# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1957

Three hundred and forty-four scholars and artists were awarded a total of $1,500,000 Guggenheim Fellowships in 1957.

## 1957 U. S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Holger Cahill | | Novel writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Alfred Chester | | Novel writing | Also won in 1967 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Lucy Daniels | | Novel writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Borden Deal | | Novel writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Herbert Gold | State University of Iowa | Novel writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Robert Conroy Goldston | | Novel writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Roger Lemelin | | Novel writing | Also won in 1946 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Byron Herbert Reece | Young Harris College | Novel writing | Also won in 1952 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Mary Lee Settle | | Novel writing | Also won in 1960 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Adele Wiseman | | Novel writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | William Barnett | Philadelphia Museum School of Art | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Frederick G. Becker | St. Louis School of Fine Arts | Printmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Virgil David Cantini | University of Pittsburgh | Creative design in enamels | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Carmen Cicero | Roselle Park High School | Painting | Also won in 1963 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Robert Aaron Frame | Pasadena School of Fine Arts | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Paul Theodore Granlund | Minneapolis School of Art | Sculpture | Also won in 1958 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Dimitri Hadzi | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Barbara Hult Lekberg | University of the Arts in Philadelphia | Sculpture | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Max Loehr | University of Michigan | | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Joseph S. Sheppard | Dickinson College | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Dominick Argento | University of Minnesota | Composing | Also won in 1964 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Mark Bucci | | Composing | Also won in 1953 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Chou Wen-chung | Columbia University | Composing | Also won in 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Jacob Druckman | | Composing | Also won in 1968 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Earl George | Syracuse University | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Peggy Glanville-Hicks | | Composing | Also won in 1955 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Edmund Thomas Haines | Sarah Lawrence College | Composing | Also won in 1956 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Attilio Joseph Macero | TEO Productions | Composing | Also won in 1958 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Ned Rorem | | Composing | Also won in 1978 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Robert Starer | Juilliard School | Composing | Also won in 1963 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Gregory Tucker | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | David Van Vactor | University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Composing | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Stanley Andrew Wolfe (de) | Juilliard School | Interpretive dance number King's Heart | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | John Collier Jr. | | Uses of photography in social sciences | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | W. Eugene Smith | | | Also won in 1956, 1968 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Paul Hamilton Engle | University of Iowa | Writing | Also won in 1953, 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Marcia Nardi | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Alastair Reid | | Writing | Also won in 1958 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Jonathan C. Williams | | Recording annals and writing the archaeology and other phases of the Etowah Indian Mounds from the poet's point of view | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Curtis Dahl | Wheaton College | 19th century archaeological discoveries in relation to the cultural history of the West | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Charles Andrew Fenton | Yale University | Completion of previously started biography about Stephen Vincent Benét | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Robert Clay Humphrey | University of North Carolina, Greensboro | Role of the poet in mid-century America | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Henry Dan Piper | California Institute of Technology | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Walter Bates Rideout (de) | Northwestern University | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Louis Decimus Rubin Jr. | Richmond News Leader | Key themes and formal concepts in the literature of the South | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Albert Douglass Van Nostrand | Brown University | | |
| Humanities | American Literature | Richard Walser | North Carolina State College | Regional basis of literary interpretations of the South | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | W. Burlie Brown | Tulane University | American architectural thought and expression, 1865-1914 | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | William Bell Dinsmoor | | | |
| Humanities | Architecture, Planning and Design | Allan Bernard Temko | San Francisco Chronicle, University of California, Berkeley | Architecture on the West Coast of the United States | |
| Humanities | Bibliography | Ernst Maximilian Posner | American University | History of archives administration | |
