# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1941

Eighty-five Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1941.

## 1941 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Hermann J. Broch | | The Death of Virgil | Also won in 1940 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Wilbur Joseph Cash | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Brainard Cheney | The Nashville Banner | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Edwin Corle | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Oliver La Farge | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Andrew Nelson Lytle | The Charlotte News | Writing | Also won in 1940, 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | James Still | | Writing | Also won in 1946 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Richmond Barthé | | Sculpture | Also won in 1940 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Federico Castellon | | Painting | Also won in 1950 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Thomas Craig | | Painting: Impoverished people in the Southwest United States | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Lee Jackson | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Bruce Mitchell | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Leonard Pytlak | | Printmaking | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Ruth Reeves | | Ancient and modern textiles of South America | Also won in 1940 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Marion Sanford | | Sculpture | Also won in 1942 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Paul Bowles | | Composition | |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Hunter Johnson | | Composition | Also won in 1954 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Marc Blitzstein | | Composition | Also won in 1940 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Alvin Etler | | Composition | Also won in 1940, 1963 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Earl Robinson | | Dramatization of Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes | Also won in 1940 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Walker Evans | | New York subway portraits | Also won in 1940, 1959 |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Dorothea Lange | | American social scene in rural communities | |
| Creative Arts | Photography | Eliot Furness Porter | | Bird photography | Also won in 1946 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Reuel Denney | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Norman Rosten | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Delmore Schwartz | | Writing | Also won in 1940 |
| Humanities | British History | Arthur J. Marder | | British sea power in the dreadnought era, with reference to the German naval menace from 1905-1914 | Also won in 1946, 1947 |
| Humanities | British History | David Harris Willson | University of Minnesota | Biography of James I | Also won in 1943, 1948, 1963 |
| Humanities | Classics | Eric Alfred Havelock | University of Toronto | | Also won in 1943 |
| Humanities | Classics | Doro Levi | Institute for Advanced Studies | Mosaics of Antioch-on-the-Orontes | Also won in 1942 |
| Humanities | Economic History | William Thomas Easterbrook | Brandon College | | |
| Humanities | English Literature | Gordon Norton Ray | Harvard University | Preparation of a definitive edition of letters and private papers of Thackeray | Also won in 1942, 1945, 1956 |
| Humanities | English Literature | Mark Schorer | Harvard University | Relationship between ideas and forms in the poetry of William Blake | Also won in 1942, 1948, 1973 |
| Humanities | Fine Arts Research | Saul S. Weinberg | | Archaeological study of the Aegean region and the Near East in the Neolithic period and early Bronze Age | Also won in 1942 |
| Humanities | French Literature | André Benjamin Delattre | Wayne State University | Edition of the correspondence of Voltaire with Theodore, François, and Jean-Robert Tronchin | Also won in 1951 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Carey McWilliams | California State Division of Immigration and Housing | Plantation labor in Hawaii | Also won in 1944 |
| Humanities | General Nonfiction | Gustavus Myers | | History of Bigotry in the United States (published 1943) | Also won in 1942 |
| Humanities | History of Science and Technology | Edward Rosen | City University of New York | | Also won in 1945 |
| Humanities | Iberian & Latin American History | Lewis Hanke | Library of Congress | Spanish discovery, exploration, and administration of America | |
| Humanities | Iberian & Latin American History | Helen Sullivan Mims | | Book on the history of the democratic tradition of Spain | Also won in 1942 |
| Humanities | Linguistics | George L. Trager | Yale University | Languages of Slavic-speaking immigrants and their families in Pennsylvania coal and iron mining communities, and the mutual influences these languages have on each other, on the language of the immigrants' children, and on the English of the immigrants themselves | |
| Humanities | Literary Criticism | Arthur James Marshall Smith | Michigan State College | Critical and historical study of Canadian poetry | |
