# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1959

Three hundred and twenty-one scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1959. More than $1,500,000 was disbursed, averaging about $3,000 per recipient.

## 1959 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Merce Cunningham | Merce Cunningham Dance Company | | Also won in 1954 | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | William B. Branch | | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Peter Feibleman | | Novel Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Edmund Keeley | Princeton University | Novel Writing | Also won in 1972 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Andrew Nelson Lytle | University of Florida | Novel Writing | Also won in 1940, 1941 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | William Manchester | Wesleyan University | Novel Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Mary McCarthy | | Novel Writing | Also won in 1949 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Brian Moore | | Novel Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | J. Saunders Redding | Hampton Institute | Novel Writing | Also won in 1944 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Philip Roth | | Novel Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Wallace Stegner | Stanford University | Novel Writing | Also won in 1949, 1952 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | John Updike | | Novel Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Bianca Van Orden | | Novel Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Albert Alcalay | | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Dennis Byng | | Painting | Also won in 1958 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Richard Callner | Purdue University | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Edmond Casarella | Brooklyn Museum Art School | Printmaking | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Edris Eckhardt | Western Reserve University, Cleveland Institute of Art | Ceramics and glass sculpture | Also won in 1955 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jerrold Davis | | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Kahlil Gibran | | Sculpture | Also won in 1960 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Leon Goldin | | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Luise Clayborn Kaish | | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Barbara Hult Lekberg | University of the Arts in Philadelphia | Sculpture | Also won in 1957 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Lee Mullican | University of California, Los Angeles | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Yutaka Ohashi | | Painting | Also won in 1960 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Bernard Perlin | | Painting | Also won in 1954 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Aubrey E. Schwartz | Harpur College, State University of New York | Printmaking | Also won in 1958 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Carol Summers | | Printmaking | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Elbert Weinberg | | Sculpture | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ulfert Wilke | University of Louisville | Painting | Also won in 1960 | |
| Creative Arts | Jack Zajac | Pomona College | Sculpture | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Gordon W. Binkerd | University of Illinois | Composing | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Louis Calabro | Bennington College | Composing | Also won in 1954 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Chou Wen-chung | University of Illinois | Composing | Also won in 1957 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Halim El-Dabh | | Composing | Also won in 1961 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Lukas Foss | University of California, Los Angeles | Composing | Also won in 1945 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Ben Johnston | University of Illinois | Composing | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Karl Korte | Emma Willard School | Composing | Also won in 1970 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | John La Montaine | | Composing | Also won in 1960 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Lawrence K. Moss | Mills College | Composing | Also won in 1968 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Mel Powell | Yale University | Composing | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Seymour J. Shifrin | University of California, Berkeley | Composing | Also won in 1956 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Yehudi Wyner | Hebrew Union College | Composing | Also won in 1976 | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Ansel Adams | | | Also won in 1946, 1948 | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Walker Evans | | | Also won in 1940, 1941 | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Helen Levitt | | Color photography | Also won in 1960, 1981 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | James V. Cunningham | Brandeis University | Writing | Also won in 1966 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Paul Hamilton Engle | University of Iowa | Writing | Also won in 1953, 1957 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Jorge Guillén | Princeton University | Influence of Mateo Aleman's Guzmán de Alfarache on the fiction of Spain, France, England, Germany and Holland from 1600 to 1750 | Also won in 1954 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Anthony Evan Hecht | Smith College | Writing | Also won in 1954 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Ted Hughes | University of Massachusetts | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Adrienne Rich Conrad | | Writing | Also won in 1952 | |
| May Swenson | Poetry | | | Writing | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Gay Wilson Allen | New York University | | Also won in 1952 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Richard Davenport Birdsall | Connecticut College | Cultural history of New England, 1790-1815 | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Merrell R. Davis | | | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Richard Beale Davis | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Virginian culture in the Jeffersonian era | Also won in 1945 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Donald E. Stanford | Louisiana State University | Edward Taylor | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Arlin Turner | Duke University | Sectionalism in Southern literature since the Civil War | Also won in 1947 | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Design and Planning | Ernest Born | | Three-aisled timber hall in Europe | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Design and Planning | Walter W. Horn | University of California, Berkeley | Three-aisled timber hall in Europe | | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | Robert G. Vosper | University of Kansas | | | |