| Humanities | Biography | Flora Anne Armitage | | | |
| Humanities | Biography | Karl John Richard Arndt (de) | Clark University | | |
| Humanities | Biography | Laura Fermi | | Benito Mussolini | |
| Humanities | British History | Joseph O. Baylen | Delta State College | W. T. Stead | |
| Humanities | British History | John Leonard Clive | Harvard University | Transition from 18th to 19th century thought and opinion in England | |
| Humanities | British History | Paul H. Hardacre | Vanderbilt University | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | |
| Humanities | British History | J. Jean Hecht | Haverford College | The upper-class family in 18th century England | |
| Humanities | British History | Gustave Lanctot | Ottawa University | | Also won in 1956 |
| Humanities | British History | Arthur J. Marder | University of Hawaii | English seapower in the 20th century | Also won in 1941, 1946 |
| Humanities | Classics | Darrell Arlynn Amyx | University of California, Berkeley | Greek vase painting | Also won in 1973 |
| Humanities | Classics | George Eckel Duckworth | Princeton University | Virgil as the poet of Augustan Rome | |
| Humanities | Classics | Demetrius John Georgacas (de) | University of North Dakota | | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | Classics | Philip Levine | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Paul Lachlan MacKendrick | University of Wisconsin | Roman colonization in the Republican period | |
| Humanities | Classics | John Brodie McDiarmid | University of Washington | | |
| Humanities | Classics | Lionel Pearson | Stanford University | Popular ethics in ancient Greece | |
| Humanities | Classics | Wilson Gerson Rabinowitz | University of California, Berkeley | Certain writings by Aristotle | |
| Humanities | Classics | Renata von Scheliha | | Musical and poetical contests of the Greeks | |
| Humanities | Classics | Herbert Chayyim Youtie | University of Michigan | Scholarly use of papyrological literature | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Shih-Hsiang Chen | University of California, Berkeley | Historical study of Chinese literature | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | James Robert Hightower | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Emanuel Sarkisyanz | Bishop College | Buddhist influence on Burmese social thought | |
| Humanities | East Asian Studies | Robert Shafer | University of California | Sino-Tibetan languages | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Donald Lemen Clark | | | Also won in 1944 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Arthur Morse Eastman | University of Michigan | Suspended judgement in Shakespeare's plays | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Thomas Cary Duncan Eaves | University of Arkansas | Samuel Richardson | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Richard David Ellmann | Northwestern University | | Also won in 1949, 1970 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Arthur Friedman | University of Chicago | 18th century literature | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Donald Johnson Greene | University of California, Riverside | Relation between English literature and politics in the 18th century | Also won in 1979 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Bruce Harkness | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Influence of certain English publishing firms on authors in the 20th century | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Benjamin B. Hoover | University of Washington | Relationship of literature and politics in 18th century England | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Richard Meredith Hosley | University of Missouri | Elizabethan stage and methods of presenting plays | |
| Humanities | English Literature | John Henderson Long | Morehead State College | Shakespeare's use of performed music in his plays | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Thomas Francis Parkinson | University of California, Berkeley | Later poetry by William Butler Yeats | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Fannie Elizabeth Ratchford | University of Texas | 19th century literary forgeries | Also won in 1929, 1937 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Irving Ribner | Tulane University | Shakespeare's growth and development as a writer of tragedy | |
| Humanities | English Literature | William Andrew Ringler Jr. | Washington University in St. Louis | Complete poetical works of Sir Philip Sidney; history of Tudor poetry | Also won in 1947 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Robert Wentworth Rogers | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Alexander Pope | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Eleanor Rosenberg | Barnard College | Literature in the New World as known in Tudor England | |
| Humanities | English Literature | John Calhoun Stephens Jr. | Emory University | Richard Steele and Joseph Addison as editors of The Guardian | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Wilfred Healey Stone | Stanford University | E. M. Forster | Also won in 1967 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Alvin Whitley | University of Wisconsin | Victorian popular poetry | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Alfred Neumeyer (de) | Mills College | Naturalistic elements in medieval art | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | John Goldsmith Phillips | Metropolitan Museum | Works of Andrea del Verrocchio and the young Leonardo da Vinci | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Benjamin Rowland Jr. (de) (sh) | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Aline B. Saarinen | The New York Times | | |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Pauline Simmons | | | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | George Korson | Pennsylvania Folklore Society | Anthracite region | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | David Park McAllester | Wesleyan University | Navajo ceremonial chants | |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Donald Knight Wilgus | Western Kentucky University | History of the Anglo-American ballad since 1898 | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Joel Colton | Duke University | Léon Blum and French Socialism | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Carl Albert Viggiani | Wesleyan University | Works by Albert Camus | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Konrad Ferdinand Bieber (de) | Connecticut College | Contemporary Franco-German literary relations | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Durand Echeverria | Brown University | Meaning of liberty in French thought of the 18th century | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Oscar Alfred Haac (de) | Emory University | French novel of the 18th century | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Armand Hoog | Princeton University | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Georges J. Joyaux | Michigan State University | Influence of North African writers on contemporary French letters | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Félix-Antoine Savard | | | |
| Humanities | French Literature | Laurence William Wylie (de) | Haverford College | Attitudes and values of villages in two contrasting regions of rural France | |
| Humanities | German and East European History | Klemens von Klemperer | Smith College | Alternatives to the Anschluss of Austria | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Robert Livingston Beare | | | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Sigurd Burckhardt | Ohio State University | Comparative study of the dramatic poetry of Shakespeare and Goethe | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Walter G. Johnson | University of Washington | Research in Stockholm | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | James Woodrow Marchand | Washington University in St. Louis | Dating Old High German and Gothic manuscripts | |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | André von Gronicka | Columbia University | | Also won in 1969 |
| Humanities | German and Scandinavian Literature | Werner Vordtriede | University of Wisconsin | Conception of the poet in German Romanticism | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Giorgio Diaz de Santillana | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Vincenzio Viviani | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Ernest Joseph Burrus | St. Louis University | Documents in Italian archives bearing on Latin American history | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Joseph Newman | | | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Watt Stewart | New York State College for Teachers | Business activities of Minor Cooper Keith in Costa Rica | |
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Walter M. Simon | Cornell University | History of European positivism in the 19th century | |
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Gertrude Himmelfarb | | Development of Darwin's thought and of contemporary response to his work | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | Intellectual and Cultural History | Frank Edward Manuel | Brandeis University | Mythology and primitive religion in 18th century thought | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Meyer H. Abrams | Cornell University | | Also won in 1960 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | John Jacob Enck | University of Wisconsin | Restoration comedy | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Martin Price | Yale University | Ideas of order in representative 18th century English writers | Also won in 1971 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Wilbur Samuel Howell | Princeton University | Theories of logic and rhetoric in 18th century England | Also won in 1948 |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Joseph Holmes Summers | University of Connecticut | Milton's Paradise Lost | |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Albert B. Friedman | Harvard University | | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Paul Murray Kendall | Ohio University | Warwick the Kingmaker | Also won in 1961 |
| Humanities | Medieval Literature | Durant Waite Robertson Jr. | Princeton University | Poetry of Chaucer in the light of medieval tradition | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Karl J. Geiringer | Boston University | | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Hans Nathan (de) | Michigan State University | Italian instrumental ensemble music of the early 17th century | |
| Humanities | Music Research | Walter H. Rubsamen | University of California, Los Angeles | 15th century Italian vocal music | Also won in 1947 |
| Humanities | Music Research | Eric Werner | Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion | Liturgy and their influence on the history of church and synagogue music | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | George Makdisi | University of Michigan | History of Islamic socio-religious movements in the 11th century | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Jacob J. Rabinowitz | Hebrew University | | |
| Humanities | Near Eastern Studies | Arthur Võõbus | Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary | Syrian monasticism from the 2nd to the 5th century, A.D. | Also won in 1958, 1968 |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Lewis White Beck | University of Rochester | Immanuel Kant's ethical theory | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | Burton Spencer Dreben | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | Philosophy | William Bernard Peach | Duke University | Richard Price and British moral philosophy | |
| Humanities | Religion | Ralph Harper | Bard College | | Also won in 1965 |
| Humanities | Religion | John Thomas McNeill | Union Theological Seminary | Works of John Calvin | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Franklin Miller Dickey (de) | University of Oregon | The concept of 'the learned poet' in Renaissance England | |
