# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1961

Two hundred and sixty-five scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1961. More than $1,350,000 was disbursed.

## 1961 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Paul Taylor | Paul Taylor Dance Company | | Also won in 1966, 1983 |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Robert Goode Hogan | | Creative writing in drama | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | George Paul Elliott | University of Iowa, Barnard College | Writing | Also won in 1970 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Curtis A. Harnack | Sarah Lawrence College | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | John C. Keats | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Paule Burke Marshall | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Grace Paley | Greenwich Village Peace Center | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Mordecai Richler | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Harold Altman | University of Wisconsin | Drawing and printmaking | Also won in 1960 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Al Blaustein | The Art Center of Northern New Jersey | Printmaking | Also won in 1958 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Edward Colker | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Worden Day | | | Also won in 1952 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Arthur Deshaies | | Creative printmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jimmy Ernst | Brooklyn College | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Gray Foy | | Drawing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert W. Hansen | Occidental College | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | David Vincent Hayes | | Sculpting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jerome Eugene Kaplan | Philadelphia College of Art | Printmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Daniel U. Newman | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | John W. Rhoden | | Sculpting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | George Warren Rickey | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tulane University | Sculpting | Also won in 1960 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Halim El-Dabh | | Composing | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Arnold Franchetti | University of Hartford | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Karl George Kohn | Pomona College | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Theodore S. Newman | University of Miami | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Burrill Phillips | University of Illinois | Composing | Also won in 1942 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | William Overton Smith | University of Southern California | Composing | Also won in 1960 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Bruce L. Davidson | | Youth in America | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | John Szarkowski | | Study of Quetico Provincial Park-Superior National Forest in Canada and the United States | Also won in 1954 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Wendell Erdman Berry | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Kay Boyle | | Eminent figures in German history | Also won in 1934 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | James Dickey | Burke-Dowling-Adams | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Kenneth Koch | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | George Edwin Starbuck | Houghton Mifflin Company | Writing | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Everett Carter | University of California, Davis | Idea of progress in American literature | Also won in 1952 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Clarence Louis Frank Gohdes | Duke University | Work on proposed bibliography of regional literature and drama in the U.S. | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Leo Marx | Amherst College | Pastoral impulse in American literature and thought | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | American Literature | William Harwood Peden | University of Missouri | American short story between 1940 and 1960 | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Harold Edelman | | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Stanley Salzman | Pratt Institute, New York School of Interior Design | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Eduard Sekler | Harvard University | Urban design | Also won in 1963 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Rudolf Jacob Wittkower | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | Donald C. Gallup (de) | Yale University | Bibliographical studies of the works of Ezra Pound | Also won in 1968 |
| Humanities | Bibliography | Edwin Wolf II | Library Company of Philadelphia | | |
| Humanities | Biography | Irvin Ehrenpreis | Indiana University | Life of Jonathan Swift | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | British History | Sidney Alexander Burrell | Barnard College | | |
| Humanities | British History | Margaret Gay Davies | Pomona College | Continuing work started by her father on economic fluctuations in the Restoration Period of England | |
| Humanities | British History | William Roger Graham | University of Saskatchewan | Second volume of biography on Arthur Meighen | |
| Humanities | British History | Alfred M. Gollin | University of California, Los Angeles | | Also won in 1964, 1971 |
| Humanities | British History | William Best Hesseltine | University of Wisconsin | Manuscript jornals, in several languages, of Hekekyan Bey | |
| Humanities | British History | Thomas H. D. Mahoney | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Edmund Burke and the American Revolution | |
| Humanities | British History | Leo Frank Solt | Indiana University | Sectarian tracts of the Commonwealth and The Protectorate | |
| Humanities | Classics | Francis Dvornik | Dumbarton Oaks Research Library | Origin of early Christian political philosophy | |
| Humanities | Classics | Kenan Tevfik Erim | | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Herbert Hoffman | Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg | | Also won in 1972 |
| Humanities | Classics | Sesto Prete | Fordham University | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Cedric Hubbell Whitman | Harvard University | Aristophanes as a comic poet | Also won in 1976 |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Harry J. Benda | Yale University | Social and political history of Southeast Asia since 1950 | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Relman Morin | Associated Press | Origins of colonialism in the Far East | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Donald Keene | Columbia University | | Also won in 1971 |
| Humanities | Economic History | Charles Issawi | Columbia University | | Also won in 1968 |