| Humanities | Biography | Marjorie Wilkins Campbell | | William McGillivray | | |
| Humanities | British History | Stephen B. Baxter | University of North Carolina | William III of England | Also won in 1973 | |
| Humanities | British History | Mark H. Curtis | University of California, Los Angeles | English Puritanism of the early 17th century | | |
| Humanities | British History | Margaret Hastings | Douglass College, Rutgers University | Origins and early history of the legal profession in England | | |
| Humanities | British History | Maurice duPont Lee, Jr. | Princeton University | Cabal ministry in Great Britain | | |
| Humanities | British History | Robert K. Webb | Columbia University | | Also won in 1973 | |
| Humanities | Classics | Elias Joseph Bickerman | Columbia University | | Also won in 1949 | |
| Humanities | Classics | Doris Taylor Bishop | Wheaton College | Trade in Mediterranean in second century B.C. | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Lionel Casson | New York University | | Also won in 1952 | |
| Humanities | Classics | Lloyd William Daly (de) | University of Pennsylvania | History of alphabetization in antiquity and the Middle Ages | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Sterling Dow | Harvard University | Studies in Greece in antiquity | Also won in 1934, 1966 | [51][52][19][53] [42][43] |
| Humanities | Classics | George M. A. Grube | University of Toronto | History of literary criticism in ancient Greece and Rome | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Lily Ross Taylor | Harvard University | Roman politics 220-44 B.C. | Also won in 1952 | |
| Humanities | Classics | Alexander Turyn (de) | University of Illinois | Greek manuscripts of the 13th and 14th centuries | | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | John K. Fairbank | Harvard University | Problems of overseas Chinese economic development and Southeast Asian nationalism | Also won in 1951 | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | George Alexander Kennedy | Yale University | History of the Chinese language | | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd | Cornell University | Factors which tended to stimulate or inhibit the economic developments of Italy in the 18th and 19th centuries | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert Martin Adams | Cornell University | Relation between English poetical practice and poetical theory in the 17th century | Also won in 1974 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Harry Berger, Jr. | Yale University | Poetry of Edmund Spenser, with a special emphasis on The Faerie Queene | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Vinton A. Dearing | University of California, Los Angeles | John Dryden | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ray Heffner | Indiana University | Shakespearian tragedies | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Samuel Hynes | Swarthmore College | Ford Madox Ford and English letters, 1895-1914 | Also won in 1981 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | J. Hillis Miller | Johns Hopkins University | | Also won in 1965 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Karl F. Thompson | Michigan State University | Shakespeare's use of literary tradition | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Stuart M. Tave | University of Chicago | | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Marvin Eisenberg | University of Michigan | Lorenzo Monaco | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Sheldon Keck | Brooklyn Museum | Painting conservation methods in Europe | | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | William Eugene Simeone | Southern Illinois University | 19th and 20th century Italian folklorists | | |
| Humanities | French History | Richard Wilder Emery | Queens College | | Also won in 1952 | |
| Humanities | French History | Leo Gershoy | New York University | History of France, 1600-1789 | Also won in 1936, 1939, 1946 | |
| Humanities | French History | John Baptist Wolf | University of Minnesota | | Also won in 1966 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Jean-Jacques Demorest | Cornell University | Literary creation in 17th century France | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | René Girard | Johns Hopkins University | | Also won in 1966 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Frédéric Grover | Swarthmore College | Pierre Drieu La Rochelle | Also won in 1960 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Jacques Eugene Henri Guicharnaud | Yale University | Dramatic and scenic qualities of Molière's plays | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Mario Leon Maurin | Bryn Mawr College | Andre Suares | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Reginald Laubin | | American Indian dances and their importance to Indian culture | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Ruthven Todd | Martha's Vineyard | Natural history of Martha's Vineyard | Also won in 1967 | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Herbert H. Rowen | Elmira College | | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Eli Sobel | California Institute of Technology | German popular literature of the 16th century | | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Robert Edwin Schofield | University of Kansas | | Also won in 1967 | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Richard Herr (de) | Yale University | History of Spain in the Napoleonic era, 1800-1814 | Also won in 1984 | |
| Humanities | Italian History | Edward Williamson | Wesleyan University | Poetry of Petrarch in Europe | | |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | George Thomas Romani | Northwestern University | | | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Yakov Malkiel | University of California, Berkeley | Theory of Romance etymology | Also won in 1948, 1966 | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Uriel Weinreich | Columbia University | | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Dorothy Van Ghent | Brandeis University | European novelists in 19th and 20th centuries | | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Benoît Lacroix | University of Montreal | Historians of the Middle Ages | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Richard H. Hoppin | University of Texas | Early 15th century Cypriot-French music | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Carleen M. Hutchins | | Experimentation in measuring the quality of string instruments | Also won in 1962 | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Lawrence Morton | Ojai Festivals | Igor Stravinsky | Also won in 1960 | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Claude