# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1972

Three hundred and seventy-two scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1972. $3,819,000 was disbursed between the recipients, who were chosen from an applicant pool of 2,506. Of the 96 universities represented, University of California, Berkeley had the most winners on its faculty (24), with Harvard University (22) claiming second and Stanford University (12) claiming third.

## 1972 United States and Canadian fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | William A. Dunas | | Choreographing | |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Lar Lubovitch | Lar Lubovitch Dance Company | Choreographing | |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Eleo Pomare | | Choreographing | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Kenneth Bernard | Long Island University | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Maria Irene Fornes | | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Wilford Leach | La MaMa; Sarah Lawrence College | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Jerome Max | | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Robert S. Montgomery | | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Lanford Wilson | | The Hot l Baltimore | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Peter S. Beagle | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Christopher Davis | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | E. L. Doctorow | Sarah Lawrence College | Ragtime | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Paula Fox | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Ernest J. Gaines | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Edmund Keeley | Princeton University | Writing | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | James A. McPherson | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | James T. Whitehead | University of Arkansas | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Geoffrey Wolff | | Writing | Also won in 1977 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Sol Yurick | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Robert Beavers | | Filmmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Robert Kaylor | | Carny | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Standish D. Lawder | Yale University | Filmmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Film | David Cooke MacDougall | | Turkana Conversations Trilogy | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Edward R. Pincus | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Filmmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Michael Snow | | Filmmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Seymour Boardman | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Mel Bochner | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | John Ireland Collins | | Painting: Land and seascapes of Maine | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Dominick Di Meo | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Walter Ferro | | Graphics | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Edward Giobbi | | Graphics | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert Arthur Goodnough | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Maxwell Hendler | California State College, Long Beach | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jerald W. Jacquard | University of Illinois, Chicago | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Lester Johnson | Yale University | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Alex Katz | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Rockne Krebs | | The Smoke Drawings series | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Bernard Langlais | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Dennis A. Oppenheim | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Peter Plagens | San Fernando Valley State College | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | James L. Prestini | University of California, Berkeley | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Dorothea Rockburne | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jim Sullivan | Bard College | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Julius Tobias | | Sculpture | Also won in 1978 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Carla Bley | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Paul Cooper | University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music | Composing | Also won in 1965 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert Di Domenica | New England Conservatory of Music | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Charles M. Dodge | Columbia University | Composing | Also won in 1975 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | James Mulcro Drew [de] | Yale University | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Keith Jarrett | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Donald H. Keats | Antioch College | Composing | Also won in 1964 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | William Kraft | Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Composing | Also won in 1967 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Ann McMillan | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Meredith Monk | | Choreographic techniques | Also won in 1982 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Dennis Riley | Fresno State College (visiting) | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Sonny Rollins | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | George Russell | | Composing | Also won in 1969 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Roy Travis | University of California, Los Angeles | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Mary Lou Williams | | Composing | Also won in 1977 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Charles Wuorinen | Manhattan School of Music | Composing | Also won in 1968 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Harry Callahan | Rhode Island School of Design | | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Liliane de Cock | | | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Kenneth B. Josephson | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Fred W. McDarrah | The Village Voice | | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Roger Minick | University of California, Berkeley | Community in the Ozark Mountains (published as Hills of Home, 1975) | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Thomas Porett | Philadelphia College of Art | Literary works in multimedia form | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Keith A. Smith | School of the Art Institute of Chicago (visiting) | | Also won in 1980 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Geoffrey L. Winningham | Rice University | | Also won in 1978 