# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1966

This is a list of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1966. From 2001 applicants, 322 scholars and artists were chosen to share $2,277,000. University of California, Berkeley (27), Columbia University (15), and University of Pennsylvania (13) had the highest number of faculty awarded.

## 1966 United States and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Paul Taylor | Paul Taylor Dance Company | | Also won in 1961, 1983 | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Jack Gelber | | | Also won in 1963 | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Errol John | | Creative writing for theatre | Also won in 1958 | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Terrence McNally | | Creative writing for theatre | Also won in 1969 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Donald Barthelme | | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Cecil Dawkins | | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Stanley Lawrence Elkin | Washington University in St. Louis | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Jesse Hill Ford | | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Tom Mayer | Instituto Allende | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Susan Sontag | | Writing | Also won in 1975 | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | David Derek Stacton | | Writing | Also won in 1960 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Peter Agostini | | Sculpture | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Calvin Albert | Pratt Institute | Sculpture | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | John S. Anderson | | Sculpture | Also won in 1965 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Giorgio Cavallon | | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | John Angus Chamberlain | University of New Mexico | Sculpture | Also won in 1977 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Sherman Drexler | | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Edward Dugmore | Pratt Institute | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Friedel Dzubas | | Painting | Also won in 1968 | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Eugene Feldman | University of Pennsylvania | Photo-offset lithography | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frank Gallo | | Sculpture | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Al Held | Yale University | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Wolf Kahn | | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | David Levine | | Graphic art | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Sven Lukin | | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Eleanore Mikus | Monmouth College | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | David P. Milby | Pennsylvania State University | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frank Sumio Okada | Boeing | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ricardo Yrarrázaval | | Painting | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | David Del Tredici | | Composing | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert Erickson | San Francisco Conservatory of Music | Composing | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Morton Feldman | | Composing | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Vincent Sauter Frohne | | Composing | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Donald Harris | Ohio State University | Composing | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Bernhard Heiden | Indiana University | Composing | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Gerald Humel [de] | | Composing | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Benjamin George Lees | Queens College, CUNY | Composing | Also won in 1954 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert Hall Lewis | Goucher College | Composing | Also won in 1979 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Frederic Myrow | SUNY Buffalo | Composing | | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | George Perle | Queens College, CUNY | Composing | Also won in 1974 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | George Rochberg | University of Pennsylvania | Composing | Also won in 1956 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert E. Ward | Juilliard School of Music | Composing | Also won in 1949, 1950 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Hugo Weisgall | Pennsylvania State University | Composing | Also won in 1955, 1960 | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | La Monte Young | | Composing | | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Diane Arbus | | "American Rites, Manners and Customs" project | Also won in 1963 | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Paul Caponigro | | Stone edifices in Ireland and England | Also won in 1975 | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | William Gedney | | Studies of American life (posthumously published as A Time of Youth, 2021) | | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Ray K. Metzker | Philadelphia College of Art | | Also won in 1979 | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Aaron H. Siskind | Illinois Institute of Technology | | | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | David Vestal | New York Institute of Photography | | Also won in 1973 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | A. R. Ammons | Cornell University | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | John Berryman | University of Minnesota | Writing | Won for biography in 1952 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | J. V. Cunningham | Brandeis University | Writing | Also won in 1959 | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Donald Finkel | Washington University | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Richard Howard | | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | William E. Stafford | Lewis & Clark College | Writing | | |
| Creative Arts | Theatre Arts | Harry Gilbert Carlson | University of Georgia | Evolution of Swedish theater as a cultural institution | | |
