# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1965

Three hundred and thirteen scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1965. More than $2,115,700 was disbursed.

## US and Canada Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Katherine Litz | | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | LeRoi Jones | Black Arts Repertory/Theater School | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Albert Bermel | | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Kenneth H. Brown | | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Arnold Weinstein | Hollins College (visiting) | Creative writing for theater | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Seymour Epstein | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Julius Horwitz | | Writing | Also won in 1954 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Richard E. Kim | University of Massachusetts | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Alison Lurie | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Wallace Markfield | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Lore Segal | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Marie-Claire Blais | | | Also won in 1963 |
| Creative Arts | Film | Albert Maysles | Maysles Films | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | John S. Anderson | | Sculpture | Also won in 1966 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | William Bailey | Indiana University | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Tosun Bayrak | Fairleigh Dickinson University | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Kenneth Campbell | Queens College | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Warrington Colescott | University of Wisconsin | Printmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Herbert Lewis Fink (fr) | Southern Illinois University | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Juan Manuel Gómez-Quiroz | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | William R. Geis | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Nancy Grossman | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Peter Hooven | Maryland Institute College of Art | Painting and printmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Will Horwitt | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Daniel LaRue Johnson | Los Angeles General Hospital | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Lyman E. Kipp | Hunter College | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Joseph Konzal | Adelphi University | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | George Earl Ortman | New York University | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Peter Paone | Pratt Institute | Printmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | David Gordon Pease | Temple University | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Thomas Robert Stearns | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | George Barati | Honolulu Symphony | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Earle Brown | Time-Mainstream Records | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Paul Cooper | University of Michigan | Composing | Also won in 1972 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | John C. Eaton | East Stroudsburg State College | Composing | Also won in 1962 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Donald James Erb | Bowling Green State University | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Gail T. Kubik | | Composing | Also won in 1944 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | William R. Mayer | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert Earl Middleton | Vassar College | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Stanley Joel Silverman | Buffalo State University (visiting) | Composing | Also won in 1976 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Scott Hyde | | | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Lisette Model | | | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Hayden Carruth | | Writing | Also won in 1979 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Allen Ginsberg | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | John Haines | | Writing | Also won in 1984 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | David Ignatow | | Writing | Also won in 1973 |
| Humanities | African Studies | James Edward Duffy | Brandeis University | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Louis John Budd | Duke University | Reception of French fiction in the United States between 1850 and 1900 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Edward Hutchins Davidson | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Leon Edel | New York University | | Also won in 1936, 1938 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Leo Marx | Amherst College | Literary pastoralism in modern American writing | Also won in 1961 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Earl H. Rovit | Wesleyan University (visiting) | Emerson's prose style | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Design and Planning | James Arthur Gresham | University of Arizona | Circulation spaces (stairways) as they are used in medieval and modern buildings | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Design and Planning | Frederick Gutheim | Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Design and Planning | Seymour J. Mandelbaum | Carnegie Institute of Technology | Impact of changes in communication and information systems upon urban development | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Design and Planning | Terence George Swales | | | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | William B. Todd | University of Texas | Mark Twain's works | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | Richard Gwen Underwood | Syracuse University Press | Methods of financing and publishing scholarly research in Europe, where there are no university presses | |
| Humanities | Biography | Carlos Baker | Princeton University | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Humanities | Biography | Allan Seager | University of Michigan | Theodore Roethke | |
| Humanities | British History | Dudley W. R. Bahlman | Williams College | Relations of church and state in 19th-century England | |
| Humanities | British History | James F. Larkin | DePaul University | | |
| Humanities | British History | Stanford Lehmberg | University of Texas | English Reformation Parliament | Also won in 1985 |
| Humanities | British History | Albert J. Loomie | Fordham University | Anglo-Spanish diplomacy, 1605-1630 | |
| Humanities | British History | Donald B. Meyer | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Thomas Fauss Gould | University of Texas | Quarrell between poetry and philosophy as reflected in the works of Plato and Aristotle | |
| Humanities | Classics | Michael Hamilton Jameson | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Humanities | Classics | George Leonidas Koniaris | University of California, Berkeley | Edition of Maximus of Tyre | |
| Humanities | Classics | Zeph Stewart (de) | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Hans Hermann Frankel | Yale University | Chinese poetry in the context of world literature | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Herschel Webb | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Philip De Armind Curtin | University of Wisconsin | 18th-century economic history in Senegal, French West Africa | Also won in 1979 |
