# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1960

Three hundred and three scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1959. More than $1,400,000 was disbursed.

## 1960 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Pearl Lang | Pearl Lang Dance Theater | | Also won in 1969 |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Joshua Greenfeld | | Creative writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | John Berry | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | John Cheever | | Writing | Also won in 1951 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Mary Lee Settle | | Writing | Also won in 1957 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | David Derek Stacton | | Writing | Also won in 1966 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Harvey Swados | Sarah Lawrence College | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Donald Windham | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Harold Altman | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Drawing and printmaking | Also won in 1961 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | David Aronson | Boston University | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Donald S. Bloom | Piscataway Schools | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Howard Bradford | | Printmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Byron Burford | University of Iowa | Painting in Holland and England | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Leonard Edmondson | Pasadena City College | Creative printmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Elias Friedensohn | Queens College | Sculpting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Kahlil Gibran | | | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frank Gonzalez | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | John Paul Jones | University of California, Los Angeles | Lithographs | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Seymour Lipton | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Yutaka Ohashi | School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Painting | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | William Pachner | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | George Warren Rickey | Newcomb College, Tulane University | Sculpting | Also won in 1961 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ulfert Wilke | University of Louisville | Painting | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Milton Babbitt | Princeton University | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Ingolf Dahl | University of Southern California | Composing | Also won in 1951 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Paul Fetler | University of Minnesota | Composing | Also won in 1953 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Andrew W. Imbrie | University of California, Berkeley | Composing | Also won in 1953 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | John La Montaine | | Composing | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Marvin David Levy | | Composing | Also won in 1964 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Salvatore John Martirano | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert Moffat Palmer | Cornell University | Composing | Also won in 1952 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | William Overton Smith | University of Southern California | Composing | Also won in 1961 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Virgil Thomson | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky | Columbia University | Composing | Also won in 1956 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Hugo Weisgall | Pennsylvania State University | Composing | Also won in 1955, 1966 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Lee Friedlander | | Changing American scene | Also won in 1962, 1977 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Helen Levitt | | Color photography | Also won in 1959, 1981 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Jane Marvel Cooper | Sarah Lawrence College | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Jean Garrigue | | Writing | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Hennig Cohen | University of Pennsylvania | Mark Twain's career as a Washington newspaper correspondent and its influence upon his literary development | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Philip Calvin Durham | University of California, Los Angeles | The hero in American literature | |
| Humanities | American Literature | William Henry Gilman | University of Rochester | Definitive edition of the journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Franklin Dickerson Walker | Mills College | Jack London | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Albert Henry Detweiler | Cornell University | Effect of Lombard invasions on Roman architecture | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Samson Lane Faison, Jr. | Williams College | German and Austrian architecture of the 18th century | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | György Kepes | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Henry Hope Reed Jr. | | Great Chicago Fair of 1893 and its impact on American life and culture | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Elizabeth Wood | | Book on urban renewal | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | Antje Bultmann Lemke (de) | Syracuse University | Brothers Grimm | |
| Humanities | Biography | Robert Cecil Bald | University of Chicago | John Donne | Also won in 1946 |
| Humanities | Biography | Samuel Flagg Bemis | Yale University | | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | Biography | William A. Swanberg | | Life and times of William Randolph Hearst | |
| Humanities | British History | George Hilton Jones, III | Texas Technological College | Foreign policy of James II, centering on the life of Charles, second earl of Middleton | |
| Humanities | British History | Garrett Mattingly | Cooper Union | | Also won in 1936, 1945, 1953 |
| Humanities | British History | Millicent Barton Rex | Madeira School | British Parliament from 1690-1948 | |
| Humanities | Classics | Frank Edward Brown | Yale University | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Paul A. Clement | University of California, Los Angeles | Attic and South Italian vase-painting | |
| Humanities | Classics | Phillip Howard DeLacy (de) | Washington University in St. Louis | Epicureanism as a systematic philosophy | |
| Humanities | Classics | Agnes K. L. Michels | Bryn Mawr College | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Inez Scott Ryberg | Vassar College | History and interpretation of certain Roman panel reliefs of the Antonine period | |