| Humanities | Renaissance History | Paul O. Kristeller | Columbia University | Philosophical and humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance from the 14th to the 16th centuries | Also won in 1968 |
| Humanities | Russian History | Marc Raeff | Clark University | The nobility's relationships to the Russian state, 1725-1861 | Also won in 1987 |
| Humanities | Science Writing | Donald Greame Kelley | | | |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Victor Erlich | University of Washington | Research in London and Bristol | Also won in 1964, 1976 |
| Humanities | Slavic Literature | Olga Scherer (pl) | Yale University | Russian short story | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Carlos Blanco Aguinaga (es) | Ohio State University | Literary style of Miguel de Unamuno | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Sherman Hinkle Eoff | Washington University in St. Louis | Philosophic attitudes of 19th and 20th century novels, with particular emphasis on the emotional impact of modern science on the literary mind | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Vicente Llorens (es) | Princeton University | Blanco White | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Juan López-Morillas (es) | Brown University | Intellectual history of modern Spain | Also won in 1950 |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Juan Marichal | Bryn Mawr College | Manuel Azaña | Also won in 1972 |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Walter T. Pattison | University of Minnesota | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert V. Bruce | Boston University | 1877 railroad strikes and labor riots in the USA | |
| Humanities | United States History | Lyman Henry Butterfield | Harvard University | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Louis L. Gerson | University of Connecticut | Impact of American immigrant groups on US foreign policies | |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert V. Hine | University of California, Riverside | Edward, Richard, and Benjamin Kern | Also won in 1967 |
| Humanities | United States History | William Turrentine Jackson | University of California, Davis | British contributions to the development of the American West | Also won in 1964 |
| Humanities | United States History | Weymouth Tyree Jordan | Florida State University | Scientific agriculture in the Old South | |
| Humanities | United States History | Aubrey Christian Land | University of Nebraska | The merchant-planter class of the Chesapeake Colonies | |
| Humanities | United States History | Robert Alexander Lively | Princeton University | Herbert Hoover and the American enterprise | |
| Humanities | United States History | Richard Lowitt | Connecticut College | George W. Norris | |
| Humanities | United States History | Andrew Forest Muir | Polytechnic Institute (Puerto Rico), Rice Institute | William Marsh Rice | |
| Humanities | United States History | Bessie Louise Pierce | University of Chicago | History of the city of Chicago | Also won in 1955 |
| Humanities | United States History | Frederick Rudolph | Williams College | History of higher education in the USA | Also won in 1968 |
| Humanities | United States History | Helen C. Shugg | | The part played by the search for health in westward migration in the USA | |
| Humanities | United States History | Alice Elizabeth Smith | Wisconsin State Historical Society | Scottish leadership and capital in the development of the lower Lake Michigan area in the 19th century | |
| Humanities | United States History | George Brown Tindall | Louisiana State University | History of the South, 1913-1946 | |
| Humanities | United States History | John Chalmers Vinson | University of Georgia | US Senate and American foreign policy, 1931-1941 | |
| Humanities | United States History | Bell Irvin Wiley | Emory University | History of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 | |
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Ronold W. P. King | Harvard University | Antennae and ultra-high frequency phenomena | Also won in 1937 |
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Geoffrey Stuart Stephen Ludford | University of Maryland | Mathematical theory of compressible flow | |
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Shih-I Pai | University of Maryland | Fluid dynamics of high-speed and high-temperature gas flows | |
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | William Prager | Brown University | | |
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Shan-Fu Shen | University of Maryland | Hydrodynamic stability | |
| Natural Science | Applied Mathematics | Armand Siegel | Boston University | Problems of applied statistical mechanics | |
| Natural Science | Astronomy and Astrophysics | Masahisa Sugiura | University of Alaska | Solar influences on the Earth's upper atmosphere | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Robert Byron Bird | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Applications of equations of change to engineering | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Gordon M. Barrow | Northwestern University | Electronic structure of certain functional groups | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Gunnar Bror Bergman | California Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Warren William Brandt | Purdue University | Certain aspects of gas chromatography | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Norman Henry Cromwell | University of Nebraska | Organic reaction mechanisms | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Victor R. Deitz | United States Naval Research Laboratory | | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Renato Dulbecco | California Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Paul Stephen Farrington | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Harold Leo Friedman | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Garman Harbottle | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Chemical