List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1948
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1948 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
- John Lawrence AngelJohn Lawrence AngelJohn Lawrence Angel was a British-American biological anthropologistborn on 21 March 1915 in London. His mother, Elizabeth, was an American classicist, and his father, John, was a British sculptor. The family emigrated to the United States in 1928. Angel completed his undergraduate degree at...
, Deceased. Anthropology: 1948. - Richard T. Arnold, Deceased. Chemistry: 1948.
- Joseph BarrellJoseph BarrellJoseph Barrell was an American geologist who proposed that sedimentary rocks were produced by the action of rivers, winds, and ice , as well as by marine sedimentation. He also independently arrived at the theory of stoping as a mechanism for igneous intrusion...
, Deceased. General Nonfiction: 1948. - Charles Calvert Bayley, Deceased. German and East European History: 1948.
- Jean-Albert Bédé, Deceased. French: 1948.
- Saul BellowSaul BellowSaul Bellow was a Canadian-born Jewish American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts...
, Deceased. Fiction: 1948, 1955. - Eric Russell BentleyEric BentleyEric Bentley is a critic, playwright, singer, editor and translator. He became an American citizen in 1948, and currently lives in New York City...
, Drama Critic; Katharine Cornell Professor of Theatre, State University of New York at Buffalo: 1948, 1967, - Nicolai Tichanovitch Berezowsky, Deceased. Music Composition: 1948.
- Orville Thomas Bonnett, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1948.
- Francis James Carmody, Professor Emeritus of French, University of California, Berkeley: 1948.
- Sally CarrigharSally CarrigharSally Carrighar was an American naturalist and writer. She is especially known for her series of nature books chronicling the lives of wild animals. Humans are often absent from these tales....
, Deceased. Non-fiction: 1948, 1949. - Romeo CascarinoRomeo CascarinoRomeo Cascarino was an American composer of classical music.His music is generally tonal, and his magnum opus is the opera William Penn, whose life had fascinated Cascarino since childhood...
, Deceased. Composer : 1948, 1949. - Wing-tsit ChanWing-tsit ChanProfessor Wing-tsit Chan was one of the world's leading scholars of Chinese philosophy and religion, active in the United States....
, Deceased. East Asian Studies: 1948. - Erwin ChargaffErwin ChargaffErwin Chargaff was an American biochemist who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA...
, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1948, 1956. - Claude Charles Chevalley, Deceased. Mathematics: 1948.
- Robert E. ConnickRobert E. ConnickRobert E. Connick is a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.-Life:Connick studied Chemistry at Berkeley, receiving his B.S. in 1939 and his Ph.D. in 1942...
, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley: 1948, 1958. - William Kenneth Cornell, Deceased. French: 1948.
- Harold CourlanderHarold CourlanderHarold Courlander was an American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, an expert in the study of Haitian life. The author of 35 books and plays and numerous scholarly articles, Courlander specialized in the study of African, Caribbean, Afro-American , and American Indian cultures...
, Deceased. Folklore and Popular Culture: 1948, 1955. - Pierre DansereauPierre DansereauPierre Dansereau, was a Canadian ecologist known as one of the "fathers of ecology".-Biography:...
, Professor Emeritus of Ecology, University of Quebec at Montreal: 1948. - Ruth J. Dean, Deceased. Anglo-Norman Studies: 1948.
- Edwin DenbyEdwin Denby (poet)Edwin Orr Denby was one of the most important and influential American dance critics of the 20th century, as well as a poet and novelist. His dance reviews and essays were collected in Looking at the Dance , Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Streets and Dance Writings...
, Deceased. Poetry and Dance Criticism: 1948. - Charles de Tolnay, Deceased. Fine Arts Research: 1948, 1949, 1953.
- Herbert Dieckmann, Deceased. French: 1948, 1951.
- Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie, Deceased. Medieval Studies: 1948.
- John Petersen Elder, Deceased. Classics: 1948.
- Ralph Emerson, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1948, 1956.
- James A. Fitzsimmons, Deceased. Photography: 1948.
- Roy Philip Forster, Deceased. Biology: 1948, 1955.
- William FrankenaWilliam FrankenaWilliam K. Frankena was an American moral philosopher. Frankena was a member of the University of Michigan's Department of Philosophy for 41 years and chair of the Department for 14 years...
, Deceased. Philosophy: 1948. - Robert W. Frase, Deceased. Political Science: 1948.
- Henry Shepard Fuller, Deceased. Medicine: 1948.
- Sue Fuller, Graphic Artist, Southampton, New York: 1948.
- Otto John Gombosi, Deceased. Music Research: 1948.
- Louis Morton Hacker, Deceased. Economic History: 1948, 1958.
- John Erskine Hankins, Deceased. 16th & 17th Century English Literature: 1948.
- Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick, Deceased. Fiction and Literary Criticism: 1948.
- George Vickers Haythorne, Deceased. Economics: 1948.
- Erich Hertzmann, Deceased. Music Research: 1948.
- Louise Adams Holland, Deceased. Classics: 1948.
- Edwin HonigEdwin HonigEdwin Honig was an American poet, playwright, and translator.-Life:He has published ten books of poetry, eight books of translation, five books of criticism and fiction, three books of plays....
, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Brown University: 1948, 1962. - Allan Capron Houser, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1948.
- Wilbur Samuel Howell, Deceased. Literary Criticism: 1948, 1957.
- Victoria Hutson Huntley, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1948.
- Horst Woldemar Janson, Deceased. Fine Arts Research: 1948, 1955.
- Irving KaplanskyIrving KaplanskyIrving Kaplansky was a Canadian mathematician.-Biography:He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, after his parents emigrated from Poland and attended the University of Toronto as an undergraduate. After receiving his Ph.D...
, Deceased. Mathematics: 1948. - Robert Woods Kennedy, Deceased. Architect and Writer, Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1948.
- Leon KirchnerLeon KirchnerLeon Kirchner was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 3.Kirchner was born in Brooklyn, New York...
, Deceased. Composer: 1948, 1949. - Julian Knause Knipp, Deceased. Physics: 1948.
- Hubert Weldon Lamb, Deceased. Music Composition: 1948.
- Francis Lee, Deceased. Film: 1948.
- Robert Ward Leeper, Deceased. Psychology: 1948.
- Douglas Valentine LePanDouglas LePanDouglas Valentine LePan, OC, FRSC was a Canadian diplomat, poet, novelist and professor of literature.Born in Toronto, Ontario, LePan was educated at the University of Toronto, at Harvard , and at Merton College, Oxford University...
, Deceased. Poetry: 1948. - Norman LevinsonNorman LevinsonNorman Levinson was an American mathematician. Some of his major contributions were in the study of Fourier transforms, complex analysis, non-linear differential equations, number theory, and signal processing. He worked closely with Norbert Wiener in his early career...
, Deceased. Mathematics: 1948. - Choh Hao LiChoh Hao LiChoh Hao Li was a Chinese-born U.S. biochemist who discovered, in 1966, that human pituitary growth hormone consists of a chain of 256 amino acids...
, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1948. - Robert Sabatino LopezRoberto Sabatino LopezRoberto Sabatino Lopez , also known as Robert S. Lopez, was an Italian-American historian of medieval European economic history...
, Deceased. Economic History: 1948, 1951. - Yakov MalkielYakov MalkielYakov Malkiel was a U.S. Romance etymologist and philologist. His specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish...
, Deceased. Linguistics: 1948, 1959, 1966. - Louis L. Martz, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, Yale University: 1948, 1981.
- George Henry Mickey, Cytogeneticist, Durham, North Carolina: 1948.
- Josephine MilesJosephine MilesJosephine Miles was an American poet and literary critic; the first woman to be tenured in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She wrote over a dozen books of poetry and several works of criticism....
, Deceased. Literary Criticism: 1948. - John Perry Miller, Deceased. Economics: 1948.
- Theodor Ernst Mommsen, Deceased. Medieval Studies: 1948.
- Hugh Sinclair Morrison, Deceased. Architecture: 1948.
- Walter MunkWalter MunkWalter Heinrich Munk is an American physical oceanographer. He is professor of geophysics emeritus and holds the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Oceanography Chair at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.-Early life:Born in 1917 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary,...
, Professor of Geophysics, University of California, San Diego: 1948, 1953, 1962. - Helaine Newstead, Deceased. Medieval Studies: 1948.
- Ada Blanche Nisbet, Professor Emeritus of English, University of California, Los Angeles: 1948, 1954.
- Roy Wesley Nixon, Deceased. Biology: 1948.
- Harold Ignatius Paul Olmo, Deceased. Viticulture and Enology: 1948
- Doris Phelps Orwin, Deceased. Medicine: 1948. Appointed as Doris Hawkins Phelps.
- Antonio Pace, Professor Emeritus of Italian Language and Literature, University of Washington: 1948, 1960.
- Norman Holmes PearsonNorman Holmes PearsonNorman Holmes Pearson was an American academic, author, editor, critic, archivist and prominent figures in establishing American studies as an academic discipline after the end of the Second World War.-Career:...
, Deceased. American Literature: 1948, 1956. - Michael Peech, Deceased. Chemistry: 1948.
- John C. Pope, Deceased. Medieval Literature: 1948.
- James Farl Powers, Deceased. Fiction: 1948.
- Henri Prat, Deceased. Biology: 1948.
- Gregory H. Razran, Deceased. Psychology: 1948.
