# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1970

Two hundred and eighty-six scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1970. $2,605,000 was disbursed between the recipients, who were chosen from an applicant pool of 2,313. Of the 81 universities represented, University of California, Berkeley had the most winners on its faculty (23), with Harvard University (17) claiming second and University of California, Los Angeles (10) claiming third.

## 1970 United States and Canadian fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Louis Falco | | Sleepers (performance) | |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Anna Halprin | | Experiments in kinetic theatre | |
| Creative Arts | Choreography | Paul S. Sanasardo | Saratoga Performing Arts Center | Dance | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Ben Caldwell | | Playwriting | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Tom Eyen | | Playwriting | |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Ronald Ribman | | Playwriting | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Robert E. Boles | University of Iowa (visiting) | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Rosalyn Drexler | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | George P. Elliott | Syracuse University | Michael of Byzantium (unfinished) | Also won in 1961 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Leonard Gardner | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Leo E. Litwak | San Francisco State College | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Leonard Michaels | University of California, Berkeley | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Film | James Broughton | San Francisco Art Institute; San Francisco State College | Filmmaking | Also won in 1973 |
| Creative Arts | Film | Larry Jordan | | Sacred Art of Tibet | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Gregory J. Markopoulos | | Filmmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Film | Mildred Chick Strand | Occidental College | Guacamole | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Romare Bearden | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | James Bishop | Cooper Union | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ronald Bladen | | Drawing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert Duran | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert S. Grosvenor | | Sculpture | Also won in 1983 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Patricia Johanson | | Painting | Also won in 1980 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Freda Koblick | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Edward Koren | Brown University | Painting and graphics | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Gerald Nichols | Philadelphia College of Art | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Irving Petlin | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Nicholas Sperakis | Educational Alliance Art School | Printmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | John Stockdale | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Walasse Ting | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Anne Truitt | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Jack Tworkov | Yale University | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ansei Uchima | Sarah Lawrence College | Printmaking | Also won in 1962 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Christopher Wilmarth | Cooper Union | Sculpture | Also won in 1983 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Jon H. Appleton | Dartmouth College | Electric music composition | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Paul Earls | Duke University | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Charles Edward Haden | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Richard Hoffmann | Oberlin Conservatory of Music | Composing | Also won in 1977 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Karl Korte | State University of New York at Binghamton | Composing | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | David Reck | | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Stefan Wolpe | | Composing | Also won in 1962 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Imogen Cunningham | | Turning old negatives into prints | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Benedict J. Fernandez, III | New School for Social Research | Changing forms of protest in the United States, from violence to peaceful revolution | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Joel Meyerowitz | | | Also won in 1978 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Tod Papageorge | | Spectator sports in the United States during the Vietnam War | Also won in 1977 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Minor White | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | James D. Reed | University of Montana (student) | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | William Pitt Root | Michigan State University | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Raphael Rudnik | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Louis Simpson | State University of New York at Stony Brook | Writing | Also won in 1962 |
| Humanities | African Studies | Robert I. Rotberg | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Norman S. Grabo | University of California, Berkeley | History of Anglo-American devotional literature, 1670-1730 | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Harold H. Kolb Jr. | University of Virginia | Mark Twain's literary uses of audience, crowd, and mob | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning, and Design | Albert Z. Guttenberg | University of Illinois | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning, and Design | Peter S. Stevens | Oceans General Inc. | Nature and its relationship to building | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning, and Design | Sim Van der Ryn | University of California, Berkeley | Design of classrooms | |
| Humanities | Biography | Robert Katz | | | |
| Humanities | British History | George Dangerfield | University of California, Santa Barbara | | |
| Humanities | British History | Paul S. Seaver | Stanford University | Experience of religious reform in urban England, 1560-1662 | |
| Humanities | Classics | James A. Coulter | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Classics | James R. Wiseman | University of Texas, Austin | Historical and political commentary on Xenophon's Hellenika | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Derk Bodde | University of Pennsylvania | Annual festivals in China during the Han dynasty | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Masao Miyoshi | University of California, Berkeley | The modern Japanese novel | Also won in 1975 |
