# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1973

Three hundred and thirty-nine scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1973. $3,852,600 was disbursed between the recipients, who were chosen from an applicant pool of 2,416. Of the 112 universities represented, University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University were tied for institution with the most winners on its faculty (16). Columbia University (15) were second in fellowships, followed by University of California, Los Angeles and Yale University in third.

## United States and Canada fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Murray Louis | Murray Louis Dance Company | Choreography | Also won in 1969 |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Frederick E. Gaines | University of Minnesota | Bull Moose, a play based on immigration in the early 1900s | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Charles F. Gordon | | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Myrna Lamb | | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Murray Mednick | Theatre Genesis | Travel to Mexico | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Ronald Tavel | | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Jean-Claude van Itallie | | | Also won in 1980 |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Joseph A. Walker | Howard University; City College of New York | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Brock Brower | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | John Gardner | Southern Illinois University | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | William Harrison | University of Arkansas | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Madison Jones | Auburn University | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Barton A. Midwood | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Joseph Papaleo | Sarah Lawrence College | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Gilbert Sorrentino | Sarah Lawrence College | Writing | Also won in 1987 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Richard G. Stern | University of Chicago | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Frederic Tuten | City College of New York | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Theodore Weesner | University of New Hampshire | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Film | James Broughton | San Francisco Art Institute | Filmmaking | Also won in 1970 |
| Creative Arts | Film | Daniel Dembrosky | | Filmmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Ed Emshwiller | | Filmmaking | Also won in 1978 |
| Creative Arts | Film | Mike Henderson | University of California, Davis | Filmmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Film | James Kennedy | | Filmmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Gunvor Nelson | San Francisco Art Institute | Filmmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Film | David Loeb Weiss | | Filmmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ilya Bolotowsky | Southampton College | 2D and 3D painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frank Bowling | | Painting | Also won in 1967 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Marvin Brown | California State University | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Lowry Burgess | Massachusetts College of Art | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | David Diao | Whitney Museum Independent Study Program | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Mary Frank | | Graphics | Also won in 1983 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Hans Haacke | Cooper Union | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Michael D. Hall | Cranbrook Academy of Art | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frederick Hammersley | University of New Mexico | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Bernard Edwin Kirschenbaum | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Boyd Mefferd | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Forrest Myers | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Matthew Phillips | Bard College | Graphics | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Basilios Poulos | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert Ryman | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Alan J. Shields | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert I. Smithson | | Sculpture: Amarillo Ramp | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jack Sonenberg | Pratt Institute | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Walter E. Aschaffenburg | Oberlin Conservatory of Music | Composing | Also won in 1955 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Leslie Bassett | University of Michigan | Composing | Also won in 1980 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | George H. Crumb | University of Pennsylvania | Composing | Also won in 1967 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Edwin Dugger | University of California, Berkeley | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Donald Martino | New England Conservatory of Music | Composing | Also won in 1967, 1982 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Pauline Oliveros | University of California, San Diego | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Vincent Persichetti | Juilliard School; Philadelphia Conservatory | Composing | Also won in 1958, 1968 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert Pollock | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Harvey Sollberger | Columbia University; Manhattan School of Music | Composing | Also won in 1969 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Louis Weingarden | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Robert Hickman Adams | | Colorado homes in the 1970s | Also won in 1980 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Bill Dane | | | Also won in 1982 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Wendy Snyder MacNeil | Abbot Academy; Phillips Academy | Long-term documentary experiment | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Sonia Landy Sheridan | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | George A. Tice | New School for Social Research | New Jersey city, suburban, shore, and rural areas | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | John Vachon | | American towns rural enough to have maintained an identity | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | David Vestal | School of the Art Institute of Chicago (visiting) | | Also won in 1966 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | John Ashbery | Brooklyn College | Writing | Also won in 1967 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Irving Feldman | State University of New York at Buffalo | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | David Ignatow | Columbia University | Writing | Also won in 1965 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | X. J. Kennedy | Tufts University | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Philip Levine | Fresno State University | Writing | Also won in 1980 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Michael McClure | California College of Arts and Crafts | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | W. S. Merwin | | Writing | Also won in 1983 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Stanley Plumly | Ohio University | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | James Scully | University of Connecticut | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Video and Audio | Joel L. Gold | | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Morris Dickstein | Queens College, CUNY | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Burton R. Pollin [de] | Bronx Community College | Edgar Allan Poe’s style, including his coinages; his response to the arts and artists of the day; relation to the music of his time; his reviewers; and his necrology | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Robert F. Sayre | University of Iowa | Thoreau's Indian Notebooks | |
