# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1962

Two hundred and seventy scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1962. More than $1,410,000 was disbursed.

## 1962 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Evan Shelby Connell | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | John C. Hawkes | Brown University | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Edward Lewis Wallant | McCann Erickson | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Thomas Alonzo Williams, Jr. | University of New Hampshire | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Clara Brussel Winston | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Richard Yates | | Writing | Also won in 1980 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | John Burton | | Interviewing glassmaking experts | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Richard Howard Hunt | University of Illinois | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Victor George Kord | University of Illinois | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Rico Lebrun | | Painting | Also won in 1935, 1937 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Bruno Lucchesi | The New School for Social Research | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ezio Martinelli | Sarah Lawrence College, Parsons School of Design | Sculpture | Also won in 1958 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | M. Dean Richardson | Rhode Island School of Design | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Seymour Rosofsky | Wright Junior College, Art Institute of Chicago | Painting | Also won in 1963 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Whitney Lee Savage | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Benton Murdoch Spruance | Beaver College, Philadelphia College Museum of Arts | Printmaking | Also won in 1950 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ann C. Steinbrocker | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | James Stephen Strombotne | University of California, Riverside | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ansei Uchima | Sarah Lawrence College | Printmaking | Also won in 1970 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Hiram D. Williams | University of Florida | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | James N. Wines | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | John C. Eaton | University of Chicago | Composing | Also won in 1965 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | John Huggler | | Composing | Also won in 1969 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | John Herbert McDowell | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert Walter Moevs | Harvard University | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Gunther A. Schuller | | Composing | Also won in 1963 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Ezra Sims | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | John Nathaniel Vincent, Jr. | University of California, Los Angeles | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Stefan Wolpe | Long Island University | | Also won in 1970 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Lee Friedlander | | Changing American scene | Also won in 1960, 1977 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Geraldine Sharpe | | Certain social groups | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Denise Levertov | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Galway Kinnell | | Writing | Also won in 1974 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Edward Charles O'Gorman | Columbia University | Writing | Also won in 1956 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Louis Simpson | University of California, Berkeley | Writing | Also won in 1970 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Ihab Habib Hassan | Wesleyan University | Irrational strain in Western literature | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | American Literature | John Fairbanks Lynen | University of Illinois | Time as a structural principle in the works of certain American authors | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Ellen Moers | | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Blake Reynolds Nevius | University of California, Los Angeles | Comparative study of the novels and critical writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, and Henry James | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Donald Pizer | Newcomb College | Critical study of novels of Frank Norris | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Merton M. Sealts, Jr. | Lawrence College | Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Floyd C. Watkins | Emory University | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Design and Planning | Robert Branner | | 13th-century Gothic architecture | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Design and Planning | George R. Collins | | Ideas influencing the development of the city, 1880-1920 | |
| Humanities | British History | Philip P. Poirier | Ohio State University | | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Immanuel C. Y. Hsu | University of California, Santa Barbara | Chinese-Russian relations between 1871 and 1881 | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Joseph Richmond Levenson | University of California, Berkeley | Confucian China and its modern fate | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Ellis Rivkin | Hebrew Union College | Role of Jews in the development of early capitalism | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Jerome Beaty | | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Harold Bloom | Yale University | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert C. Elliott | Ohio State University | | Also won in 1971 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Phillip Harth | Northwestern University | Religious and philosophical background of the poems of John Dryden | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Simeon Kahn Heninger, Jr. | Duke University | Influence of Pythagorean thought in the Renaissance | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Park Honan | Connecticut College | Prose style in the English novel | Also won in 1975 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Cyrus Henry Hoy | Vanderbilt University | Dramatic works of Thomas Dekker | |
| Humanities | English Literature | William Irvine | Stanford University | Critical biography of Robert Browning | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Lachlan Philip Kelley | | Definitive edition of correspondence between Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning | Also won in 1970 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Francis Edward Mineka | Cornell University | Letters of John Stuart Mill | |
| Humanities | English Literature | William Riley Parker | Indiana University | Life and times of John Milton | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Miriam Kosh Starkman | Queens College, City University of New York | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert Henry Super | University of Michigan | | Also won in 1970 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Paul Noden West | Memorial University of Newfoundland, Pennsylvania State University | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | James Holderbaum | Smith College | 16th-century Italian painting and sculpture | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Homer Leonard Thomas | University of Missouri | Influence of Mediterranean civilizations on uncivilized cultures of Europe during the late Bronze and Iron Ages | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Cultural Studies | Américo Paredes | University of Texas | Bilingual and bicultural folklore in Mexico and the southwestern US | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Cultural Studies | Frank O. Spinney | Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park | Biography on Augustus Saint-Gaudens | |