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Robert Bly | | Writing | Also won in 1964 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Donald Davie | Stanford University | Writing | Also won in 1980 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Alan Dugan | Fine Arts Work Center | Writing | Also won in 1963 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Donald Hall | University of Michigan | Biography of Charles Laughton | Also won in 1963 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Charles Simic | California State College, Hayward | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | W. D. Snodgrass | Syracuse University | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Mona Van Duyn | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Diane Wakoski | | Writing | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Alfred Appel, Jr. | Northwestern University | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Daniel M. Cory | | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | James M. Cox | Dartmouth College | American biography | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Joseph Katz | University of South Carolina | Complete edition of the works of Frank Norris | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Roger B. Salomon | Western Reserve University | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | F. Stuart Chapin Jr. | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Human time allocation | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | David Robbins Coffin | Princeton University | Renaissance villas and gardens | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Laurie D. Olin | University of Washington | English landscapes | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Peter P. Rogers | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Biography | Forrest G. Robinson | University of California, Santa Cruz | Henry Murray | |
| Humanities | British History | Richard Whitlock Davis | Washington University, St. Louis | | |
| Humanities | British History | Harold J. Hanham | Harvard University | Breakup of traditional culture in the Scottish Highlands | |
| Humanities | British History | Stephen E. Koss | Barnard College | | |
| Humanities | British History | Standish Meacham | University of Texas, Austin | English working-class attitudes, 1870 –1914 | |
| Humanities | British History | Sheldon Rothblatt [sv] | University of California, Berkeley | Teachers and students at Oxford and Cambridge, 1760–1860 | |
| Humanities | Classics | G. Karl Galinsky | University of Texas, Austin | Research at the American Academy in Rome | |
| Humanities | Classics | Peter D. A. Garnsey | University of California, Berkeley | Aristocracy in the cities of the Roman Empire | |
| Humanities | Classics | Herbert Hoffmann | Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg | | Also won in 1961 |
| Humanities | Classics | Michael J. O'Brien | University of Toronto | | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Charlotte Furth | California State College Long Beach | Study of Chang Ping-Lin | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | William R. Roff | Columbia University | Analytical history of the Islamic institutions in the Malay States, 1800 –1950 | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Holmes Hinkley Welch [de] | Harvard University | Research in Kyoto | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Oliver W. Wolters | Cornell University | History of Vietnam from the 10th to the 14th centuries | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Albert Fishlow | University of California, Berkeley | Comparative studies of economic development in England, the United States, and Brazil | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Robert E. Gallman | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Douglass C. North | University of Washington | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ward Sykes Allen | Auburn University | Translators for the King James Bible | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Morris Beja | Ohio State University | Disassociation of personality in 20th-century fiction | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Edward Brandabur | University of Illinois | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Michael G. Cooke | Yale University | Concept of will in English romantic literature | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Thomas Robert Edwards Jr. | Rutgers University | Writing a book about Jane Austen | |
| Humanities | English Literature | James Robert de Jage Jackson | Victoria College, Toronto | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Thomas Kranidas | SUNY Stony Brook | Milton's prose | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Dan H. Laurence | | George Bernard Shaw and the American theater | Also won in 1960, 1961 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Edwin Wilson Marrs Jr. | University of Pittsburgh | Edition of the letters of Charles and Mary Lamb | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Anne Kostelanetz Mellor | Stanford University | Philosophical concept of romantic irony in English literature | Also won in 1983 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Janel M. Mueller | University of Chicago | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Morton D. Paley | University of California, Berkeley | Critical study of William Blake's Jerusalem | Also won in 1986 |
| Humanities | English Literature | David Dodd Perkins | Harvard University | | Also won in 1961 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Clyde de Loache Ryals | University of Pennsylvania | Browning's later poetry | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Charles Richard Sanders | Duke University | Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Carlyle | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Donald S. Taylor | University of Oregon | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Thomas Vargish | Dartmouth University | Religious background of Victorian fiction | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Raymond B. Waddington | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Iconography and mythology of Shakespeare's Sonnets | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ian Pierre Watt | Stanford University | Critical study of Joseph Conrad | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | Film, Video, and Radio Studies | A. J. Liehm | Richmond College, CUNY | History of East European cinema, 1945–1970 | |