| Humanities | Economic History | Jacob Myron Price | University of Michigan | | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | Economic History | Andrew Murray Watson | University of Toronto | | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Vernon Kenneth Zimmerman | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Walter Jackson Bate | Harvard University | | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Reuben Arthur Brower | Harvard University | | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | English Literature | James Lowry Clifford | Columbia University | | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Morton Norton Cohen | City College of New York | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | William Evan Fredeman | University of British Columbia | Edition of original documents of the pre-Raphaelite movement | Also won in 1971 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Alfred Harbage | Harvard University | | Also won in 1953 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Carolyn Heilbrun | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Virgil Barney Heltzel | Northwestern University | | Also won in 1949, 1950 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Walter Edwards Houghton | Wellesley College | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Wendell Stacy Johnson | Hunter College | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Frederick Robert Karl | City College of New York | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | J. Hillis Miller | Johns Hopkins University | Victorian novel | Also won in 1959 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Daniel Joseph Murphy | City College of New York | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | James Graham Nelson | University of Wisconsin | Early history of Bodley Head | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Maximillian E. Novak | University of California, Los Angeles | | Also won in 1985 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Lona Mosk Packer | University of Utah | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ronald Howard Paulson | Rice University | | Also won in 1986 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Mark L. Reed | University of North Carolina | Detailed chronology of William Wordsworth's life and works | Also won in 1970 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ann Saddlemyer | University of Victoria | Esthetic theories of John Millington Synge and William Butler Yeats | Also won in 1977 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Joan Webber | Ohio State University | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Calhoun Winton | University of Delaware | Second volume of a biography of Richard Steele | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann | Yale University | Georg Hoefnagel | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Howard Hibbard | Columbia University | Carlo Maderno | Also won in 1972 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Parker Tyler | | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Nelson Ikon Wu | Yale University | Chinese pictorial design of the Ming Dynasty | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Roger D. Abrahams | University of Texas | Christmas folk-plays in the British West Indies | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Edward D. Ives | University of Maine | Joe Scott and the Anglo-American ballad tradition | |
| Humanities | French Literature | James Doolittle | University of Cincinnati | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Serge Doubrovsky | Smith College | Contemporary French literary criticism | Also won in 1968 |
| Humanities | French Literature | Martin Kanes | University of California, Davis | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Mark Harris | San Francisco State College | | Also won in 1974 |
| Humanities | Geography and Environmental Studies | Clarence James Glacken | University of California, Berkeley | Nature protection movement and its scientific, humanistic, and esthetic implications | |
| Humanities | Geography and Environmental Studies | Carl Lewis Johannessen | University of Oregon | | |
| Humanities | Geography and Environmental Studies | David Lowenthal | American Geographical Society | Ordinary, vernacular buildings and landscapes | |
| Humanities | German and Eastern European History | Edward W. Bennett | Central Intelligence Agency | | |
| Humanities | German and Eastern European History | Joachim Remak | Lewis and Clark College | Origins of World War II | |
| Humanities | German and Eastern European History | Henry Ashby Turner | Yale University | Political attitudes and activities of the German business community in the Weimar Republic | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Frederick John Beharriell | Indiana University | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Eric Albert Blackall | Cornell University | Formal structure of the novels of the German Romantics | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Peter Demetz | Yale University | 19th-century theories of realism | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Andrew Oscar Jaszi | University of California, Berkeley | Aesthetics of lyric poetry, with a consideration of the ontological status of works of art in general | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Allen G. Debus | University of Chicago | | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Donald Harnish Fleming | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Edward Grant | Indiana University | Physical reality and hypothese in late medieval science | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Charles E. Rosenberg | University of Pennsylvania | | Also won in 1989 |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Peter Gerhard | Hispanic Division, Library of Congress | | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Robert E. Quirk | Indiana University | | |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Louise George Clubb | University of California, Berkeley (visiting) | Influence of Italian drama in the 16th and 17th centuries | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | James Barr | Princeton Theological Seminary | | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Herbert L. Kufner | Cornell University | Contrasts in linguistic structure between English and German | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Charles Roberts Anderson | Johns Hopkins University | Critical interpretation of the major novels of Henry James | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Bernard N. Schilling | University of Rochester | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Monroe Kirk Spears | Rice University | Poetry in English since 1910 | Also won in 1972 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | James Thorpe | Princeton University | | Also won in 1949 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Robert James Brentano | University of California, Berkeley | History of the 13th-century diocese of Rieti, Italy | Also won in 1978 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Charles Warren Hollister | University of California, Santa Barbara | Research work for a book on the reign of Henry I of England | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Larry Dean Benson | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Rowland L. Collins | Indiana University | Preparation of an edition of the Blickling homilies | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Albert B. Friedman | Claremont Colleges | | Also won in 1957 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Stanley B. Greenfield | University of Oregon | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Ernest H. Sanders | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Milton Steinhardt | University of Kansas | Life and music of Alard du Gaucquier | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Paul Julius Alexander | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | Byzantine history of the Middle Ages | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | William Michael Brinner | University of California, Berkeley | Society and culture in Mamluk Egypt | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Shelomo Dov Goitein | University of Pennsylvania | | Also