This is a list of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1966. From 2001 applicants,
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| rowspan="3" | Drama and Performance Art || Jack Gelber || || || Also won in 1963 ||
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| Errol John || || Creative writing for theatre || Also won in 1958 ||
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| Terrence McNally || <!--none--> || Creative writing for theatre || Also won in 1969 ||
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| rowspan="7" | Fiction || Donald Barthelme || || rowspan="7" | Writing || ||
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| Cecil Dawkins || || ||
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| Stanley Lawrence Elkin || Washington University in St. Louis || ||
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| Susan Sontag || || Also won in 1975 ||
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| David Derek Stacton || <!--none--> || Also won in 1960 ||
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| Calvin Albert || Pratt Institute || Sculpture || ||
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| John S. Anderson || || Sculpture || Also won in 1965 ||
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| John Angus Chamberlain || University of New Mexico || Sculpture || Also won in 1977 ||
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| Edward Dugmore || Pratt Institute || Painting || ||
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| Friedel Dzubas || || Painting || Also won in 1968 ||
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| Eugene Feldman || University of Pennsylvania || Photo-offset lithography || ||
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| David Levine || || Graphic art || ||
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| Sven Lukin || || Painting || ||
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| Eleanore Mikus || Monmouth College || Painting || ||
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| David P. Milby || Pennsylvania State University || Painting || ||
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| Frank Sumio Okada || Boeing || Painting || ||
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| Ricardo Yrarrázaval || || Painting || ||
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| rowspan="15" | Music Composition || David Del Tredici || || rowspan="15" | Composing || ||
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| Robert Erickson || San Francisco Conservatory of Music || ||
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| Vincent Sauter Frohne || <!--none--> || ||
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| Bernhard Heiden || Indiana University || ||
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| Benjamin George Lees || Queens College, CUNY || Also won in 1954 ||
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| Robert Hall Lewis || Goucher College || Also won in 1979 ||
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| George Rochberg || University of Pennsylvania || Also won in 1956 ||
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| Robert E. Ward || Juilliard School of Music || Also won in 1949, 1950 ||
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| Hugo Weisgall || Pennsylvania State University || Also won in 1955, 1960 ||
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| La Monte Young || || ||
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| rowspan="6" | Photography || Diane Arbus || || "American Rites, Manners and Customs" project || Also won in 1963 ||
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| Paul Caponigro || || Stone edifices in Ireland and England || Also won in 1975 ||
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| William Gedney || || Studies of American life (posthumously published as A Time of Youth, 2021) || ||
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| Ray K. Metzker || Philadelphia College of Art || || Also won in 1979 ||
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| Aaron H. Siskind || Illinois Institute of Technology || || ||
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| rowspan="6" | Poetry || A. R. Ammons || Cornell University || rowspan="6" | Writing || ||
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| John Berryman || University of Minnesota || Won for biography in 1952 ||
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| J. V. Cunningham || Brandeis University || Also won in 1959 ||
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| Donald Finkel || Washington University in St. Louis || ||
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| William E. Stafford || Lewis & Clark College || ||
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| David Mayer III || Lawrence University || English pantomime from 1806 to 1846 || ||
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| R. W. B. Lewis || Yale University || Biography of Edith Wharton || Also won in 1975 ||
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| Willard Thorp || Princeton University || Social content of American fiction from the beginnings through 1865 || ||
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| Edward Frank || || || ||
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| Taylor M. Potter || United Presbyterian Church of the United States || Christian worship and its expression through architecture || ||
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| Frank J. Tysen || Institute of Public Administration<!--in NY--> || Urban ugliness || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Bibliography || Ruth Mortimer || Harvard College Library || Descriptive catalogue of Itailan 16th century illustrated books in the Harvard College Library || ||
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| Peter Burchard || || || ||
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| Eleanor Flexner || <!--none--> || Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft || ||
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| rowspan="2" | British History || F. David Roberts || Dartmouth College || || ||
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| Peter D. Stansky || Stanford University || || Also won in 1973 ||
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| rowspan="5" | Classics || Milton V. Anastos || University of California, Los Angeles || Intellectual history of the Byzantine Empire || Also won in 1954 ||
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| John Kinloch Anderson || University of California, Berkeley || Greek military history in the time of Xenophon || ||
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| Michael C. J. Putnam || Brown University || || ||
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| Thomas G. Rosenmeyer || University of California, Berkeley || || Also won in 1982 ||
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| East Asian Studies || Tse-tsung Chow || University of Wisconsin–Madison || || ||
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| rowspan="4" | Economic History || John M. Day || Tel Aviv University || || ||
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| Charlotte J. Erickson || London School of Economics || || ||
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| William Nelson Parker || Yale University || Changes in American agriculture, 1840-1910 || ||
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| Lloyd E. Berry || University of Illinois, Urbana || Edition of the works of Thomas Elyot || ||
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| Jack P. Dalton || SUNY Buffalo || Completion of an edition of 66 notebooks used by James Joyce in the composition of Finnegans Wake || Also won in 1964 ||
