# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1946

One hundred thirty-two Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1946. Sixty of these were awarded as part of the post-service program, which provided fellowships to otherwise qualified artists and scholars who were taken away from their studies due to the war.

## 1946 Post-Service Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Branch/service | Civilian institution | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Sam Byrd | United States Navy | | Preparation of Last Train Home (unpublished) | Also won in 1948 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. | Office of Strategic Services | | Reading, learning Spanish, and writing in Mexico | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Manuel Bromberg | United States Army | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Corrado Cagli | United States Army | | Painting: Battlefields | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Carroll Cloar | United States Air Force | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Barse Miller | United States Army | | Painting: Sacramento River region | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | John Ayres Lessard | United States Army | | Composing | Also won in 1953 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Stephen Addison Larrabee | United States Army | | Critical study of Hellenism in American literature | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Bradford Smith | United States Office of War Information | | Japanese immigration to the United States | Also won in 1945 |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | James R. Newman | Office of War Mobilization | | Social economical implications of atomic energy | Also won in 1947 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Franz Rosenthal | United States Army | United States Department of State | Muslim historiography | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Charles Alexander Moore | Army Medical Department | University of Hawaii | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | William Donald Oliver | United States Army Air Forces | University of Minnesota | | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Elwood Vernon Jensen | United States chemical weapons program | University of Chicago | Chemistry of natural products | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Ernest Robert Tinkham | United States Army Air Forces | | Certain aspects of the biology of the North American deserts | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | G. Baley Price | | University of Kansas | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | John Williams Calkin | | | | Also won in 1945 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | James Thomas Culbertson | Office of Scientific Research and Development | Columbia University | Biography of Patrick Manson | Also won in 1936 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Arthur William Galston | United States Navy | California Institute of Technology | Research at Yale University | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | John Archibald Wheeler | | Princeton University | Problem of measurement in electron theory | Also won in 1949 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Donovan Stewart Correll | United States Navy | Harvard University | | Also won in 1959 |
| Social Science | Psychology | Donald Vincent McGranahan | United States Army | | Psychological study of the German people | |
| Social Science | Sociology | Herbert Aptheker | United States Army | | Documentary History of the Negro People (published 1951) | |

## 1946 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Drama and Performance Art | Arthur Ranous Wilmurt | Yale University | Creative writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Gwendolyn Brooks | | Writing | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Roger Lemelin | | Writing | Also won in 1957 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Carson McCullers | | Writing | Also won in 1942 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | James Still | | Writing | Also won in 1941 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen Waugh | | Research in Mexico | Also won in 1954 |
| Creative Arts | Film | Maya Deren | | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Eugene Berman | | Painting | Also won in 1948 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert Noel Blair | Art Institute of Buffalo | Painting | Also won in 1951 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Morris Cole Graves | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Mitchell Jamieson | | Painting | Also won in 1948 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Berta Margoulies | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Merritt Mauzey | | Etchings: The Cotton Series | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ruth Nickerson | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | William Bergsma | Juilliard School of Music (visiting) | Composing | Also won in 1951 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Henry Dreyfuss Brant | | Composing | Also won in 1955 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Alexei Haieff | | Composing | Also won in 1949 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Gian Carlo Menotti | | Composing | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Harold Samuel Shapero | | Composing | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Louise Juliette Talma | Hunter College | Composing | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | John Weedon Verrall | Mount Holyoke College | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Ansel Adams | | | Also won in 1948, 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Wayne Forest Miller | | Black Chicagoans | Also won in 1947 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Wright Morris | | Life in rural Nebraska | Also won in 1942, 1954 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Eliot Furness Porter | | | Also won in 1941 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | G. E. Kidder Smith | | | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Randall Jarrell | The Nation | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | George Zabriskie | Marietta College | Writing | Also won in 1942 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Richard Gordon Lillard | Indiana University | Part played in American history by the forest between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River | Also won in 1945 |
| Humanities | American Literature | Warren Stenson Tryon | Simmons College | History of Ticknor and Fields | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | William Richard Matthews | University of California, Los Angeles | Preparation of a descriptive bibliography of British diaries and memoirs | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | Biography | Robert Cecil Bald | Cornell University | John Donne | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | Biography | Marie Kimball | Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation | Life of Thomas Jefferson for the period of 1776-1789 | Also won in 1945 |