| Humanities | Classics | William Pitkin Wallace | University of Toronto | | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | John Frank Cady | Ohio University | History of southeast Asia | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Franz Schurmann | University of California, Berkeley | Organizational practices of the Chinese Communists, from their formative period to the present | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Bradford Allen Booth | University of California, Los Angeles | Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert Louis Haig, Jr. | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Life and works of John Dunton | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Gordon Sherman Haight | Yale University | | Also won in 1946, 1953 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Joyce Hemlow | McGill University | | Also won in 1951, 1966 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Dan H. Laurence | | Shavian research | Also won in 1961, 1972 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Harry Thornton Moore | Southern Illinois University | Collected volume of D. H. Lawrence's works | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Charles Wickliffe Moorman | Mississippi Southern College | Augustinian earthly and heavenly cities in the works of certain contemporary Oxford Anglicans | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Constantinos A. Patrides | University of California, Berkeley | Milton's conception and presentation of the central themes of the Christian faith | Also won in 1963 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Charles Richard Sanders | Duke University | Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | Also won in 1972 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Rolf Hans Soellner | Illinois Wesleyan University | Moral philosophy of the 16th century and its influence on Shakespeare's works | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Lionel Stevenson | Duke University | Symbolic elements in English fiction from Meredith to Conrad | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Joseph Anthony Ward, Jr | Southwestern Louisiana University | Henry James' conception of structure in the novel | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Jay R. Judson | Smith College | Venetian art in relation to Dutch and Flemish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | William R. Kenan, Jr. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | José López-Rey (es) | Smith College | | Also won in 1947, 1967 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Wayland D. Hand | University of California, Los Angeles | Dictionary of American popular beliefs and superstitions | Also won in 1952 |
| Humanities | French History | Paul Walden Bamford | University of Minnesota | | |
| Humanities | French History | Georg Gerson Iggers | Dillard University, Tulane University | Idea of progress in historical thought | |
| Humanities | French History | David H. Pinkney | University of Missouri | The French Revolution of 1830 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | J. Christopher Herold | Stanford University Press | German Romantic movement in its European context in the late 18th and early 19th centuries | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Judd D. Hubert | University of California, Los Angeles | 17th-century novel of adventure | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Mark J. Temmer | University of California, Santa Barbara | 20th century French fables | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Frédéric Grover | Swarthmore College | Pierre Drieu La Rochelle | Also won in 1959 |
| Humanities | French Literature | Kurt Weinberg (de) | University of British Columbia | Aesthetics of Baudelaire | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Alexander Eliot | | | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Enno Edward Kraehe | University of Kentucky | Development of the German Confederation as a barrier to Russian penetration into Europe | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Henry Cord Meyer | Pomona College | Comparative study of the careers and writings of Friedrich Naumann and Walther Rathenau, as illuminating certain intellectual and social dilemmas of German society in the period 1880 to 1920 | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Hans Jaeger | Indiana University | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Joachim Hans Seyppel (de) | Bryn Mawr College | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Archer Taylor | University of California, Berkeley | Field of historical bibliography, in particular the history of subject indexes | Also won in 1927 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Walter Silz | Harvard University | | Also won in 1926 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Stanley Newman Werbow | University of Texas at Austin | German syntax in the late medieval period | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | John Leddy Phelan | University of Wisconsin | Spanish imperial bureaucracy, centering on career of Antonio de Morga | |
| Humanities | Italian History | Antonio Pace | Syracuse University | | Also won in 1948 |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | John Charles Nelson | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | John Preston Moore | Louisiana State University | Life and times of Antonio de Ulloa | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Morris Halle | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Henry Kučera | Brown University | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Meyer H. Abrams | Cornell University | Role of metaphor and analogy in Western thought | Also won in 1957 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Cleanth Brooks | Yale University | William Faulkner | Also won in 1953 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | M. L. Rosenthal | New York University | | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Maurice Valency | Columbia University | | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | John W. Baldwin | University of Michigan | Ethical thought and influence of the theologians in Paris of the 12th and 13th centuries | Also won in 1983 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Vernon Judson Harward, Jr | City College of New York | | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Margaret Sinclair Ogden | University of Michigan | 15th century English translation of Guy de Chauliac's Chirurgia Magna | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Bartlett Jere Whiting | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Barry Shelley Brook | Queens College | | Also won in 1969 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Philip Keppler, Jr | Smith College | Agostino Steffani | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Lawrence Morton | Ojai Festivals | Igor Stravinsky | Also won in 1959 |