| Humanities | American Literature | John D. Seelye | University of Connecticut | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Emily Stipes Watts | University of Illinois | Critical and historical study of women poets in America | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | William Alonso | University of California, Berkeley | Comparative studies on urbanization | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | H. Allen Brooks | University of Toronto | Le Corbusier | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Grady E. Clay | Landscape Architecture | Analysis of urban growth | |
| Humanities | Biography | Brendan Gill | | | |
| Humanities | Biography | Ronald Steel | Yale University | | |
| Humanities | British History | Stephen B. Baxter | University of North Carolina | History of Britain and Hanover, 1739-1763 | Also won in 1959 |
| Humanities | British History | Karl S. Bottigheimer | State University of New York at Stony Brook | Failure of the Reformation in 16th-century Ireland | |
| Humanities | British History | John S. Galbraith | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Humanities | British History | Bentley B. Gilbert | University of Illinois at Chicago | | |
| Humanities | British History | Peter D. Stansky | Stanford University | Art, society, and politics in England, 1890s | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | British History | Robert K. Webb | Columbia University | | Also won in 1959 |
| Humanities | Classics | D. A. Amyx | University of California, Berkeley | Corinthian vase-painting | Also won in 1957 |
| Humanities | Classics | Eva C. Keuls | University of Minnesota; Howard University | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Brooks Otis | University of North Carolina | Transcendence of tragedy | Also won in 1952 |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | A. K. Narain | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Kushans of Central and South Asia during the first three centuries A.D. | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Oliver H. Statler | | Religious customs in Japan | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Frederic Evans Wakeman | University of California, Berkeley | Ming loyalism in Ch'ing China | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Hugh G. J. Aitken | Amherst College | Historical development of radio communications in Europe and the United States | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Stuart W. Bruchey | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Bernt P. Stigum [no] | Northwestern University | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Stuart Curran | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Literary relationship between Byron and Shelley | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Carl Dawson | University of New Hampshire | Matthew Arnold | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Anne D. Ferry | Boston College | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Roland M. Frye | University of Pennsylvania | John Milton's epic poetry and the visual arts | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | English Literature | James R. Kincaid | Ohio State University | | Also won in 1982 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Russell A. Fraser | University of Michigan | Kinship of the mage and scientist in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance | |
| Humanities | English Literature | George Paul Landow | Brown University | | Also won in 1978 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Thomas A. McFarland | Graduate Center, CUNY | | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | English Literature | William H. Pritchard | Amherst College | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Mark Schorer | University of California, Berkeley | George Balanchine | Also won in 1941, 1942, 1948 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Marvin Spevack | University of Münster | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Jane W. Stedman | Roosevelt University | Research at the University of London | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Kathleen Mary Williams | University of California, Riverside | Literature of the 18th century and the Renaissance in libraries in the United States and England | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | James Beck | Columbia University | Critical monograph on Jacopo della Quercia | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Jack Wesley Burnham, Jr. | Northwestern University | Alchemical symbolism in the works of Marcel Duchamp | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Michael Martin Fried | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Reinhold A. Heller | University of Pittsburgh | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Michael Sullivan | Stanford University | Chinese landscape paintings and the Sui and Tang dynasties | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | John Wilmerding | Dartmouth College | American art (part of the Pelican History of Art series) | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Ilhan Basgöz [tr; az] | Indiana University | Comparative study of the romantic epics of the Turkic peoples | |
| Humanities | French History | Robert R. Palmer | Yale University | French education during the revolutionary era, 1760-1820 | |
| Humanities | French History | Peter N. Stearns | Rutgers University | Attitudes and policies toward aging in France since 1850 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Peter Brooks | Yale University | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Shoshana Felman | Yale University | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | John C. Lapp | Stanford University | Pierre Corneille | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Renata Adler | The New Yorker | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Walter Goodman | | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Neil Sheehan | New York Times | | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Gerald D. Feldman | University of California, Berkeley | Socio-economic history of the early Weimar Republic | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Hsi-Huey Liang | Vassar College | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Klaus W. Jonas [de] | University of Pittsburgh | | |