| Humanities | French History | James Edward King | University of North Carolina | Origins and evolution of the concepts of welfare in the modern Western world | |
| Humanities | French Literature | William Wolfgang Holdheim (de) | Brandeis University | Contemporary French writing | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Walter Adolf Strauss (de) | Emory University | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Aram Vartanian | University of Minnesota | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Stefán Einarsson | Johns Hopkins University | Primitivism and Christian influence in Old Icelandic literature | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Wolfgang Arthur Leppmann (de) | University of Oregon | Stage history of Goethe's plays | Also won in 1971 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | William Henry Rey | University of Washington | Life and works of Arthur Schnitzler | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Oskar Seidlin | Ohio State University | | Also won in 1976 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Blake Lee Spahr (de) | University of California, Berkeley | 17th-century German literary manuscripts | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Jack Madison Stein | Harvard University | Relation between text and musical setting in German songs of the 18th and 19th centuries | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Richard S. Allen | | Covered bridges of the American south and midwest | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Stephen Alexander Fischer-Galati (ro) | Wayne State University | Balkan revolutionary tradition | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Norman Robert Rich (de) | Michigan State University | Germany's war aims and occupation policies in World War II | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Gunther Erich Rothenberg | Southern Illinois University | History of the Austrian military border in Croatia and Slavonia during the 19th century | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | William Harris Stahl | Brooklyn College | History of science in the Latin West during the late Roman Empire and early Middle Ages | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Robert Smith Woodbury | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Stanley George Payne | University of Minnesota | | |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Donald Selwyn Carne-Ross | University of Texas | Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso | |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Ernst Pulgram | University of Michigan | | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Charles S. Singleton | Johns Hopkins University | Dante's Divine Comedy | Also won in 1954, 1950 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | William Stewart Cornyn | Yale University | | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Henry R. Kahane | University of Illinois | Linguistic history | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Richard Volney Chase | Columbia University | | Also won in 1947 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Tom F. Driver | Union Theological Seminary | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Martin Greenberg | New School for Social Research | Franz Kafka | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Harrison Mosher Hayford | Northwestern University | Works of Herman Melville | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Edwin Honig | Brown University | | Also won in 1948 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Morton Dauwen Zabel | University of Chicago | Biographical and critical studies of Joseph Conrad and Henrik Ibsen | Also won in 1944 |
| Humanities | Medieval History | Gerard Ernest Caspary (de) | Smith College | | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Robert Payson Creed | Brown University | | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Richard Hamilton Green | Johns Hopkins University | Poetic theory by the 14th-century Italian humanists | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Nicholas M. Haring | Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies | | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Charles Muscatine | University of California | Style of medieval poetry | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Paul A. Olson | University of Nebraska | Canterbury Tales as setting forth the 14th-century concept of a good society | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Barry Ulanov | Barnard College, Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Richard Franko Goldman | Princeton University | Nature and function of music in the middle of the 20th century | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Carleen M. Hutchins | | Quality of tone in musical instruments of the violin family | Also won in 1959 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Carol Cook MacClintock | Southern Illinois University | Life and works of Giaches de Wert | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Leonard Gilbert Ratner | Stanford University | Musical form of the Viennese Classic period | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Robert M. Stevenson | University of California, Los Angeles | Spanish music in the Old and New Worlds during the Baroque period | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Edmund Irwin Gordon | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Anne Draffkorn Kilmer | University of Chicago | Lexical texts of ancient Mesopotamia | Also won in 1961 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Moses Zucker | Jewish Theological Seminary of America | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | David Braybrooke | Yale University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Herbert I. Hochberg (fr) | Indiana University | Writings of G. E. Moore | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Hans Meyerhoff (de) | University of California, Los Angeles | Philosophy of history | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | John R. Silber | University of Texas | Nature of human acts and responsibility | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Marcus George Singer | University of Wisconsin | Moral problems and moral philosophy | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Robert Paul Ziff | University of Pennsylvania | Relationship between feelings and behavior | |
| Humanities | Religion | Ford Lewis Battles | Hartford Seminary Foundation | Ecumenical foundations of the Reformation | |
| Humanities | Religion | Schubert Miles Ogden | Southern Methodist University | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Henry Lithgow Roberts (es) | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Theodore H. Von Laue | University of California, Riverside | | Also won in 1974 |