| Humanities | English Literature | John Lewis Bradley | Mount Holyoke College | Life and works of Henry Mayhew | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Dwight Culler | Yale University | Poetry of Matthew Arnold | Also won in 1975 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Joseph Frank | University of Rochester | Poetry of the period from 1641 to 1660 | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Walter John Hipple, Jr. | Cornell College | 19th century British philosophy from the time of Dugald Stewart to that of Samuel Alexander | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Dan H. Laurence | | Shavian research | Also won in 1960, 1972 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Lowry Nelson, Jr. | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert Ornstein | University of Illinois | Shakespeare's history plays in relation to Elizabethan historical and political thought | |
| Humanities | English Literature | David Dodd Perkins | Harvard University | Life and poetry of William Wordsworth | Also won in 1972 |
| Humanities | English Literature | John Henry Raleigh | University of California, Berkeley | English fiction from Dickens to Joyce | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Charles H. Shattuck | University of Illinois | English language prompt books of Shakespeare's plays | Also won in 1968 |
| Humanities | English Literature | George Robert Stange | University of Minnesota | Poetry of Matthew Arnold | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Frank W. Wadsworth | University of California, Los Angeles | Revivals of Elizabethan plays in 19th century United States and England | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Harris Ward Wilson | University of Illinois | H. G. Wells and the Fabian Society | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Andrew Wright | Ohio State University | | Also won in 1970 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Wen Fong | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Curtis Howard Shell | Wellesley College | Florentine painting of early Renaissance | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Felix Johannes Oinas | Indiana University | Relationship of Russian and Balto-Finnic folklore and linguistics | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Harry Oster | Louisiana State University | | |
| Humanities | French History | David Duckworth Bien | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | French History | Jere Clemens King | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Humanities | French History | Andrew Lossky | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Jules Brody | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Wallace Fowlie | Bennington College | Work of Marcel Proust | Also won in 1947 |
| Humanities | French Literature | Raymond Dorner Giraud | Stanford University | Origins and development of the concept of art for art's sake in 19th century French literature | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Edward B. Ham (de) | University of Michigan | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Lawrence Elliot Harvey | Dartmouth College | Writings of Samuel Beckett | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Neal Oxenhandler (fr) | University of California, Los Angeles | Aesthetic basis of the poetry of Max Jacob | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Michael Riffaterre | Columbia University | | Also won in 1977 |
| Humanities | French Literature | Georges Markow-Totevy | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Ben Haig Bagdikian | Providence Journal, Evening Bulletin | Development of contemporary American press | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Helen Henley | Christian Science Monitor | Family farm in contemporary U.S. | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Hajo Holborn | Yale University | Philosophical foundations of historical knowledge | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Martin Dyck | University of Michigan | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Hans Albert Maier | University of Connecticut | Goethe's West–östlicher Divan | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Walter Friedrich Naumann | University of Wisconsin, Madison | | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Eric William Cochrane Jr | University of Chicago | History of Florence | |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Nicolae Iliescu | Harvard University | Petrarch's Il Canzoniere in perspective of the writings of St. Augustine | |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Sergio Pacifici | Yale University | Modern Italian novel | |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | Norman F. Martin | University of Santa Clara | Unemployment faced by New Spain during the 17th and 18th centuries | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Nicholas C. Bodman | Foreign Service Institute | Tibeto-Burman languages | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Robert Brustein | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Murray Krieger | University of Illinois | Classic vision in post-Renaissance literature | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Yvor Winters | Stanford University | Aspects of the short poem | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | David Herlihy | Bryn Mawr College | | |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Richard Eugene Sullivan | Michigan State University | History of Christian monasticism from the fourth to the 10th century | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Charles William Dunn | New York University | | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | David C. Fowler | University of Washington | | Also won in 1975 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Robert Kaske | University of North Carolina | Heroism and the hero in Old English poetry | Also won in 1977 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Paul Murray Kendall | Ohio University | Warwick the Kingmaker | Also won in 1957 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Joseph Szövérffy (de) | University of Alberta | History of vernacular lyric poetry in the Middle Ages | Also won in 1969 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Erik Wahlgren | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | William Weaver Austin | Cornell University | Music of the 20th century | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Ralph Thomas Daniel | Indiana University | Origin and development of the English anthem | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Ben Halpern | Harvard University | Contemporary Israel | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Anne Draffkorn Kilmer | University of Chicago | Lexical texts of ancient Mesopotamia | Also won in 1962 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Samuel Noah Kramer | University of Pennsylvania | | Also won in 1937, 1938 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | William R. Polk | Harvard University | Relations of U.S. and Arab World | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Isaac Rabinowitz | Cornell University | Working on an annotated translation of The Book of Honeycomb's Flow of Judah Messer Leon | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | J. Glenn Gray | Colorado College | Work on book tenatively titled To Make Men Seekers - A Theory of American Education | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Wallace I. Matson | University of California, Berkeley | Explanatory concepts | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Abraham Irving Melden | University of Washington | | |