| Humanities | Latin American History | Charles Adam Hale | University of Iowa | Interpretive history of Mexican thought and the politics in the period 1867-1910 | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Eric P. Hamp | University of Chicago | Albanian dialectology | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | David McNeill | University of Chicago | Psychology of language | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Stanley Peters | University of Texas, Austin | Semantics of natural languages | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Merle E. Brown | University of Iowa | Contemporary British poetry and literary criticism | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Laura Riding Jackson | | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Rosette C. Lamont | Queens College, CUNY | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Edgar Rosenberg | Cornell University | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Michael Wood | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Donald W. Sutherland | University of Iowa | Edition of medieval law proceedings held in the Royal Court in Northamptonshire, 1329-1330 | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Marvin L. Colker | University of Virginia | Descriptive catalog of Latin manuscripts at the University of Dublin | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Andrew Hughes | University of Toronto | Investigation and photographing of medieval manuscripts in Europe | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Stuart Reiner | | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Charles Rosen | State University of New York at Stony Brook | Relationship of Romantic music and 19th-century theories of language and style | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Cecil P. Taylor | Antioch College (visiting) | Black music composition | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | L. Carl Brown | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Donald Davidson | Rockefeller University | Philosophy of language | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | David Shepherd Nivison | Stanford University | Weakness of will in Chinese philosophy | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Richard M. Rorty | Stanford University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Peter Kenneth Unger | New York University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Roger Wertheimer | Graduate Center, CUNY | | |
| Humanities | Photography Studies | Eugenia Parry Janis | Wellesley College | Life of Gustave Le Gray | |
| Humanities | Religion | Charley D. Hardwick | American University | Psychoanalysis theory | |
| Humanities | Religion | H. Darrell Lance | Colgate Rochester Divinity School | Write-up of excavations at Gezer | |
| Humanities | Religion | Jacob Neusner | Brown University | | Also won in 1979 |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Hans Baron | Newberry Library | Florentine humanism and historiography of Leonardo Bruni | Also won in 1942 |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | F. Edward Cranz | Connecticut College | Medieval and Renaissance intellectual history and bibliography | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | John M. Headley | University of North Carolina | Critical edition of the autobiography of Mercurino di Gattinara | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Gustave Alef [pl] | University of Oregon | History of medieval Russia | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Richard Hellie | University of Chicago | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Alexander A. Parker | University of Texas, Austin | Art and thought of Pedro Calderón de la Barca | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Allen W. Phillips [es] | University of Texas, Austin | Life and time of Alejandro Sawa | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | John Polt [es] | University of California, Berkeley | Critical edition of the poetry of Juan Meléndez Valdés | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Kenneth R. Scholberg [es] | Michigan State University | Satire in 16th-century Spanish literature | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Reginald Allen [de] | Pierpont Morgan Library | | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Gordon Rogoff | SUNY Buffalo | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Paul S. Boyer | University of Massachusetts | | |
| Humanities | United States History | David B. Burner | State University of New York at Stony Brook | Biography of Herbert Hoover | |
| Humanities | United States History | Edward M. Coffman | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Social history of the peacetime American Army, 1783-1940 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert Dallek | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert F. Dalzell | Williams College | General history of Massachusetts, 1829-1861 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert M. Fogelson | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Humanities | United States History | John Hope Franklin | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | United States History | Lloyd C. Gardner | Rutgers College | Anglo-American political and economic relations in the 20th century, with emphasis on cooperation and conflict in situations such as the Russian and Mexican Revolutions | |
| Humanities | United States History | Charles Lockwood | | | |
| Humanities | United States History | David P. Thelen | University of Missouri, Columbia | Industrial capitalism in England and America | |
| Humanities | United States History | Alden T. Vaughan | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | United States History | James Edward Wright | Dartmouth College | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Leopold B. Felsen | Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Carl H. Gibson | University of California, San Diego | Turbulence | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Morton E. Gurtin | Carnegie Mellon University | Continuum mechanics | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Nicholas A. Krall | University of Maryland | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | John L. Lumley | Pennsylvania State University | Oceanic turbulence | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | J. Nicholas Newman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Malvin C. Teich | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Gordon P. Garmire | California Institute of Technology | Research in Australia, India, England, and France | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | William L. Kraushaar [de] | University of Wisconsin, Madison | High-energy astrophysics | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Laurence E. Peterson | University of California, San Diego | High-energy astronomy | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Evan H. Appelman | Argonne National Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Charles R. Cantor | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William R. Dolbier Jr. | University of Florida | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Russell Stephen Drago | University of Illinois | Synthetic inorganic chemistry and catalysis | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Adon A. Gordus | University of Michigan | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | David M. Hercules | University of Georgia | Research at Northwestern University | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John R. Huizenga | University of Rochester | Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Lloyd M. Jackman | Pennsylvania State University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Julian M. Miller | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Warner L. Peticolas | University of Oregon | Molecular vibrations in solid material | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John O. Rasmussen Jr. | Yale University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Louis P. Remsberg, Jr | Brookhaven National Laboratory | High nuclear chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | F. Sherwood Rowland | University of California, Irvine | | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John R. Scheffer | University of British Columbia | Photochemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Kenneth L. Servis | University of Southern California | Physical organic chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Eugene E. van Tamelen | Stanford University | Ribonucleic acid synthesis | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Nien-chu C. Yang [zh] | University of Chicago | | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Waldo G. Magnuson Jr. | Lawrence Livermore Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | John E. Savage | Brown University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Edward Anders | University of Chicago | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | David J. J. Kinsman | Princeton University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | John Rodgers | Yale University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | J. William Schopf | University of California, Los Angeles | | Also won in 1988 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Manik Talwani [de] | Columbia University | Evolution of the Norwegian Sea and the off-shore continental margin there | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Richard de Neufville | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | W. Harmon Ray | SUNY Buffalo | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Stephen Lichtenbaum | Cornell University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Ted Petrie | Rutgers University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Ralph S. Phillips | Stanford University | Mathematical analysis | Also won in 1953 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Daniel G. Quillen | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Halsey Royden | Stanford University | Xomplex analysis and differential geometry | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Wilfried Schmid | Columbia University | | Also won in 1988 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | James Johnston Stoker | New York University | | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Masamichi Takesaki | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Herbert S. Wilf | University of Pennsylvania | Combinatorial analysis | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | John P. Bunker | Stanford University | Surgical and medical manpower | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Charles J. Epstein | University of California, San Francisco | Developmental genetics and oncology | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Richard A. Gatti | University of Minnesota | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Stephen M. Krane | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Norman Kretchmer | Stanford University | Human development and reproductive physiology | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | William Silen | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | David Hamilton Smith [de] | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Paul Talalay | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | Research with John Cornforth | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Gerald Weissmann | New York University Medical Center | Research at Sorbonne University | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | James J. Castles | University of Chicago School of Medicine | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Roderick K. Clayton [de] | Cornell University | | Also won in 1980 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | R. John Collier | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert J. DeLange | University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Howard M. Dintzis | Johns Hopkins University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert C. Elston | University of North Carolina | Analytical methods in human genetics | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | James L. Gaylor | Cornell University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Ian R. Gibbons | University of Hawaii | Biophysics and cell biology | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Lawrence Grossman | Brandeis University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | William Platt Jencks | Brandeis University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Leo Nicholas Ornston | Yale University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | William Trager | Rockefeller University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Kensal E. van Holde | Oregon State University | Biophysical chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Peter Hans von Hippel | University of Oregon | Proteins and genes | |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Jeffrey M. Camhi | Cornell University | Patterns in nerve cell activity | |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Gary C. Galbraith | University of Southern California | Ways in which aging affects the human nervous system | |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Michael L. Shelanski | National Heart and Lung Institute | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | William L. Brown, Jr. | Cornell University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Alan Gelperin | Princeton University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Robert Rush Miller | University of Michigan | Freshwater fish in Mexico | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Nicholas Mrosovsky | University of Toronto | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Gordon