# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1958

Three hundred and twenty-two Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1958. $1,412,000 in funds was disbursed.

## 1958 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Lionel Abel | State University of New York | | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Loften Mitchell | State University of New York at Binghamton | | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Doris Betts | | Novel writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Margaret Currier Boylen | | Novel writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Josephine Carson Rider | | Novel writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Daniel Curley | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Novel writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | James Purdy | | Novel writing | Also won in 1963 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Emil John Antonucci | | Graphic design | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Al Blaustein | The Art Center of Northern New Jersey | Painting | Also won in 1961 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Dennis Byng | Purdue University | Painting | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Richard Charles Gilkey | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Paul Theodore Granlund | Minneapolis School of Art | Sculpture | Also won in 1957 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | William A. Kienbusch | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | James Chan Leong | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ezio Martinelli | Sarah Lawrence College, Parsons School of Design | Graphic arts | Also won in 1962 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Dean Jackson Meeker | University of Wisconsin | Creative printmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Tetsuo Ochikubo | | Lithography | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Nathan Oliveira | | Graphic arts | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Charles Robert Oscar | Museum of Modern Arts | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Norman Rubington | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Aubrey E. Schwartz | Harpur College, State University of New York | Graphic art | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Sahl Swarz | | Sculpture | Also won in 1955 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Romas Viesulas (de) | | Lithography | Also won in 1964, 1969 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frans Wildenhain | Rochester Institute of Technology | Ceramic sculpture in relation to architecture | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | James MacArthur Beale | University of Washington | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Jack Hamilton Beeson | Columbia University | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Irving Gifford Fine | Brandeis University | Composing | Also won in 1950 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Lee Henry Hoiby | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Stanley Hollingsworth | Oakland University | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Teo Macero | TEO Productions | Composing | Also won in 1957 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Vincent Persichetti | Juilliard School | Composing | Also won in 1968, 1973 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Jerome W. Rosen (nl) (de) | University of California, Davis | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | W. Eugene Smith | Magnum Photos | Pittsburgh | Also won in 1956, 1968 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Philip Booth | Syracuse University | Writing | Also won in 1964 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Edgar Bowers | Harpur College | Writing | Also won in 1969 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Katherine de Montalant Hoskins | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Alastair Reid | | Writing | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | American Literature | James Franklin Beard, Jr. | Clark University | James Fenimore Cooper | Also won in 1952 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Travis Miller Bogard | University of California, Berkeley | Plays of Eugene O'Neill | |
| Humanities | American Literature | John Espey | University of California, Los Angeles | Critical study of the poetry of Ezra Pound | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Ihab Habib Hassan | Wesleyan University | American novel since World War II | Also won in 1962 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Alfred Kazin | Amherst College | Historical and literary studies of 20th century American writing | Also won in 1940, 1947, 1969 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Jacob Clavner Levenson | University of Minnesota | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Gardner Blake Taplin | Longwood College | Influence of Italian life and culture upon American literature in the 19th century | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Ada Louise Huxtable | Art in America, Progressive Architecture | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | John William Reps | Cornell University | City planning prior to the Chicago World's Fair Columbian Exposition of 1893 | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Thomas D. Schocken | St. Louis City Plan Commission | Relationship between city planning controls and design in European countries | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | William Richard Matthews | University of California, Los Angeles | Works of Sir Thomas Malory as printed by William Caxton | Also won in 1946 |
| Humanities | Biography | William Johnson | Time Life | Harold Osman Kelly, 1884-1955 | |
| Humanities | Biography | Elizabeth Stevenson | | Lafcadio Hearn | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | British History | Richard Wall Lyman | Washington University in St. Louis | James Ramsay MacDonald | |
| Humanities | Classics | Thomas R. S. Broughton | Bryn Mawr College | | Also won in 1945 |
| Humanities | Classics | Norman O. Brown | University of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan University | Irrational factor in ancient Greek politics | |