won in 1970 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | William Wolfgang Hallo | Yale University | An edition of Sumerian royal hymns | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Rivkah Harris | University of Chicago | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | William Kelly Simpson | Yale University | Editing of Reisner Papyrus II and III and a report on the Toshka West cemeteries in Nubia | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Peter Achinstein | Johns Hopkins University | Distinction between theoretical and observational terms in the conduct of scientific inquiry | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Raymond Klibansky | McGill University | History of Platonism | Also won in 1953 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Hugues Leblanc (pms) | Bryn Mawr College | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | George Willard Pitcher | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Richard Schmitt | Brown University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Calvin Orville Schrag | Purdue University | Martin Heidegger's existentialist concepts | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Irving Singer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Colin Murray Turbayne | University of Rochester | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Rudolph H. Weingartner | University of California, San Francisco | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Robert M. Yost | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Humanities | Religion | Robert Walter Funk | Drew University | Form and style of the Paline letter | |
| Humanities | Religion | Langdon Brown Gilkey | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | Religion | Ralph Harper | St. James Church | Religious tradition and the school of existentialism | Also won in 1957 |
| Humanities | Religion | John H. P. Reumann | Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia | | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | John Hazel Smith | Marquette University | Renaissance texts in Seneca's tragedies | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Richard Austin Pierce | Queen's University | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Richard Edgar Pipes | Harvard University | | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | Russian History | Alfred J. Rieber | Northwestern University | | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Richard A. Gregg | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Hugh McLean | University of Chicago | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Edith Fishtine Helman | Simmons College | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Paul Ilie (es) | University of Southern California | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Willard F. King | Bryn Mawr College | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Hardie St. Martin | | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Alan Stubbs Trueblood (es) | Brown University | Spanish drama of the Golden Age | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Ralph Gilmore Allen | University of Pittsburgh | Stage spectacle in the English theater of the 18th century | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Ruby Cohn | University of California, San Francisco | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert J. C. Butow | University of Washington | | Also won in 1978 |
| Humanities | United States History | Paul Keith Conkin | University of Maryland | Basic beliefs in America from Puritanism to pragmatism | |
| Humanities | United States History | John A. Garraty | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Zoltán Haraszti | Boston Public Library | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Ari Arthur Hoogenboom | Pennsylvania State University | History of bureaucracy during the administration of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson | |
| Humanities | United States History | Reginald Horsman | University of Wisconsin | War of 1812 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Harold Clark Kirker | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cultural history of San Francisco, 1832-1932 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Paul Lloyd Murphy | University of Minnesota | Freedom of speech in the United States, 1918 to 1933 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Martin Ridge | Indiana University | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Francis Russell | | | Also won in 1964 |
| John Lovell Thomas | United States History | Brown University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Allan J. Lichtenberg | University of California, Berkeley | High temperature plasmas and phase space concepts in particle dynamics | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Edward Lawrence Reiss | New York University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Shyh Wang | University of California, Berkeley | Interaction of phonon and light waves in intermetallic compounds | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | David Breed Beard | University of Kansas | Interactions of magnetic fields with ionized plasmas in the solar atmosphere and interplanetary space | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Herman Lawrence Helfer | University of Rochester | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | John Randolph Winckler | University of Minnesota | Plasma physics of active solar regions | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Joseph Berkowitz | Argonne National Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Seymour Michael Blinder | University of Michigan | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William Garfield Dauben (de) | University of California, Berkeley | Spectral and optical properties of conjugated systems containing cyclopropane rings | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Mostafa A. El-Sayed | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | James Cullen Martin | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Karol J. Mysels | University of Southern California | Cell membranes | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Linus Pauling | Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions | Chemistry and related sciences | Also won in 1926, 1927 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Myron Rosenblum | Brandeis University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Riley Schaeffer | Indiana University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Rangaswamy Srinivasan | IBM Research | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Stanley Gerald Thompson | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Nuclear fission and its interpretation by means of the liquid-drop model | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Ernest Wenkert | Indiana University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Arthur Gill | University of California, Berkeley | Interrelation between automata theory and information theory with emphasis on the design of reliable systems | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Martin Greenberger | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | J. Wyatt Durham (de) | University of California, Berkeley | Relationships of the major groups of echinoderms | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Richard Foster Flint | Yale University | Changes of climate in the Southern Hemisphere during the Last Glacial Period | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Paul Schultz Martin | University of Arizona | Extinction of certain prehistoric animals | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Robert Scholten | Pennsylvania State University | Gravity tectonics in the Southern Alps | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Hans Eduard Suess | University of California, San Diego | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Alexis Volborth | University of Nevada | Geochemical aspects of magmatic granites in Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Egypt | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Raj Mittra | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | William H. Robinson | Carnegie Institute of Technology | Mechanical properties of metal crystals | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Chang-Lin Tien | University of California, Berkeley | Theoretical studies of heat transfer in rotating systems | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Jerome H. Weiner | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | James Burton Ax | Cornell University | Algebraic number theory | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Edgar H. Brown | Brandeis University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Robert Finn | Stanford University | Partial differential equations | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | James Gilbert Glimm | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | Also won in 1963 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Serge Lang | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Murray Rosenblatt | University of California, San Diego | | Also won in 1971 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Frank L. Spitzer | Cornell University | Theory of stochastic processes | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Walter Jackson Freeman III | University of California, Berkeley | Electrophysiology of the mammalian nervous system | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Henry N. Harkins | University of Washington | | Also won in 1938, 1939 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | John Marvin Marshall | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Raymond D. A. Peterson | University of Minnesota | Biological and biochemical study of cell differentiation | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Bernard J. Ransil | Los Angeles General Hospital | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Richard A. Rifkind | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edward A. Adelberg | Yale University | Structural gene mutation by genetic and biochemical analysis | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edward L. Alpen | University of California, San Francisco | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Magruder Clark | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Eugene A. Davidson | Duke University | Mechanism of biochemical stereospecificity | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Norman H. Giles | Yale University | Genetic systems of metabolic regulation | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Woodland Hastings | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Lyman Ingraham | University of California, Davis | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | George Kalnitsky | University of Iowa | Protein chemistry and the relationships between structure and function | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edward Leete | University of Minnesota | Investigation of the enzyme systems that control the biosynthesis of alkaloids and plant steroids | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Martin Lubin | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | William Randolph Martin | University of Chicago | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | David C. Mauzerall | Rockefeller Institute | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | David Perlman | Squibb Institute for Medical Research | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Aloys Louis Tappel | University of California, Davis | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | James D. Watson | Harvard University | | Also won in 1983 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robley Cook Williams | University of California, Berkeley | Investigations of virus structure by high-resolution electron microscopy | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Angel Chua Alcala | Stanford University | | Also won in 1963 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Robert Day Allen | Princeton University | | Also won in 1960 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Harold C. Hanson | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Victor Hobbs Hutchison | University of Rhode Island | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Jack C. Jones | University of Maryland | Comparative cytology and in vitro behavior of the circulatory cells of selected marine invertebrates | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | David Harold Kistner | Chico State College | Myrmecophiles | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John Walley Littlefield | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Fay Ajzenberg-Selove | Haverford College | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Daniel Alpert (de) | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Leon N. Cooper | Brown University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Paul Palmer Craig | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Cryogenics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Simeon Adlow Friedberg | Carnegie Institute of Technology | Mechanisms by which electric current and heat are transported through certain kinds of alloys and magnetic crystal at low temperature | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Jack Marvin Hollander | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Experimental studies in nuclear spectroscopy | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Kerson Huang | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Earle Leonard Lomon | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | High energy physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Eugene S. Machlin | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Jerry B. Marion | University of Maryland | Experimental studies in the physics of nuclear structure | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Paul Cecil Martin (de) | Harvard University | | Also won in 1971 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Thaddeus B. Massalski (pl) | Mellon Institute | Electronic structure of alloys | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Kazuhiko Nishijima | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Arthur Aaron Oliner | Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Frank Oppenheimer | University of Colorado | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Alan Mark Portis | University of California, Berkeley | Collective phenomena in solids at low temperature | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Melvin Schwartz | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | James Hammond Smith | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | George Abraham Snow | University of Maryland | Experimental studies on hyperon-proton interactions and the rate of radioactive decay | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Peter C. Stein | Cornell University | Electron-positron interactions | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Alec Thompson Stewart | University of North Carolina | Electronic structure of materials by the annihilation of positrons | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Donald Harvey Stork | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Kenneth Stephen Toth | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Neutron transfer reactions with heavy ions | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | San Fu Tuan | Purdue University | High energy and low temperature physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Nguyen-Huu Xuong | University of California, San Diego | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Ray Franklin Evert | University of Wisconsin | Ultra-structure of the food conducting tissues