| Humanities | Film, Video, and Radio Studies | Drahomíra N. Liehm-Novotná | New School for Social Research | History of East European cinema, 1945–1970 | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Svetlana Alpers | University of California, Berkeley | Low life figures in 17th-century art | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | James F. Cahill | University of California, Berkeley | Early Nanga paintings in Japan and its Chinese sources | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Jacques de Caso | University of California, Berkeley | French sculpture, 1770–1870 | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | John Elderfield | | Aesthetic and ideological relationships in abstract art | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Edward F. Fry | Yale University | Theory and influence of Cubist sculpture | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Howard Hibbard | Columbia University | Bernini's Altieri chapel | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | William Innes Homer | University of Delaware | Alfred Stieglitz | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Ronald W. Hunt | Vancouver School of Art | Theory and history of the utopian role of art in 20th-century art and politics | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Herbert L. Kessler | University of Chicago | Research at the Institute for Advanced Studies | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | John M. Rosenfield | Harvard University | Research in Kyoto | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Gerard H. Béhague | University of Illinois | | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Henry H. Glassie III | Indiana University | Comparative study of the compositional dynamics of folk architecture | |
| Humanities | French History | John F. Bosher | York University | Role of financiers and businessmen in the French administration of Canada | |
| Humanities | French History | George Huppert [ru] | University of Illinois, Chicago | Social structure of 16th-century French elites | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Mary Ann Caws | Hunter College, CUNY | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Anne Greet Cushing | University of California, Santa Barbara | Artistic collaboration of Paul Eluard and a group of famous modern painters, including Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Marc Hanrez | University of Wisconsin, Madison | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Rima Drell Reck | Louisiana State University | World War II and the French novel | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Rémy Gilbert Saisselin | University of Rochester | Imagination of the "Generation of 1967" | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Nat Hentoff | New York University; The Village Voice | Education | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Jessica Mitford | | Examination of the American penal system | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Mack Walker | Cornell University | Biography of Johann Jakob Moser | Declined award; also won in 1999 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Theodore M. Andersson [de; is] | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Sander L. Gilman | Cornell University | Edition of the works of Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | George B. Kauffman | Fresno State College | Chemical-historical study of Alfred Werner's coordination theory | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Stanley J. Stein | Princeton University | Merchants and monarchs in Spain and New Spain, 1759-1829 | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Joan Connelly Ullman [ca] | University of Washington | Pablo Iglesias Posse | |
| Humanities | Latin American History | Richard Graham | University of Texas, Austin | Interest-group politics in Brazil, 1830 –1930 | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Geoffrey L. Bursill-Hall | Simon Fraser University | History of linguistics in the Middle Ages | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Winfred P. Lehmann | University of Texas, Austin | Creation of a Proto-Indo-European syntax | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Arnold M. Zwicky | Ohio State University | Survey of phonological processes | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Wallace W. Douglas | Northwestern University | History of the teaching of English composition in the United States | Also won in 1953 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Robert W. Hanning | Columbia University | Relationship between art and reality in Renaissance literature and art | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Naomi Lebowitz | Washington University, St. Louis | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Vivian H. Mercier | University of Colorado | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Ralph W. Rader | University of California, Berkeley | Generic aspect of literary form | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Edward W. Said | Columbia University | Modern Arabic and European cultures | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Monroe K. Spears | Rice University | | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Ramón Xirau Subias | University of the Americas; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Materialism and humanism | Also won in 1967 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Charles M. Brand | Bryn Mawr College | Administrative history of the Byzantine Empire under the Comneni and Angeli, 1081–1204 | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Ira M. Lapidus | University of California, Berkeley | Biography of Ibn Khaldun | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Bryce D. Lyon | Brown University | | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Anthony A. Newcomb | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Moshe Held | Columbia University; Jewish Theological Seminary of America | Mesopotamian proverbs | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Jacob Lassner | Wayne State University | Islamic armies and urban development in the early Middle Ages | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Wilferd Madelung | University of Chicago | Islamic religious history, 8th to 15th centuries | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Karl H. Menges | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Jerrold J. Katz | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Charles E. Osgood | University of Illinois | | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Kenneth F. Schaffner | University of Chicago | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Israel Scheffler | Harvard University | | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Abner Shimony | Boston University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Avrum Stroll | University of California, San Diego | Statements and propositions | |
| Humanities | Religion | Alexander A. Di Lella | Catholic University of America | Critical edition of the Book of Proverbs in Syriac | |
| Humanities | Religion | Robert Gordis | Jewish Theological Seminary of America | | |