| Humanities | Economic History | John P. McKay | University of Illinois | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Stephen Booth | University of California, Berkeley | Critical study of Shakespeare's plays as actions upon the understanding of their audiences | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Fredson Bowers | University of Virginia | Critical edition of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Richard Ellmann | Yale University | | Also won in 1949, 1957 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Leslie A. Fiedler | State University of New York at Buffalo | Critical study of Shakespeare | |
| Humanities | English Literature | James William Johnson | University of Rochester | Research in England | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Philip Kelley | Browning Editorial Services | | Also won in 1962 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Jerome J. McGann | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1975 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Yvonne Noble | University of Illinois | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Norman Rabkin | University of California, Berkeley | Renaissance English tragedy | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Dale B. J. Randall | Duke University | English dramatics writings, 1642-1660 | |
| Humanities | English Literature | John R. Reed | Wayne State University | | Also won in 1983 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Mark L. Reed | University of North Carolina | Chronology of the life and works of Wordsworth, 1800-1815 | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | English Literature | John J. Richetti | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert H. Super | University of Michigan | | Also won in 1962 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Georg Bernhard Tennyson | University of California, Los Angeles | Victorian devotional poetry | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Marshall Waingrow | Claremont Graduate School | New edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Andrew Wright | University of California, San Diego | Narrative management in English prose fiction | Also won in 1961 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Eugene C. Goossen | Hunter College, CUNY | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Ann B. Sutherland Harris | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Eila M. Kokkinen | Museum of Modern Art | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Rosalind E. Krauss | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Charles Mitchell | Bryn Mawr College | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Carlo Pedretti | University of California, Los Angeles | Literary works of Leonardo da Vinci | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Jan Harold Brunvand | University of Utah | Modern Norwegian folklore in social and cultural contexts | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Linda Dégh-Vázsonyi | Indiana University | Comparative study in the folklore of Hungarian immigrants | |
| Humanities | French History | Robert Darnton | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Frederick Brown | State University of New York at Stony Brook | | Also won in 1984 |
| Humanities | French Literature | Victor E. Graham | University of Toronto | Literary and artistic associations in Renaissance France | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Michel Rybalka | University of Rochester | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Norton Juster | Hampshire College | Children's book about creativity | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Jonathan Kozol | Storefront Learning Center | Free school movement | Also won in 1980 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Noel Perrin | Dartmouth College | Circumstances surrounding the cessation of production of firearms in 1620 in Japan | Also won in 1985 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | George Steiner | Churchill College, Cambridge | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Jose Yglesias | | Research in Spain | Also won in 1976 |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Istvan Deak | Columbia University | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Peter Boerner [de] | University of Wisconsin | Unpublished papers of Caroline von Wolzogen | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Dorrit Cohn | Indiana University | Comparative study of the techniques for presenting consciousness in fiction | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Michael Curschmann | Princeton University | Analysis of Des Teufels Netz | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | John M. Ellis | University of California, Santa Cruz | Narrator in the German novelle | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Hinrich C. Seeba [de] | University of California, Berkeley | Analytic structure of 19th-century German literature | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Charles Coulston Gillispie | Princeton University | | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Charles Weiner | American Institute of Physics | | |
| Humanities | Italian Literature | Robert Hollander | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Robert Anderson Hall Jr. | Cornell University | Comparative grammar of the Romance languages | Also won in 1953 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Franklin E. Huffman | Yale University | Cambodian language | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | William D. Labov | Columbia University | | Also won in 1987 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Frederick C. Crews | University of California, Berkeley | Implications of psychoanalytic method for literary and social criticism | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Eugene Goodheart | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Paul de Man | Johns Hopkins University | European Romanticism and Post-Romanticism, from Rousseau to Nietzsche | Also won in 1981 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | David K. Crowne | University of California, San Diego | Medieval Welsh language and literature | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Phillip Whitcomb Damon | University of California, Berkeley | Structural analysis of European oral epic poetry | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Peter F. Dembowski | University of Chicago | | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Robert Worth Frank, Jr | Pennsylvania State University | Cultural and literary background of Chaucer's "tales of pathos" | |