of trees | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Kornelius Lems (es) | Goucher College | Evolution of plants in the Canary Islands | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Donald E. Munnecke | University of California, Riverside | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | John Raymond Rowley | University of Massachusetts | Formation and growth of pollen grains and spores | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | John Gordon Torrey | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Donald F. Wetherell | University of Connecticut | Regeneration in plants | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Robert Thayer Wilce | University of Massachusetts | Arctic benthic marine algae of the Canadian Northwest and Greenland | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Samuel G. Wildman | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Roy Radner | University of California, Berkeley | Theory of resource allocation planning and decentralization | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Jacob Wolfowitz | Cornell University | Mathematical statistics and information theory | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Cyril S. Belshaw | University of British Columbia | Comparative study of the performance of social systems | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Eugene Alfred Hammel | University of California, Berkeley | Structure of social networks in industrial centers of Yugoslavia | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Robert Francis Spencer | University of Minnesota | Poetry of West Pakistan as a reflection of nationalist, religious and social expression | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Robert Wayne Clower | Northwestern University | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Phoebus J. Dhrymes | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Peter Arthur Diamond | University of California, Berkeley | Microeconomic study of economic growth and business cycles, including an analysis of alternative government policies | Also won in 1982 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Thomas A. Marschak | University of California, Berkeley | Economic decentralization in Yugoslavia | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Richard A. Musgrave | Princeton University | | Also won in 1951 |
| Social Sciences | Education | Geraldine M. Joncich | University of California, Berkeley | Biography of Edward L. Thorndike | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Roger Fisher | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | John T. Noonan | University of Notre Dame | Matrimonial cases in the courts of the Roman Catholic Church | Also won in 1979 |
| Social Sciences | Law | Harry H. Wellington | Yale University | Regulation of the labor market and the protection of the individual in an industrial society | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Edward C. Banfield | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Michael Brecher | McGill University | Analysis of Israel's foreign policy | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Joseph Hamburger | Yale University | Political ideas of Mackintosh, Macaulay, and Bagehot and their roles in 19th-century English liberalism | Also won in 1969 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Henry Alfred Kissinger | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Arnold Austin Rogow | Stanford University | Influence of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy on the values of the community | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Alvin Z. Rubinstein | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Dankwart A. Rustow | Columbia University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Robert Anthony Scalapino | University of California, Berkeley | Japanese labor movement and trends in Asian communism resulting from the Sino-Soviet dispute | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Martin Braine | Walter Reed Army Institute of Research | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Roger William Brown | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | James E. Dittes (gl) | Yale University | Psychological analysis of regulating functions of religion | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Harrison G. Gough | University of California, Berkeley | Cross-cultural similarities in psychological factors related to socialization | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Theodore R. Sarbin | University of California, Berkeley | Conceptual framework of behavior pathology | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Stanley E. Seashore | University of Michigan | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Gertrud L. Wyatt | Wellesley Public Schools | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | William Josiah Goode (de) (fr) | Columbia University | Family systems and social mobility patterns | Also won in 1983 |

## Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Enrique Castro-Cid | | Also won in 1964 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Roberto De Lamonica | Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Luis Felipe Noé | | Also won in 1966 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Alcides Lanza | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Edgar Valcárcel | | Also won in 1967 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Santiago Sebastián López (es) | University of Valle | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Alicia Jurado | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | José Luis Sérsic | Argentine National Observatory | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Fausto Luiz de Souza Cunha | National Museum of Brazil | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo | | Also won in 1968 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Oscar Brunser Tesarschü | University of Chile | Also won in 1967 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Ronald Aliston Irvine | University of the West Indies | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Manuel López Ortiz | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Marco Aurelio Rivarola | Hospital de Niños | Also won in 1963 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Fernando Bastarrachea Avilés | Instituto Politécnico Nacional | Also won in 1966 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Silvio Bruzzone | Bacteriology Institute of Chile | Also won in 1952 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Werner Bokermann | Secretary of Agriculture, São Paulo | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Eduardo del Solar Osses | University of Chile | Also won in 1966 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Armando Dugand | National University of Colombia | Also won in 1966 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Novencido Escobar Arecho | University of Panama | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | María Teresa Murillo Pulido | National University of Colombia | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Juan V. Pancho | University of the Philippines | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Victor Manuel Patiño Rodríguez | Agricultural Research Office in Bogotá | Also won in 1955, 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Ramón Riba y Nava Esparza | National Autonomous University of Mexico | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Julián Bernardo Cáceres Freyre | Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | José Luis Franco Carrasco | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Ramiro Matos Mendieta (es) | National University of the Center of Peru | Also won in 1966 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Mario Ferreira Simões | Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Fred Albert Phillips | McGill University | |