# List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1933

Thirty-eight Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1933. Arnold and Lucile Blanch were the first couple to both win a Guggenheim award in the same year.

## 1933 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Leonard Ehrlich | | Writing | Also won in 1934 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Younghill Kang | New York University | Writing | Also won in 1934 |
| Creative Arts | Fiction | Glenway Wescott | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Arnold Blanch | Byrdcliffe Colony | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Lucile Blanch | Byrdcliffe Colony | Painting and lithography | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Louis Bouché | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Miguel Covarrubias | | Painting | Also won in 1940 |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Emil Ganso | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Georgina Klitgaard | | Painting | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Mary Lightfoot Tarleton | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Gwen Lux | | Sculpture | |
| Creative Arts | Fine Arts | Carlotta Petrina | | Book illustrations | Also won in 1935 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | George Antheil | | Composing | Also won in 1932 |
| Creative Arts | Music Composition | Paul Nordoff | | Composing | Also won in 1935 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | Louise Bogan | | Writing | |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | E. E. Cummings | | Writing | Also won in 1951 |
| Creative Arts | Poetry | George Dillon | | Writing | Also won in 1932 |
| Humanities | Biography | Matthew Josephson | | Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Staël | |
| Humanities | Classics | Kenneth Scott | Western Reserve University | Religious and political history of the Roman Empire, particularly the development of Roman emperor worship in the 1st century, A.D. | |
| Humanities | French History | Lowell Joseph Ragatz | George Washington University | Social and economic structure of the French Antilles during the 17th and 18th centuries | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Herrick Lee Johnston | Ohio State University | Advances in molecular spectra and their application to problems in chemical equilibria and to photochemistry | |
| Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Carl Robert Noller | Stanford University | Determination of the constitution of naturally occurring organic compounds, especially the sapogenins and sterols | |
| Natural Sciences | Mathematics | Charles F. Roos | American Association for the Advancement of Science | Dynamical economics | |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Arthur Loveridge | Museum of Comparative Zoology | Vanishing vertebrate fauna of the tropical rain forests remnants in East Africa | Also won in 1938 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Kenneth Bainbridge | Franklin Institute | Nuclear physics | Also won in 1934 |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Francis Bitter | Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company | Magnetism, with special reference to the structure of crystals | |
| Natural Sciences | Physics | Thomas Charles Poulter | Iowa Wesleyan College | Antarctic expedition with Richard Byrd | |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | Barbara McClintock | California Institute of Technology | Genetics | |
| Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Alfredo Barrera Vásquez | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Translation of the Chilam Balam and Maya linguistics | Also won in 1934 |
| Social Sciences | Economics | Henry Schultz | University of Chicago | Mathematical and statistical economics in Europe | |

## 1933 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes |
| Creative Art | Music Composition | Juan José Castro | Teatro Colón; Buenos Aires Philharmonic | Composing | |
| Humanities | Economic History | Eugenio Pereira Salas | Children's Lyceum N°1, Santiago | History of commercial relations between the United States and Spanish America, especially Chile | |
| Humanities | Iberian and Latin American History | Herminio Portell Vilá | University of Havana | Historical relationship between Cuba and the United States, with particular attention to the question of annexation | Also won in 1931, 1932 |
| Natural Sciences | Engineering | David Segura y Gama | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Organization and functioning of metallurgical laboratories with special reference to the treatment of precious metals | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | José Matias Cid | Hospital Psiquiátrico Agudo Avila Rosario | Pathology of the central nervous system | |
| Natural Sciences | Medicine and Health | Juan Farill y Solares | Department of Public Health, Mexico | Clinical theory and orthopedics with special reference to the nonsurgical treatment of deformities in children | Also won in 1932 |
| Natural Sciences | Organismic Biology and Ecology | Enrique Beltrán | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Marine biology and protozoology | Also won in 1932 |
| Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences | José A. Nolla | University of Puerto Rico | Inheritance of disease resistance in tobacco | Also won in 1933 |