List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1940

Seventy-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1940.^[1][2] A total of $165,000 was disbursed.^[3]

1940 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Fiction	Hermann J. Broch	Princeton University (visiting)	The Death of Virgil	Also won in 1941	[4][5]
		Ward Allison Dorrance	University of Missouri	Writing		[6]
		Edwin Moultrie Lanham	Herald Tribune	Novel about the Southwest		[7][3][8]
		Andrew Nelson Lytle		Writing	Also won in 1941, 1959	[9]
		Christine Weston				[10][11]
	Fine Arts	Bernard Arnest	Broadmoor Academy	Painting		[9][12][8]
		Lawrence Louis Barrett				[13]
		Richmond Barthé		Sculpture: Memorial to James Weldon Johnson	Also won in 1941	[14][3]
		Miguel Covarrubias		Book preparation	Also won in 1933	[9][15]
		John Hovannes		Sculpture		[16]
		Henry Lee McFee		Painting		[9]
		Elizabeth Tracy				[17][18]
		Herman Palmer		Graphic arts: Wild and domesticated animals		[19][3]
		Ruth Reeves		Living materials for modern textile designs	Also won in 1941	[20]
		Carl Schaefer		Painting: Life of an American farmer		[21]
		Harry Wickey		Sculpture	Also won in 1939	[22][3]
	Music Composition	Marc Blitzstein		Musical stage composition	Also won in 1941	[23][5][24]
		Alvin Etler	Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra	Composition	Also won in 1941, 1963	[23][2][3]
		Earl Robinson		Full-length ballad-operetta based on The People, Yes	Also won in 1941	[23][9][3][25]
		William Howard Schuman	Sarah Lawrence College	Composition	Also won 1939	[26][3]
	Photography	Walker Evans		New York subway portraits	Also won in 1941, 1959	[27]
		Edward Weston		California	Also won in 1939	[28]
	Poetry	Lloyd Frankenberg		Writing		[29][5]
		Delmore Schwartz			Also won in 1941	[9][17][29][5]
	Theatre Arts	Howard Bay		Scenic design		[30]
Humanities	American Literature	Alfred Kazin	New York Herald Tribune	20th-century American prose	Also won in 1947, 1958, 1969	[9][5]
	Architecture, Planning, and Design	Gregory Ain		Development of low-cost housing		[31]
	Biography	Richmond C. Beatty	Vanderbilt University	James Russell Lowell		[9]
	Fine Arts Research	Robert Chester Smith	Library of Congress	Preparation of a history of the fine arts in Brazil from pre-Columbian times to present		[32]
		Carl Zigrosser	Weyhe Gallery	Art research	Also won in 1939	[33]
	General Nonfiction	John Dos Passos		Essays on the basis of the present American conceptions of freedom of thought	Also won in 1939, 1942	[34][9][17][35]
	German and East European History	Lewis Galantière		Treatise on the character of the German people		[36][3]
	Intellectual and Cultural History	Hans Kohn	Smith College	History of nationalism		[37][5]
	Medieval Literature	Louis Furman Sas	City College of New York	Origins of Romance languages		[38]
	Near Eastern Studies	Richard F. S. Starr	Hope House	Art of the ancient Near East		[39][40]
	Philosophy	Otis Hamilton Lee	Vassar College	Nature of philosophic inquiry		[3]
		Paul Marhenke	University of California, Berkeley	Treatise on the sensational and perceptual basis of knowledge in the nature of a critique of the subjectivistic premise of the modern theories of knowledge		[41]
	United States History	Howard Wolf	Cleveland News	History of American press associations	Also won in 1939	[42][9]
Natural Sciences	Chemistry	Arthur C. Cope	Bryn Mawr College	Tautomerism and the chemistry of tautomeric systems		[2]
		Aristid von Grosse		Catalytic reactions of organic compounds and investigations of the products of neutron bombardment of uranium, protactinium, and thorium	Also won in 1941	[3]
	Geography and Environmental Studies	Raymond E. Crist	University of Illinois	Human geography of the Venezuelan Andes	Also won in 1953	[43][44]
	Earth Science	Chester Stock	Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California Institute of Technology	Vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance of Mexico	Also won in 1939	[45]
		Harold Ernest Vokes	American Museum of Natural History	Fossil remains of spineless animals in Lebanon		[46]
	Mathematics	Jesse Douglas			Also won in 1941	[47]
		Gordon Pall	McGill University	Arithmetical properties of quadratic forms		[21]
		Raymond Louis Wilder	University of Michigan	Topology, particularly in the theory of locally connected spaces and of general manifolds		[48][49]
		Aurel Friedrich Wintner	Johns Hopkins University	Mathematical theory of probability and statistics		[35]
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	David Lion Drabkin	University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Biological oxidation-reduction processes		[50][24]
		John T. Edsall	Harvard Medical School	Physical chemistry of amino acids, peptides, proteins and related compounds	Also won in 1953	[17]
		Raymund Lull Zwemer	Columbia University Medical School	Factors involved in the maintenance, by living cells, of a differential permeability to electrolytes		[51]
	Neuroscience	Berry Campbell	University of Oklahoma	Research at Yale University	Also won in 1941	[52]
	Organismic Biology & Ecology	Myron Gordon			Also won in 1938	[53]
		Gregory Pincus	Clark University	Zoological investigations	Also won in 1939	[5]
	Physics	David Mathias Dennison	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Molecular structure		[54][49]
	Plant Science	Stanley A. Cain	University of Tennessee	Concepts and methods of geobotany		[2][9]
		Katherine Esau	University of California, Davis	Anatomy and physiology of vascular plants		[41]
		George Thomas Johnson	Washington University, St. Louis	Biologic and taxonomic sudy of tropical American lichens	Also won in 1941	[55][56]
		Franklin P. Metcalf [ast]	Lingnan University	Monograph on the flora of Fukien Province		[57]
		Henry K. Svenson [de]	Brooklyn Botanical Garden	Plant evolution		[58]
Social Sciences	Anthropology and Cultural Studies	Luther S. Cressman	University of Oregon	Indian culture of the Southwestern United States, compared with the culture of ancient Indian races of south-central Oregon	Also won in 1949	[59]
		Alfred Irving Hallowell	University of Pennsylvania	Personality in primitive communities		[60][24]
		Isabel Truesdell Kelly	University of California, Berkeley	Ethnographic and archeological investigations in southwestern Mexico	Also won in 1941	[41]
		Alfred Métraux			Also won in 1938	[61]
	Economics	Wassily W. Leontief	Harvard University	Mathematical economics	Also won in 1950	[17]
		James Ackley Maxwell	Clark University	Impact of federalism upon federal and state finance in the United States		[21]
		Nathan Reich	Hunter College	Relationship between political democracy and economic organization		[21][5]
		Frank A. Southard Jr.	Cornell University	Foreign exchange policies of several Latin American countries		[62][3]
	Law	Percy Elwood Corbett	McGill University	"The community of states and its law"		[21]
	Political Science	Donald Grant Creighton	University of Toronto	Development of Canadian nationality, 1850-present		[21]
		Warren Aldrich Roberts	Cleveland College	Mine taxation in the United States		[63]
		Francis Reginald Scott	McGill University	Nature and development of the Canadian constitution		[21]
	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 1941	[64]
	Sociology	Edward Franklin Frazier	Howard University	Comparative study of the Negro family in the West Indies and Brazil		[14]