| Creative Arts | Theatre Arts | David Mayer III | Lawrence University | English pantomime from 1806 to 1846 | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | C. Hugh Holman | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | William Gilmore Sims | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | R. W. B. Lewis | Yale University | Biography of Edith Wharton | Also won in 1975 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Jay Martin | Yale University | Biographical and critical study of Nathaniel West | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | N. Scott Momaday | University of California, Santa Barbara | Resistance poets | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Willard Thorp | Princeton University | Social content of American fiction from the beginnings through 1865 | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Robert Damora | | | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Edward Frank | | | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Taylor M. Potter | United Presbyterian Church of the United States | Christian worship and its expression through architecture | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Frank J. Tysen | Institute of Public Administration | Urban ugliness | | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | Ruth Mortimer | Harvard College Library | Descriptive catalogue of Itailan 16th century illustrated books in the Harvard College Library | | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | Lawrence Clark Powell | University of California, Los Angeles | Survey of books on California, emphasizing the influence of landscape on literature | Also won in 1950 | |
| Humanities | Biography | Irving H. Bartlett | Carnegie Institute of Technology | Daniel Webster | | |
| Humanities | Biography | Frank Brady | Pennsylvania State University | | | |
| Humanities | Biography | Peter Burchard | | | | |
| Humanities | Biography | Eleanor Flexner | | Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft | | |
| Humanities | British History | F. David Roberts | Dartmouth College | | | |
| Humanities | British History | Peter D. Stansky | Stanford University | | Also won in 1973 | |
| Humanities | Classics | Milton V. Anastos (el) | University of California, Los Angeles | Intellectual history of the Byzantine Empire | Also won in 1954 | |
| Humanities | Classics | John Kinloch Anderson | University of California, Berkeley | Greek military history in the time of Xenophon | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Sterling Dow | Harvard University | Studies in Greece in antiquity | Also won in 1934, 1959 | |
| Humanities | Classics | Michael C. J. Putnam | Brown University | | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Thomas G. Rosenmeyer | University of California, Berkeley | | Also won in 1982 | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Tse-tsung Chow | University of Wisconsin–Madison | | | |
| Humanities | Economic History | John M. Day | Tel Aviv University | | | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Charlotte J. Erickson | London School of Economics | | | |
| Humanities | Economic History | William Nelson Parker | Yale University | Changes in American agriculture, 1840-1910 | | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Theodore Saloutos | University of California, Los Angeles | History of the American farmer and the New Deal | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert B. Alter | Columbia University | | Also won in 1978 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Lloyd E. Berry | University of Illinois, Urbana | Edition of the works of Thomas Elyot | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Donald F. Bond | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1958 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Jack P. Dalton | SUNY Buffalo | Completion of an edition of 66 notebooks used by James Joyce in the composition of Finnegans Wake | Also won in 1964 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | George Siemers Fayen, Jr. | Yale University | Study of Thomas Hardy's notebooks | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Edgar Johnson | City College of New York | | Also won in 1956 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Francis Russell Hart | University of Virginia | Modern Scottish novel | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Joyce Hemlow | McGill University | | Also won in 1951, 1960 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Herbert Howarth | University of Pennsylvania | English writers | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Maurice Kelley | Princeton University | Edition of Milton's Christian Doctrine | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Louis A. Landa | Princeton University | Economic ideas in 18th-century literature | Also won in 1946 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | John Loftis, Jr. | Stanford University | Anglo-Spanish dramatic relations in the later 17th century | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ralph Noel Maud | Simon Fraser University | Research for an edition of the unpublished writings of Dylan Thomas | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Clarence H. Miller | St. Louis University | Edition of St. Thomas More's Expositio Passionis | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert L. Peters | University of California, Riverside | | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Thomas C. Pinney | Pomona College | Collected letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay | Also won in 1984 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Irene Samuel | Hunter College | John Milton's theory of literary criticism | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Charles A. Ryskamp | Princeton University | Complete edition of the letters of William Cowper | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Aileen Ward | Brandeis University | | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Klaus Berger | University of Kansas | Japanese sources of European paintings, 1860–1910 | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Dietrich von Bothmer | Metropolitan Museum of Art | | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | François Bucher | Yale University | Gothic architecture in the light of a newly discovered 15th-century sketchbook | Also won in 1958 | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Malcolm John Campbell | University of Pennsylvania | Art patronage of the Medici | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Albert Elsen | Indiana University | Origin and evolution of modern sculpture, 1890–1920 | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Julius S. Held | Barnard College | catalogue raissone of the oil sketches of Pieter Paul Rubens | Also won in 1952 | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Juergen Schulz | University of California, Berkeley | Topographical history of Venice | | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Alan Dundes | University of California, Berkeley | History of folk narrative scholarship | | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Holger O. Nygard | Duke University | | | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Felix J. Oinas | Indiana University | Slavic and Balto-Finnic folklore | Also won in 1961 | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Warren E. Roberts | Indiana University | Comparison of folk architecture in Northern Europe and the United States | | |