- Herbert Owen ReedH. Owen ReedHerbert Owen Reed is an American composer, conductor, and author.-Education:Reed was raised in rural Odessa, Missouri, where his first exposure to music was his father's playing of the old-time fiddle...
, Composer; Professor Emeritus of Music, Michigan State University: 1948. - Kenneth RexrothKenneth RexrothKenneth Rexroth was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement...
, Deceased. Poetry: 1948, 1949. - Charles Madeira Rick, Jr.Charles M. RickCharles M. Rick was a plant geneticist and botanist who pioneered research on the origins of the tomato. He was widely regarded as the world's leading authority on tomato biology. Born in 1915 in Reading, PA, Rick earned a bachelor's degree in horticulture in 1937 fromPennsylvania State University...
, Deceased. Plant Genetics: 1948, 1950. - Paul SamuelsonPaul SamuelsonPaul Anthony Samuelson was an American economist, and the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Swedish Royal Academies stated, when awarding the prize, that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in...
, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1948. - Warren Candler Scoville, Deceased. Economics: 1948, 1955.
- Isidore Silver, Deceased. French: 1948.
- Engel Sluiter, Deceased. History: 1948.
- James Mather Sprague, Deceased. Neuroscience: 1948.
- George Francis Gilman StanleyGeorge StanleyColonel George Francis Gillman Stanley, OC, CD, KStJ, DPhil, FRSC, FRHistS, FRHSC was a historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant, and designer of the current Canadian flag.-Career:...
, Deceased. History: 1948. - Reuben TamReuben TamReuben Tam was an American landscape painter, educator and graphic artist. He was born in Kapa'a on the Hawaiian island of Kauai on Jan. 17, 1916. He earned a BA degree from the University of Hawaii in 1937, and also studied at the California School of Fine Art, at Columbia University with Meyer...
, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1948. - Samuel Edmund Thorne, Deceased. Law: 1948, 1951, 1956.
- Stephen Davidson Tuttle, Deceased. Music Research: 1948.
- Ismael Vélez, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1948.
- Peter R. ViereckPeter ViereckPeter Robert Edwin Viereck , was an American poet and political thinker, as well as a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College for five decades.-Background:...
, Deceased. Poetry and History: 1948, 1954. - Hans Wallach, Deceased. Psychology: 1948.
- Reuben Wallenrod, Deceased. Literary Criticism: 1948.
- Theodore WardTheodore WardTheodore Ward was a leading African-American playwright of the first half of the 20th century.-Biography:Ward was the sixth out of eleven children. A prolific writer, Ward wrote over thirty plays...
, Deceased. Drama: 1948. - Arnold Williams, Professor Emeritus of English, Michigan State University: 1948.
- Denny Winters, Deceased. Painter, Rockport, Maine: 1948.
- William Woods, Writer, Hereford, England: 1948.
- Marguerite YoungMarguerite YoungMarguerite Vivian Young was an American author of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and criticism. Her work evinced an interest in social issues and environmentalism....
, Deceased. Fiction: 1948.
1948 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
- Agustí Bartra Lleonart, Deceased. Poetry: 1948, 1949, 1960.
- Víctor M. Blanco, Astronomer; Retired Director, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, La Serena, Chile: 1948, 1954.
- Carlos ChagasCarlos ChagasCarlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas , was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist and bacteriologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. He discovered Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis in 1909, while working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro...
, Deceased. Professor Emeritus, Institute of Biophysics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; President, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City: 1948. - Candido Lima da Silva Dias, Mathematician, São Paulo: 1948.
- Juan Gerónimo Esteban, Deceased. Biology & Ecology: 1948.
- Juan García Ramos, Retired Physiologist, Center of Research and Advanced Studies, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico D.F.: 1948, 1951.
- Jaime Guiscafre-Arrillaga, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1948.
- Alejandro Mario Illanes, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1948.
- José Leite LopesJosé Leite LopesJosé Leite Lopes , noted Brazilian theoretical physicist in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics.-Life:...
, Director, Brazilian Center for Physics Research, Rio de Janeiro: 1948. - Roberto Luiz Pimenta de Mello, Biologist: 1948, 1949.
- Julio Morató Manaro, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1948.
- José Antonio Portuondo Valdor, Director, Institute of Literature and Linguistics, Havanna: 1948.
- Miguel Sopó Duque, Sculptor, Bogotá: 1948.
- Luis Hernán Tejada-Flores, Deceased. Engineering: 1948.
- Abraham WillinkAbraham WillinkAbraham Willink was a Dutch-Argentine entomologist. His main contributions were made on the Hymenopteran families Vespidae, Sphecidae and Crabronidae....
, Deceased. Biology: 1948, 1962.
See also
- Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim 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...