| Humanities | British History | Arthur J. Marder | University of Hawaii | History of British sea power in the dreadnought era | Also won in 1941, 1947 |
| Humanities | Classics | Henry Rudolph Immerwahr | | Monograph on popular speech in ancient Athens, based primarily on a collection of Athenian vase inscriptions | |
| Humanities | Classics | Alice Elizabeth Kober | Brooklyn College | Attempt to decipher the so-called Minoan scripts found at Knossos, Crete | |
| Humanities | Classics | James Henry Oliver | Columbia University | History of the Adriatic in antiquity | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert Hamilton Ball | Queens College, CUNY | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Jerome Hamilton Buckley | University of Wisconsin | Victorian literary and aesthetic theory in the light of 19th-century social conditions and intellectual values | Also won in 1963 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Gordon Sherman Haight | Yale University | Complete edition of the letters of George Eliot | Also won in 1953, 1960 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Paul Harold Kocher | University of Washington | Relations between religion and science during the English Renaissance | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Louis A. Landa | | | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Ernest Albert Strathmann | Pomona College | Life and works of Walter Raleigh as an exemplar of skeptical tendencies in Elizabethan thought | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Jean Charlot | Smith College | History of modern Mexican mural painting | Also won in 1944 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Frederick Hartt | | Monograph on the art of Giulio Romano and studies of the religious content in renaissance and baroque art | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Louis Clark Jones | New York State College for Teachers | Contemporary folklore of the supernatural as found among various ethnic groups in New York state | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Alan Lomax | | | |
| Humanities | French History | Leo Gershoy | Sarah Lawrence College | Biography of Marshal Pétain | Also won in 1936, 1939, 1959 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Cedric Belfrage | | | |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Josef Berger | Democratic National Committee | Soviet Union, "especially concerning its young citizens" | Also won in 1938 |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Hans Rosenberg | Brooklyn College | History of the Prusso-German Junkers as a social class | Also won in 1945 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Alrik Gustafson [sv] | University of Minnesota | Biography of August Strindberg | Also won in 1945 |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Marshall Clagett | Columbia University | Richard Swineshead and his place in the history of science in general and the history of physics and calculus in particular | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Herbert Silvette | University of Virginia School of Medicine | Life of Philemon Holland | |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | Robert Hayward Barlow | | History of the empire of Montezuma | Also won in 1947 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Roman Jakobson | | | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Wolf Leslau | École libre des hautes études | Languages, traditional history, and folklore of Ethiopia | Also won in 1947 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Huntington Brown | University of Minnesota | Types of prose style | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Walter B. C. Watkins | | | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr | Yale University | Relationship between form and content in literary art | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Mary Hatch Marshall | Colby College | History of medieval religious plays | Also won in 1945 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Robert Armstrong Pratt | Queens College | Intellectual development of Chaucer | Also won in 1954 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Theodore Silverstein | University of Kansas City | Bernard Silvestris and his place in the history of science and learning | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Francis Lee Utley | Ohio State University | Apocryphal stories of the Flood, derived and amplified from Biblical text | Also won in 1947, 1952 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Edward Elias Lowinsky | Black Mountain College | | Also won in 1976 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Emanuel Winternitz | Metropolitan Museum of Art | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Nelson Goodman | Tufts College | Applied logic | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Maurice Mandelbaum | Swarthmore College | Ethical theory | |
| Humanities | Russian History | George P. Fedotov | Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary | History of the Russian religious mind in the Middle Ages | |
| Humanities | United States History | Holman Hamilton [de] | | Inner history of Zachary Taylor's administration | |
| Humanities | United States History | Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | | Political-intellectual history of the period of the New Deal | |
| Natural Sciences | Applied Science | Chaim Leib Pekeris | | | Also won in 1968, 1972 |
| Natural Sciences | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand | Swarthmore College | Orbital motion in double and multiple stars by photographic observations | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | William Howard Barnes | McGill University | Comparative studies of X-ray diffraction methods for the determination of the structure of crystalline materials | |
| Natural Sciences | Paul Antoine Giguère | Laval University | Molecular structure of hydrogen peroxide by the spectroscopic method | Also won in 1948 | |