| Humanities | French History | Edward T. Gargan | Wesleyan University | History of French thought from 1860 to 1990 | | |
| Humanities | French History | Ernest John Knapton | Wheaton College | | | |
| Humanities | French History | John Baptist Wolf | University of Minnesota | Completion of a biography of Louis XIV of France | Also won in 1959 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Olga Bernal | Vassar College | | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Raymond Federman | SUNY Buffalo | Establishing new trends in French poetry, 1945-1965 | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | René Girard | Johns Hopkins University | Studies of Andre Malraux, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre | Also won in 1959 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | John Clarke Lapp | Stanford University | Jean de La Fontaine's Tales | Also won in 1973 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Robert James Nelson | University of Pennsylvania | Jean Rotrou | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Constantine FitzGibbon | | | | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Klaus Epstein [de] | Brown University | | | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Otto Pflanze | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis | Bismarck and the consolidation of the German Reich, 1871-1890 | | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Stanford Jay Shaw | University of California, Los Angeles | | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Adolf D. Klarmann | University of Pennsylvania | History of modern German drama | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Gerald Gillespie | Harpur College | German poetry | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Victor Lange | Princeton University | Development of the German novel in the 18th century | Also won in 1950 | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Burton E. Pike | Cornell University | Thematic works of Thomas Mann | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Heinz Politzer | University of California, Berkeley | Literary history of Austria, 1789–1918 | Also won in 1958, 1974 | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | John Colton Greene | University of Kansas | American science in the age of Thomas Jefferson | | |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Dante Della Terza | Harvard University | Development of Torquato Tasso's poetry | | |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Luciano Rebay | Columbia University | | | |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Richard Allen Webster | University of California, Berkeley | Transition from parliamentary democracy to fascism in Italy, 1911–1915 | | |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Frank Roy Willis | University of California, Davis | | | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Yakov Malkiel | University of California, Berkeley | Theoretical linguistics | Also won in 1948, 1959 | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Herbert Penzl | University of California, Berkeley | Phonemic structures of the dialects in four major Old High German texts | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Karl Kroeber | University of Wisconsin, Madison | | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Peter L. Thorslev, Jr. | University of California, Los Angeles | Free will and determinism in the romantic period | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | René Wellek | Yale University | Completion of a history of modern criticism | Also won in 1951, 1952, 1956 | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Walter H. Principe | St. Michael's College, University of Toronto | | | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Alfred David | Indiana University | Preparation of an edition of Chaucer's short poems and The Romaunt of the Rose | | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Martin Stevens | Ohio State University | | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | David D. Boyden | University of California, Berkeley | History of violin playing | Also won in 1954, 1970 | |
| Humanities | Music Research | George John Buelow [pt] | New York University | | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Friedrich von Huene | | Comparative study of historical woodwinds | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Owen Jander [fr] | Wellesley College | | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Janet E. Knapp | Boston University | Latin poetry in the musical liturgies of the 11th and 12th centuries | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Leonard D. Stein | Claremont Graduate School | Creative processes of the manuscripts of Schoenberg | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Hans Goedicke [de] | Johns Hopkins University | Edition of inscriptions and documents pertaining to the history of ancient Egypt | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Norman Golb | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1964 | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Howard Clark Kee | Drew University | | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | George Makdisi | University of Michigan | | Also won in 1957 | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Joan L. L. Oates | University of Cambridge | Archaeological survey in Mandali, Iraq and between Mandali and Badra | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Hisham B. Sharabi | Georgetown University | | | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Haim Blanc [he] | Hebrew University | | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Isaac Levi | Western Reserve University | Positive and normative aspects of the concept of rationality | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Thomas Nagel | University of California, Berkeley | Motivational basis of ethics | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | David S. Shwayder | University of California, Berkeley | Philosophy of language | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | William Walker Tait, III | University of Illinois, Chicago Circle | | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | James Jerome Walsh | Columbia University | | | |