| Humanities | Music Research | David D. Boyden | University of California, Berkeley | History of violin playing | Also won in 1954, 1966 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Lawrence Gushee | University of Wisconsin | Musical culture of 14th-century France | Also won in 1982 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Leonard B. Meyer | University of Chicago | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Roderic H. Davison | George Washington University | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Shelomo Dov Goitein | University of Pennsylvania | Letters and documents from the Cairo Geniza translated from Arabic into English | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Walter Laqueur | Brandeis University | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Abraham L. Udovitch | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | David Weiss-Halivni | Columbia University; Jewish Theological Seminary | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Max Black | Cornell University | Foundations of theoretical linguistics | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | David B. Lyons | Cornell University | Philosophy of Jeremy Bentham | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Nicholas Rescher | University of Pittsburgh | British idealists | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | H. S. Thayer | City College of New York | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Richard Alan Wasserstrom | University of California, Los Angeles | Philosophical arguments concerning the morality of war | |
| Humanities | Religion | James M. Robinson | Claremont Graduate School | Gnostics | |
| Humanities | Religion | D. Moody Smith Jr. | Duke University | Background of the Gospel and Epistles of John | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Vincent Ilardi | University of Massachusetts at Amherst | Renaissance diplomacy | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Samuel H. Baron | University of California, San Diego | The Weber thesis and the failure of capitalist development in early modern Russia | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Herbert H. Kaplan | Indiana University | Social and economic management of landed estates in 18th-century Russia | |
| Humanities | Russian History | Edward L. Keenan Jr. | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Maurice Friedberg | Indiana University | Impact of Western culture on Russia since 1953 | Also won in 1981 |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Andrew P. Debicki | University of Kansas | Poetry of Jorge Guillen | Also won in 1979 |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | E. Inman Fox [es] | Vassar College | | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Richard L. Predmore | Duke University | Poetry of Garcia Lorca | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Oscar G. Brockett | Indiana University | English theatrial periodicals | |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Joseph Chaikin | The Open Theater | | Also won in 1975 |
| Humanities | Theatre Arts | Henry F. May | University of California, Berkeley | European scenic design | |
| Humanities | United States History | James M. Banner, Jr. | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Stanley M. Elkins | Smith College | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Hugh D. Graham | Johns Hopkins University | Political history of the American South since 1948 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Lawrence W. Levine | University of California, Berkeley | "Negro-American folk culture" from slavery to the Great Depression | Also won in 1994 |
| Humanities | United States History | Eric L. McKitrick | Columbia University | | Also won in 1976 |
| Humanities | United States History | Dale L. Morgan | Bancroft Library | History of the North American fur trade, 1763-1870 | Also won in 1945 |
| Humanities | United States History | Paul A. Robinson | Stanford University | History of sexual thought in the 20th century | |
| Humanities | United States History | Harry N. Scheiber | Dartmouth College | Federalism, public policy, and the economic order in the United States, 1790-1890 | Also won in 1988 |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert Sklar | University of Michigan | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Clifton K. Yearley | State University of New York at Buffalo | Comparative studies in urban history, 1850-1939 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Joel Roudolph Williamson | University of North Carolina | Race relations in the American South, 1865-1915 | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Charles A. Desoer | University of California, Berkeley | Nonlinear systems | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Michael E. Fisher | Cornell University | Mathematical physics and chemistry | Also won in 1978 |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Yu-Chi Ho | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Donald A. Ludwig | New York University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics | Forman Arthur Williams | University of California, San Diego | Flame theory | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | John T. Jefferies | University of Hawaii | Stellar astronomy | |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | George Cunliffe McVittie | University of Illinois | | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Alma L. Burlingame | University of California, Berkeley | Current problems in bio-organic and biomedical research | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Dwaine O. Cowan | Johns Hopkins University | Organic photochemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Jack Kenneth Crandall | Indiana University | Organometallic chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Robert C. Fahey | University of California, San Diego | Addition reactions to olefins | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Richard G. Hiskey | University of North Carolina | Protein chemistry and peptide synthesis | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | August Maki | University of California, Riverside | Research at the University of Stuttgart | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | John Polanyi | University of Toronto | Dynamics of chemical reactions | Also won in 1979 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Arthur M. Poskanzer | Lawrence Radiation Laboratory | Nuclear chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William A. Pryor | Louisiana State University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Michell J. Sienko | Cornell University | Solid-state chemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Edgar Bright Wilson, Jr. | Harvard University | | Also won in 1949 |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Malcolm Bersohn | University of Toronto | | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Henry D. Block | Cornell University | Biomathematics | |