consequences of nuclear transformation in certain crystalline solids | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Edward L. King | University of Wisconsin | Kinetics and mechanisms of chemical reactions in solution | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | David Emerson Mann | National Bureau of Standards | Nature and origin of potential barriers hindering internal rotation in molecules | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Foil A. Miller | Mellon Institute | Nuclear magnetic resonance | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Rollie John Myers Jr. | University of California, Berkeley | Chemical reactions of radicals, atoms and ions | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Martin A. Paul | Harpur College | Kinetics and mechanisms of nitration reactions in the solvent acetic anhydride | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Raymond Pepinsky | Pennsylvania State University | Crystal design of salts of complex and organic ions | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Lloyd Hilton Reyerson | University of Minnesota | | Also won in 1927 |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Ernest Haywood Swift | California Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | Bernard Weinstock (de) | Argonne National Laboratory | Thermodynamic properties of liquid Helium-3-Helium-4 mixtures | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | John Edward Wertz | University of Minnesota | Interactions of unpaired electron systems with their environment in the solid state | |
| Natural Science | Chemistry | George Landis Zimmerman | Bryn Mawr College | | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Jacob A. Bjerknes | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | John Edwin Brush | Rutgers University | Land use and settlement in Old Piscataway Township, New Jersey | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Don Kirkham | Iowa State University | Fertility of intensely cultivated soils of Belgium | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Merle Charles Prunty Jr. | University of Georgia | Effect of contemporary occupance forms on plantation landholdings in the South | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Howel Williams | University of California, Berkeley | Central American and the West Indian volcanoes | Also won in 1949 |
| Natural Science | Engineering | Diogenes James Angelakos | University of California, Berkeley | Electromagnetic radiation from regions filled with anisotropic materials | |
| Natural Science | Engineering | Edward Walter Comings | Purdue University | High pressure technology; European education in chemical engineering | |
| Natural Science | Engineering | Ladislas Goldstein | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | High energy condensed discharges in the heavy rare gases | |
| Natural Science | Engineering | André Laurent Jorissen | Cornell University | | |
| Natural Science | Engineering | Erik Leonard Mollo-Christensen | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Unsteady aerodynamics | |
| Natural Science | Engineering | Herbert Mark Neustadt | U.S. Naval Academy | | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Science | Engineering | George William Preckshot | University of Minnesota | | |
| Natural Science | Engineering | Stanley Eugene Rauch | University of California, Santa Barbara | Certain characteristics of systems of nonlinear differential equations | |
| Natural Science | Engineering | Paul Southworth Symonds | Brown University | | |
| Natural Science | Engineering | Mahinder S. Uberoi | University of Michigan | Turbulent motion of fluids | |
| Natural Science | Geography and Environmental Studies | Robert Eric Dickinson | Syracuse University | | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | William Werner Boone | Catholic University | | Also won in 1977 |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Charles L. Dolph | University of Michigan | Partial differential equations as they occur in the applied mathematical fields of scattering and fluid mechanisms | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Harish-Chandra | Institute for Advanced Study | Research in Paris | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Orville Goodwin Harrold Jr. | University of Tennessee | Three-dimensional topologies | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Kenkichi Iwasawa | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | George Daniel Mostow | Johns Hopkins University | Compact Lie transformation groups | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Jerzy Neyman | University of California, Berkeley | Statistical studies toward a theory of the spatial distribution of galaxies | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Erich Rothe | University of Michigan | | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Leo Reino Sario | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Herbert Leon Borison | University of Utah | Forebrain and hindbrain structures in the regulation of visceral activities | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Averill Abraham Liebow | Yale University School of Medicine | Pathophysiology of pulmonary circulation | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Frederick Sargent, II | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Physiological mechanisms of sweat gland fatigue | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Christian B. Anfinsen Jr. | National Institutes of Health | | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jay Vern Beck | Brigham Young University | Methods of isolation and mass propagation of iron-oxidizing bacteria | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Edward George Boettiger | University of Connecticut | Insect flight muscle | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Ernest Borek | City College of New York | | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Jefferson M. Crismon | Stanford University | Mechanisms of inactivation of