| Humanities | Classics | John Francis Callahan | Georgetown University | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Joseph Fontenrose | University of California, Berkeley | Cults of Delphi in ancient Greece | |
| Humanities | Classics | Fred Walter Householder, Jr. | Indiana University | Early history of Greek language | |
| Humanities | Classics | Georg Hans Bhavani Luck | Harvard University | Ovid's language, style and literary technique | |
| Humanities | Classics | William Andrew McDonald | University of Minnesota | | Also won in 1967 |
| Humanities | Classics | Helen F. North | Cornell University | | Also won in 1975 |
| Humanities | Classics | Roger A. Pack | University of Michigan | Artemidorus Daldianus' Oneirocritica | |
| Humanities | Classics | Lawrence Richardson, Jr. | Yale University | Painters of ancient Pompeii | |
| Humanities | Classics | Chester G. Starr | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Early Greek civilization | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | Classics | Myra L. Uhlfelder | University of Iowa | History of ancient Roman religion | |
| Humanities | Classics | John Howard Young | Johns Hopkins University | Sounion in the Athenian state period | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | John Whitney Hall | University of Michigan | Okayama Domain | Also won in 1976 |
| Humanities | Economic History | Wytze Gorter | University of California, Los Angeles | Economic study of the dissolution of the Dutch Empire in the Far East | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Louis Morton Hacker | Columbia University | Early history of the United States Steel Corporation | Also won in 1948 |
| Humanities | Economic History | Jacob Myron Price | University of Michigan | Anglo-American tobacco trade, 1660-1775 | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Roy Wesley Battenhouse | Indiana University | Elizabethan poetic and moral theory | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Gerald Eades Bentley, Jr. | University of Chicago | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Donald F. Bond | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Fredson Thayer Bowers | University of Virginia | Bibliographical study of all English plays published between 1660 and 1700 | Also won in 1970 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Jackson Irving Cope | Washington University in St. Louis | Renaissance Italian critics' influence upon Elizabethan playwrights | Also won in 1984 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Joseph Frank | University of Rochester | History of English newspapers | Also won in 1961 |
| Humanities | English Literature | William Frost | University of California, Santa Barbara | | Also won in 1979 |
| Humanities | English Literature | David Hayman | University of Texas | Finnegans Wake | |
| Humanities | English Literature | John Emory Jordan | University of California, Berkeley | William Wordsworth | |
| Humanities | English Literature | William Rea Keast | Cornell University | Lives of the English Poets by Samuel Johnson | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Harry Thornton Moore | Southern Illinois University | Collected volume of D. H. Lawrence's works | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | English Literature | William R. Mueller | University of North Carolina | Literary and theological study of John Donne's sermons | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Stephen Maxfield Parrish | Cornell University | Poetic theory and technique of William Wordsworth | Also won in 1985 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert Torsten Petersson | Smith College | Comparative study of certain literary works and paintings of the 17th century | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Lawrence Vincent Ryan (de) | Stanford University | Works of Roger Ascham, 1515-1568 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Grover C. Smith, Jr. | Duke University | History of contemporary English poetic drama | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert Donald Thornton | University of South Carolina | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ian Pierre Watt | University of California, Berkeley | Joseph Conrad's development as a novelist | Also won in 1972 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | François Bucher | Yale University | Antique sources of medieval art | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | George Heard Hamilton | Yale University | History of modern painting and sculpture | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | John Franklin Haskins | University of Pennsylvania | Thomas Jefferson | Also won in 1963 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Hylton Armond Thomas | University of Minnesota | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Martin Weinberger (de) | New York University | Nicola Pisano and Giovanni Pisano and their relation to sculpture in the 13th and 14th centuries | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Austin Edwin Fife | Occidental College | Cowboy songs and ballads | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Bruce Archer Morrissette (fr) | Washington University in St. Louis | Alain Robbe-Grillet | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Marvin Mudrick | University of California, Santa Barbara | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Warren Ramsey | University of California, Berkeley | Symbolism in European literature | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Roger W. Shattuck | University of Texas | Literary works of Remy de Gourmont | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Edwin Emery | University of Minnesota | History and development of American press associations | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Paul G. Horgan | Santa Fe Opera | Jean-Baptiste Lamy | Also won in 1945 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | John Frederick Muehl | University of Michigan | East India Company | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Marion Lena Starkey | University of Connecticut | History of the African Negro in the United States | Also won in 1953 |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Sten Gunnar Flygt | Vanderbilt University | Karl Friedrich Bahrdt | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Reginald H. Phelps | Harvard University | Early evolution of the National Socialist movement in Bavaria, 1919 to 1924 | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Heinz Politzer | Oberlin College | | Also won in 1966, 1974 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Herbert William Reichert | University of North Carolina | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Thomas Auraldo Riley | Bowdoin College | Writings of the Viennese romantics, 1808-1813 | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | H. Stefan Schultz | University of Chicago | | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Alex Berman | University of Michigan | Comparative study of hospital pharmacy in France and the United States | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Thomas Neville Bonner | University of Omaha | Completion of his book The Influence of German Universities on American Medicine, 1870-1914 | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Woodrow Borah | University of California, Berkeley | Mexican colonial history | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Stanley J. Stein | Princeton University | The role of merchants in the Mexican independence movement, 1778-1827 | Also won in 1972 |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Aldo D. Scaglione | University of California, Berkeley | Italian literary history since the Renaissance | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Stanley Martin Sapon | Ohio State University | | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Thomas A. Sebeok | Indiana University | Poetic language in folksongs | Also won in 1980 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Ralph Charles Wood | | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Wylie Sypher | Simmons College | Structure in painting, architecture and sculpture to interpret forms of literature | Also won in 1949 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Joseph Anthony Mazzeo | Cornell University | Dante and medieval culture | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Nicholas M. Haring | Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies | | Also won in 1962 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Henry David Hurst | Portsmouth Priory School | Commentaries of the Venerable Bede on the Gospels of Mark and Luke | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | William Thomas Hobdell Jackson | Columbia University | | Also won in 1967 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Charles Till Davis | Tulane University | | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Katherine Fischer Drew | Rice University | Fusion of Lombrd and Frankish institutions in Italy between the 8th and 10th centuries | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Lynn Townsend White, Jr. | Mills College | Technology and social change during the European Middle Ages | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Putnam C. Aldrich | Stanford University | Dance rhythms of the Baroque period | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Joseph Wilfred Kerman | University of California, Berkeley | Italian madrigals | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Carl George Parrish | Vassar College | Notations employed in vocal music and instrumental tablatures of the Renaissance | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Milton Steinhardt | University of Kansas | Music of Jacobus Vaet | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Edward Arthur Lippman | Columbia University | Musical philosophy and esthetics | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Alfred Mann | Rutgers University | Baroque music in England and Italy | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Ricardo Augusto Caminos | Brown University | History of the XXII Egyptian Dynasty | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Florence Ely Day | | Early Islamic art | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | David Noel Freedman | Western Theological Seminary | History and culture of Biblical Palestine | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Judah Goldin | Jewish Theological Seminary | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Jacob C. Hurewitz | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Arthur Võõbus | Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary | Syrian monasticism from the 2nd to the 5th century, A.D. | Also won in 1957, 1968 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Rudolf Allers | Georgetown University | Political conduct | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Charles Augustus Baylis | Duke University | Ethics | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Arthur Child | University of California, Davis | General theory of interpretation | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Philip P. Hallie | Vanderbilt University | Maine de Biran | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | William Thomas Jones | Pomona College | Conflict between the scientific and normative conceptions of human life | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | John Ladd | Brown University | Nature of reasoning in ethics | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Leroy Earl Loemker | Emory University | Intellectual history of the 17th century | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Israel Scheffler | Harvard University | Philosophy of language | Also won in 1972 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Gregory Vlastos | Princeton University | | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | Religion | Frederick A. Norwood | Garrett Biblical Institute | History of Christian religious refugees since 1500 | |
| Humanities | Religion | Arthur Carl Piepkorn | Concordia Seminary | Bibliography of Lutheran theologians of the period 1580-1713 | |
| Humanities | Religion | Amos Niven Wilder | Harvard University | Interpretation of early Christian imagery and myth | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Rosalie Littell Colie | Barnard College | John Locke's work and development during his Dutch sojourn | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | James Hutton | Cornell University | Concept of peace in Renaissance literature | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Frederic Chapin Lane | Johns Hopkins University | Economic history of Venice | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | William Edward Harkins | Columbia University | Karel Čapek | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | George Yury Shevelov | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Ernesto Guerra Da Cal | New York University | Eça de Queiroz | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Terrence Leslie Hansen | University of California, Riverside | Spanish folklore | |