| Humanities | Religion | William David Davies | Union Theological Seminary | | Also won in 1960 | |
| Humanities | Religion | Van A. Harvey | Southern Methodist University | Ethics of belief in 19th-century religious thought | Also won in 1971 | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Rosalie Littell Colie | University of Iowa | Life and works of Hugo Grotius | Also won in 1958 | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Frank Manley | Emory University | Preparation of an edition of St. Thomas More's Dyalogue of Comforte | Also won in 1978 | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Samuel Gordon Armistead | University of California, Los Angeles | Prose versions of La Gesta de las Mocedades del Cid | Also won in 1971 | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Diego Catalán | University of California, Berkeley | 13th and 14th century Spanish historiography | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Ramón Martínez López [es] | University of Texas, Austin | Lexicological studies of the prose works of Alfonso X | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Philip W. Silver | Oberlin College | Contemporary Spanish poetry | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Iris Milagros Zavala | Universidad de Puerto Rico | | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Kenneth Kyle Bailey | Texas Western College | Southern white Protestantism in the 19th century | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Richard S. Dunn | University of Pennsylvania | Comparative history of the English Colonies in America | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Peter Gay | Columbia University | | Also won 1977 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Stanley P. Hirshson | Queens College, CUNY | | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Richard Hofstadter | | The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington (published 1968) | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Winthrop D. Jordan | University of California, Berkeley | Transformation of American social values, 1730-1790 | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. | | | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Gabriel Morris Kolko | University of Pennsylvania | United States foreign policy between 1944 and 1956 | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert A. Skotheim | Wayne State University | American reaction to the idea of European totalitarianism | | |
| Humanities | United States History | John Edward Sunder | University of Texas at Austin | Conservation of natural resources in the trans-Mississippi west from 1800 to 1865 | | |
| Humanities | United States History | James Harvey Young | Emory University | History of the Food and Drug Administration | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Cathleen S. Morawetz | New York University | | Also won 1978 | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Hiroshi Sato | Ford Motor Company | Relationship between crystal and electronic structures in transition metal alloys | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Aaron D. Wyner | | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | George Zames | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | David Bodansky | University of Washington | | Also won 1974 | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Jack Stanley Goldstein | Brandeis University | Work at the astrophysics lab at the University of Rome | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Robert A. Gross | Columbia University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | William M. Protheroe | University of Pennsylvania | Photometry of eclipsing binary stars in the southern hemisphere | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Leland C. Allen [de] | Princeton University | Electronic structure theory of large molecules | Also won in 1967 | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Irving A. Breger | U.S. Geological Survey | Chemical structure of coal | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Thomas A. Carlson | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Atomic consequences of radioactive decay | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Howard H. Claassen | Wheaton College | Reactive inorganic fluorides | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | James W. Cobble | Purdue University | Thermodynamic properties and the oxidation states of the chemical elements in aqueous solutions | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Larry A. Haskin | University of Wisconsin, Madison | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | James Lynn Hoard | Cornell University | Structures of coordination complexes of biological interest | Also won in 1946, 1960 | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Stephen Prager | University of Minnesota | Flow of gases at low pressures | Also won in 1958 | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William H. Reinmuth | Columbia University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Dean Wentworth Robinson | Johns Hopkins University | Spectra and electronic structure of some first-period diatomic molecules | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Klaus Ruedenberg [de] | Iowa State University | Quantum chemistry and molecular physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Joseph Silverman | University of Maryland, College Park | Radiation chemistry of polymers | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Charles Frederick Wilcox, Jr. | Cornell