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| George Siemers Fayen, Jr. || Yale University || Study of Thomas Hardy's notebooks || ||
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| Francis Russell Hart || University of Virginia || Modern Scottish novel|| ||
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| Louis A. Landa || Princeton University || Economic ideas in 18th-century literature || Also won in 1946 ||
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| Robert L. Peters || University of California, Riverside || || ||
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| Thomas C. Pinney || Pomona College || Collected letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay || Also won in 1984 ||
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| Irene Samuel || Hunter College || John Milton's theory of literary criticism || ||
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| rowspan="7" | Fine Arts Research || Klaus Berger || University of Kansas || Japanese sources of European paintings, 1860–1910 || ||
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| François Bucher || Yale University || Gothic architecture in the light of a newly discovered 15th-century sketchbook || Also won in 1958 ||
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| Albert Elsen || Indiana University || Origin and evolution of modern sculpture, 1890–1920 || ||
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| Felix J. Oinas || Indiana University || Slavic and Balto-Finnic folklore || Also won in 1961 ||
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| Ernest John Knapton || Wheaton College || || ||
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| John Baptist Wolf || University of Minnesota || Completion of a biography of Louis XIV of France || Also won in 1959 ||
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| Raymond Federman || SUNY Buffalo || Establishing new trends in French poetry, 1945-1965 || ||
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| rowspan="3" | German and East European History || || Brown University || || ||
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| Otto Pflanze || University of Minnesota, Minneapolis || Bismarck and the consolidation of the German Reich, 1871-1890 || ||
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| rowspan="5" | German and Scandinavian Literature || Adolf D. Klarmann || University of Pennsylvania || History of modern German drama || ||
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| Victor Lange || Princeton University || Development of the German novel in the 18th century || Also won in 1950 ||
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| Richard Allen Webster || University of California, Berkeley || Transition from parliamentary democracy to fascism in Italy, 1911–1915 || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Linguistics || Yakov Malkiel || University of California, Berkeley || Theoretical linguistics || Also won in 1948, 1959 ||
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| Friedrich von Huene || || Comparative study of historical woodwinds || ||
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| || Wellesley College || || ||
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| Janet E. Knapp || Boston University || Latin poetry in the musical liturgies of the 11th and 12th centuries || ||
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| rowspan="6" | Near Eastern Studies || || Johns Hopkins University || Edition of inscriptions and documents pertaining to the history of ancient Egypt || ||
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| George Makdisi || University of Michigan || || Also won in 1957 ||
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| Joan L. L. Oates || University of Cambridge || Archaeological survey in Mandali, Iraq and between Mandali and Badra || ||
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| Hisham B. Sharabi || Georgetown University || || ||
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| Linguistics || || Hebrew University || || ||
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| rowspan="5" | Philosophy || Isaac Levi || Western Reserve University || Positive and normative aspects of the concept of rationality || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Religion || William David Davies || Union Theological Seminary || || Also won in 1960 ||
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| Van A. Harvey || Southern Methodist University || Ethics of belief in 19th-century religious thought || Also won in 1971 ||
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| rowspan="2" | Renaissance History || Rosalie Littell Colie || University of Iowa || Life and works of Hugo Grotius || Also won in 1958 ||
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| Philip W. Silver || Oberlin College || Contemporary Spanish poetry || ||
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| rowspan="11" | United States History || Kenneth Kyle Bailey || Texas Western College || Southern white Protestantism in the 19th century || ||
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| Richard S. Dunn || University of Pennsylvania || Comparative history of the English Colonies in America || ||
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| Stanley P. Hirshson || Queens College, CUNY || || ||
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| Richard Hofstadter || || The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington (published 1968) || ||
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| Winthrop D. Jordan || University of California, Berkeley || Transformation of American social values, 1730-1790 || ||
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| Gabriel Morris Kolko || University of Pennsylvania || United States foreign policy between 1944 and 1956 || ||
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| John Edward Sunder || University of Texas at Austin || Conservation of natural resources in the trans-Mississippi west from 1800 to 1865 || ||
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| Hiroshi Sato || Ford Motor Company || Relationship between crystal and electronic structures in transition metal alloys || ||
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| Aaron D. Wyner || || || ||
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| rowspan="4" | Astronomy and Astrophysics || David Bodansky || University of Washington || || Also won 1974 ||
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| Jack Stanley Goldstein || Brandeis University || Work at the astrophysics lab at the University of Rome || ||
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| Robert A. Gross || Columbia University || || ||
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| William M. Protheroe || University of Pennsylvania || Photometry of eclipsing binary stars in the southern hemisphere || ||
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| Thomas A. Carlson || Oak Ridge National Laboratory || Atomic consequences of radioactive decay || ||
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| James W. Cobble || Purdue University || Thermodynamic properties and the oxidation states of the chemical elements in aqueous solutions || ||
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| Larry A. Haskin || University of Wisconsin, Madison || || ||
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| Dean Wentworth Robinson || Johns Hopkins University || Spectra and electronic structure of some first-period diatomic molecules|| ||
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| Joseph Silverman || University of Maryland, College Park || Radiation chemistry of polymers || ||
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| || University of California, Berkeley || Distribution and phylogeny of Siluarian graptolites in Europe || ||
