1946 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

1. Ansel Adams
   Ansel Adams
   Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park....
   
   , Deceased. Photography: 1946, 1948, 1959.
2. Theodore W. Anderson, Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Economics, Stanford University: 1946.
3. Pedro Armillas
   Pedro Armillas
   Pedro Armillas Garcia was Spanish academic anthropologist, archaeologist, and an influential pre-Columbian Mesoamerica scholar of the mid-20th century. As an archaeologist he was known both for his fieldwork and excavations at numerous sites in central and northern Mexico, and his contributions in...
   
   , Deceased. Anthropology: 1946.
4. Daniel I. Arnon
   Daniel I. Arnon
   Daniel Israel Arnon was a Polish-born American plant physiologist whose research led to greater insights into the operation of photosynthesis in plants...
   
   , Deceased. Biochemistry-Molecular Biology: 1946, 1962.
5. Robert Cecil Bald, Deceased. Biography: 1946, 1960.
6. Robert Hamilton Ball, Deceased. 16th and 17th English Literature: 1946.
7. Robert Ballentine, Deceased. Biology & Ecology: 1946.
8. Robert Hayward Barlow, Deceased. Latin American Studies: 1946, 1947.
9. William Howard Barnes, Deceased. Chemistry: 1946.
10. Gregory Bateson
    Gregory Bateson
    Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. He had a natural ability to recognize order and pattern in the universe...
    
    , Deceased. Anthropology: 1946.
11. Cedric Belfrage
    Cedric Belfrage
    Cedric Henning Belfrage was a socialist, author, journalist, translator and co-founder of the radical US-weekly newspaper the National Guardian...
    
    , Deceased. General Nonfiction: 1946.
12. William Bergsma
    William Bergsma
    -Biography:After studying piano with his mother, a former opera singer, and then the viola, Bergsma moved on to study composition; his most significant teachers were Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers. Bergsma attended Stanford University for two years before moving on to the Eastman School of...
    
    , Deceased. Music Composition: 1946, 1951.
13. Eugene Berman
    Eugène Berman
    Eugène Berman and his brother Leonid Berman were Russian Neo-romantic painters and theater and opera designers.-Early years:Born in Russia, they fled the Russian revolution in 1918...
    
    , Deceased. Fine Arts: 1946, 1948.
14. Joseph Benjamin Birdsell, Deceased. Anthropology: 1946, 1952.
15. Robert Noel Blair, Painter, Holland, New York: 1946, 1951.
16. Bernard Boivin, Deceased. Research Scientist: 1946.
17. Rolf Ling Bolin, Deceased. Biology: 1946.
18. Philip D. Bradley, Economist, Washington, D.C.: 1946.
19. Henry Dreyfuss Brant, Composer, Santa Barbara, California: 1946, 1955.
20. Manuel Bromberg
    Manuel Bromberg
    Manuel Bromberg is an American artist, and Professor Emeritus of Art, at the State University of New York at New Paltz...
    
    , Professor Emeritus of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, New York: 1946.
21. Gwendolyn Brooks
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.-Biography:...
    
    , Writer, Chicago: 1946, 1947.
22. Huntington Brown, Deceased. Literary Criticism: 1946.
23. Richard Hubert Bruck, Deceased. Mathematics: 1946.
24. Jerome Hamilton Buckley, Gurney Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Harvard University: 1946, 1963.
25. Sam Byrd, Deceased. Fiction: 1946, 1948.
26. Corrado Cagli
    Corrado Cagli
    Corrado Cagli was an Italian painter of Jewish heritage, who lived in the USA during World War II.Cagli was born in Ancona, but in 1915 moved with his family to Rome....
    
    , Painter, Rome: 1946.
27. Wilbert McLeod Chapman, Deceased. Biology: 1946.
28. Marshall Clagett
    Marshall Clagett
    Marshall Clagett was an American scholar who specialized in the history of science before Galileo, especially Archimedes.-Career:...
    
    , Professor Emeritus, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey: 1946, 1950.
29. Carroll Cloar
    Carroll Cloar
    Carroll Cloar was a nationally known 20th century painter born in Earle, Arkansas, who focused his work on surreal views of Southern U.S...
    
    , Deceased. Fine Arts, Painting: 1946.
30. Donovan Stewart Correll, Deceased Taxonomist, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami: 1946, 1959.
31. Maya Deren
    Maya Deren
    Maya Deren , born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s...
    
    , Deceased. Film Making: 1946.
32. George P. Fedotov, Deceased. Slavic Studies: 1946.
33. James Alfred Ford, Deceased. Anthropology: 1946.
34. Francis Raymond Fosberg
    Francis Raymond Fosberg
    Francis Raymond "Ray" Fosberg was an American botanist. A prolific collector and author, he played a significant role in the development of coral reef and island studies.-History:...
    
    , Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1946.
35. Mitchell Franklin, Deceased Irby Professor Emeritus of Law, Tulane University; Professor of Law and Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo: 1946.
36. Arthur William Galston, Eaton Professor Emeritus of Botany and Professor of Forestry, Yale University: 1946, 1951.
37. Arthur Charles Giese, Deceased. Biochemistry -Molecular Biology: 1946, 1958.
38. Paul Antoine Giguère, Deceased. Chemistry: 1946, 1948.
39. Nelson Goodman
    Nelson Goodman
    Henry Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism and aesthetics.-Career:...
    
    , Deceased. Philosophy: 1946.
40. Morris Cole Graves, Painter, Loleta, California: 1946.
41. Alexei Haieff, Deceased. Music Composition: 1946, 1949.
42. Gordon Sherman Haight, Deceased. 19th Century British Literature: 1946, 1953, 1960.
43. Holman Hamilton, Deceased. U.S. History: 1946.
44. Frederick Hartt
    Frederick Hartt
    Frederick Hartt was an American professor of History of Art at the University of Virginia. His books include Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture and Italian Renaissance Art, Michelangelo , The Sistine Chapel and The Renaissance in Italy and Spain .Born in Boston,...
    
    , Deceased. Fine Arts Research: 1946, 1954.
45. Evelyn Anderson Haymaker, Deceased. Medicine: 1946. Appointed as Anderson, Evelyn.
46. Wayne Eskett Hazen, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Michigan: 1946, 1953.
47. James Lynn Hoard, Deceased. Chemistry: 1946, 1960, 1966.
48. Everette Howard Hunt, Jr., Writer, Miami, Florida: 1946.
49. Henry Rudolph Immerwahr, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1946.
50. Roman Jakobson
    Roman Jakobson
    Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.As a pioneer of the structural analysis of language, which became the dominant trend of twentieth-century linguistics, Jakobson was among the most influential linguists of the century...
    
    , Deceased. Linguistics: 1946.
51. Mitchel Jamieson
    Mitchel Jamieson
    Mitchel Jamieson was an American painter.Jamieson was born in Linden, Virginia, in 1915. He studied at the Abbott School of Art and the Corcoran School of Art...
    
    , Deceased. Fine Arts: 1946, 1948.
52. Randall Jarrell
    Randall Jarrell
    Randall Jarrell was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a role which now holds the title of US Poet Laureate.-Life:Jarrell was a native of Nashville, Tennessee...
    
    , Deceased. Poetry: 1946.
53. Elwood Vernon Jensen, Charles B. Huggins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago: 1946.
54. Louis Clark Jones, Deceased. Folklore and Folk Music: 1946.
55. Mark Kac
    Mark Kac
    Mark Kac was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. Kac completed his Ph.D...
    
    , Deceased. Mathematics: 1946.
56. Willmoore Kendall
    Willmoore Kendall
    Willmoore Kendall was an American conservative writer and Professor of political philosophy.-Biography:Kendall was born in 1909 to a blind minister in Oklahoma. He learned to read at age two, graduated from high school at 13, from the University of Oklahoma at 18, and published his first book at 20...
    
    , Deceased. Political Science, Philosophy: 1946.
57. Clyde K. Kluckhohn, Deceased. Anthropology: 1946.
58. Alice Elizabeth Kober, Deceased. Classics: 1946.
59. Paul Harold Kocher, Deceased. 16th & 17th Century English Literature: 1946, 1955.
60. Shuichi Kusaka, Deceased. Physics: 1946.
61. Weston La Barre
    Weston La Barre
    Raoul Weston La Barre was an American anthropologist, best known for his work in ethnobotany, particularly with regard to Native-American religion, and for his application of psychiatric and psychoanalytic theories to ethnography.-Education and early career:La Barre was born in Uniontown,...
    
    , Deceased. Anthropology: 1946.
62. Louis A. Landa, Deceased. 18th Century English Literature: 1946, 1966.
63. Stephen Addison Larrabee, Deceased. American Literature: 1946.
64. Roger Lemelin
    Roger Lemelin
    Roger Lemelin, was a Quebec novelist, television writer and essayist.-Biography:Lemelin was born in Quebec City. From 1944 to 1952, he was a Canadian correspondent for the American magazines Time and Life and, from 1972 to 1981, chief executive officer and editor of La Presse.In 1980 he was made...
    
    , Deceased. Fiction: 1946, 1947.
65. A. Starker Leopold
    A. Starker Leopold
    Aldo Starker Leopold was an American author, forester, zoologist and conservationist. He also served as professor at the University of California, Berkeley for thirty years...
    