H. Orians | University of Washington | Melodious blackbird | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Michael E. Soulé | University of California, San Diego | Population genetics and evolutionary biology | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Winslow Briggs | Harvard University | Research at University of Freiburg | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Sherwin Carlquist | Claremont Graduate University | Pittosporaceae | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Paul A. Castelfranco | University of California, Davis | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Maarten Chrispeels | University of California, San Diego | Structural and functional changes in cells during development | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | R. James Cook | Washington State University | Soil microbiology and biological control of plant pathogens | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Park S. Nobel | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Arthur H. Westing | Windham College | Environmental damage caused by war | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Jan A. D. Zeevaart [nl] | Michigan State University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | James Bjorken | Stanford University | Theoretical studies in high-energy physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Henry Blosser | Michigan State University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Paul G. Federbush | University of Michigan | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Gerald Feinberg | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Daniel Z. Freedman | State University of New York at Stony Brook | High-energy physics | Also won in 1985 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Melville S. Green | Temple University | Statistical mechanics | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Paul V. C. Hough | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Molecular biology | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Vincent Jaccarino | University of California, Santa Barbara | Solid-state physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Karplus | University of California, Berkeley | Logical mathematical thinking among different populations of elementary and secondary school students | Also won in 1960 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Toichiro Kinoshita | Cornell University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Margaret Galland Kivelson | University of California, Los Angeles | Research with James Dungey | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Raymond L. Orbach | University of California, Los Angeles | Research at Tel Aviv University | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky | Stanford University | High-energy physics | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert O. Pohl | Cornell University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Paul L. Richards | University of California, Berkeley | Solid-state physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert H. Silsbee | Cornell University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Harold K. Ticho | University of California, Los Angeles | | Also won in 1966 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | George H. Trilling | University of California, Berkeley | Research at CERN | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Stanley George Wojcicki | Stanford University | High-energy physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Lincoln Wolfenstein | Carnegie Mellon University | Theoretical research in high-energy physics | Also won in 1983 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Richard N. Adams | University of Texas at Austin | Structural history of Latin America, 1500-1970 | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Harold C. Conklin | Yale University | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Arthur G. Miller | Yale University | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Joan Eveline Vincent | Barnard College | Ongoing political conflict in Northern Ireland | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | George A. Akerlof | University of California, Berkeley | Development policy | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Joseph S. Berliner [pl] | Brandeis University | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Mary Jean Bowman | University of Chicago | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Donald J. Brown | Yale University | Arrow's Theorem | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Lawrence J. Lau | Stanford University | Theoretical and empirical investigations in econometrics | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Lionel W. McKenzie | University of Rochester | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Deborah Duff Milenkovitch | Barnard College | | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Alan Peshkin | University of Illinois | Role of schooling in the rural community | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Harold C. Brookfield | McGill University | Research at the Institute of Development Studies | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Thomas M. Franck | New York University | | Also won in 1982 |
| Social Sciences | Law | Mason Willrich [de] | University of Virginia School of Law | Legal restraints on energy use | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Frederick C. Barghoorn | Yale University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Alfred Diamant | Indiana University | Political role of the West German government's senior bureaucracy | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Peter J. Duignan | Stanford University | Comparative analysis of European imperial rule in Africa, 1880-1960 | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Lewis J. Edinger | Columbia University | Comparative political leadership | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | George J. Graham Jr. | Vanderbilt University | Consensus in political theory | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | A. James Gregor | University of California, Berkeley | Nature of fascism as a political system | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Ernst B. Haas | University of California, Berkeley | Effect of technological innovation on the evolution of international systems | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Chalmers Johnson | University of California, Berkeley | Political history of the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry, 1949-1969 | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Ellen Mickiewicz | Michigan State University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Walter F. Murphy | Princeton University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Andrew J. Nathan | Columbia University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Frances Fox Piven | Boston University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Richard Rose | University of Strathclyde | Evolution of