| Humanities | South Asian Studies | Knight Biggerstaff | Cornell University | China during the 19th and 20th centuries | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | José Rubia Barcia | University of California, Los Angeles | Works of Ramon del Valle Inclan | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | James O. Crosby (es) | University of Illinois | Francisco de Quevedo's The Politics of God | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | George Haley | University of Chicago | Spanish poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Russell Perry Sebold (es) (de) | University of Wisconsin | 18th-century Spanish literature | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Herbert Blau | San Francisco State College | Theater in relation to contemporary cultural history | Also won in 1977 |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Barnard Hewitt | University of Illinois | Stephen Price | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Louis Sheaffer | | Biography of Eugene O'Neill | Also won in 1959, 1969 |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Alexander William Szögyi | Hunter College | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Carl Bridenbaugh | University of California, Berkeley | American people in the colonial period | Also won in 1958, 1968 |
| Humanities | United States History | Forrest McDonald | Brown University | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Bradford Perkins | University of California, Los Angeles | Relations between the United States and England, 1812-1823 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Merrill D. Peterson | Brandeis University | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Hugh Franklin Rankin | Tulane University | British military strategy in the American Revolution | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Karl Thomas Aust | General Electric Research Laboratory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Sol R. Bodner | Brown University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Walter Freiberger | Brown University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | David Gale | Brown University | | Also won in 1981 |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Fritz John | New York University | | Also won in 1969 |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Ralph David Kodis | Harvard University, Brown University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Cornelius Thomas Leondes | University of California, Los Angeles | Theory of modern advanced control systems | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Eric Reissner | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Derivation of two-dimensional theories of thin elastic shells from equations of three-dimensional elasticity | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Fred L. Ribe | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory | Processes in high temperature laboratory plasmas and their applications to astrophysical problems | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | George Whipple Clark | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Properties of primary cosmic gamma rays and of neutrons associated with solar disturbances | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Frank Norman Edmonds, Jr. | University of Texas | Stellar atmospheres and analysis of spectral lines | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Paul J Kellogg | University of Minnesota | Generation and propagation of waves in the Earth's exosphere | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | William L. Kraushaar (de) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Galactic structure | Also won in 1973 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | George Cunliffe McVittie | University of Illinois | Predictions of theoretical models of the universe | Also won in 1970 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Forrest S. Mozer | The Aerospace Corporation Physics Laboratory | Atmospheric physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Henry Ernest Baumgarten | University of Nebraska | Molecular structure of small-ring compounds | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Charles DuBois Coryell | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Nuclear energetics | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Lawrence Joseph Heidt | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Solar energy conversion | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Noah R. Johnson, Jr. | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Nuclear spectroscopy | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Kenneth David Kopple | University of Chicago | Synthesis of peptides for use in investigations of chemical phenomena of biological importance | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Isadore Perlman | University of California, Berkeley | Nuclear spectroscopy | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Donald Turner Sawyer, Jr. | University of California, Riverside | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Harold Abraham Scheraga | Cornell University | Interactions between the side chains of proteins | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | R. Martin Stiles | University of Michigan | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Theodore Vermeulen | University of California, Berkeley | Mechanisms of molecular transport across liquid interfaces | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John Stewart Waugh | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Theory of spin resonance | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Frank Henry Westheimer | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Richard L. Wolfgang | Yale University | Chemical reaction mechanisms of high-energy atoms | Also won in 1971 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Arthur E. Woodward | Pennsylvania State University | Dynamic properties of high polymer crystals | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Gerald Estrin | University of California, Los Angeles | Effectiveness of automatic structure change in computer complexes | Also won in 1967 |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Gerard Salton | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Sciences | Harmon Craig | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Sciences | Frank W. Dickson | University of California | Alkalic igneous rocks | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Sciences | William Sefton Fyfe | University of California, Berkeley | Advances in chemical thermodynamics and related sciences as they apply to geophysical research | Also won in 1983 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Sciences | Henry William Menard, Jr. | University of California, San Diego; Churchill College | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Sciences | Walter Munk | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | | Also won in 1948, 1953 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Sciences | Jerry S. Olson | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Development and maintenance of ecological systems | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Sciences | Karl K. Turekian | Yale University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Sciences | Hildegarde Howard Wylde | Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Andrew F. Charwat | University of California, Los Angeles | Initial region of flow immediately downstream of an ideally sharp leading edge of flat plate in compressible flow | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Philip Graham Hill | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Francis Reynolds Shanley (mg) | University of California, Los Angeles | Studies toward the development of a unified philosophy of structural design | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Kenneth Noble Stevens | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Speech movements with cineradiographic motion pictures | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Jean G. Van Bladel | University of Wisconsin | Electromagnetic theory with emphasis on propagation in anisotropic media | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Frank H. Brownell | University of Washington | Mathematical formulation of the quantum radiation theory | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Eugenio Calabi | University of Minnesota | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Kurt Otto Friedrichs | New York University | Asymptotic phenomena and other problems in mathematical physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Simon Bernard Kochen | Cornell University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Irving Reiner | University of Illinois | Representations of finite groups in rings of integers | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Michio Suzuki | University of Illinois | Structure of a class of doubly transitive groups | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Richard Steven Varga | Case Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | John S. Gray | Northwestern University | Respiratory physiology | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Joseph Hirsh | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Daniel I. Arnon | University of California, Berkeley | Energy conversion process in photosynthesis | Also won in 1946 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Clarence Willet Asling | University of California, Berkeley | Endocrine regulation of differential growth and maturation of the skull | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Domingo M. Aviado | University of Pennsylvania | Action of certain drugs on pulmonary circulation | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Chen Kang Chai | Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory | Effects of inbreeding | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Waldo E. Cohn | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Nucleic acid biochemistry | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | William Zev Hassid | University of California, Berkeley | Role of nucleotide disphosphate sugar in carbohydrate metabolism of plants | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | George Paul Hess | Cornell University | Conformational changes accompanying enzyme catalyzed reactions | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Lucille S. Hurley | University of California, Davis | Influence of environment factors on the development of the mammalian fetus and neonatal young | Also won in 1969 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Alvin Isaac Krasna | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Albert L. Lehninger | Johns Hopkins University | Tertiary and quaternary structure of protein-lipid complexes | Also won in 1951 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | William J. Rutter | University of Illinois | Molecular control of cellular differentiation | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Esmond Emerson Snell | University of California, Berkeley | Biochemistry of growth and nutrition | Also won in 1954, 1970 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Sidney Solomon | Medical College of Virginia | Renal electrolyte transport | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Greenblatt Stanley | United States Forest Service Experimental Station | Protein-enzyme formation in relation to incompatibility relations of pollen | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Lee Wolff Wattenberg | University of Minnesota | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Sam Meyer Beiser | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Andrew John Berger | University of Michigan | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Edgar J. Boell | Yale University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Nicholas E. Collias | University of California, Los Angeles | Origin and effects of domestication of the Red junglefowl | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Joseph Hurd Connell | University of California, Santa Barbara | Ecology of marine shore organisms | Also won in 1971 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Lois Crisler | | Wolves | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | William Ryan Dawson | University of Michigan | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Carl Barton Huffaker | University of California, Berkeley | Natural control of animal and plant populations | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Robert Wharton Morris | University of Oregon | Oxygen consumption of fish in southern temperature latitudes | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Lionel Israel Rebhun | Princeton University | Living cell structure and function | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Curt Stern | University of California | Problems of differentiation in relation to genes | Also won in 1951 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Talbot H. Waterman | Yale University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | William Abell Wimsatt | Cornell University | Reproductive physiology and eye structure in tropical bats | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Ernest Ambler | National Bureau of Standards | Cooperative properties of spin systems at low temperatures | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Demo Bent | Indiana University | Short nuclear lifetimes by the Doppler-shift attenuation method | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Albéric Boivin | Laval University | Electromagnetic optics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Sheldon Jack Brown | Fresno State College | Gyromagnetic ratios of ferromagnetic elements and alloys | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Ugo Camerini | University of Wisconsin | Decay modes of neutral K-mesons | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Richard H. Capps | Northwestern University | Strong interactions of strange elementary particles, by means of the application of dispersion relations | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Lee Chasson | University of Nebraska | Structure of interplanetary and interstellar magnetic fields | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Gordon Feldman | Johns Hopkins University | Strong interactions of elementary particles by means of the application of dispersion relations and invariance under groups of transformations | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Michael Wulf Friedlander | Washington University in St. Louis | Characteristics of cosmic radiation | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Bernard Goodman | University of Missouri | Mössbauer effect, X-ray and related radiation phenomena | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Isaac Halpern | University of Washington | Nuclear reactions | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | A. Carl Helmholz | University of California, Berkeley | Pion nucleon interaction | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Jan Korringa | Ohio State University | Equilibrium properties and relaxation of interacting spin systems in liquid and solids | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | James Charles Phillips | University of Chicago | Electronic structure of metals and semiconductors | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | David Pines | University of Illinois | Elementary excitation in many-body problems | Also won in 1969 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Maurice Mandel Shapiro | United States Naval Research Laboratory | Cosmic ray interactions at ultrahigh energies and recent developments in the theory of nuclear structure | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Laszlo Tisza | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Extension of thermodynamics to the microscopic structural properties of matter | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | James Leslie Tuck | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory | Plasma physics