| Humanities | Religion | James A. Sanders | Union Theological Seminary | | Also won in 1961 |
| Humanities | Religion | George Huntston Williams | Harvard Divinity School | Research at the Catholic University of Lublin | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Donald E. Queller | University of Illinois | Myth of the Venetian patriciate | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Gerald Strauss | Indiana University | Principles of pedagogy in the Reformation | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | James D. Tracy | University of Minnesota | Significance of northern humanism as a reform movement, 1470-1520 | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Terence Emmons [pl; ru] | Stanford University | Formation of political parties in Russia, 1894–1906 | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | John Mersereau Jr. | University of Michigan | Russian romantic fiction | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Donald McGrady | University of Virginia | Reevaluation of the honor code in the theatre of Calderon | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Juan Marichal | Harvard University | Biography of Juan Negrín | Also won in 1957 |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Ciriaco Morón Arroyo | Cornell University | History of 20th-century Spanish thought | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Jan Kott | SUNY Stony Brook | | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | John A. Mills | SUNY Binghamton | Stage history of Hamlet | |
| Humanities | United States History | Stanley Coben | University of California, Los Angeles | American culture in the 1920s | |
| Humanities | United States History | Carl N. Degler | Stanford University | History of women and the family in the United States | |
| Humanities | United States History | Nathan G. Hale Jr. | University of California, Riverside | Freud's influence on American culture in the 1920s | |
| Humanities | United States History | Andrew R. Hilen Jr. | University of Washington | | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | United States History | Daniel Levine | Bowdoin College | Comparative study on the development of social welfare in Denmark and the United States | |
| Humanities | United States History | David Montgomery | University of Pittsburgh | Labor movement, 1880–1925 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Irwin Unger | New York University | | |
| Humanities | Theodore Allen Wilson | University of Kansas | Biography of Henry A. Wallace | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | George Bekefi | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Research at the University of Paris and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | David R. Kassoy | University of Colorado, Boulder | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Leon M. Keer | Northwestern University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Wulf B. Kunkel | University of California, Berkeley | Physics of ionized gases | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Paul A. Libby | University of California, San Diego | Fluid dynamics | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Chiang C. Mei | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Chaim L. Pekeris | Weizmann Institute of Science | | Also won in 1946, 1968 |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Robert A. Rapp | Ohio State University | Electrochemical processes | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Stuart C. Schwartz | Princeton University | Research at Technion | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | David N. Seidman | Cornell University | Studies of point defects in metals by field ion microscopy | Also won in 1980 |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Hsieh Wen Shen | Colorado State University | Flood control projects and sediment transport problems in Taiwan | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Victor Twersky [tr] | University of Illinois, Chicago | | Also won in 1979 |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Charles W. Van Atta | University of California, San Diego | Statistical structure of fluid turbulence | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Friedrich H. Busse [de] | University of California, Los Angeles | Theoretical studies in fluid dynamics | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | William E. Gordon | Rice University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | James B. Kaler | University of Illinois | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Charles W. Misner | University of Maryland | Development of theories of the initial conditions of the universe and of the nature of active galactic nuclei as possible sources of gravitational radiation | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | R. Stephen Berry | University of Chicago | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Richard Bersohn | Columbia University | Research at University of Tel Aviv | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Bryce L. Crawford | University of Minnesota | Molecular motion in liquids and methods of characterizing materials | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John W. Faller | Yale University | Transition metal organometallic chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Karl F. Freed | University of Chicago | Research at Cavendish Laboratory and Laboratoire de Physique des Solides | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Harry B. Gray | California Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Charles S. Johnson Jr. | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Theory and technique of laser light scattering | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Jiri Jonas | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Research at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John F. W. Keana | University of Wisconsin, Madison | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Joseph B. Lambert | Northwestern University | Research at the British Museum | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Donald S. McClure [de] | Princeton University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | B. Vincent McKoy | California Institute of Technology | Theoretical chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | George A. Olah | Western Reserve University | | Also won in 1988 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John M. Prausnitz | University of California, Berkeley | Thermodynamic properties of chain molecules and polymers from the standpoint of engineering design | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John W. Root | University of California, Davis | Chemical dynamics | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert J. Silbey [de] | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Jeffrey I. Steinfeld | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Research at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Leiden | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Mark Robert Willcott | University of Houston | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | T. Ffrancon Williams | University of Tennessee | Radiation chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John Martin Wood | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Mechanism of action of metalloenzymes | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Herbert Freeman | New York University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Donald Knuth | Stanford University | Research in France | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Alan V. Oppenheim | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Robert A. Berner | Yale University | Phosphate adsorption, especially on iron oxides | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Jule Gregory Charney | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Research at Cambridge University and the Weizmann Institute of Science | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Robert E. Garrison | University of California, Santa Cruz | Sedimentary petrology, specifically, the origin and lithification of chalks and limestones in Western Europe | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | James Freeman Gilbert | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Geophysical studies on earth structure | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Gerald Schubert | University of California, Los Angeles | Cellular control of ciliary motion | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Donald L. Turcotte | Cornell University | Evolution of continental mountain belts | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | S. David Webb | University of Florida | Evolutionary studies on ruminants and quasi-ruminants | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Richard E. Goodman | University of California, Berkeley | Methods of geological engineering | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Michael A. Lieberman | University of California, Berkeley | Controlled thermonuclear fusion | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Solomon Feferman | Stanford University | | Also won in 1986 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Herman R. Gluck | University of Pennsylvania | Riemannian geometry | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Daniel Gorenstein | Rutgers University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Harry Kesten | Cornell University | Probability theory | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Elliott H. Lieb | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Henry P. McKean | New York University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Rainer K. Sachs | University of California, Berkeley | General relativity | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Harold Widom | University of California, Santa Cruz | Orthogonal polynomials and related topics | Also won in 1967 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Edwin L. Bierman | University of Washington School of Medicine | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Roger William Birnbaum | Harvard Community Health Plan | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Morton Corn | University of Pittsburgh | Strategies and methods for sampling air pollutants | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Daniel Deykin | Harvard Medical School | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | DeWitt S. Goodman | Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Thomas C. Merigan | Stanford University School of Medicine | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Mervyn W. Susser | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Marshall R. Urist | University of California, Los Angeles | Construction of molecular models of bones | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Gary Keith Ackers | University of Virginia School of Medicine | Physical chemistry of biological macromolecules | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Merton R. Bernfield | Stanford University School of Medicine | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Charles C. Brinton Jr. | University of Pittsburgh | Epiviral systems | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Thomas Eisner | Cornell University | Chemical communication in insects | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | A. Dale Kaiser | Stanford University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Akira Kaji | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine | Biochemical mechanism of cellular transformation | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Neville R. Kallenbach | University of Pennsylvania | Nucleic acid conformations | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Martin D. Kamen | University of California, San Diego | Biochemistry of redox systems in photosynthesis | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Henry S. Kingdon | University of Chicago | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Gene E. Likens | Cornell University | Biogeochemical cycles | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | William N. Lipscomb | Harvard University | Research at Cambridge University | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Bruce A. McFadden | Washington State University | Structure and control of enzymes | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Alan H. Mehler | Medical College of Wisconsin | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | R. Bruce Nicklas | Duke University | Cellular and developmental biology | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Mark Ptashne | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Brian R. Reid | University of California, Riverside | Chemistry of the enzymes that attach amino acids to transfer RNA molecules | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Ruth Sager | Hunter College, CUNY | Research at Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratory | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Peter Satir | University of California, Berkeley | Cellular control of ciliary motion | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Dieter Söll | Yale University | Cell differentiation in insects | Also won in 1988 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | R. Walter Schlesinger | Rutgers Medical School | Virology | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Serge N. Timasheff | Brandeis University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jui Hsin Wang [zh] | Yale University | Bioenergetics | Also won in 1960 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Allan