| Humanities | Spanish and Portuguese Literature | Eduardo Neale-Silva | University of Wisconsin | The Spanish-American novel | |
| Humanities | United States History | Lewis Eldon Atherton | University of Missouri | | |
| Humanities | United States History | Albert Katz Weinberg | Institute for Advanced Study | Historical evolution of American nationalism | |
| Natural Sciences | Astrology and Astrophysics | Maud Worcester Makemson | Vassar College | Problems of Mayan astronomy | |
| Natural Sciences | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Horace Albert Barker | University of California | Bacteriological biochemistry | Also won in 1961 |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Verner Schomaker | California Institute of Technology | Spectroscopic study of molecules | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Aristid von Grosse | Columbia University | Processes to utilize uranium-235 as a source of atomic power | Also won in 1940 |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Ernst Cleveland Abbe [pt] | University of Minnesota | Bearing of historical, climactic, and geological factors on the vegetation of a heavily glaciated region in the eastern subarctic | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | William Christian Krumbein | University of Chicago | Dynamical processes by which sedimentary particles are abraded, changed in shape, and sorted into deposits found in nature | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | George Prior Woollard | | Seismic, gravitational, and magnetic investigations of the geologic structure underlying the North American Atlantic coastal plain | Also won in 1942 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Richard Dagobert Brauer | University of Toronto | Modern algebra, with special reference to the theory of groups of finite order and their characters | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Jesse Douglas | | Calculus of variation and geometry | Also won in 1940 |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Deane Montgomery | Smith College | Action of topographical transformation of groups on various types of spaces, particularly on Euclidean spaces and manifolds | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Alfred Tarski | Harvard University | Mathematical logic and the logical foundations of mathematics | Also won in 1942, 1955 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | I. L. Chaikoff | University of California | Radioactive phosphorus and iodine in "tracer studies" of metabolic processes in animals | |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | John Thomas Medler | | Nutritional requirements and the chemistry of salivary secretions of certain insects | |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Kenneth Stewart Cole | Columbia University | Electrical aspects of the structure and function of living nerve | |
| Natural Sciences | Neuroscience | Berry Campbell [d] | University of Oklahoma School of Medicine | Integrative mechanisms of the spinal cord, with reference to the basic locomotor patterns of behavior | Also won in 1940 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Dietrich H. Bodenstein [de] | Stanford University | Metamorphosis in insects | Also won in 1942 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Cornelius Becker Philip | United States Public Health Service | Book on ticks and their relation to animal and human diseases | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Benjamin P. Sonnenblick | Queens College, CUNY | Embryology of the fruit fly, with special reference to the cytology and differentiation of the organs and organ systems in the larva | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Willard Libby | University of California | Application of atom smashing methods to the chemistry of living things | Also won in 1951, 1959 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Wilson M. Powell | Kenyon College | Cosmic ray research, particularly a cloud chamber study of the abundance and energy distribution of slow protons and mesotrons at high altitudes | Also won in 1942 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Harvey Elliott White | University of California | Spectroscopic analysis of the gases of Mauna Loa Volcano | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Volney Colvin Wilson | University of Chicago | Development of machinery for the production of high energy x-rays | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Adriance Sherwood Foster | University of California | Cyto-histological study of the growth of buds of tropical ferns in Hawaii | Also won in 1948 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Margaret Fulford | University of Cincinnati | Taxonomic study of the Hepaticae of Mexico and Central America | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | George Thomas Johnson | | Botanical field work and collection in South America | Also won in 1940 |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Roy Franklin Barton [ru] | St. Andrew's School | Translation of the Hudhud | Also won in 1945 |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Isabel Truesdell Kelly | University of California | Ethnographic and archaeologic investigations in Jalisco | Also won in 1940 |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Dorothy Mary Spencer | University of Pennsylvania | Munda people | Also won in 1945 |