University | Theoretical organic chemistry | | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | George L. Turin | University of California, Berkeley | Statistical communication theory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Hubert Lloyd Barnes | Pennsylvania State University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | William B. N. Berry [de] | University of California, Berkeley | Distribution and phylogeny of Siluarian graptolites in Europe | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Gerhard Oertel | University of California, Los Angeles | Mechanism of shear fracture in rocks with slaty cleavage | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Philip Moore Orville | Yale University | North American-Eurasian ornithopod dinosaurs ad early cretaceous faunas | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | John H. Ostrom | Yale University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | George Veronis | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Work at the International Institute of Meteorology in Stockholm | Also won in 1959 | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Hal O. Anger | University of California, Berkeley | Radioisotope cameras in medical diagnosis | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | S. George Bankoff | Northwestern University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Alvin W. Trivelpiece | University of California, Berkeley | Mechanisms generating turbulence in hot and cold plasmas | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Peter E. Wagner | Johns Hopkins University | Phonon avalanches in paramagnetic salts | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Robert Clark Wentworth | Lockheed Missiles and Space Company | Magnetic vibrations | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Donald Roger Willis | University of California, Berkeley | Theory of the flow of rarefied polyatomic gases | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Felix Browder | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1953 | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Shiing-Shen Chern | University of Chicago | Nonlinear partial differential equations arising from geometrical problems | Also won in 1954 | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Avner Friedman | Northwestern University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Paul Roesel Garabedian | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences | | Also won 1981 | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | James Allister Jenkins | Washington University | Geometric studies in the theory of univalent functions | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Louis Nirenberg | New York University | | Also won 1975 | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Gerald Enoch Sacks | Cornell University | Axioms of recursion theory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Robert Lawson Vaught | University of California, Berkeley | Foundations of mathematics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Philip Aisen | Mount Sinai Hospital | Anion binding properties of transferrin | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Philip S. Chen, Jr. | University of Rochester | Calcium transport across living membranes | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Robert M. Epstein | Columbia University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Attallah Kappas | University of Chicago | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Alfred F. Michael, Jr. | University of Minnesota Medical School | Biochemical nature and development of cell membranes | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Malcolm R. Miller | University of California Medical Center | | Also won in 1955 | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | David Schachter | Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Andrew G. Szent-Győrgyi | Dartmouth Medical School | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Lewis William Wannamaker | University of Minnesota | Biology of streptococci | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Daniel E. Atkinson | University of California, Los Angeles | Theoretical and experimental studies on metabolic regulation | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Sterling Chaykin | University of California, Davis | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | R. David Cole | University of California, Berkeley | Fundamental aspects of protein chemistry | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Eugene Goldwasser | University of Chicago | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Corwin Hansch | Pomona College | | Also won in 1952 | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edwin G. Krebs | University of Washington | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Donald B. McCormick | Cornell University | Mechanisms of action of the flavoproteins | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Matthew Meselson | Harvard University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Jr. | Harvard University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Russell Ross | University of Washington | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Irwin William Sherman | University of California, Riverside | Research at the Carlsberg Biologic Institute in Copenhagen | | f |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Peter H. Tsao | University of California, Riverside | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Milton Zaitlin | University of Arizona | Mutants of the tobacco mosaic virus | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Clifford O. Berg | Cornell University | Ecology of the snail-killing flies of South America | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Arthur Barclay Chapman | University of Wisconsin–Madison | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | José Henrique Guimarães | Secretariat of Agriculture of the State of São Paulo | Etymology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Frederic W. Hill | University of California, Davis | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | DeForest Mellon, Jr. | University of Virginia | Sensory processes of insect feeding regulation | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Charles Duncan Michener | University of Kansas | Behavior of primitive