| Humanities | Religion | Peter de Beauvoir Brock | University of Alberta | History of pacificism | |
| Humanities | Religion | Edward Atkinson Dowey, Jr. | Princeton Theological Seminary | Intellectual history of the 16th and 17th centuries, with reference to religious thought in the reformed areas of Protestantism | |
| Humanities | Religion | James Alvin Sanders | Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School | | Also won in 1972 |
| Humanities | Russian History | Alexander Dallin | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Martin Edward Malia | University of California, Berkeley | Russian radial intelligentsia from 1825 to 1917 | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Rufus Wellington Mathewson, Jr. | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Willis R. Barnstone | Wesleyan University | Life and works of Antonio Machado | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Ángel del Río (es) | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Edward Glaser (es) (de) | University of Michigan | | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Benjamin Hunningher (nl) | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Dorothy Jeakins | Los Angeles Civic Light Opera | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Arthur Bestor | University of Illinois | American constitutional development | Also won in 1953 |
| Humanities | United States History | Francis L. Berkeley, Jr. | University of Virginia | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Paul Wilbur Glad | Coe College | United States from World War I to the Great Depression | |
| Humanities | United States History | Hugh Dodge Hawkins | Amherst College | American university presidents, 1865-1915 | |
| Humanities | United States History | William Ransom Hogan | Tulane University | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Stephen Guild Kurtz | Wabash College | Political philosophy and statecraft of John Adams | |
| Humanities | United States History | David Sievert Lavender | The Thacher School | American Fur Company | Also won in 1968 |
| Humanities | United States History | Samuel Eliot Morison | | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Richard B. Morris | City College of New York | | Also won in 1947, 1982 |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Bernard Budiansky | Harvard University | Theory of thin shells | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Charles Danne Graham, Jr. | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | David Okrent | Argonne National Laboratory | High temperature experiments | Also won in 1977 |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Robert D. Richtmyer | New York University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Ronald Samuel Rivlin | Brown University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Hans Jürgen Eduard Schmitt | Harvard University | Scattering of electromagnetic waves from acoustic disturbances | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Richard Thorpe Shield | Brown University | Mathematical theories of elastic and plastic solids | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Harold Staras | RCA Laboratories | Communications systems that utilize new modes of wave propagation | |
| Natural Sciences | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Horace Albert Barker | University of California, Berkeley | Biochemistry of the cobamide coenzymes | Also won in 1941 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Richard J. Bearman | University of Kansas | Statistical mechanics transport processes in mixtures | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Ernst Berliner | Bryn Mawr College | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert Kenneth Brinton | University of California | Transfer of excitation energy between molecules in solution | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William Andrew Chupka | Argonne National Laboratory | Mass spectrometry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert Hugh Cole | Brown University | Equilibrium and relaxation theories of dielectrics | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | James John Fritz | Pennsylvania State University | Low temperature research and studies in the theory of magnetism | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert Maurice Hexter | Mellon Institute | Problem of predicting the electronic and vibrational spectra of molecular crystals | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Kenneth Keith Innes | Vanderbilt University | Organic molecular structure | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Herbert August Laitinen (fi) | University of Illinois | High temperature electrochemistry | Also won in 1953 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William Eugene Parham | University of Minnesota | Organic chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John Michael Prausnitz | University of California, Berkeley | Thermodynamics of solutions | Also won in 1972 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Benton Seymour Rabinovitch | University of Washington | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Charles Norwood Reilley | University of North Carolina | Metal chelate relations | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Kenneth Lloyd Rinehart, Jr. | University of Illinois | Application of physical and chemical methods to problems of organic structure determination | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Frank Sherwood Rowland | University of Kansas | Chemical effects of nuclear transformations | Also won in 1973 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Zevi W. Salsburg | Rice University | Thermodynamic theory of reactive shock waves and detonations | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Raymond E. Shapiro | United States Department of Agriculture | Soil factors in soil-plant relationships | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert G. Shulman | Bell Telephone Laboratories | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William Spindel | Rutgers University–Newark | Rare oxygen isotopes | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Thomas Tamotsu Sugihara | Clark University | Effects of angular momentum and excitation energy in high-energy fission | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Dean S. Tarbell | University of Rochester | New techniques for investigations in organic chemistry | Also won in 1945 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert Ullman | Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Kenneth Berle Wiberg | University of Washington | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Benjamin Widom | Cornell University | Long-range correlations in fluids | Also won in 1968 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Douglas Lamar Inman | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Charles David Keeling | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Paul E. Potter | Illinois Geological Survey | Primary directional properties in sedimentary rocks | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Lionel Edward Weiss | University of California, Berkeley | Properties of rocks deformed by flow in the solid state | Also won in 1969 |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Boris Bresler | University of California | Improved methods of design for control of crack and formation in concrete structures | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Ferdinand Freudenstein | Columbia University | Kinematics of mechanisms | Also won in 1967 |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | William Wilson Mullins | Carnegie Institute of Technology | Theoretical problems relating to shapes and rates of changes of surfaces under various environmental conditions | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | William Tyrrell Thomson | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Andrew Hill Clark | University of Wisconsin | Historical geography, especially of maritime Canada | |