Charles Wilson | University of California, Berkeley | Molecular evolution | Also won in 1979 |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Harold Leslie Atwood | University of Toronto | | |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Frank R. Ervin | Harvard Medical School | | |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Betty Twarog | Tufts University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Vincent G. Dethier | Princeton University | | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John S. Edwards | University of Washington | Embryo of the house cricket | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Stephen T. Emlen | Cornell University | Colonial behavior in birds | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Leon R. Kass | St. John's College | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Herbert B. Callen | University of Pennsylvania | Symmetry and conceptual basis of thermodynamics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Hans Frauenfelder | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | William R. Frazer | University of California, San Diego | High-energy theoretical physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Gerson Goldhaber | University of California, Berkeley | High-energy physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Roy J. Glauber | Harvard University | | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | James J. Griffin | University of Maryland | Problems of the dynamics of nuclear fission | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert B. Griffiths | Carnegie-Mellon University | Theoretical studies in physical chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | A. Brooks Harris | University of Pennsylvania | Solid-state physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Peter Heller | Brandeis University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Hofstadter | Stanford University | Elementary particle physics | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | David L. Huber | University of Wisconsin, Madison | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Clyde A. Hutchison, Jr. | University of Chicago | Research at the University of Oxford | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Richard I. Joseph | Johns Hopkins University | Theory of magnetism | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | David H. Miller | Purdue University | High-energy physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | John D. Reppy | Cornell University | Two-dimensional superfluid systems | Also won in 1979 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Y. R. Shen | University of California, Berkeley | Solid-state physics and quantum electronics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Rolf M. Steffen | Purdue University | Angular distributions of nuclear radiation | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Gerard J. Stephenson Jr. | University of Maryland | Use of intermediate energy reactions involving more than two particles, to better understand the interaction between nucleons | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | T. Laurence Trueman | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Research at Oxford University | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Sidney Yip | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Herbert F. York | University of California, San Diego | Technology, politics, and strategy of the nuclear arms race | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Peter R. Day | Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station | Genetics of cultured rust fungi | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | David L. Dilcher [pt] | Indiana University | Paleobotany of southeastern North America | Also won in 1987 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Russell Lewis Jones | University of California, Berkeley | Molecular studies of plant growth hormones | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Hans Janos Kende | Michigan State University | Role of hormones in regulation of cell aging | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Ronald F. Scott | California Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Joe L. White | Purdue University | Chemistry of soil clays and their interaction with organic pesticides | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Rupert G. Miller Jr. | Stanford University | Research at Imperial College of Science and Technology and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Harumi Befu | Stanford University | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Kenelm O. L. Burridge | University of British Columbia | Effects of Christian missionary teaching in third-world countries | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Brian M. Fagan | University of California, Santa Barbara | Written account of his findings based on extensive field work on Iron Age archaeology of Zambia and south central Africa | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Oleg Grabar | Harvard University | Archaeological history of Qasr al-Hayr East in Syria | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Robert F. Heizer | University of California, Berkeley | Technology and sociology of monumental stone transport in antiquity | Also won in 1963 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Paul Kay | University of California, Berkeley | Creole languages | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | David William Plath | University of Illinois, Urbana | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Orlando Villas Bôas | Xingu Indigenous Park | Ethnographic studies on Brazilian Indian tribes | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Kenneth J. Arrow | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Arthur S. Goldberger | University of Wisconsin, Madison | | Also won in 1984 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Donald D. Hester | University of Wisconsin, Madison | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Robert Lekachman | SUNY Stony Brook | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Jerome L. Stein | Brown University | | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Allan M. Cartter | New York University | Analysis of highly-educated manpower in the United States | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Patricia Albjerg Graham | Barnard College | | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Lee S. Shulman | Michigan State University | Organization of learning and processes of inquiry | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Elliot Turiel | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | James R. Gibson | York University | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Richard E. Ellis | University of Virginia | Development of American commercial