| Humanities | United States History | John Gilchrist Barrett | Virginia Military Institute | Civil War military operations in North Carolina | |
| Humanities | United States History | Lyman Henry Butterfield | Massachusetts Historical Society | Adams family in Europe, 1778-1889 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Marion Vernon Brewington | Peabody Museum of Salem | Ship portrait painters | |
| Humanities | United States History | Carl Bridenbaugh | University of California, Berkeley | English ?afe in the 17th and 18th centuries | Also won in 1962, 1968 |
| Humanities | United States History | David Brion Davis | Cornell University | American antislavery movement | |
| Humanities | United States History | William S. Greever | University of Idaho | Certain social and economic aspects of the mining rushes in the west | |
| Humanities | United States History | Dumas Malone | University of Virginia | Thomas Jefferson | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | United States History | Ernest R. May | Harvard University | America's emergence as a great power, 1895 to 1900 | |
| Humanities | United States History | James Mercer Merrill | Whittier College | The River War, 1861-1865 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Ralph Ernest Morrow | Washington University in St. Louis | Role of evangelical clergy in the life of midwestern frontier in the early 19th century | |
| Humanities | United States History | Charles K. O'Neill | | Varying stages of Kentucky neutrality during 1861 and 1862 | Also won in 1959 |
| Humanities | United States History | Washington Platt | Yale University | Basic principles of strategic intelligence in relation to national security | |
| Humanities | United States History | Benjamin Arthur Quarles | Morgan State College | Role of the Negro in the American Revolutionary War | |
| Humanities | United States History | David Budlong Tyler | Wagner College | Wilkes Expedition | |
| Humanities | United States History | John William Ward | Princeton University | | Also won in 1967 |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Yuan-Cheng Fung | California Institute of Technology | Thermodynamics of irreversible processes | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Alfred Leitner | Michigan State University | Methods of solving boundary value problems | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | John Laufer | California Institute of Technology | Decay of a turbulent shear flow | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Joseph Frederick Bunnett | University of North Carolina | New concepts of organic chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Saul G. Cohen | Brandeis University | Reactions of free radicals in solution | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert E. Connick | University of California, Berkeley | Hydrolytic polymerization | Also won in 1948 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | LeRoy Eyring | University of Iowa | Chemical reactions in the solid state | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | David Caldwell Grahame (de) | Amherst College | Dielectric properties of the inner region of the electrical double layer | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | James Steven Johnson, Jr. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Daniel Kivelson | University of California, Los Angeles | Paramagnetic resonance studies on liquids and gases | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | LeRoy Henry Klemm | University of Oregon | Certain organic chemical reactions | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Darrell Wayne Osborne | Argonne National Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Stephen Prager | University of Minnesota | | Also won in 1966 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert Wheaton Taft, Jr. | Pennsylvania State University | Effects of molecular structure on reactivity | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | George Charles Turrell | Brown University | Spectroscopic studies of vibrational energy transfer behind shock waves in gases | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Emil Henry White | Johns Hopkins University | Certain efficient chemiluminescent reactions | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Harry Paul Bailey | University of California, Los Angeles | Pleistocene continental glaciation in Canada and Scandinavia | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Bruce Buzzell Benson | Amherst College | Studies of natural processes in the oceans | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Kenneth O. Emery | University of Southern California | Sediments and water movements of the Dead Sea | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Donald Munro Henderson | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Certain coal beds in South Wales | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Paul Bigelow Sears | Yale University | Pleistocene vegetation and climate in North America | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | H. Kurt Forster | University of California, Los Angeles | Heat transfer | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Stanley H. Langer | United States Bureau of Mines | Molecular interactions | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | John W. Miles | University of California, Los Angeles | Generation of surface waves by turbulent winds | Also won in 1968 |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Paul M. Naghdi | University of Michigan | Theory of elastic-plastic solids of work-hardening materials | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Herbert Mark Neustadt | U.S. Naval Academy | | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | George Sinclair | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | George Henry Sines, Jr. | University of California, Los Angeles | Interactions between foreign atoms and clusters of foreign atoms in metals | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Tau-Yi Toong | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Problems in combustion aerodynamics | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | John Roy Whinnery | University of California, Berkeley | Streams of electrons | |
