es) | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Frank Edwin Egler | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Wilbert Keith Kennedy | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Gleb Krotkov | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | James Kucyniak | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Louis Kimball Mann | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Charles Duncan Michener | Also won in 1966 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Harold E. Moore | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | M. Rosalind Morris | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Harry H. Murakishi | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Lindsay Shepherd Olive (sv) (de) | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | William Jacob Robbins | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Rudolf M. Schuster | Also won in 1967 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Sanford Marvin Siegel | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | John Maurice Tucker | |
| Natural Science | Statistics | Erich L. Lehmann | Also won in 1966, 1979 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Arthur J. O. Anderson | Also won in 1957 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | David Crockett Graham | Also won in 1952 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Katharine Luomala | Also won in 1959 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Edward H. Spicer | Also won in 1941 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Stephen Enke | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Carl Kaysen | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | John Marion Letiche | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Edith Tilton Penrose | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Warren Candler Scoville | Also won in 1948 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Arthur Smithies | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | William Spencer Vickrey | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Arthur N. Young | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Philip B. Kurland | Also won in 1949 |
| Social Sciences | Law | Clyde Wilson Summers | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Douglass Cater, Jr. | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | John Hamilton Hallowell | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | John D. Montgomery | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | David B. Truman | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Eric Herman Wilhelm Voegelin | Also won in 1950 |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Jerome Seymour Bruner | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Jean Evans | Also won in 1950 |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | John Langworthy Fuller | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | A. Arthur Schiller (de) | Also won in 1949, 1962 |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Jean Robertson Burnet | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Robert Francis Winch | Also won in 1974 |

## 1955 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Samuel Selvon | Also won in 1968 |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Isabel Gutiérrez del Arroyo | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Edilberto K. Tiempo | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Carlos Otto Rüdiger Jaschek | Appointed as Rüdiger Jaschek |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Jorge Sahade | Also won in 1953 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Manuel García Morín | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Arturo Alcaraz | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Alfredo de la Torre y Callejas | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Nicolas L. Galvez | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Alberto Cazorla Talleri | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Norberto José Palleroni | Also won in 1953, 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | José Ramírez de Arellano | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Jorge de Alba Martinez | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | J. Enrique Avila Laguna | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Margarita Bravo Hollis (es) (de) | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Paulo Emilio Vanzolini | Also won in 1949, 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Alvaro Santos Costa | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Fausto Folquer | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Gustavo Huertas González | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Edgardo Raúl Montaldi | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Victor Manuel Patiño Rodríguez | Also won in 1956, 1965 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Alcides Ribeiro Teixeira | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Jorge A. Soria Vasco | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Alfonso Trejos-Willis (es) | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Jorge Helios Morello Wyler | Also won in 1954, 1958 |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Mariano Dy-Liacco Obias | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Segundo Bernal | |