| Natural Sciences | James Lynn Hoard | Cornell University | Special methods of analyzing the X-ray data used in the determination of crystal structure | Also won in 1960, 1966 | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Richard Hubert Bruck | University of Wisconsin | Theory of loops | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Paul Erdős | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | | Also won in 1945 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Mark Kac | | Random processes and their applications to statistical physics, with particular emphasis on applications to Brownian motion and random noise | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Paul Charles Rosenbloom | Brown University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Irving Ezra Segal | Institute for Advanced Study | | Also won in 1951, 1967 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Abraham H. Taub | University of Washington | Shock waves; differential geometry | Also won in 1953 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | John William Theodore Youngs | Purdue University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Evelyn Anderson Haymaker | University of California | | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Daniel I. Arnon | University of California | | Also won in 1962 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Arthur Charles Giese | Stanford University | Fundamental nature of the effect of ultraviolet radiation on protoplasma | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Walter John Nickerson | Wheaton College | Taxonomy and comparative biochemistry of yeasts | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Robert Ballentine | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Rolf Ling Bolin | Stanford University | Lantern fish and their classification based on specimens in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Wilbert McLeod Chapman | California Academy of Sciences | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | A. Starker Leopold | Pan American Union | | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Alexander Frank Skutch | | | Also won in 1951 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Lemen Jonathan Wells | University of Minnesota | Research at Carnegie Laboratory of Embryology | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Wayne Eskett Hazen | University of California | Cosmic rays at high altitude | Also won in 1953 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Shuichi Kusaka | | Research at the California Institute of Technology and the Institute for Advanced Study with J. Robert Oppenheimer and Wolfgang Pauli | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | William George McMillan | | Research at the University of Chicago | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Robert Leroy Platzman | | Research with Niels Bohr at University of Copenhagen | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | James Alfred Van Allen | Johns Hopkins University | Atomic energy | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Bernard Boivin | | Classification of plants | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Hugh Carson Cutler | Harvard University | Preparation of an illustrated flora of the orchidaceae | Also won in 1942 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Francis Raymond Fosberg | United States Department of Agriculture | Monograph of the genus Cinchona | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Harold E. Moore | | | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Albert Charles Smith | Harvard University | Botanical explorations of the Fiji Islands | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Thomas Wallace Whitaker | United States Department of Agriculture | | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Theodore W. Anderson | Columbia University | | |
| Natural Sciences | Statistics | Henry Scheffé | University of California, Los Angeles | Research at the University of California, Berkeley | |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Gregory Bateson | | | |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Joseph Benjamin Birdsell | | | Also won in 1952 |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | James Alfred Ford | | | |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Clyde K. Kluckhohn | Harvard University | Anthropology of contemporary problems | |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Weston La Barre | | | |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Morris Swadesh | | | Also won in 1947 |
| Social Science | Economics | Philip D. Bradley | Harvard University | Public finance in certain Latin American republics | |
| Social Science | Economics | Sanford Alexander Mosk | University of California | | |
| Social Science | Political Science | Harwood Lawrence Childs | Princeton University | Public opinion, based in part on his experience in the Office of War Information | Also won in 1937 |
| Social Science | Political Science | Mitchell Franklin | Tulane University | Edward Livingston and his influence on Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian jurists, on the French jurists of Louisiana, on the constitutional thought of Andrew Jackson, and on the codification theory of Bentham | |
| Social Science | Political Science | Willmoore Kendall | | Analysis of the political writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau "from the standpoint of the debate about majority-rule in the modern state" | |
| Social Science | Political Science | Franz Leopold Neumann | Bureau of Intelligence and Research; Columbia University | Possible principles of joint action by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union in the disputed areas | |
| Social Science | Political Science | Walter Bernhard Schiffer | Institute for Advanced Study | Conflicting theoretical ideas underlying the League of Nations | Also won in 1944 |

## 1946 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | José Alonso | | | Also won in 1945 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Alberto Evaristo Ginastera | | Composing | Also won in 1942, 1969 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Héctor Tosar | | Composing | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Joao Batista Vilanova Artigas | | | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Carlos Bosch García [es] | El Colegio de México | Mexican diplomatic history | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Julio Le Riverend Brusone [fr; gl] | El Colegio de México | Development of the sugar industry in Cuba from its beginning until 1860 | |
| Humanities | Latin American Literature | R. Fernando Alegría | | | |
| Humanities | Linguistics | Cecilio Lopez | | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | José María Ferrater Mora | University of Santiago | | Also won in 1948 |
| Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Paris Pişmiş | National Astronomical Observatory | | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Elysiário Távora Filho [pt] | University of Brazil | | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | René Honorato Cienfuegos | University of Chile | | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Otto Guilherme Bier [pt] | | | Also won in 1941, 1945 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | João Moojen de Oliveira | Ministry of Education and Public Health | | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Luis René Rivas y Díaz | Colegio De La Salle | | Also won in 1945 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Bernardo Villa Ramírez | University of Kansas | | Also won in 1945 |
| Natural Science | Plant Sciences | Moisés Kramer | | | |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Pedro Armillas | National Institute of Anthropology and History; National School of Anthropology and History | Comparative studies of the pre-Columbian cultures of the southeastern United States and of Mexico and Central America | |
| Social Science | Psychology | Horacio José Ambrosio Rimoldi | | Research with Louis Leon Thurstone | |