certain amines in peripheral blood vessels | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Thomas Timothy Crocker | University of California, Irvine | | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Tihamer Zoltan Csaky | University of North Carolina | Mechanism of carbohydrate transfers in biological systems | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Sanford S. Elberg | University of California, Berkeley | Effectiveness of the vaccine developed to prevent Brucella infection in cattle | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Wilburn John Eversole | University of New Mexico | Endocrine regulation of salt and water metabolism | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Paul Fredric Fenton | Brown University | Stephen Vincent Benét | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Halvor Orin Halvorson | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Studies of micro-organisms important in food microbiology | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John William Kelly | Medical College of Virginia | Use of micro-spectrophotometry | Also won in 1960 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Richard Fuller Kimball | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Nucleic acid and protein content of parts of the protozoan cell | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Irvin E. Liener | University of Minnesota | | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Boris Magasanik | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Harry Wilbur Seeley Jr. | Cornell University | | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Alvin Ferner Sellers | University of Minnesota | Nervous mechanisms regulating stomach functions; absorptive mechanisms in the intestines | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Martin Sonenberg | Cornell University Medical College | | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | David B. Sprinson | Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons | | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Mortimer Paul Starr | University of California, Davis | Plant disease bacteria | Also won in 1968 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Kenneth V. Thimann | Harvard University | | Also won in 1950 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Oscar Touster | Vanderbilt University School of Medicine | Metabolism and biochemistry of sub-cellular particles | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Robert Philip Wagner | University of Texas | Genetic control of metabolism | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Philip E. Wilcox | University of Washington | Fundamental studies on proteins | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Cecil Edmund Yarwood | University of California, Berkeley | Acquired immunity to virus infections in plants | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George Anastos | University of Maryland | Ticks found on reptiles | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John Tyler Bonner | Princeton University | Role of cell variations in the development of cellular slime molds | Also won in 1971 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Arthur Merton Chickering | Albion College | Taxonomy of spiders | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Louie Irby Davis | | Songs and calls of Mexican birds | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Paul Lester Errington | Iowa State College | Periodic cycles in vertebrate populations | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | George Evelyn Hutchinson | Yale University | Biological limnology | Also won in 1949 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Karl Frank Lagler | University of Michigan | | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Alden H. Miller | University of California, Berkeley | Breeding activity of birds at equatorial latitudes | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | John Luther Mohr | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Val Nolan Jr. | Indiana University | Northern Prairie Warbler and marketable title to land | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Donald Frederick Poulson | Yale University | Comparative biology of copper accumulation in animals | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Albert Glenn Richards | University of Minnesota | | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Bradley T. Scheer | University of Oregon | Isolation of crustacean hormones | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Frank John Vernberg | Duke University | Activity and metabolism of marine animals at various temperatures | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Charles Edward Wilde Jr. | University of Pennsylvania | Biochemical mechanisms of cellular differentiation | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Walter LeRoy Wilson | University of Vermont College of Medicine | Inhibition of cell division | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Arnold B. Arons | Amherst College, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Stability and overturn of sea water columns in winter cooling | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Nicolaas Bloembergen | Harvard University | Nuclear and electron spin magnetic resonance | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Owen Chamberlain | University of California, Berkeley | Theoretical physics of the fundamental particles | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Morrel H. Cohen | University of Chicago | Electron theory of alloys | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Clyde Lorrain Cowan | Los Alamos Laboratory | Physics of the neutrino and its interactions with atomic nuclei | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Jay Gregory Dash | Los Alamos Laboratory | Critical velocity in liquid Helium-2 | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Robert Briggs Day | Los Alamos Laboratory | Low-lying odd-parity levels in heavy even-even nuclei | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Claude Geoffrion | | | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Science | Physics | Roy Jay Glauber | Harvard University | Interactions of elementary particles | Also won in 1972 |