law in the early 19th century | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Jeffrey O'Connell | University of Virginia School of Law | | Also won in 1979 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | J. Bowyer Bell | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Paul R. Brass | University of Washington | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Ted Robert Gurr | Northwestern University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Louis Hartz | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Samuel P. Huntington | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Robert J. Lieber | University of California, Davis | Communication and conflict in European-American relations | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Michael Rogin | University of California, Berkeley | Andrew Jackson's life, Indian War, and Indian Removal Act | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Sheldon S. Wolin | University of California, Santa Cruz | Evolution of the idea of theory and of the theorist as political actor | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Albert Bandura | Stanford University | Aggressive behavior | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Robert C. Calfee | Stanford University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Jerry A. Fodor | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Eleanor J. Gibson | Cornell University | Application of a theory of perceptual learning and development to the reading process | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Irving I. Gottesman | University of Minnesota | Human behavioral genetics | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Charles Hampden-Turner | Center for the Study of Public Policy (Cambridge, MA) | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | William W. Lambert | Cornell University | Comparative analysis of aggressive actions in children | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Lewis P. Lipsitt | Brown University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Stanley Milgram | Graduate Center, CUNY | Mental maps | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Saul Sternberg | Bell Telephone Laboratories | Human information processing | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Harry C. Triandis | University of Illinois | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Herbert Weiner | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Daniel Bell | Harvard University | The future | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Jack Porter Gibbs | University of Texas, Austin | Demographic studies on suicide theory | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Suzanne Keller | Princeton University | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Gerhard E. Lenski | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Writing and research in the US, Sweden, Poland, and Yugoslavia | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Stanley Lieberson | University of Chicago | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | S. M. Miller | New York University | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Philip Selznick | University of California, Berkeley | Sociology and the modern mind | |

## 1972 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | José Ricardo Morales Malva [es; ca] | University of Chile | Playwriting | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Héctor Alvarez Murena | | Writing | Also won in 1967 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Juan García Ponce | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Fernando Krahn | Ercilla | Animated film | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Luis López Loza [es] | | Graphics | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | César Paternosto | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Jorge Arriagada | American Center for Art and Culture | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Héctor Quintanar Prieto [es] | Conservatorio Nacional de Música | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Nicanor Parra | University of Chile | Spanish anthology of contemporary North American poets | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Constantino Reyes-Valerio | Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia | Role of Indians in the artistic decoration of the 16th-century convents of New Spain | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Wilson Harris | | Modern novel | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Carlos Meléndez | Universidad de Costa Rica | Kingdom of Guatemala in the 16th century | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Manuel Alberto Escobar Sambrano [es; fr; qu] | Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos | Spanish dialects in Peru | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Thomas Moro Simpson | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Logic and philosophic semantics | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | José Miguel Oviedo | Casa de la Cultura del Perú; Pontifical Catholic University of Peru | Critical study of César Vallejo | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Waldemar Adam | University of Puerto Rico | Chemistry of cyclic peroxides | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Lorenzo Francisco Aristarain | National University of La Plata | Geochemistry of borates | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | José F. Bonaparte | National University of Tucumán | Vertebrate paleontology | Also won in 1966 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Fernando Cardoso | Federal University of Pernambuco | Linear partial differential equations | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Jacob Palis Jr. | Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada | Theory of dynamical systems | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Carlos E. Sluzki | Center for Research in Psychiatry (Lanús) | Cross-cultural variations of patterns of child development | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Luis A. Jiménez de Asúa | University of Buenos Aires | Biochemistry of cell transformation | Also won in 1980 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Jorge V. Crisci [es] | National University of La Plata | Systematics of vascular plants | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Michael G. A. Hill | Colombian Institute for Regional Planning | Geographical study of Colombia's Pacific mountain coast | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Silvia C. Sigal [es] | Torcuato di Tella Institute | Comparative study of the evolution of the Latin American labor movement, 1950–1970 | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | César Alejandro Vapñarsky | Torcuato di Tella Institute | Urbanization process in Argentina, 1870–1970 | |