| Natural Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | William Patterson Cumming | Davidson College | Discovery and exploration of the North American continent during the 16th and 17th centuries | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Nesmith Ankeny | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Studies on quadratic forms | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Edwin Ford Beckenbach | University of California, Los Angeles | Convex and subharmonic functions | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Robert Creighton Buck | University of Wisconsin | Algebraic and topological properties of linear operators on function spaces | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Donald Allan Darling | University of Michigan | Probability theory | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | William F. Donoghue, Jr. | University of Kansas | Theory of coercive quadratic integer-differential forms | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Nathan Fine | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Robert Finn | California Institute of Technology | Non-linear elliptic partial differential equations | Also won in 1965 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Robert Elston Fullerton | University of Maryland | Theory of continuous surfaces | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Frederick W. Gehring | University of Michigan | Boundary behavior of meromorphic functions | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Leonard Gillman | Purdue University | Theory of rings and continuous mathematical functions | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Morris Kline | New York University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | S. Spafford Ackerly | University of Louisville School of Medicine | Frontal lobe function in the brain | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Ellen Brown | University of California Medical Center | Physiology of small vessel circulation and temperature regulation | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | David Gitlin | Harvard University Medical School | Intracellular degradation of plasma and cellular proteins | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Arnold Bernard Scheibel | University of California, Los Angeles | | Also won in 1952 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Lowell Elmond White, Jr. | University of South Alabama | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Lesh Baldwin | University of Wisconsin | Thyroglobulin | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Eric Glendinning Ball | Harvard Medical School | | Also won in 1937 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Orlin N. Biddulph | Washington State College | Movement of minerals and organic substances in plants | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Eldridge Cushing | University of California, Santa Barbara | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Abraham Eisenstark | Kansas State College | Interaction of genetic material of the bacterial virus with that of the host cell | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Walton B. Geiger | Trinity University | Enzymes linking transacetylation with transmethylation | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Arthur Charles Giese | Stanford University | Structure of nucleons | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Neal B. Groman | University of Washington | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Daniel L. Kline | Yale Medical School | White blood cell physiology | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Allen Lein | Northwestern University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Pauline A. Miller | Harvard Medical School | Formation of tetanus toxin in the cell | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Joe Neilands | University of California, Berkeley | Iron metabolism | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edward Lawrence Powers | Argonne National Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Howard Harold Seliger | Johns Hopkins University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Helen A. Stafford | Reed College | Various aspects of plant tissues | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Bernard S. Strauss | University of Chicago | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | J. Herbert Taylor | Florida State University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Collett Warner | New York University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Irving White | University of Maryland School of Medicine | Protein components of skeletal muscle | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | George Wolf | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Function of vitamin A in metabolism | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Stephen Zamenhof (eo) | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Donald Benjamin Lindsley | University of California, Los Angeles | Brain organization and behavior | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John Maxwell Anderson | Cornell University | Digestive tract of starfish | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Zach M. Arnold | University of California, Berkeley | Variations of plant life | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Arthur Merton Chickering | Albion College | Taxonomy of spiders | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Howard Ensign Evans | Cornell University | Solitary wasps | Also won in 1969 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | William Alonzo Gosline | University of Hawaii | Classification of modern bony fishes | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George Daniel Grice, Jr. | National Marine Fisheries Service | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | William Hansel | Cornell University | Estrogenic hormone in the blood and tissues of experimental animals | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | William Stewart Hoar | University of British Columbia | Young fish | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Howard Holtzer | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Paul