Victor Palisca | University of Illinois | Humanism in Italian musical thought in the 15th and 16th centuries | Also won in 1981 | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Boris Schwarz (de) (it) | Queens College | | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | George Georgiades Arnakis (el) | University of Texas | Establishment of the Seljuk and Ottoman Turks in Asia Minor | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Walter Fischel | University of California, Berkeley | Jews in India and Asia | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Theodor Gaster | Dropsie College | Religious community of the Samaritans | Also won in 1954 | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Nahum Norbert Glatzer | Brandeis University | Jewish literature and scholarship | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | George Kimball Plochmann | Southern Illinois University | Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Hilary Putnam | Princeton University | Role of necessary truths in theoretical science, especially the nature of mathematical knowledge | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Morris Weitz | Ohio State University | Hamlet | | |
| Humanities | Religion | Horton Davies | Princeton University | History of Christian worship in England from 1750 to 1950 | Also won in 1964 | |
| Humanities | Religion | Robert McQueen Grant | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1950, 1953 | |
| Humanities | Religion | James Moody Gustafson | Yale University Divinity School | Significance of the work of Jesus Christ for moral life | Also won in 1967 | |
| Humanities | Religion | Hugh Thomson Kerr | Princeton University | Bearing of symbolism upon the development of religious ideas | | |
| Humanities | Religion | Krister Stendahl | Harvard Divinity School | Emergence of Christianity out of Judaic origins | Also won in 1974 | |
| Humanities | Religion | Kenneth W. Underwood | Wesleyan University | Ethical significance of the new social and political functions of American businessmen | | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | William James Bouwsma | University of California, Berkeley | Fra Paolo Sarpi | | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Eugene F. Rice Jr. | Cornell University | Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Leopold H. Haimson | University of Chicago | | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Victor S. Mamatey | Florida State University | Work on a companion volume to his book on the World War on diplomacy of the United States in East Central Europe | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Marc Szeftel (pl) | Cornell University | Constitutional development of the Russian monarchy from 1905 to 1917 | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Eduard Táborský (cs) | University of Texas | First decade of the Communist experiment in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1958 | | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | James Ferrell | University of Michigan | Comparative studies in grammar of Slavic languages | | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | George Gibian | Smith College | Russian and French fiction | | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Milada Součková | Harvard University | Modern Czech literature | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Gustavo Correa | University of Pennsylvania | Religious symbolism in Benito Perez Galdos' novels | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | John C. Dowling | Texas Technological College | Leandro Fernández de Moratín | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Elias Rivers (es) (ca) | Dartmouth College | Complete works of Garcilaso de la Vega | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Eloise Roach | Austin High School | Work on two books: a translation of work by Juan Ramon Jimenez and a translation of works of Latin American poets | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Bruce Wear Wardropper (es) | Ohio State University | Elegy in Spanish literature | Also won in 1952 | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Philip H. Highfill, Jr. | George Washington University | Biographical study of performers on the London stage between 1720 and 1801 | | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Basil Langton | Boston University, Manhattan School of Music | Stagecraft of George Bernard Shaw | | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Richard A. Moody | Indiana University | American plays and actors on the 19th century English stage | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Gerald M. Capers | Tulane University | New Orleans in the American Civil War | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Noble E. Cunningham Jr. (de) | University of Richmond | Practical operation of the Jeffersonian Republican Party, 1801-1809 | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Alexander DeConde | University of Michigan | Diplomatic and political history of Franco-American relations, 1797-1801 | Also won in 1967 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Don E. Fehrenbacher | Stanford University | State-making process in American history | Also won in 1984 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Shelby Foote | | American Civil War | Also won in 1955, 1956 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Dewey W. Grantham, Jr. | Vanderbilt University | Progressive movement in the South from 1900 to 1920 | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Morton Keller | University of Pennsylvania | Political and social influence of the large American life insurance companies, 1890-1910 | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Horace Samuel Merrill | University of Maryland | Nature of the role of American political conservatives and conservatism, 1896-1912 | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Samuel Milner | United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Fall of Java in World War II and the fate of its American defenders | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Chase Curran Mooney | Indiana University | William H. Crawford | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Charles K. O'Neill | | Kentucky neutrality during 1861 and 1862 | Also won in 1958 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Charles P. Roland | Tulane University | Albert Sidney Johnston | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Philip Van Doren Stern | | | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Reynold Millard Wik | Mills College | Impact of Henry Ford's thinking on American farmers | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Oscar Osburn Winther | Indiana University | History of the American frontier | | |