1940 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Humanities	Linguistics	J. Eugene Garro	Archaeological Museum of Ancash	Native languages of Peru		[65]
Natural Sciences	Earth Science	Nabor Carrillo	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Soil mechanics in its application to the construction of foundations of buildings and dams	Also won in 1941	[66][67]
		Carlos Nicholson Jefferson [es]	National University of San Agustín	Comparative studies of the climates of the Peruvian and Californian coasts		[67][68]
	Medicine and Health	Hugo Pablo Chiodi	University of Buenos Aires	Respiratory phenomena caused by muscular activity in health and disease	Also won in 1939	[69][67]
		Eduardo Etzel	Clemente Ferreira Tuberculosis Institute	Technical studies of thoracic surgery in relation to the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis		[67]
		Raúl Palacios von Helms	Bacteriological Institute of Chile	Rabies	Also won in 1939	[70][67]
		Nilson Torres de Rezende		Neurophysiology	Also won in 1941	[67]
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	Américo S. Albrieux Murdoch	Institute of Endocrinology, Montevideo	Hormone therapy	Also won in 1941	[67]
		Fernando G. Huidobro Toro	Catholic University of Chile	Chemical transmission of nerve impulses		[67]
		Ciro A. Peluffo	Institute of Hygiene, Montevideo	Artificially induced microbiological variation		[67]
		Maurício Rocha e Silva	Biological Institute	Pharmacological properties of trypsin	Also won in 1941	[67]
	Physics	Mário Schenberg	University of São Paulo	Application of nuclear and atomic physics to astrophysics	Also won in 1941	[71][67]
		Facundo Bueso Sanllehí	University of Puerto Rico	Band spectra	Also won in 1941	[67]
	Plant Science	Carlos Arnaldo Krug	Instituto Agronômico de Campinas	Genetic investigations of citrus and other major crop plants of Brazil		[67]
		José Pérez Carabia [es]	La Salle College	Flora of Cuba		[67]
Social Sciences	Anthropology and Cultural Studies	Jorge C. Muelle [es]	Museo de la Nación			[72]
		Arthur Ramos de Araujo Pereira [pt]	University of Brazil	Cultural anthropology		[73]
	Economics	Jorge Kingston			Also won in 1947	[74]
	Political Science	Santos Primo Amadeo	University of Puerto Rico	Comparative study of constitutional law in Argentina and the United States	Also won in 1941	[75]

See also

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1939
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1941

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