and molecular biology | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Joseph Weber | University of Maryland | Classical and quantized general relativity | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Chen Ning Yang | Institute for Advanced Study | Weak interactions and superconductivity | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Carl William Boothroyd | Cornell University | Pathogens of maize in Mexico and Central America | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Calvin John Heusser (es) | New York University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Edgar Rothwell Lemon | Cornell University, United States Department of Agriculture | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | James Gordon Ogden, III | Ohio Wesleyan University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Jack Carl Kiefer | Cornell University | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | William Y. Adams | UNESCO | Daily life in a Nubian village in the Sudan | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | J. Louis Giddings | Brown University | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Alex Dony Krieger (es) | University of Washington | Cultural and environment of early man in the new world | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Oscar Lewis | University of Illinois | Culture of poverty and its transformation in contemporary Latin American communities | Also won in 1956 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Leopold J. Pospisil (cs) | Yale University | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Bruce Foster Johnston | Stanford University | Asian food economics | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Harvey Leibenstein | University of California, Berkeley | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Marc Nerlove | Stanford University | Economics | Also won in 1978 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Henry Christopher Wallich | Yale University | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Gerald Gunther | Columbia University | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | John Ernest Moffatt Hancock | Stanford University | Problems in conflicting laws | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Rudolf B. Schlesinger | Cornell University | Body of norms common to the world's leading legal systems | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Eric Stein | University of Michigan Law School | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Frederick Bernays Wiener | | Recent Supreme Court decisions concerning military jurisdiction over civilians | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Murray Jacob Edelman | University of Illinois | Symbolic meanings of political acts and political institutions | Also won in 1983 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Elliot R. Goodman | Brown University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | A. Arthur Schiller (de) | Columbia Law School | | Also won in 1949, 1955 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Thomas L. Thorson | University of Wisconsin | Contributions of analytical philosophy and existentialism to modern political values | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Edwin A. Fleishman | Yale University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Bertram H. Raven | University of California, Los Angeles | Field of group behavior | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Thomas R. Ford | University of Kentucky | Social and economic change in Latin America | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Everett Einar Hagen | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Economic development in the British Isles | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Robert K. Merton | Bureau of Applied Social Research | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Georges Sabagh | University of Southern California | | |

## 1962 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | David Manzur Londoño | University of the Andes | Painting | Also won in 1961 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Osvaldo Costa de Lacerda | Sociedade Pró Música Brasileira | Composing | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Alberto Mario E Salas | University of Buenos Aires | | Also won in 1971 |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | Antonio Pagés Larraya (es) | University of Buenos Aires | | |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | Maria Concepcion Zardoya | Tulane University | Creative writing in poetry | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Enrique Grünbaum Daniel | University of Chile | | Also won in 1963 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Carlos Alberto Altavista | La Plata Astronomical Observatory | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Vicente Guilherme Toscano | University of São Paulo | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Carlos Alberto Menéndez | Natural Sciences Argentine Museum, CONICET | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Rosendo Pascual | National University of La Plata | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | José Barros-Neto | Yale University | | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Juan Carlos Merlo | University of Buenos Aires | | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Nelson Onuchic (pt) | São Paulo State University | | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Oswaldo Grillo Rodríguez | Central University of Venezuela | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Maria Luisa Dinamarca Gallardo | University of Chile | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jesús Torres Gallardo | Hospital for Nutritional Diseases | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Victor Nussenzweig (de) | University of São Paulo | | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | José Oliver-González | University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Marino Villavicencio Núñez (es) | National University of San Marcos | | Also won in 1963 |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Enrique López Mendoza | National Institute of Cardiology | | Also won in 1963, 1964 |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Guillermo R. J. Pilar | National Institute of Cardiology | | Also won in 1960 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Mercedes Delfinado | Department of Health | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Armando Federico Leanza (de) | Pan American Argentina Oil Company | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | José Squadroni, S.J. | Catholic University of Uruguay | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Carmen C. Velasquez | University of the Philippines | | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Abraham Willink | National University of Tucumán | | Also won in 1948 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Maria Buchinger | National Forest Administration | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Gabriela Hässel de Menéndez (es) | CONICET | | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Elías Ramón de la Sota (es) | National University of Tucumán | | Also won in 1974 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Mario H. Ricardi Salinas (es) | University of Concepción | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Sociology | José Rafael Arboleda, S.J. | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Shridath Surendranath Ramphal | West Indies Federation | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Claudio B. Naranjo Cohen | University of Chile | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Luiz de Aguiar Costa Pinto | University of Brazil | | |