Louis Illg | University of Washington | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Everett Williams Jameson, Jr. | University of California, Davis | Japanese fleas | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Thomas Henry Manning | National Museum of Canada | Arctic research | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Robert Baxter Platt | Emory University | Ecological studies of organisms and communities with reference to their microenvironment | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Charles Remington | Yale University | Evolutionary processes in the lepidoptera | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Elizabeth S. Russell | Jackson Memorial Laboratory | Physiological genetics of mammals | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Robert van den Bosch | University of California, Riverside | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Adolph Becker | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Application of nuclear physics to astrophysical problems | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Lawrence C. Biedenharn, Jr. | Rice Institute | Nuclear reaction theory | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Martin M. Block | Duke University | High energy nuclear physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Norman Brown | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Lawrence Cranberg | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory | Spin-orbit forces in nuclei | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Gordon Charles Danielson | Iowa State College | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | John Gilbert Daunt | Ohio State University | | Also won in 1953 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Adrianus Jacobus Dekker | University of Minnesota | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Hans Frauenfelder | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Investigation of the interaction in beta and muon decay | Also won in 1972 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Claude Geoffrion | Université Laval | | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Stanley S. Hanna | Argonne National Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Hofstadter | Stanford University | | Also won in 1972 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Jack Marvin Hollander | University of California, Berkeley | Atomic spectroscopy | Also won in 1965 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Arthur F. Kip | University of California, Berkeley | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Martin Jesse Klein | Case Institute of Technology | | Also won in 1967 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Wallace Conrad Koehler | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Francis Arthur Jenkins | University of California, Berkeley | Isotopes | Also won in 1932, 1947 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Leon M. Lederman | University of Chicago | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Ralph Stuart Mackay, Jr. | University of California, Berkeley, University of California Medical Center | Unobservable detail in X-ray images | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Elliott Waters Montroll | University of Maryland | Statistical mechanics of systems of interacting particles | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Franco Rasetti | Johns Hopkins University | Spectra of ionized gases | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Joseph Melvin Reynolds | Louisiana State University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Louis D. Roberts | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Emilio G. Segrè | University of California, Berkeley | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Albert Silverman | Cornell University | Production of elementary particles by high energy X-rays | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | John S. Toll | University of Maryland | Analytic structure of quantum field theories | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Luke Chia-Liu Yuan | Brookhaven National Laboratory | High energy interaction | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Henry Nathaniel Andrews | Washington University in St. Louis | Critical study of certain groups of early land plants | Also won in 1951, 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Enrique Balech (es) (eo) | Ministry of the Navy (Argentina) | | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Robert Norman Goodman | University of Missouri | Antibiotically active compounds produced by higher plants | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Harold Franklin Heady | University of California, Berkeley | Grasslands | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Harvey A. Miller | Miami University | Phytogeography and ecology of the Hawaiian Hepaticae | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Jack Edgar Myers | University of Texas | Photosynthetic metabolism of algae | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | James George Ross | South Dakota State College | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Paul Claude Silva | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Marine algae of California | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Oliver Fuhriman Smith | United States Department of Agriculture | Alfalfa breeding | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Thomas Wallace Whitaker | University of California, Davis | | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Stephen Wilhelm | University of California, Berkeley | Fungus parasites in plants | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Frederick Paul Zscheile, Jr. | University of California, Davis | Bunt resistance in wheat | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Leonard Jimmie Savage | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1951, 1967 |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Herbert Solomon | Stanford University | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Richard King Beardsley | University of Michigan | Spanish small-farm communities | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Svend E. Frederiksen | Catholic University of America | | Also won in 1957 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Harry Hawthorn | University of British Columbia | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Eric Wolf | University of Virginia | Cultural change and its effects among the Tyrolese peasantry | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Mark Blaug | Yale University | Capital of British industry during the Industrial Revolution | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Alfred Dupont Chandler, Jr. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Development of American business corporations | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen | Vanderbilt University | Problems of measurability of human motivation | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Edward Hastings Chamberlin | Harvard University | Theory of wages including collective bargaining and the monopoly elements in both labor and product markets | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | James M. Henderson | Harvard University | Natural resource utilization patterns | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Holland Hunter | Haverford College | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Gerald Marvin Meier | Wesleyan University | International trade and economic development in the British tropics, 1870-1914 | Also won in 1957 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | John R. Meyer | Harvard University | Development of a behavioral theory of the American business firm | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Richard E. Quandt | Princeton University | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Michael H. Cardozo | Cornell Law School | European international organizations in their relations with member governments | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Russell Hunt Fifield | University of Michigan | Philippine role in Asia since independence | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Stephen Denis Kertesz | University of Notre Dame | Parliamentary diplomacy in the United Nations | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Roland Young | Northwestern University | | Also won in 1968 |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Edward Girden | Brooklyn College | Psychokinesis | Also won in 1941 |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Clarence Henry Graham | Columbia University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Norman Guttman | Duke University | Experimental behavior | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | David McClelland | Harvard University | Relationship between human motives and economic growth | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Joseph Winfield Fretz (de) | Bethel College | Cultural interaction of a European ethnic refugee colony in Paraguay with native Paraguayans | |

## 1958 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Errol John | | | Also won in 1966 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Marcelo Silvestre Bonevardi | | | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Armando Morales | | Engraving | Also won in 1961 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | María Luisa Pacheco | | Bolivian art and landscape | Also won in 1959, 1960 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Luis Antonio Escobar | Composing | | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Julián Orbón de Soto | Composing | | Also won in 1969 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | José Serebrier | Composing | | Also won in 1957 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Teresa Gisbert de Mesa | Higher University of San Andrés | | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | José de Mesa Figueroa (es) | Higher University of San Andrés | | Also won in 1996 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Salvador Bucca | University of Buenos Aires | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Eduardo Nicol | National Autonomous University of Mexico | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Emilio Carilla (de) | National University of Tucumán | | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Guido Münch Paniagua | California Institute of Technology | Motions and spatial arrangement of interstellar gas masses | Also won in 1944, 1945 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Guillermo Arturo Iacobucci | University of Buenos Aires | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Juan Alejandro McMillan | University of Chicago | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Leopoldo Nachbin | University of Brazil | | Also won in 1949, 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Jonas Beregovich | University of Chile | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Moisés Behar (de) (es) | World Health Organization | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Adolfo Max Rothschild | Biological Institute of São Paulo | Histamine biochemistry | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | José Ignacio Borrero | University of Valle | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Leopoldo E. Caltagirone-Zamora | La Cruz National Entomological Station | | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Germán O. Valenzuela Vera | Universidad de Caldas | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Paulo Emílio Vanzolini | Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo | | Also won in 1949, 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Gabriel Alvial Cáceres | University of Chile | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Luis A. Camargo Gutiérrez | National University of Colombia | | Also won in 1960 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Ernesto Foldats Andins | Central University of Venezuela | | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Juan Héctor Hunziker (es) (pt) | Ministry of Agriculture (Argentina) | | Also won in 1957, 1980 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Oscar Kühnemann | National Institute of Industrial Technology Miguelete, Buenos Aires | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Jorge Eduardo Nicholson Calle | | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Eduardo Quisumbing | | | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Jorge Helios Morello Wyler | Universidad Nacional de Tucumán | | Also won in 1954, 1955 |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Néstor Uscátegui Mendoza | Colombian National Ethnographic Institute | | Also won in 1957 |