List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1940

Seventy-three Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1940. A total of $165,000 was disbursed.

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
		Ward Allison Dorrance	University of Missouri	Writing
		Edwin Moultrie Lanham	Herald Tribune	Novel about the Southwest
		Andrew Nelson Lytle		Writing	Also won in 1941, 1959
		Christine Weston
	Fine Arts	Bernard Arnest	Broadmoor Academy	Painting
		Lawrence Louis Barrett
		Richmond Barthé		Sculpture: Memorial to James Weldon Johnson	Also won in 1941
		Miguel Covarrubias		Book preparation	Also won in 1933
		John Hovannes		Sculpture
		Henry Lee McFee		Painting
		Elizabeth Tracy
		Herman Palmer		Graphic arts: Wild and domesticated animals
		Ruth Reeves		Living materials for modern textile designs	Also won in 1941
		Carl Schaefer		Painting: Life of an American farmer
		Harry Wickey		Sculpture	Also won in 1939
	Music Composition	Marc Blitzstein		Musical stage composition	Also won in 1941
		Alvin Etler	Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra	Composition	Also won in 1941, 1963
		Earl Robinson		Full-length ballad-operetta based on The People, Yes	Also won in 1941
		William Howard Schuman	Sarah Lawrence College	Composition	Also won 1939
	Photography	Walker Evans		New York subway portraits	Also won in 1941, 1959
		Edward Weston		California	Also won in 1939
	Poetry	Lloyd Frankenberg		Writing
		Delmore Schwartz			Also won in 1941
	Theatre Arts	Howard Bay		Scenic design
Humanities	American Literature	Alfred Kazin	New York Herald Tribune	20th-century American prose	Also won in 1947, 1958, 1969
	Architecture, Planning, and Design	Gregory Ain		Development of low-cost housing
	Biography	Richmond C. Beatty	Vanderbilt University	James Russell Lowell
	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
		Carl Zigrosser	Weyhe Gallery	Art research	Also won in 1939
	General Nonfiction	John Dos Passos		Essays on the basis of the present American conceptions of freedom of thought	Also won in 1939, 1942
	German and East European History	Lewis Galantière		Treatise on the character of the German people
	Intellectual and Cultural History	Hans Kohn	Smith College	History of nationalism
	Medieval Literature	Louis Furman Sas	City College of New York	Origins of Romance languages
	Near Eastern Studies	Richard F. S. Starr	Hope House	Art of the ancient Near East
	Philosophy	Otis Hamilton Lee	Vassar College	Nature of philosophic inquiry
		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
	United States History	Howard Wolf	Cleveland News	History of American press associations	Also won in 1939
Natural Sciences	Chemistry	Arthur C. Cope	Bryn Mawr College	Tautomerism and the chemistry of tautomeric systems
		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
	Geography and Environmental Studies	Raymond E. Crist	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Human geography of the Venezuelan Andes	Also won in 1953
	Earth Science	Chester Stock	Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California Institute of Technology	Vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance of Mexico	Also won in 1939
		Harold Ernest Vokes	American Museum of Natural History	Fossil remains of spineless animals in Lebanon
	Mathematics	Jesse Douglas			Also won in 1941
		Gordon Pall	McGill University	Arithmetical properties of quadratic forms
		Raymond Louis Wilder	University of Michigan	Topology, particularly in the theory of locally connected spaces and of general manifolds
		Aurel Friedrich Wintner	Johns Hopkins University	Mathematical theory of probability and statistics
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	David Lion Drabkin	Perelman School of Medicine	Biological oxidation-reduction processes
		John T. Edsall	Harvard Medical School	Physical chemistry of amino acids, peptides, proteins and related compounds	Also won in 1953
		Raymund Lull Zwemer	Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons	Factors involved in the maintenance, by living cells, of a differential permeability to electrolytes
	Neuroscience	Berry Campbell	University of Oklahoma	Research at Yale University	Also won in 1941
	Organismic Biology & Ecology	Myron Gordon			Also won in 1938
		Gregory Pincus	Clark University	Zoological investigations	Also won in 1939
	Physics	David Mathias Dennison	University of Michigan	Molecular structure
	Plant Science	Stanley A. Cain	University of Tennessee	Concepts and methods of geobotany
		Katherine Esau	University of California, Davis	Anatomy and physiology of vascular plants
		George Thomas Johnson	Washington University in St. Louis	Biologic and taxonomic sudy of tropical American lichens	Also won in 1941
		Franklin P. Metcalf [ast]	Lingnan University	Monograph on the flora of Fukien Province
		Henry K. Svenson [de]	Brooklyn Botanic Garden	Plant evolution
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
		Alfred Irving Hallowell	University of Pennsylvania	Personality in primitive communities
		Isabel Truesdell Kelly	University of California, Berkeley	Ethnographic and archeological investigations in southwestern Mexico	Also won in 1941
		Alfred Métraux			Also won in 1938
	Economics	Wassily W. Leontief	Harvard University	Mathematical economics	Also won in 1950
		James Ackley Maxwell	Clark University	Impact of federalism upon federal and state finance in the United States
		Nathan Reich	Hunter College	Relationship between political democracy and economic organization
		Frank A. Southard Jr.	Cornell University	Foreign exchange policies of several Latin American countries
	Law	Percy Elwood Corbett	McGill University	"The community of states and its law"
	Political Science	Donald Grant Creighton	University of Toronto	Development of Canadian nationality, 1850-present
		Warren Aldrich Roberts	Cleveland College of Art and Design	Mine taxation in the United States
		Francis Reginald Scott	McGill University	Nature and development of the Canadian constitution
	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
	Sociology	Edward Franklin Frazier	Howard University	Comparative study of the Negro family in the West Indies and Brazil

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

See also

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