| Humanities | United States History | C. Vann Woodward | Johns Hopkins University | Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War, 1865-1877 | Also won in 1945 | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Lawrence E. Malvern | Michigan State University | Nonuniform straining of materials with a definite yield point under dynamic loading | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Otto J. M. Smith | University of California, Berkeley | Optimum design of systems with unalterable elements and uncontrollable disturbances | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Ivan S. Sokolnikoff | California Institute of Technology | Linear theory of elasticity | Also won in 1952 | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Tchen Chan-Mou | Bureau of Standards, Howard University | Plasma physics and magnetohydrodynamics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Chia-Shun Yih | University of Michigan | Comparative study of stratified flows, rotational flows and flows in a magnetic field | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Kinsey Anderson | State University of Iowa | High energy particles in solarterrestial processes | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Thomas Michael Donahue | University of Pittsburgh | Sodium twilight airglow | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Bernard M. Abraham | Argonne National Laboratory | Liquid helium | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John G. Aston | Penn State | Rotation and migration in the solid state | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Marshall Fixman | Harvard University | Diffusion constant of simple liquids in terms of intermolecular force potential | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Clifford S. Garner | University of California, Los Angeles | Kinetics and mechanisms of substitution reactions of transition metal complexes | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Sidney Golden | Brandeis University | Quantum mechanical foundations of chemical reaction rate theory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William Lee Jolly | University of California, Berkeley | Chemical bonds and their properties | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Nelson J. Leonard (de) | University of Illinois | Chemistry of natural products, especially alkaloids | Also won in 1967 | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Richard C. Lord | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Biophysics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Howard V. Malmstadt | University of Illinois | New quantitatives emission spectrochemical techniques | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Stuart A. Rice | University of Illinois | Statistical theory of transport phenomena in dense media | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John Ross | Brown University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Walter A. Schroeder | California Institute of Technology | Total structure of human hemoglobin | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Gilbert Stork | Columbia University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Milton Tamres | University of Michigan | Saturated cyclic compounds | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Harry H. Wasserman | Yale University | Use of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the determination of structure of natural products | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | William H. Easton | University of Southern California | Carboniferous paleontology and stratigraphy in Europe | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Charles Meyer | University of California, Berkeley | Types of copper deposits in Africa and Europe | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Ben M. Page | Stanford University | Gravity tectonics in southern Europe | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Arie Poldervaart | Columbia University | Origin of rocks and rock formations | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Francis John Turner | University of California, Berkeley | Field of metamorphic petrology | Also won in 1950 | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | George Veronis | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Mathematical fluid dynamics | Also won in 1966 | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Andreas Acrivos | University of California, Berkeley | Basic aspects of fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transfer | Also won in 1976 | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Frederick A. Brooks | University of California, Davis | Field of agricultural micro-climatology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Hermann A. Haus | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Magnetohydrodynamics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Guy M. Pound | Carnegie Tech | Theory relating to kinetics of processes involving point and line imperfections in solid lattices | | |
| Natural Sciences | Genetics | Allan B. Burdick | Purdue University | Irradiation quantitative genetics in Drosophila | | |
| Natural Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | 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 1961 | |
| Natural Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | James Jerome Parsons | University of California, Berkeley | Woodland utilization and the herding economy of southern Spain and Portugal | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Lipman Bers | New York University | | Also won in 1978 | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Bertram Kostant | University of California, Berkeley | Fields of algebraic geometry, and Lie theory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Lynn H. Loomis | Harvard University | Abstract analysis | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Monroe H. Martin | University of Maryland | Uniqueness of solutions to linear and non-linear boundary problems for partial differential equations | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Teruhisa Matsusaka | Northwestern University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Harry W. Fritts Jr. | Bellevue Hospital | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Jack D. McCarthy | University Hospital | Endocrine diseases and hormone-linked cancers | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Morton I. Dolin | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Nucleic acid function and synthesis in micro-organisms | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Eric Ellenbogen | University of Pittsburgh | Hydrogen bonds in the mechanism of action of trypsin | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Norman Feinstein | Argonne National Laboratory | Cathepsins relative to irradiation | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Norman H. Giles | Yale University | Chemically induced mutations in neurospora crassa affecting the enzyme adenylosuccinase | Also won in 1965 | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Clarke T. Gray | Leonard Wood Memorial, Harvard Medical School | Metabolism | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Irwin Clyde Gunsalus | University of Illinois | Biological systems at the molecular level | Also won in 1949, 1967 | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Lowell P. Hager | Harvard University | Biological studies | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Douglas Alfred Marsland | New York University | | Also won in 1951 | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Pauline A. Miller | Harvard Medical School | Tetanus toxin | Also won in 1958 | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Clark Phares Read | Johns Hopkins University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Austen Riggs II | University of Texas | Biochemistry of hemoglobin | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | S. J. Singer | Yale University | Localization of particular proteins and other substances within cells | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Ben E. Sheffy | Cornell University | Nutritional factors affecting the host-virus relationship at the cellular level | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Thomas Peter Singer | Edsel B. Ford Institute for Medical Research | Cytochrome-reducing dehydrogenases | Also won in 1951 | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jen Tsi Yang | American Viscose Corporation | Protein configurations in non-aqueous media | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Hans Abplanalp | University of California, Davis | Role of inbreeding effects in closed interbreeding populations | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John Davis | University of California, San Diego | Arizona and Strickland's woodpeckers | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | James Norman Dent | University of Virginia | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Theodosius Dobzhansky | Columbia University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Frederick Ernest Joseph Fry | University of Toronto | Environmental physiology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Philip Strong Humphrey | Yale University | Anatomy and development of the trachea and associated structure of Argentine waterfowl | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Paul David Hurd, Jr. | University of California, Berkeley | Studies of the New World carpenter bees | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Ernest Albert Lachner | United States National Museum | Certain tropical marine fish families | Also won in 1955 | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John Alexander Moore | Columbia University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Colin Pittendrigh | Princeton University | Cells as living clocks | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Charles G. Sibley | Cornell University | Recent research in avian biology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John Philip Trinkaus | Yale University | Stability of cell type in differentiating epidermal cells | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Adolph Becker | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Nuclear synthesis in the stars | Also won in 1958 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Felix Bloch | Stanford University | Relaxation processes and their extension to applications at low temperatures | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Richard Raymond Carlson | State University of Iowa | Analyzing work done in low energy nuclear physics research at the state university | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Arthur H. Compton | Washington University in St. Louis | | Also won in 1926, 1955 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Michael Danos | National Bureau of Standards | Quantum mechanical foundation of the phenomenological theory of the photonuclear giant resonance | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Jay Finkelstein | University of California, Los Angeles | Elementary particle theory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Andrew V. Granato | University of Illinois | Applications of finite strain theory to perfect and nearly perfect crystals | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Paul V. C. Hough | University of Michigan | Techniques important in high energy nuclear physics and strange particle physics | Also won in 1973 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Karl Uno Ingard (nl) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Plasma physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | James A. Krumhansl | National Carbon Company | Theory of thermal, electrical, and thermoelectric transport | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Willard Libby | United States Atomic Energy Commission | Physical inorganic chemistry | Also won in 1941, 1951 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Boyce McDaniel | Cornell University | Elementary particle interaction using high energy X-rays | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Richard H. Milburn | Harvard University | Experimental physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Donald J. Montgomery | Michigan State University | Fundamental processes involved in static electrification of solids | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Louis Shreve Osborne | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | High energy physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky | Stanford University | High energy physics | Also won in 1973 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | William Paul | Harvard University | Techniques of high pressures | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Vincent Zetterberg Peterson | California Institute of Technology | Photoproduction of mesons and hyperons by high energy X-rays | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Louis Rosen | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Spin-orbit force in nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert G. Sachs | University of Wisconsin | Theoretical studies in particle physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | John A. Sauer | Penn State | High polymers in relation to molecular structure | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | John P. Schiffer (de) | Argonne National Laboratory | Average properties of nuclear energy levels | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Carl M. York, Jr. | University of Chicago | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Thomas J. Ypsilantis | University of California, Berkeley | Theoretical study of the nucleon-nucleon force