| Natural Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Sheldon Judson | Princeton University | | Also won in 1966 |
| Natural Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | W. Barclay Kamb | California Institute of Technology | Relation between state of stress and preferred orientation of ice crystals in selected glaciers of the Alps | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Herold Jacob Wiens | Yale University | Historical and regional geography of Sinkiang | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Leon A. Henkin | University of California, Berkeley; Dartmouth College | Models of the simple theory of types | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Louis Norberg Howard | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Geophysical fluid dynamics | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Ellis Robert Kolchin | Columbia University | | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | George Whitelaw Mackey | Harvard University | Topological groups | Also won in 1949, 1970 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Albert Nijenhuis | University of Chicago | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Frederik Barry Bang | Johns Hopkins University | Responses to diseases in various marine intervertebrates | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | John Frederick Bell | U.S. Public Health Service | Comparative study of Eurasian and American tularemia | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Dana Charles Brooks | Cornell University Medical College | Basis of electrical activity in the mammilian brain | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Robert James Gorlin | University of Minnesota | Oral pathology book preparation | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Lawrence Ennis Savage | University of Washington | Gastric physiology | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Henry Orson Wheeler | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Seymour Benzer | Purdue University | Cellular control mechanisms | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | William Clouser Boyd | Boston University School of Medicine | Immunochemical specificity | Also won in 1935, 1937 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Herbert E. Carter | University of Illinois | Biochemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Gertrude Falk | University of Washington | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Malcolm Stephen Gordon | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Benjamin D. Hall | University of Illinois | Molecular structure and biological specificity of ribonucleic acid synthesized in virus-infected bacteria | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Manoah Kark | University of Illinois | Nephrotic syndrome in rats | Also won in 1974 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Berner Loftfield | Harvard Medical School | Amino acid sequence of proteins | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Eugene Olson | University of Pittsburgh | Mechanism of control of certain aspects of cell metabolism in heart muscle | Also won in 1970 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Paul Karl Stumpf | University of California, Davis | Fatty acids in plant tissues | Also won in 1968 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Charles Wyvil Todd | DuPont | Immunology and protein synthesis | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Charles Allen West | University of California, Los Angeles | Enzymatic mechanisms and intermediates involved in the biosynthesis of the gibberellins | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Harry Curtis Young, Jr. | Oklahoma State University | Elimination of wheat leaf rust as a major disease problem | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George A. Bartholomew | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Francis C. Evans | University of Michigan | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Julius H. Freitag | University of California | Comparison of certain vectors of plant viruses | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | William Neil Holmes | University of British Columbia | How do some birds, mammals and fish manage to live in, or drink, either fresh or salt water? | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Otto Kinne | University of Toronto | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Lawrence B. Slobodkin | University of Michigan | | Also won in 1974 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Paul Slud | American Museum of Natural History | Birds of Cocos Island | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Leroy Carlton Stevens, Jr. | Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory | Microscopic tumors in early stages of development | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Howard Elliott Winn | University of Maryland | Comparative studies of sound production as means of communication in certain fish species | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Ernst Bleuler | Purdue University | High-energy physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Brout | Cornell University | Applications in ferromagnetism | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Sidney David Drell | Stanford University | Quantum field theory on the structure of elementary particles | Also won in 1971 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | William A. Fowler | California Institute of Technology | | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Hans Pieter Roetert Frederikse | National Bureau of Standards | Physical properties of oxide semi-conductors | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Donald Arthur Glaser | Lawrence Radiation Laboratory | Biophysics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Erwin L. Hahn | University of California, Berkeley | Nuclear magnetism at low temperatures | Also won in 1969 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Bernard G. Harvey | University of California, Berkeley | Nuclear stripping and pick-up reactions | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Evans Vaughan Hayward | National Bureau of Standards | Photonuclear reactions | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Arthur Kent Kerman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Theory of nuclear structure | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Francis E. Low | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Interactions of elementary particles by application of Quantum field theory | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Steven Alexander Moszkowski (de) | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | David S. Saxon | University of California, Los Angeles | Optical model of the nucleus | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Jabez Curry Street | Harvard University | High-energy particle physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Rathbun Wilson | Cornell University | Proton as revealed by high-energy electrons | |