public policy in the European state | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Richard N. Rosecrance | Cornell University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Steven L. Spiegel | University of California, Los Angeles | Domestic determinants of American policy in the Middle East | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | A. H. Black | McMaster University | Autonomic and central nervous system | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Peter D. Eimas | Brown University | Problems of speech perception | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Jean-Claude Falmagne | New York University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Rochel Gelman | University of Pennsylvania | Development of number concepts | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | David M. Green | University of California, San Diego | Application of linear analysis to auditory phenomena | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | James G. Greeno | University of Michigan | Research at Oxford University | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Irving Lester Janis | Yale University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | James M. Jones | Harvard University | Calypso humor | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | P. Herbert Leiderman | Stanford University | Familial influence on African infant precocity | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Dominic W. Massaro | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Theoretical study of speech perception and reading | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Robert Rosenthal | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Carl E. Thoresen | Stanford University | Concepts and concerns of humanistic psychology and education, behavior principles, and techniques | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Michael T. Turvey | University of Connecticut | Research at the University of Essex | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Ivar E. Berg | Columbia University | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Paul Bouissac | University of Toronto | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Joseph Robert Gusfield [fr] | University of California, San Diego | Knowledge and policy in alcohol and public safety | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Richard J. Ofshe | University of California, Berkeley | Sociology of utopian social designs | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Neil J. Smelser | University of California, Berkeley | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Richard Sennett | New York University | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Seymour Spilerman | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Ethnicity, stratification, and poverty in Israel | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Harrison Colyar White | Harvard University | | |

## Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Arts | Barry Reckord | | Playwrighting | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Antonio Di Benedetto | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | José Donoso | | Writing | Also won in 1968 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Salvador Elizondo | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Writing | Also won in 1968 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Héctor Manjarrez [es] | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Olga de Amaral | University of the Andes | Techniques and creative work in the weaving of textiles | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Gunther Gerzso | | Painting and graphics | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Avatar da Silva Moraes | Universidade de Brasília | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Isabel Fraire | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Writing | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Silvio Grichener | | Participation in planning and design by occupants of low-cost housing projects | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Ramón Gutiérrez | National University of the Northeast | Analytical history of colonial architecture of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Alvaro Jara | University of Chile | Economic history of Latin America | |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | Mario Góngora del Campo | University of Chile | Place of America in historical thought from the 16th to 18th centuries | |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | Julio Ortega [es] | | Historical and critical study of the avant-garde Latin American novel | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Augusto Boal | Teatro de La Ranchería [es] | Latin American popular theatre | Also won in 1975 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Sciences | Zoltan de Cserna | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Structural geology of Mexico | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Juan Alfredo Tiráo | National University of Córdoba | Spherical functions and harmonic analysis | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Armando J. Parodi | University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; CONICET | Viral gene products | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Hugo H. Campos | Austral University of Chile | Evolutionary biology of freshwater fishes of Chile | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Miguel G. Kiwi [es] | University of Chile | Solid-state physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Nicim Zagury [pt] | Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro | Elementary particle physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Miguel Holle Ostendorf | Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina | Biosystematic studies of South American tomatoes | |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | María Rostworowski de Diez | National Museum of Peruvian Culture | Peruvian ethnohistory | |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Arturo Warman | Universidad Iberoamericana | Social anthropology of Mexico | |
| Social Science | Economics | Víctor Jorge Elías [es] | National University of Tucumán | Comparison of sources of growth in Latin America | |
| Social Science | Economics | Jorge Miguel Katz | Torcuato di Tella Institute | Technological and industrial development in Argentina since 1950 | |
| Social Science | Economics | Paul Singer | Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning [pt] | Tertiary sector in developing economies | |
| Social Science | Education | Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua | Cultural history of the university in Latin America | Also won in 1989 |
| Social Science | Political Science | Oscar E. Cornblit | Torcuato di Tella Institute | Analytical studies of social and political processes in Bolivia and Argentina | |
| Social Science | Sociology | Francis Korn | Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina; CONICET | Social structure of Buenos Aires, 1920-1930 | |