problem | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Donovan Stewart Correll | Texas Research Foundation | | Also won in 1946 | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Jack R. Harlan | | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Paul Clifford Hutchison (ca) | University of California, Berkeley | Cacti of Peru | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Robert A. Nilan | Washington State College | Action of various mutagens on chromosome breakage in seeds | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Karl Sax | Harvard University | Physiology of tree dwarfing | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Richard C. Starr | Indiana University | Sexual reproduction in algae | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Edward C. Stone | University of California, Berkeley | Naturalization of Monterey pine in the Southern Hemisphere | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Frederick Whatley | University of California, Berkeley | Role of Krebs cycle enzymes in photosynthesis | | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Allan Birnbaum | Columbia University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Leo A. Goodman | University of Chicago | | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Katharine Luomala | University of Hawaii | Polynesian and Micronesian anthropology | Also won in 1955 | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Richard C. Rudolph | California Institute of Technology | Chinese archaeology, from early to modern times | Also won in 1952 | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Francis M. Bator | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Investment allocation in low-income countries | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | M. Gardner Clark | Cornell University | Labor productivity in the iron and steel industry with main emphasis on the USSR in comparison to the US and other selected countries | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Alfred H. Conrad | Harvard University | Inequality of incomes | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Otto Eckstein | Harvard University | Interrelationship of fiscal policies and growth of American economy | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Robert Eisner | Northwestern University | | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Bert F. Hoselitz | University of Chicago | | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Vernon H. Jensen | Cornell University | Practices of hiring and conditions of employment among dock workers at certain European ports compared to the Port of New York | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Frederic Meyers | University of California, Los Angeles | Legal and institutional protection of individual job security in advanced industrial societies | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Andreas G. Papandreou | University of California, Berkeley | Organizational variables in economic development | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Lloyd B. Saville | Duke University | Local financial developments in Turin, Italy during the past four centuries | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Gerald G. Somers | University of Wisconsin | Comparative rates and patterns of labor mobility in Britain, France and the United States | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Joseph M. Snee | Georgetown University Law School | Military justice | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Donald Dewey | Duke University | History of economic ideas in the United States Supreme Court | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | William S. Livingston | University of Texas | Decision-making process in British politics | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Robert G. McCloskey | Harvard University | Political pamphleteers in English and American history | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Lennox Algernon Mills | University of Minnesota | | Also won in 1936, 1957 | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Eugene V. Rostow | Yale University | United States antitrust laws | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Judith N. Shklar | Harvard University | Modern legal theory | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Herbert Spiro | Harvard University | Constitutional politics of Rhodesia and Nyasaland | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Theodore Newcomb | University of Michigan | Social psychology, with particular reference to the acquaintance process | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | William Robert Thompson | Wesleyan University | Prenatal development from a behavioral standpoint | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Robert Galen Burnight | University of Connecticut | Relation between internal migration and industrialization in Mexico during the last 30 years | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Milton M. Gordon | Wellesley College | Girard College case | | |

## 1959 Latin American and Caribbean oFellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Victor Stafford Reid | | Novel writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Marcelo Silvestre Bonevardi | | | Also won in 1958 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | María Luisa Pacheco | | Bolivian art and landscape | Also won in 1958, 1960 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Luis Antonio Escobar | | Composing | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Rosa Chacel | | | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Raimundo Lida | Harvard University | Religious and philosophical thought of Francisco de Quevedo | Also won in 1939 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Juan Jorge Schäffer (es) | Universidad de la República | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Mitzy Canessa | | | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Angel O. Pogo | | | Also won in 1960 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Rodrigo Zeledón Araya | University of Costa Rica | Research at Johns Hopkins University | Also won in 1956, 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Pablo Rudomín Zevnovaty | | | Also won in 1968 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Herminio R. Rabanal | | Fish culture in fresh water ponds | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Pedro Wygodzinsky | | | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Ernesto Foldats Andins | Central University of Venezuela | | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Sebastian Alberto Guarrera | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Eduardo Quisumbing | National Museum of Natural History, Manila | | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Oscar Tovar Serpa (es) | | | Also won in 1960 |