social bees in Africa | Also won in 1955 | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | William Wright Milstead | University of Missouri, Kansas City | American box turtles | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Francis John Rolle | Universidad de Puerto Rico | West Indian thrushes (Miocichla (Aves)) | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Evert I. Schlinger | University of California, Berkeley | Acrocerid flies in Chile | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Marcus Singer | Western Reserve University School of Medicine | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Ansel C. Anderson | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Walter E. Bron | IBM Research Center | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | William Chinowsky | University of California, Berkeley | Elementary particle interactions | Also won 1978 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Stanley Deser | Brandeis University | Research at Sorbonne | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Richard Diamond [de] | Lawrence Radiation Laboratory | Nuclear structure | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Joseph Francis Dillon, Jr. | | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Young B. Kim | Bell Telephone Laboratory | Superconductivity | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Donald Newton Langenberg | University of Pennsylvania | Electronic structure of metals | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | David M. Lee | Cornell University | Thermodynamics of solid and liquid helium | Also won 1974 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Tsung-Dao Lee | Columbia University | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Marshall Luban | University of Pennsylvania | Theory of the properties of liquid helium four | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Malcolm Harris Macfarlane | Argonne National Laboratory | Research at Oxford University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Earl W. McDaniel | Georgia Institute of Technology | Theory of atomic collision phenomena | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Lewis Harold Nosanow | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis | Theory of the properties of quantum crystals | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Susumu Okubo | University of Rochester | Elementary particle physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Henry Primakoff | University of Pennsylvania | Junction of nuclear and elementary particle physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | J. Robert Schrieffer | University of Pennsylvania | Correlation effects in relation to magnetic states in metal | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Glen A. Slack | General Electric Research Laboratory | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Prem Prakash Srivastava | Brazilian Center for Research in Physics, Rio de Janeiro | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Harold K. Ticho | University of California, Los Angeles | Elementary particle physics | Also won in 1973 | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Ahmed R. Frank Wazzan | University of California, Los Angeles | Magnetism in solids | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Wolfgang Lothar Wiese | National Bureau of Standards | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Emil Wolf | University of Rochester | Coherence phenomena in modern optical physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Charles Zemach | University of California, Berkeley | Theory of elementary particle physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Alexander Zucker | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Nuclear structure physics | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Robert E. Beardsley | Manhattan College | Crown-gall tumor induction in plants | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Ernest M. Gifford [ru] | University of California, Davis | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | William Paul Jacobs | Princeton University | Movement of hormones in plant roots | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | George G. Laties | University of California, Los Angeles | Regulatory mechanisms governing respiratory activity in plant tissues | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Oswaldo Fidalgo | | | Also won in 1964 | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | A. Douglas McLaren | University of California, Berkeley | Photochemistry of viruses, particularly at short wavelengths of ultraviolet radiation | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Albert L. Page | University of California, Riverside | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Erich L. Lehmann | University of California, Berkeley | Nonparametric techniques and their properties | Also won in 1955, 1979 | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Kenneth Eyre Read | University of Washington | | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | David M. Schneider | University of Chicago | | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Lloyd G. Reynolds | Yale University | Revenue and expenditure patterns in European industrial countries | Also won in 1954 | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | T. Y. Shen | University of California, Davis | | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Douglas Y. Thorson | Bradley University | | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Sho-Chieh Tsiang | University of Rochester | Monetary theory | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Lloyd Ulman | University of California, Berkeley | Assessment of the effectiveness of incomes policies in selected European countries | | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Solon T. Kimball | University of Florida | | | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Sheldon Judson | Princeton University | Physical environment and human occupancy in Etruria from Villanovan time to the present | Also won in 1961 | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Donald William Meinig | Syracuse University | Historical and cultural geography of the American West | | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | H. Roy Merrens | University of Wisconsin | | | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Rhoads Murphey | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Richard Reeve Baxter | Harvard Law School | Creation of customary international law | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Charles Montgomery Gray | University of Chicago | | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Ernest van den Haag | New School for Social Research | | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Stephan Kuttner | Yale University | Medieval canon law | Also won in 1956 | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Richard B. Lillich | Syracuse University College of Law | Substantive rules governing the responsibility of states for injuries to aliens | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | David P. Calleo | Yale University | Postwar British attitudes toward European unity | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | René Albrecht-Carrié | Columbia University | | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Richard Michael Cyert | Carnegie Institute of Technology | Decision-making | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Bernard B. Fall | Howard University | Viet Cong | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Robert Allen Goldwin | University of Chicago | John Locke's works in Great Britain | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Arnold Kramish | University of California, Los Angeles | Interaction of science and technology with other elements of national and internal policy | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Val R. Lorwin | University of Oregon | | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | John D. Martz | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Class and political culture in Ecuador | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Peter C. Dodwell | Queen's University at Kingston | | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | James Samuel Coleman | Johns Hopkins University | Theory of collective decisions | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Nathan Glazer | University of California, Berkeley | Comparative studies in problems of social policy | Also won in 1954 | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Talcott Parsons | Harvard University | | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Rita J. Simon | University of Illinois, Urbana | | | |

## 1966 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Max Aub | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Mexican Revolution | Also won in 1968, 1971 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Alberto W. Collie | Harvard Graduate School of Design (student) | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Marta Minujín | | Move to New York City | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Honorio Morales | | Travel to New York City | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Luis Felipe Noé | | | Also won in 1965 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Homero Aridjis | Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes | | Also won in 1979 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Teresa Gisbert de Mesa | Higher University of San Andrés | | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | José Roberto Teixeira Leite [pt] | State University of Campinas | | |
| Humanities | Folkore and Popular Culture | Isabel Aretz | Instituto Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes | Indigenous music of South and Central America | |
| Humanities | Folkore and Popular Culture | Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera | National Institute of Folklore | | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | José A. Gautier | Universidad de Puerto Rico | | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | José Miranda González (es) | Universidad Nacional de México | | Also won in 1957 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Luis Jaime Cisneros [es; fr; qu] | Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos | Philological studies | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Francisco Curt Lange | | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Enrique Carlos Pezzoni [es] | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Poetry of Octavio Paz | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Gabriela Roepke Bahamonde | Universidad Católica de Chile | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Sciences | Carlos de Paula Couto | National Museum of Brazil | | Also won in 1949, 1951 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Sciences | José F. Bonaparte | National University of Tucumán | | Also won in 1972 |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Kenneth S. Julien | University of the West Indies | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | João Garcia Leme | Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jorge E. Allende | Institute of Physical Chemistry and Pathology | | Also won in 1971 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Fernando Bastarrachea | Instituto Politécnico Nacional | | Also won in 1965 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Miguel A. Klappenbach [es] | National Museum of Natural History, Uruguay | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Pablo R. San Martín | Universidad de Montevideo | General study on the Bothriuridae family | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Eduardo del Solar Osses | University of Chile | | Also won in 1965 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Aylthon Brandão Joly [es; pt] | Universidade de São Paulo | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Armando Dugand | National University of Colombia | | Also won in 1965 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Maria E. P. K. Fidalgo (es) (ast) | Botanical Garden of São Paulo | | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Rafael Ramon Romero Castañeda | Universidad Nacional de Colombia | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Fernando Horcasitas | National School of Anthropology and History | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Ramiro Matos Mendieta (es) | National University of the Center of Peru | | Also won in 1965 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Alberto Rex González (es) | National University of La Plata, National University of the Littoral | | Also won in 1956, 1967 |