| Humanities | Music Research | William Stein Newman | University of North Carolina | History of the sonata | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Reinhard G. Pauly (de) | Lewis and Clark College | Johann Ernst Eberlin's music | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Albert Seay | Colorado College | History of music theory during the 15th century | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Ignace Gelb | University of Chicago | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Moshe Greenberg | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | George C. Miles (fr) | American Numismatic Society | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Henry David Aiken | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Milton K. Munitz | New York University | | |
| Humanities | Religion | William David Davies | Union Theological Seminary | | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | Religion | Langdon Brown Gilkey | Vanderbilt University | Relations between the Christian concept of Providence and the secular concepts interacting with it since the 17th century | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | Religion | William R. Hutchison | American University | Protestant thought in the United States, 1870-1914 | |
| Humanities | Religion | Clyde L. Manschreck | Duke University | Thought of Philip Melanchthon | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Gene Adam Brucker | University of California, Berkeley | Politics and society in Florence, 1382-1417 | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Elisabeth Feist Hirsch | Trenton State College | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | James H. Billington | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Wacław J. Solski | | | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Horace Gray Lunt | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce | Ohio State University | Theory and practice of Spanish Golden Age thought, 1500-1600 | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Raúl Alfredo Del Piero | University of California, Berkeley | Unpublished works of Alfonso Martinez de Toledo | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Allen W. Phillips (es) | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1973 |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Norris Houghton | Vassar College | Arts of the theatre abroad | Also won in 1934, 1935 |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Ann Hitchcock Holmes | Houston Chronicle | Theatre, music and art in America at mid-20th-century | |
| Humanities | United States History | George Athan Billias | University of Maine | Biography of Elbridge Gerry | |
| Humanities | United States History | Henry Steele Commager | Amherst College | History of American nationalism | |
| Humanities | United States History | Vincent P. DeSantis | University of Notre Dame | Political history of the United States from 1877-1897 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Joseph C. Kiger | University of Alabama | National learned societies in the United States | |
| Humanities | United States History | Albert D. Kirwan | University of Kentucky | Life and times of John Jordan Crittenden | |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert Douthat Meade | Randolph-Macon Woman's College | Life and times of Patrick Henry | Also won in 1953 |
| Humanities | United States History | William Gerald McLoughlin | Brown University | The Baptist in colonial New England | |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert Edgar Riegel | Dartmouth College | History of American feminism | |
| Humanities | United States History | James Morton Smith | College of William and Mary | Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions with special reference to the question of the relationship between liberty and authority in free society | |
| Humanities | United States History | Marion R. Tinling | National Historical Publications Commission | William Byrd II's letters | |
| Humanities | United States History | Thurman Wilkins | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Chia-Chiao Lin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | William A. Baum | Palomar Observatory and Mount Wilson Observatory | Factors affecting the resolution of a cascaded type of image converter | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Marshall H. Cohen | Cornell University | Generation and propagation of radio waves in the sun's atmosphere | Also won in 1980 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | George Brooks Field | Princeton University | Radio astronomy | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Paco Lagerstrom | California Institute of Technology | Mathematical fluid dynamics | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Donald E. Osterbrock | University of Wisconsin | Magnetohydrodynamics as applied to astrophysics | Also won in 1982 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Hans Panofsky | Pennsylvania State University | Turbulence | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Zdeněk Sekera | University of California, Los Angeles | Effect of dust and haze particles on heat radiation in the atmosphere | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Samuel Silver | University of California, Berkeley | Physics of the upper atmosphere | Also won in 1953 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Harold Zirin | University of Colorado | The sun | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Richard McLean Badger | California Institute of Technology | Molecular structure by means of infrared spectroscopy | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Louis Coombs Weller Baker | Boston University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Andre Jacques de Bethune | Boston College | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Howard Tasker Evans, Jr. | U.S. Geological Survey | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | David Ginsburg | Technion | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Edward David Goldberg | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | New ways to determine the age of rocks under oceans | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | James Lynn Hoard | Cornell University | Complex crystalline structure | Also won in 1946, 1966 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Harold Sledge Johnston | University of California, Berkeley | Chlorine atom reactions | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Alexander Jerry Kresge | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Kinetics of acid-catalysed slow proton transfer reaction with special emphasis on aromatic substitution | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Ralph Livingston | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Microwave and radio-frequency spectroscopy | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John L. Margrave | University of Wisconsin | Chemical reactions at high temperatures and pressures | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Max Smith Matheson | Argonne National Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Jerrold Meinwald | Cornell University | Application of conformational principles