| Natural Science | Physics | Edwin L. Goldwasser | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Effect of nucleon recoils in photo-meson production | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Melville Saul Green | National Bureau of Standards | Theoretical researches in statistical mechanics of time-depenedent phenomena | Also won in 1973 |
| Natural Science | Physics | Dieter Kurath | Argonne National Laboratory | Methods for the calculation of nuclear properties | |
| Natural Science | Physics | John Selden Kirby-Smith | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Radiation biology and biophysics | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Leo Silvio Lavatelli | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Nature of the interactions of pions with nucleons | |
| Natural Science | Physics | John Hundale Lawrence | | | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Joseph S. Levinger | Louisiana State University | Theory of the nuclear photoelectric effect | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Ralph Stuart Mackay Jr. | University of California, Berkeley, University of California Medical Center | | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Science | Physics | Allan Henry Morrish | University of Minnesota | Solid state at low temperatures | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Lorne Albert Page | University of Pittsburgh | Photons, electrons, and positrons by precision beta ray and gamma ray spectroscopy techniques | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Robert Vivian Pound | Harvard University | Nuclear moments of short-lived nuclear states | Also won in 1971 |
| Natural Science | Physics | Frederick Reines | Los Alamos Laboratory | Physics of the neutrino and its interaction with the atomic nucleus | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Isadore Rudnick (de) | University of California, Los Angeles | Thermoelastic waves in metals at low temperatures | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Ellis Philip Steinberg | Argonne National Laboratory | Process of nuclear fission | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Enrique Balech | Ministry of the Navy (Argentina) | | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Lawrence Rogers Blinks | Stanford University | Bioelectric phenomena | Also won in 1939, 1948 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Jules Brunel (fr) | University of Montreal | | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Alden Springer Crafts | University of California, Davis | Herbicidal chemicals | Also won in 1938 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Emanuel Epstein | University of California | | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Donald Sankey Farner | Washington State College | Physiological cycles of birds | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Leslie Andrew Garay | Harvard University | | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Charles William Hagen Jr. | Indiana University | Differentiation within plant species | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Leonard Machlis | University of California, Berkeley | Physiology of the water mold Allomyces | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Roy Overstreet | University of California, Berkeley | Mineral absorption by plant and animal cells | Also won in 1945 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Daniel Altman Roberts | University of Florida | | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Stanley George Stephens | | | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Rufus Henney Thompson | | | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Harry Ernest Wheeler | | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Arthur J. O. Anderson | New Mexico Museum of Art | Aztec accounts of Spanish colonization | Also won in 1955 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Ralph Leon Beals | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Svend E. Frederiksen | | | Also won in 1958 |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Alfred Vincent Kidder | | | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Donald Stanley Marshall | Peabody Museum of Salem, Harvard University | Mangaia in Polynesian dialects | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Sidney Wilfred Mintz | Yale University | Haitian internal marketing system | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | John Howland Rowe | University of California, Berkeley | Incas during Spanish colonial rule | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Arnold C. Harberger | University of Chicago | | |
| Social Sciences | Economics | George Herbert Hildebrand | University of California, Los Angeles | | Also won in 1952 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Gerald Marvin Meier | Wesleyan University | International trade and economic development in the British tropics, 1870-1914 | Also won in 1958 |
| Social Sciences | Education | Lawrence Arthur Cremin | Teachers College at Columbia University, The Spencer Foundation | History of American educational thought, 1880-1940 | |
| Social Sciences | Education | Alfred Novak | Michigan State University | Teaching of natural science | |
| Social Sciences | Law | George Lee Haskins | University of Pennsylvania | Early colonial law | |
| Social Sciences | Law | John O. Honnold Jr. | University of Pennsylvania Law School | Law governing sales of goods under civil law systems | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Leonard Williams Levy | Brandeis University | Provisions against compulsory self-incrimination in Anglo-American law | |