    , Deceased. Biology: 1946.
66. Wolf Leslau
    Wolf Leslau
    Wolf Leslau ]] November 18, 2006) was a scholar of Semitic languages and one of the foremost authorities on Semitic languages of Ethiopia.-Youth and Education:Leslau was born in Krzepice, a small town near Częstochowa, Poland...
    
    , Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Semitic Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles: 1946, 1947.
67. John Ayres Lessard, Composer, East Setauket, New York: 1946, 1953.
68. Alan Lomax
    Alan Lomax
    Alan Lomax was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.In his later career, Lomax advanced his theories of...
    
    , Writer; Research Associate in Anthropology, Columbia University: 1946.
69. Edward Elias Lowinsky, Deceased. Music Research: 1946, 1976.
70. Maurice Mandelbaum
    Maurice Mandelbaum
    Maurice Mandelbaum is an American philosopher. He was professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University from 1957.- Works :He wrote many books, including:* The Problem of Historical Knowledge, 1938...
    
    , Deceased. Philosophy: 1946.
71. Berta Margoulies, Sculptor, Berkeley, California: 1946.
72. William Richard Matthews, Deceased. Bibliography, Medieval Studies: 1946, 1958.
73. Merritt Mauzey, Deceased. Fine Arts-Painting: 1946.
74. Donald Vincent McGranahan, Retired Director, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva: 1946.
75. William George McMillan, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles: 1946.
76. Gian Carlo Menotti
    Gian Carlo Menotti
    Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular...
    
    , Composer, New York City: 1946, 1947.
77. Barse Miller, Deceased. Fine Arts-Painting: 1946.
78. Wayne Forest Miller, Photographer, Orinda, California: 1946, 1947.
79. Charles Alexander Moore, Deceased. Philosophy: 1946.
80. Harold Emery Moore, Jr, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1946, 1955.
81. Sanford Alexander Mosk, Deceased. Economics: 1946.
82. Franz Leopold Neumann
    Franz Leopold Neumann
    Franz Leopold Neumann was a German-Jewish left-wing political activist, Marxist theorist and labor lawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best known for his theoretical analyses of National Socialism. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of...
    
    , Deceased. Political Science: 1946.
83. James R. Newman
    James R. Newman
    James Roy Newman was an American mathematician and mathematical historian. He was also a lawyer, practicing in the state of New York from 1929 to 1941...
    
    , Deceased. History of Science: 1946, 1947.
84. Ruth Nickerson, Sculptor, White Plains, New York: 1946.
85. Walter John Nickerson, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1946.
86. James Henry Oliver, Deceased. Classics: 1946, 1955.
87. William Donald Oliver, Deceased. Philosophy: 1946.
88. Chaim Leib Pekeris
    Chaim L. Pekeris
    Chaim Leib Pekeris was an Israeli-American physicist and mathematician. He made notable contributions to geophysics and the spectral theory of many-electron atoms, in particular the Helium atom. He was also one of the designers of the first computer in Israel, WEIZAC.-Biography:Pekeris was bon in...
    
    , Deceased. Applied Science: 1946, 1968, 1972.
89. Robert Leroy Platzman, Deceased. Particle Physics: 1946, 1947.
90. Robert Armstrong Pratt, Deceased. Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania: 1946, 1954.
91. G. Baley Price, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of Kansas: 1946.
92. Paul Charles Rosenbloom, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Teachers College, Columbia University: 1946.
93. Franz Rosenthal
    Franz Rosenthal
    Franz Rosenthal was the Louis M. Rabinowitz professor of Semitic languages at Yale from 1956 to 1967 and Sterling Professor Emeritus of Arabic, scholar of Arabic literature and Islam at Yale from 1967 to 1985....
    
    , Sterling Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Languages, Yale University: 1946.
94. Henry Scheffé
    Henry Scheffé
    Henry Scheffé was an American statistician. He is known for the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and Scheffé's method.- External links :...
    
    , Deceased. Statistics: 1946.
95. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Chair, Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, Graduate School, City University of New York: 1946.
96. Irving Ezra Segal, Deceased: Mathematics: 1946, 1951, 1967.
97. Harold Samuel Shapero, Composer; Walter W. Naumburg Professor Emeritus of Music, Brandeis University: 1946, 1947.
98. Theodore Silverstein, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Chicago: 1946.
99. Herbert Silvette, Writer, Stanardsville, Virginia: 1946.
100. Alexander Frank Skutch, Ornithologist, San Isidro del General, Costa Rica: 1946, 1951.
101. Albert Charles Smith
     Albert Charles Smith
     Albert Charles Smith was an American botanist.-Life:He was a director of the National Museum of Natural History, and chaired several important scientific societies, such as the American Society of Plant Taxonomists....
     
     , Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1946.
102. G. E. Kidder Smith
     G. E. Kidder Smith
     George Everard Kidder Smith was an American architectural writer and photographer.Smith trained as an architect, received his MFA from Princeton in 1938, and served in the U.S...
     
     , Deceased. Photography: 1946.
103. Virginia Eggertsen Sorensen Waugh, Deceased. Fiction: 1946, 1954. Appointed as Sorensen, Virginia Eggertsen.
104. Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand
     Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand
     Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand was a Danish astronomer who worked in Denmark and the United States He was Scientific Director of the U.S. Naval Observatory from 1963 to 1977. He specialized in astrometry, especially work on double stars and stellar distances. -Life:Kaj Strand was born February 27, 1907 in...
     
     , Deceased. Astronomy-Astrophysics: 1946.
105. Ernest Albert Strathmann, Deceased. 16th & 17th Century English Literature: 1946, 1954.
106. Morris Swadesh
     Morris Swadesh
     Morris Swadesh was an influential and controversial American linguist. In his work, he applied basic concepts in historical linguistics to the Indigenous languages of the Americas...
     
     , Deceased. Anthropology: 1946, 1947.
107. Louise Juliette Talma, Deceased. Music Composition: 1946, 1947.
108. Abraham Haskell Taub, deceased.Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley: 1946, 1953.
109. Ernest Robert Tinkham, Deceased. Medicine: 1946.
110. Warren Stenson Tryon, Deceased. American Literature: 1946.
111. Francis Lee Utley, Deceased. Medieval Studies & Folklore: 1946, 1947, 1952.
112. James Alfred Van Allen
     James Van Allen
     James Alfred Van Allen was an American space scientist at the University of Iowa.The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him, following the 1958 satellite missions in which Van Allen had argued that a Geiger counter should be used to detect charged particles.- Life and career :* September...
     
     , Carver Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa: 1946.
113. John Weedon Verrall, Composer; Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Washington: 1946.
114. Walter B. C. Watkins, Deceased. Literary Criticism: 1946, 1950.
115. Lemen Jonathan Wells, Deceased Professor Emeritus of Anatomy, University of Minnesota Medical School: 1946.
116. John Archibald Wheeler
     John Archibald Wheeler
     John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist who was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission...
     
     , Joseph Henry Professor Emeritus of Physics, Princeton University; Ashbel Smith Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Austin: 1946, 1949.
117. Thomas Wallace Whitaker, Plant Geneticist, Western Region, Agricultural Research Service; Research Associate, University of California, San Diego: 1946, 1958.
118. Arthur Ranous Wilmurt, Deceased. Drama & Performance Art: 1946.
119. William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr, Deceased. Literary Criticism: 1946.
120. Emanuel Winternitz, Deceased. Music Research: 1946.
121. John William Theodore Youngs, Deceased. Mathematics: 1946.

1946 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

1. R. Fernando Alegría, Sadie Dernham Patek Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Stanford University: 1946.
2. Joao Batista Vilanova Artigas
   João Batista Vilanova Artigas
   João Batista Vilanova Artigas was one of the most important Brazilian modernist architects. Born in Curitiba and much-awarded in his lifetime, Artigas is considered one of the most important names in the architectural history of São Paulo, and the founding figure of the Paulista School.- Life...
   
   , Deceased. Architecture: 1946.
3. Carlos Bosch-García, Deceased. Iberian and Latin American History: 1946.
4. Eduardo D. De Robertis, Deceased. Biology: 1946, 1947.
5. José María Ferrater Mora, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College: 1946, 1948.
6. René Honorato Cienfuegos, Professor of Experimental Medicine, University of Chile: 1946.
7. Moisés Kramer, Biologist: 1946.
8. Julio Le Riverend Brusone, Social Scientist: 1946.
9. Cecilio Lopez, Deceased. Linguistics: 1946.
10. Joao Moojen de Oliveira, Deceased. Biology: 1946.
11. Paris Pishmish de Recillas, Professor of Astronomy, National Autonomous University of Mexico: 1946. Appointed as Paris Pishmish Recillas.
12. Horacio José Ambrosio Rimoldi, Psychologist: 1946.
13. Elysiário Távora Filho, Geologist, Rio de Janeiro: 1946.
14. Héctor A. Tosar Errecart, Professor of Composition, Escuela Universitaria de Música, Paysandú 843; Montevideo, Uruguay: 1946, 1960.

External links

• Guggenheim Fellows for 1946

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...