to the chemistry of natural products | Also won in 1976 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Willis Bagley Person | University of Iowa | Theoretical and experimental studies of molecular complexes | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | James N. Pitts, Jr. | University of California, Irvine | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William H. Saunders, Jr. | University of Rochester | Isotope effects and isotopic tracers with relation to the mechanisms of organic reactions | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Wolfgang Manfred Schubert | University of Washington | Electronic effect of molecular grouping in certain aromatic organic substances | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Leo Harry Sommer | Pennsylvania State University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Gordon Stone | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Herbert Henry Uhlig | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William Cooper Wildman | National Heart Institute | Isolation of toxic properties of the plant family amaryllidaceae for possible development of new medical drugs | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | William Francis Brace | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Alan Judson Faller | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | James Gilluly | United States Geological Survey | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Thane H. McCulloh | University of California, Riverside | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | George Gaylord Simpson | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Lloyd William Staples | University of Oregon | Mineralogy and geological implications on the occurrences of zeolites | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | John Verhoogen | University of California, Berkeley | Geodynamic processes | Also won in 1953 |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Daniel Charles Drucker | Brown University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Earl Randall Parker | University of California, Berkeley | Theory of plastic flow and fracture | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Ronald F. Probstein | Brown University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Reinhardt Mathias Rosenberg | University of California, Berkeley | Field of vibrations of nonlinear bi-modal systems | |
| Natural Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Allan L. Rodgers | Pennsylvania State University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | David Keun Cheng | Syracuse University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Israel Nathan Herstein | Cornell University | Ring theory and the theory of finite groups | Also won in 1968 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Ernest A. Michael | University of Washington | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Edgar Reich | University of Minnesota | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Hartley Rogers, Jr. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | P. Emery Thomas | University of California, Berkeley | Algebraic topology | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Hsien Chung Wang | Northwestern University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Earl Dorchester Hanson | Yale University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Lester C. Mark | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Wilder Penfield | McGill University Neurological Institute | Medical education | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Philip Troen | Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital | Research at the Karolinska Institute | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Robert Lawrence Vernier | University of Minnesota | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Richard Wagner | Tufts College | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Konrad Bloch | Harvard University | | Also won in 1953, 1975 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Germaine Cohen-Bazire | University of California, Berkeley | Regulation of the synthesis of structural units in bacterial cells | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Dwain Douglas Hagerman | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John William Kelly | University of Oklahoma | Chemical processes involved in the manufacture of protein by normal and cancer cells | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Leon Jacobs | National Institutes of Health | Toxoplasmosis | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Arthur Lindenbaum | Argonne National Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Raphael Laughnan | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Botany and plant genetics in agronomy, studies of certain gene complexes in maize | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Murdoch Lewert | University of Chicago | Immunity to the oriental blood fluke, a parasitic infection in some areas of the Philippines | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Julian B. Marsh | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Hsien Chang Meng | Vanderbilt University | Lipid transport and metabolism | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Grissim Pierce | University of California, Los Angeles | Chemistry of the proteins of the microsomal particles of cells | Also won in 1975 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Arnold Warren Ravin | University of Rochester | Chemical bases of heredity | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Warren S. Rehm | University of Louisville School of Medicine | Field of gastric acid production | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Archibald Frank Ross | Cornell University | Interaction of unrelated plant viruses | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Wendell Meredith Stanley | University of California, Berkeley | Viruses and nucleic acids to prove all cancers are caused by viruses | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edward Arthur Steinhaus | University of California, Berkeley | United system of diagnosing insect diseases | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Knud George Swenson | Oregon State College | Aphid transmission of legume viruses | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jui Hsin Wang | Yale University | | Also won in 1972 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Finn Wold | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Protein tertiary structure | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Ralph Stoner Wolfe | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Ecology of microbes as related to their physiology and metabolism | Also won in 1975 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Ursula Helen Knight Abbott | University of California, Davis | Normal avian development by analysis of malformations of diverse origin | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Robert