| Social Sciences | Law | Arthur Selwyn Miller | Emory University | Domestic goals of modern nation-states in relation to international trade | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | George Arthur Codding Jr. | University of Pennsylvania | International postal communication | |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Howard Jay Graham | Los Angeles County Law Library | History of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution | Also won in 1953 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Lennox Algernon Mills | University of Minnesota | | Also won in 1936, 1959 |
| Social Sciences | Political Science | Theodore Lucien Shay | Willamette University | Hindu principles on current Indian political policy | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Magda B. Arnold | Loyola University, Chicago, Spring Hill College | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Andrew Laurence Comrey Jr. | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Herschel Leibowitz | University of Wisconsin | Sensory and neurophysiological correlates of perception | |
| Social Sciences | Psychology | Richard Lester Solomon | Harvard University | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Leonard Broom | University of California, Los Angeles | | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Ronald Freedman | University of Michigan | University of Michigan | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Herbert Hyman | Columbia University | Comparative study of public opinion on civil liberties in the USA and Great Britain | |
| Social Sciences | Sociology | Marvin Eugene Wolfgang | University of Pennsylvania | Florentine contributions to the history and philosophy of punishment for crime | Also won in 1968 |

## 1957 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Epifanio Irizarry | Puerto Rican Division of Community Education | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Antonio Joseph | | Painting | Also won in 1953 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Julio Rosado del Valle | Puerto Rico Department of Education | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Enrique Echeverría | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | José Serebrier | | Composing | Also won in 1958 |
| Humanities | Folklore and Popular Culture | Emile Marcelin | | | |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Francisco Guerra | Universidad Nacional de México | | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | José Miranda González (es) | Universidad Nacional de México | | Also won in 1966 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | John Corominas | University of Chicago | | Also won in 1945, 1948 |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Horacio Homero Camacho | University of Buenos Aires | | |
| Natural Science | Earth Science | Fernando Vila | Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales | | |
| Natural Science | Mathematics | Leopoldo Nachbin | University of Brazil | | Also won in 1949, 1958 |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Alejandro Arce Queirolo | Asunción Military Hospital | | |
| Natural Science | Medicine and Health | Joaquín Luco Valenzuela (es) | | | Also won in 1937, 1938, 1968 |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Fernando Mönckeberg Barros | Universidad de Chile | | |
| Natural Science | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Adolfo Max Rothschild | Biological Institute of São Paulo | | Also won in 1956 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Clare R. Baltazar | National Institute of Science and Technology | | Also won in 1964 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Virgilio Biaggi Jr. | University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez | | Birds in Puerto Rico |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Leopoldo E. Caltagirone-Zamora | La Cruz National Entomological Station | | Also won in 1958 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Newton Dias dos Santos (pt) | National Museum of Brazil | | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Diva Diniz Corrêa | University of São Paulo | | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Bernardo Alberto Houssay | | | |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Frederico Lane | Ministry of Agriculture (Brazil) | | Also won in 1952 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Dalcy de Oliveira Albuquerque (pt) | National Museum of Brazil | | Also won in 1960 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Herminio R. Rabanal | | Fish culture in fresh water ponds | Also won in 1959 |
| Natural Science | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Francisco Silvério Pereira | Claretiano College | | |
| Natural Science | Physics | Alfredo Baños Jr. | University of California, Los Angeles | All possible cases of dipole radiation in the presence of a dissipative half-space | Also won in 1935, 1936, 1937 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Fausto Folquer | National University of Tucumán | | Also won in 1957 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Alvaro Fernández-Pérez | Colombian Institute of Natural Sciences | | Also won in 1975 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Roberto Fresa | Ministry of Agriculture (Argentina) | | |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Juan Héctor Hunziker (es) (pt) | Ministry of Agriculture (Argentina) | | Also won in 1958, 1980 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Enrique Liogier y Allut | La Salle College | | Also won in 1950, 1953 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Edgardo Raúl Montaldi | Ministry of Agriculture (Argentina) | | Also won in 1955 |
| Natural Science | Plant Science | Jorge A. Soria Vasco | University of Guayaquil | | Also won in 1955 |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Carlos Angulo Valdés | Colombian National Ethnographic Institute | | |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Néstor Uscátegui Mendoza | Colombian National Ethnographic Institute | | Also won in 1958 |
| Social Science | Economics | Hastings Dudley Huggins | | | |