| Natural Sciences | Computer Science | Leonard Kleinrock | University of California, Los Angeles | Mathematical theory for computer network operation | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | George E. Backus | University of California, San Diego | Geophysical inverse problems | Also won in 1963 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Gary H. Higgins | Lawrence Radiation Laboratory | Evolution of the earth's crust | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Isaac R. Kaplan | University of California, Los Angeles | Microbiology | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Melvin E. Stern | University of Rhode Island | | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Johannes Weertman | Northwestern University | Research at University of Cambridge | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Dale F. Rudd | University of Wisconsin | Design synthesis | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Robert Sani | University of Illinois | | |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | William A. Tiller | Stanford University | Science of crystallization | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Patrick Ahern | University of Wisconsin | Complex analysis | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Marshall Hall, Jr. | California Institute of Technology | Research at Cambridge University | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Rudolf E. Kalman | Stanford University | Algebraic theory of dynamic systems | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Irwin Kra | State University of New York at Stony Brook | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | George W. Mackey | Harvard University | | Also won in 1949, 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Jurgen Moser | New York University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Hugo Rossi | Brandeis University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Shôichirô Sakai | University of Pennsylvania | Examples of type II1-factors, derivations on operator algebras and the Stone-Weierstrass theorem for operator algebras | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Goro Shimura | Princeton University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | William P. Creger | Stanford University | Teaching of clinical medicine | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Julian M. Davidson | Stanford University | Neuroendocrinology | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Jonathan Gallant | University of Washington | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Perry B. Molinoff | University of Pennsylvania | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Alexander Nadas | Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard Medical School | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Edward A. Smuckler | University of Washington | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Keith B. Taylor | Stanford University | Comparative studies in medical education and human nutrition | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Donald F. Wallach | Harvard Medical School | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Giuseppe Attardi | California Institute of Technology | Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and Pasteur Institute | Also won in 1986 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jonathan Beckwith | Harvard Medical School | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Charles J. Brokaw | California Institute of Technology | Research at Cambridge University | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edwin L. Cooper | University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine | Comparative immunology | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Howard Gest | Indiana University | Microbial and comparative biochemistry | Also won in 1979 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Alexander N. Glazer | University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine | Microbial physiology and biochemistry | Also won in 1982 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Irving Goldberg | Harvard Medical School | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Chien Ho | University of Pittsburgh | Biological membranes | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Shinya Inoué | University of Pennsylvania | Actions of groups of cells or organisms as these relate to the physiological activity and interaction with the environment of these organisms | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Yvonne T. Lanni | University of Texas, Dallas | Research at Institut Gustave Roussy | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Rachmiel Levine | New York Medical College | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert K. Mortimer | University of California, Berkeley | Genetics of yeast | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert E. Olson | St. Louis University School of Medicine | Biochemistry of vitamin K | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | David Shemin [de] | Northwestern University | | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Drew Schwartz | Indiana University | Molecular genetics | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Eli Sercarz | University of California, Los Angeles | Cellular immunology | Also won in 1977 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Esmond E. Snell | University of California, Berkeley | Enzyme biochemistry | Also won in 1954, 1962 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | George R. Stark | Stanford University | Biochemistry of proteins | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Charles C. Sweeley | Michigan State University | Blood defect in Fabry's disease | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Gregorio Weber | University of Illinois | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Samuel B. Weiss | University of Chicago; Argonne Cancer Research Hospital | | |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Moise H. Goldstein, Jr. | Johns Hopkins University | Auditory physiology | |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Nicholas K. Gonatas | University of Pennsylvania | Possibility that synaptosomes may have antigenic properties and, if they do, what characteristics they have | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Fred Gehlbach | Baylor University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Paul A. Johnsgard | University of Nebraska | Biology of North American grouse and quail | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Karel F. Liem | University of Illinois Medical Center | Evolution of fish in Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa | Also won in 1978 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Leonard Muscatine | University of California, Los Angeles | Symbiotic associations between plants and animals | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | J. M. Blakely | Cornell University | Surface physics of biomedical materials | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert R. Borchers | University of Wisconsin | Nuclear physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Bertram N. Brockhouse | McMaster University | Neutron scattering | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Hung Cheng | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | James W. Cronin | Princeton University | | Also won in 1982 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | William R. Davis | North Carolina State University | Einstein's general theory of relativity | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Arthur J. Freeman [de] | Northwestern University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Walter A. Harrison [de] | Stanford University | Electronic theory of molecules | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Aiyasami Jayaraman | Bell Telephone Laboratories | High pressure physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Edwin Kashy | Michigan State University | Assumptions and considerations relating to the stability of nuclei in a region well beyond any of the presently known elements | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | N. David Mermin | Cornell University | Solid state and statistical physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Aihud Pevsner | Johns Hopkins University | High energy physics | Also won in 1963 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Bunji Sakita | University of Wisconsin | Elementary particle physics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Julian Schwinger | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Marlan O. Scully | University of Arizona | Quantum electrodynamics | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Tai Tsun Wu | Harvard University | Research at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Henry William Wyld | University of Illinois | Theory and phenomenology of strong interactions in high-energy particle physics, particularly the theory of high-energy diffraction scattering and the multiperipheral model | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Daniel Branton | University of California, Berkeley | Biological membrane structure | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Richard W. Castenholz | University of Oregon | Microorganisms in New Zealand's hot springs | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Peter J. Bickel | University of California, Berkeley | Multivariate nonparemetric analysis | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Michael M. Ames | University of British Columbia | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Louis C. Faron | State University of New York Stony Brook | Peruvian social stratification | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | June C. Nash | New York University | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Robert M. Netting | University of Pennsylvania | Social organization as related to the environmental in which people live and the way resources available are used by the society | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Simon Ottenberg | University of Washington | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Hannah Marie Wormington | | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Albert Ando | University of Pennsylvania | Theoretical problems in estimation and analysis of large-scale econometric models | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | David Cass | Yale University | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Robert Dorfman | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Jacob Mincer | Columbia University | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Martin Lawrence Weitzman | Yale University | Research in the USSR | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Max Beberman | University of Illinois | British early education | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Theodore R. Sizer | Harvard University | Process of change in American public schools | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | Charles F. Bennett | University of California, Los Angeles | Ecological restoration | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | John H. Galloway | University of Toronto | Historical geography in northeastern Brazil | |
| Social Sciences | Geography and Environmental Studies | David Ward | University of Wisconsin | Residential locations of the industrial labor forces in British provincial cities, 1841-1861 | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Thomas G. Barnes | University of California, Berkeley | History of the court of Star Chamber, 1596-1641 | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Alexander M. Bickel | Yale University | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Ronald M. Dworkin | University of Oxford | | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Ralph E. Giesey | University of Iowa | 16th-century French political theory | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Harry Kalven Jr. | University of Chicago Law School | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Isaac Kramnick | Yale University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Nelson W. Polsby | University of California, Berkeley | Politics of the U.S. House of Representatives | Also won in 1977, 1985 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Susanne Hoeber Rudolph | University of Chicago | | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Aaron Bernard Wildavsky | University of California, Berkeley | Comparative studies in the economics and politics of governmental budgeting | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | James Quinn Wilson | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Clyde H. Coombs | University of Michigan | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Werner K. Honig | Dalhousie University | Naturalistic stimuli in the experimental analysis of behavior | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | William Kessen | Yale University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | David H. Krantz [de] | University of Michigan | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Gerald S. Lesser | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | William J. McGuire | University of California, San Diego | Social psychology | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | M. Frank Norman | University of Pennsylvania | Mathematical learning theories | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | John Theios | University of Wisconsin | Memory, information processing, and reaction time | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Gary T. Marx | Harvard University | Police and social movements | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Allan Silver | Columbia University | | |

## 1970 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Augusto Roa Bastos | | Writing | Also won in 1979 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Hélio Oiticica | | "Poly-sensorial" art, or environments that could be entered and activted as creative centers | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Osvaldo Alfredo Reig | University of Buenos Aires | | Also won in 1963 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | José Mordoh | CONICET | | Also won in 1968 |