Day Allen | Princeton University | Theories of amoeboid movement | Also won in 1965 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Richard Mitchell Bohart | University of California, Davis | Studies leading to a generic revision of the families Vespidae and Sphecidae in North America | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Demorest Davenport | University of California, Santa Barbara | Manner in which certain fishes and crabs are protected from the stinging cells and feeding reactions of the anemone among whose poisonous tentacles they live | Also won in 1952 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Charles Richard Grau | University of California, Davis | Nutrition of isolated animal organs | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Donald Redfield Griffin | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Morgan Harris | University of California, Berkeley | Cell growth and population dynamics | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Hans Albert Hochbaum | Delta Waterfowl Research Station | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | James Malcolm Moulton | Bowdoin College | Acoustical study of marine life of the Great Barrier Reef | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John Robert "Red" Raper | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | William Harrison Telfer | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Frank Nelson Young, Jr. | Indiana University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | James LeRoy Anderson | Stevens Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Peter L. Auer | General Electric Research Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Franz R. Brotzen | Rice Institute | Plastic deformation of body-centered cubic crystals | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | George Bernard Benedek | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert W. Birge | University of California, Berkeley | Theoretical high-energy particle physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | John W. Cahn | General Electric Research Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Martin Deutsch | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | Also won in 1953 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Martin Eisberg | University of Minnesota | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Paul P. Ewald | Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute | Historical, geographical, and factual development of the field of X-ray crystallography | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Bernard Taub Feld | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | Also won in 1953 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Eldon Earl Ferguson | University of Texas | Molecular vibration intensities | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | William Bache Fretter | University of California, Berkeley | Relationship of one particle to another in the nucleus of the atom | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Leonard Seymour Goodman | Argonne National Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Paul Handler | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Surfaces of solids by means of the quadrupole interaction in nuclear magnetic resonance of techniques | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | James P. Hartnett | University of Minnesota | Heat and mass transfer | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Dickson Hill | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | High energy physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Ralph P. Hudson | Purdue University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Richard Victor Jones | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Karplus | University of California, Berkeley | Theoretical physics of elementary particles | Also won in 1973 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Pieter Hendrik Keesom | Purdue University | Measurement of specific heat at very low temperatures | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Walter David Knight | University of California, Berkeley | Electronic structure of metals | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. | University of Arizona | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Dillon Edward Mapother | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Experimental properties of superconducting elements | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Henry Margenau | Yale University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert E. Marshak | University of Rochester | Theoretical studies in elementary particle physics | Also won in 1953, 1967 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Theodore Burton Novey | Argonne National Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Abraham Pais | Princeton University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | David Mark Ritson | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Harold Emil Rorschach, Jr. | Rice Institute | Properties of liquid Helium-3 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Henry S. Sommers, Jr. | David Sarnoff Research Center | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Herbert Max Steiner | University of California, Berkeley | High energy physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Frank Sargent Tomkins | Argonne National Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Shigueo Watanabe | University of São Paulo | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Richard Wilson | Harvard University | | Also won in 1968 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Robert Wayne Allard | University of California, Davis | Roles of direct processes vs. chance processes in the genetic populations of certain plants | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Ernest Aubrey Ball | North Carolina State College | Experimental plant embryology | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Harold H. Biswell | University of California, Berkeley | History of fire in the development and structure of vegetarion in areas of Mediterranean climate | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Theodore W. Bretz | University of Missouri | Etiology, epidemiology and control of diseases affecting coniferous plantation species in Europe | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | James E. Canright | Indiana University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | John Edward Grafius | Michigan State University | Statistical genetics and its application to plant breeding | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Terry Walter Johnson, Jr. | Duke University | Marine fungi | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Daniel Archibald Livingstone | Duke University | Relations between organisms and their environment in prehistoric times in the East African tropics | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Jacques Rousseau | La Sorbonne | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | George Ledyard Stebbins | University of California, Davis | Certain mutant genotypes of barley | Also won in 1953 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Howard Coombs Stutz | Brigham Young University | Origin of cultivated rye | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Z. William Birnbaum | University of Washington | | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Lincoln E. Moses | Stanford University | Statistical problems in epidemiology and in biological research | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Ernest Stanley Dodge | Peabody Essex Museum | Artifacts brought back from the Pacific by Captain James Cook | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Morton H. Fried | Columbia University | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Alice Marriott | University of Oklahoma, Stovall Museum | Chouteau family | Also won in 1947 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Hollis B. Chenery | Stanford University | Certain governments in stimulating economic growth | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Walter D. Fisher | Kansas State University | Mathematical economics | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Frank Hindman Golay | Cornell University | Comparative studies of economic nationalism in Malaya and in the Philippines | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Jonathan R. T. Hughes | Purdue University | Interaction between industrial development and trade among the major Western industrial nations since the Napoleonic wars | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Stanley Reiter | Purdue University | Theory of economic organization, with special reference to forms of organization and the behavior of economic units | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Arthur M. Ross | University of California, Berkeley | European industrial conflicts with their counterparts in countries just beginning to industrialize | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Peter O. Steiner | University of Wisconsin | Governmental decision making and its effect on industry | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Charles Fairman | Harvard Law School | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Laurens H. Rhinelander | University of Virginia | British Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956 | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Herbert A. Deane | Columbia University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Wesley R. Fishel | Michigan State University | Japanese reparations problem and its settlement | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | John W. Atkinson | University of Michigan | Theory of human motivation | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Leonard W. Doob | Yale University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Mary Henle | The New School for Social Research | | Also won in 1950 |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Carl Pfaffmann | Brown University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | William Edgar Vinacke | University of Hawaii | Effect upon human thinking of motivational and emotional conditions | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Vernon J. Parenton | Louisiana State University | Recent social and cultural changes in the French-speaking societies of Eastern Canada and Louisiana, compared to France | |

## 1960 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Bienvenido Santos | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Rodolfo Abularach | | Painting | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Tomás Batista Encarnación | | Sculpting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jorge Víctor Damiani Silveira (es) | | Painting | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | María Luisa Pacheco | | Painting | Also won in 1958, 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Mario Davidovsky | | Composing | Also won in 1961 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Héctor Tosar (es) (pt) (de) | National Conservatory of Music, Montevideo (es) | Composing | Also won in 1946 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Agustí Bartra Lleonart (ca) | | | Also won in 1948, 1949 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Andrew Salkey | | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Rosa Chacel | | | Also won in 1959 |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Delfina E. López Sarrelangue | National University of Mexico | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Antonio Sánchez Barbudo (es) (de) | University of Wisconsin | Works of Benito Perez Galdos | Also won in 1947 |
| Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Alercio Moreira Gomes (pt) | University of Brazil | | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Oscar Luis Galmarini | University of Buenos Aires | | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Raúl Narciso Dessanti | National Geology and Mining Service, Rio de Janeiro; National University of Buenos Aires | | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Alexandre Augusto Martins Rodrigues (pt) | University of São Paulo | | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Gonzalo Zubieta Russi | National University of Mexico | | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Angel O. Pogo | University of Buenos Aires | | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Science | Neuroscience | Guillermo R. J. Pilar | University of Buenos Aires | | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Science | Neuroscience | Teresa Pinto-Hamuy | University of Chile | | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Eustorgio Méndez | Gorgas Memorial Laboratory | | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Dalcy de Oliveira Albuquerque (pt) | National Museum of Brazil | | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Genaro O. Ranit | University of the Philippines | | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Isolda Rocha e Silva Albuquerque | National Council of Research, Rio de Janeiro | | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Science | Physics | Sergio Mascarenhas Oliveira | University of São Paulo | | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Luis A. Camargo Gutiérrez | National University of Colombia | | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Armando T. Hunziker | National University of Córdoba | | Also won in 1978 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | José Ploper | Tucumán Agricultural Experiment Center | | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Oscar Tovar Serpa (es) | National University of San Marcos | | Also won in 1959 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Juan Robe Munizaga Villavicencio | University of Chile | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Hugh Worrell Springer | University of the West Indies | | |