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Edward H. Spicer | University of Arizona | Comparative study of the influences of contact with other cultures upon the Yaqui communities of Mexico and Arizona | Also won in 1955 |
| Social Science | Economics | Merrill Kelley Bennett | Stanford University | Competition between wheat and rice as food in Hawaii | |
| Social Science | Economics | Paul Theodore Ellsworth | University of Cincinnati | Economy of Chile, 1920-1940 | |
| Social Science | Economics | Clarence Dickinson Long, Jr. | Wesleyan University | History of unemployment in the United States | Also won in 1942 |
| Social Science | Political Science | Eugene Alfred Forsey | McGill University | | |
| Social Science | Political Science | Gerald Sanford Graham | Queen's University | | |
| Social Science | Political Science | Francis D. Wormuth | Indiana University | | |
| Social Science | Psychology | Rudolf Arnheim | | Application of the principles and methods of Gestalt psychology to art analysis | Also won in 1942 |
| Social Science | Psychology | Solomon E. Asch | Brooklyn College | Book on the formation and change of opinion and attitude | Also won in 1943 |
| Social Science | Psychology | Edward Girden | Brooklyn College | Comparative investigation of the neurophysicological determinants of the phenomena of dissociation | Also won in 1958 |
| Social Science | Psychology | George Katona | | Psychology of learning, with special reference to the differences in learning by understanding and learning by memorization and drill | Also won in 1940 |
| Social Science | Sociology | Edward Prince Hutchinson | Library of Congress | Socioeconomic significance of population | |

## 1941 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Ramón Sender | | Book on the civilization resulting from the Spanish-Indian amalgam following the Spanish conquest | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Antonio Rodríguez Luna | | | Also won in 1942 |
| Humanities | Education | Olga Cossettini | Dr. G. Carrasco Experimental School | Elementary and vocational education in the United States | |
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Nabor Carrillo | National University of Mexico | Soil mechanics and its application to the construction of building and dam foundations | Also won in 1940 |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | Augusto José Durelli | | Photoelastic method of determining stresses and the application of this method to practical problems in reinforced concrete design | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Washington Buño | Institute of Endocrinology (Montevideo) | Endocrinology | Also won in 1947 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Aníbal Cipriano da Silveira Santos [pt] | Juqueri Psychiatric Hospital | Electrical activity of the cortex of the brain and its variations under pathological conditions | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | José Ribeiro do Valle [pt] | Instituto Butantan | | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Nilson Torres de Rezende | | Neurophysiology | Also won in 1940 |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Luis Vargas Fernández | | Research at University of Washington | Also won in 1942 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Américo S. Albrieux Murdoch | Institute of Endocrinology (Montevideo) | Endocrinology, particularly hormone therapy | Also won in 1940 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Otto Guilherme Bier [pt] | Biological Institute (São Paulo) | Quantitative chemical studies of immunity phenomena | Also won in 1945, 1946 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Efrén Carlos del Pozo | National School of Biological Sciences | Electrical stimulation of muscle | Also won in 1942 |
| Natural Sciences | Molecular and Cellular Biology | Maurício Rocha e Silva | Biological Institute (São Paulo) | Pharmacological properties of trypsin | Also won in 1940 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Mário Schenberg | University of São Paulo | Application of nuclear and atomic physics to astrophysics | Also won in 1940 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Facundo Bueso Sanllehí | University of Puerto Rico | Band spectra | Also won in 1940 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Agesilau Antonio Bitancourt | Biological Institute (São Paulo) | Virus diseases and of on other economic plants | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Edgar do Amaral Graner | Instituto Agronômico de São Paulo | Cytogenetics of corn and tobacco | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Science | Juan Ignacio Valencia | National University of Cuyo | Taxonomic and morphological studies of South American forage plants | Also won in 1942, 1943 |
| Social Science | Political Science | Santos Primo Amadeo | University of Puerto Rico | Comparative study of the constitutional law of the Argentine Republic and the United States | Also won in 1940 |