1938 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

• O. Fritiof Ander, Deceased. German and East European History: 1938, 1939.
• Arthur Arent, Deceased. Drama: 1938.
• Josef Berger, Deceased. General Non-Fiction: 1938, 1946. Pseudonym: Digges, Jeremiah.
• Tom Wilkerson Bonner, Deceased. Particle Physics: 1938.
• Peter Alexis Boodberg, Deceased. Linguistics: 1938, 1955, 1963.
• Asher Brynes, Deceased. Poetry: 1938, 1939, 1944.
• Sherburne Friend Cook
  Sherburne F. Cook
  Sherburne Friend Cook was a physiologist by training, and served as professor and chairman of the department of physiology at the University of California, Berkeley...
  
  , Deceased. Anthropology: 1938, 1947.
• Alden Springer Crafts, Deceased. Biology, Plant Science: 1938, 1957.
• Paul Creston
  Paul Creston
  Paul Creston was an Italian American composer of classical music.Born in New York City to Sicilian immigrants, Creston was self‐taught as a composer. He was an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity, initiated into the national honorary Alpha Alpha chapter...
  
  , Deceased. Music Composition: 1938, 1939.
• Janet de Coux, Sculptor, Gibsonia, Pennsylvania: 1938, 1939.
• August William Derleth
  August Derleth
  August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
  
  , Deceased. Fiction: 1938.
• David Diamond
  David Diamond (composer)
  David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music.-Life and career:He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in...
  
  , Composer; Member of Composition Faculty and Literature and Materials of Music Faculty, The Juilliard School: 1938, 1941, 1958.
• Clifford Shirley Dowdey, Deceased. Fiction: 1938.
• Foster Rhea Dulles, Deceased. U. S. History: 1938.
• William Maurice Ewing, Deceased. Earth Science: 1938, 1939, 1953.
• David Fredenthal, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1938, 1939.
• Lloyd K. Garrison
  Lloyd K. Garrison
  Lloyd Kirkham Garrison was an American lawyer. He was Dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School, but also served as chairman of the "first" National Labor Relations Board, chairman of the National War Labor Board, and chair of the New York City Board of Education...
  
  , Deceased. Political Science: 1938.
• Myron Gordon, Deceased. Biology: 1938, 1940.
• Samuel Abraham Goudsmit
  Samuel Abraham Goudsmit
  Samuel Abraham Goudsmit was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925.-Biography:...
  
  , Deceased. Particle Physics: 1938.
• Virginia Randolph Grace, Deceased. Classics: 1938, 1953.
• Henry N. Harkins, Deceased. Medicine: 1938, 1939, 1965.
• Rolfe Humphries
  Rolfe Humphries
  George Rolfe Humphries was a poet, translator, and teacher.-Life:...
  
  , Deceased. Poetry: 1938.
• William Alexander Jackson, Deceased. Bibliography: 1938.
• Clyde Edgar Keeler, Deceased. Biology and Medicine: 1938.
• Derrick Henry Lehmer
  Derrick Henry Lehmer
  Derrick Henry "Dick" Lehmer was an American mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes...
  
  , Deceased. Mathematics: 1938.
• Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre
  Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre
  Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre is an American poet, known for his poetry and translations of Baudelaire, Verlaine, George, Goethe and Rilke....
  
  , Deceased. Poetry: 1938.
• Alfred George Marshak, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1938, 1939.
• Alfred Métraux
  Alfred Metraux
  Alfred Métraux was a Swiss anthropologist and human rights leader.-Early life:Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Metraux spent much of his childhood in Argentina where his father was a well known surgeon resident in Mendoza. His mother was a Georgian from Tbilisi...
  
  , Deceased. Anthropology: 1938, 1940.
• Philip Alexander Munz, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1938.
• Earl Hamlet Myers, Zoologist, Pacific Grove, California: 1938, 1939.
• Adolf Pabst, Deceased Professor Emeritus of Mineralogy, University of California, Berkeley: 1938.
• Allen Walker Read
  Allen Walker Read
  Allen Walker Read was an American etymologist and lexicographer, best known for his studies into the words "okay" and "fuck."...
  
  , Professor Emeritus of English, Columbia University: 1938, 1939.
• Marvin Chauncey Ross, Deceased. Curator: 1938, 1939, 1948, 1952.
• Frederick M. Salter, Deceased. Medieval Studies: 1938.
• Colin Campbell Sanborn, Deceased. Biology: 1938.
• Jack Henry Sandground, Deceased. Biology: 1938.
• Samuel Selden, Deceased. Theatre Arts: 1938.
• Emil L. Smith
  Emil L. Smith
  Emil L. Smith was an American biochemist who studied protein structure and function as well as biochemical evolution....
  
  , Professor Emeritus of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles: 1938, 1939.
• Faith Thompson, Deceased. British History: 1938.
• Charles Rumford Walker, Deceased. Political Science: 1938.
• Walter Prescott Webb
  Walter Prescott Webb
  Walter Prescott Webb was a 20th century U.S. historian and author noted for his groundbreaking historical work on the American West. As president of the Texas State Historical Association, he launched the project that produced the Handbook of Texas...
  
  , Deceased. U.S. History: 1938, 1954.

1938 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

• Carlos Chávez
  Carlos Chávez
  Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six Symphonies, his Symphony No...
  
  , Deceased. Music Composition: 1938, 1956.
• Joaquín Maass y Patiño, Physician: 1938.
• Pedro Martínez-Esteve, Deceased. Biology: 1938.
• Leopoldo Méndez, Deceased. Fine Arts-Graphics: 1938.
• Carlos Muñoz-Pizarro, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1938, 1939.
• Daniel Serra Badué, Deceased. Painter: 1938, 1939.

See also

• Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...