| 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, 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Herbert Bashford Currier | University of California | Physiology of callose and associated phenomena in plant cells | Also won in 1954 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Thor Kommedahl | University of Minnesota | Relation of root-rotting organisms to residues of crop plants and weeds | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Hui-Lin Li | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Lewis Glen Weathers | University of California, Riverside | Effect that two or more viruses in combination have on plant growth and the role they play in diseases of plants | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Carl Leslie Withner (es) (fr) (pt) | Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Brooklyn College | Orchids | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Roy Radner | University of California | Problems of organization | Also won in 1965 |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Charles Max Stein | Stanford University | Application of group theory to statistics | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | David Lockwood Olmsted | University of California, Davis | Comparative American Indian linguistics | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | William Francis Shipley | University of California | Nisenan language | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Richard S. Eckaus | Brandeis University | Economic characteristics of technology, particularly in metal-working industries | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Jack Hirshleifer | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | John Seneca McGee | University of Chicago | Government regulation in Spanish industry | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | John Michael Montias | Yale University | Present-day economic organization in Eastern Europe | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Ira Oscar Scott, Jr. | Columbia University | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Joseph John Spengler | Duke University | Development of economic thought | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Jaroslav Vanek | Harvard University | Yugoslavia as decentralized socialist economy | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Franklin Johnson Pegues | Ohio State University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Harry V. Jaffa | Ohio State University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Wladyslaw W. Kulski | Syracuse University | National interests in contemporary France | Also won in 1969 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Norman Dunbar Palmer | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Paul Seabury | University of California | Non-military conflict and competition between Russia and the West | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Jacobus tenBroek | University of California | U.S. citizenship | Also won in 1953 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis | Indiana University | Development of Egypt from 1800 to the present | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Myron Weiner | University of Chicago | Congress party since Indian independence | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Emory L. Cowen | University of Rochester | Adjustment to auditory disability | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Eric Gustav Heinemann | Vassar College | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Harold Brenner Pepinsky | Ohio State University | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Renée Claire Fox | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Sidney Goldstein | Brown University | | |

## 1961 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Luis Camnitzer | Escuela de Bellas Artes, Montevideo | | Also won in 1982 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Sarah Grilo | | Painting | Also won in 1963 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | David Manzur Londoño | University of the Andes | Painting | Also won in 1962 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Armando Morales | | Engraving | Also won in 1958 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Mario Davidovsky | | Composing | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Alair de Oliveira Gomes (pt) | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Rafael Olivar-Bertrand | Universidad Nacional del Sur | | Also won in 1963 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | José Barros-Neto | Yale University | | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Elon Lages Lima | Brazilian Center for Research in Physics | | Also won in 1963 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Juan Carlos Merlo | University of Buenos Aires | | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Nelson Onuchic (pt) | São Paulo State University | | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Emiliano Cabrera Juárez | National School of Biological Sciences, Mexico | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Mitzy Canessa | University of Chile | | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Adolfo Davidovich Guerberof | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Federico Medem (es) | National University of Colombia | Systematics of Colombian turtles, snakes and lizards | Also won in 1952 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Francisco Nemenzo | University of the Philippines | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Genaro O. Ranit | University of the Philippines | | Also won in 1960 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Leonila Vázquez García | National Autonomous University of Mexico | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Jacobo Rapaport | University of Chile | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Hernán Caballero Delpino | University of Concepción | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Milán Jorge Dimitri (es) | National Parks, Argentina | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Faustino Miranda González (es) | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Manual of trees in southeastern Mexico | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Felipe Landa Jocano | National Museum of the Philippines | | |