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| George Veronis || Massachusetts Institute of Technology || Work at the International Institute of Meteorology in Stockholm || Also won in 1959 ||
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| rowspan="6" | Engineering || Hal O. Anger || University of California, Berkeley || Radioisotope cameras in medical diagnosis || ||
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| James Allister Jenkins || Washington University in St. Louis || Geometric studies in the theory of univalent functions || ||
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| Gerald Enoch Sacks || Cornell University || Axioms of recursion theory || ||
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| Philip S. Chen, Jr. || University of Rochester || Calcium transport across living membranes || ||
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| Attallah Kappas || University of Chicago || || ||
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| David Schachter || Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons || || ||
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| Andrew G. Szent-Győrgyi || Dartmouth Medical School || || ||
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| Lewis William Wannamaker || University of Minnesota || Biology of streptococci || ||
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| R. David Cole || University of California, Berkeley || Fundamental aspects of protein chemistry || ||
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| Edwin G. Krebs || University of Washington || || ||
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| Donald B. McCormick || Cornell University || Mechanisms of action of the flavoproteins || ||
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| Alwin M. Pappenheimer, Jr. || Harvard University || || ||
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| Russell Ross || University of Washington || || ||
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| Irwin William Sherman || University of California, Riverside || Research at the Carlsberg Biologic Institute in Copenhagen || || f
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| Peter H. Tsao || University of California, Riverside || || ||
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| Milton Zaitlin || University of Arizona || Mutants of the tobacco mosaic virus || ||
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| rowspan="10" | Organismic Biology and Ecology || Clifford O. Berg || Cornell University || Ecology of the snail-killing flies of South America || ||
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| Frederic W. Hill || University of California, Davis || || ||
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| DeForest Mellon, Jr. || University of Virginia || Sensory processes of insect feeding regulation || ||
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| Charles Duncan Michener || University of Kansas || Behavior of primitive social bees in Africa || Also won in 1955 ||
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| Evert I. Schlinger || University of California, Berkeley || Acrocerid flies in Chile || ||
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| Marcus Singer || Western Reserve University School of Medicine || || ||
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| rowspan="25" | Physics || Ansel C. Anderson || University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign || || ||
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| William Chinowsky || University of California, Berkeley || Elementary particle interactions || Also won 1978 ||
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| || Lawrence Radiation Laboratory || Nuclear structure|| ||
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| Donald Newton Langenberg || University of Pennsylvania || Electronic structure of metals || ||
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| Marshall Luban || University of Pennsylvania || Theory of the properties of liquid helium four || ||
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| Earl W. McDaniel || Georgia Institute of Technology || Theory of atomic collision phenomena || ||
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| Prem Prakash Srivastava || Brazilian Center for Research in Physics, Rio de Janeiro || || ||
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| Harold K. Ticho || University of California, Los Angeles || Elementary particle physics || Also won in 1973 ||
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| Emil Wolf || University of Rochester || Coherence phenomena in modern optical physics || ||
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| Charles Zemach || University of California, Berkeley || Theory of elementary particle physics || ||
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| rowspan="7" | Plant Sciences || Robert E. Beardsley || Manhattan College || Crown-gall tumor induction in plants || ||
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| || University of California, Davis || || ||
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| William Paul Jacobs || Princeton University || Movement of hormones in plant roots|| ||
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| A. Douglas McLaren || University of California, Berkeley || Photochemistry of viruses, particularly at short wavelengths of ultraviolet radiation || ||
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| Statistics || Erich L. Lehmann || University of California, Berkeley || Nonparametric techniques and their properties || Also won in 1955, 1979 ||
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| David M. Schneider || University of Chicago || || ||
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| Douglas Y. Thorson || Bradley University || || ||
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| rowspan="4" | Geography and Environmental Studies || Sheldon Judson || Princeton University || Physical environment and human occupancy in Etruria from Villanovan time to the present || Also won in 1961 ||
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| H. Roy Merrens || University of Wisconsin || || ||
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| rowspan="5" | Law || Richard Reeve Baxter || Harvard Law School || Creation of customary international law || ||
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| Charles Montgomery Gray || University of Chicago || || ||
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| Stephan Kuttner || Yale University || Medieval canon law || Also won in 1956 ||
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| Richard Michael Cyert || Carnegie Institute of Technology || Decision-making || ||
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| Bernard B. Fall || Howard University || Viet Cong || ||
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| Robert Allen Goldwin || University of Chicago ||John Locke's works in Great Britain || ||
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| Arnold Kramish || University of California, Los Angeles || Interaction of science and technology with other elements of national and internal policy || ||
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| John D. Martz || University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill || Class and political culture in Ecuador || ||
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| Psychology || Peter C. Dodwell || Queen's University at Kingston || || ||
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| rowspan="4" | Sociology || James Samuel Coleman || Johns Hopkins University || Theory of collective decisions || ||
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| Nathan Glazer || University of California, Berkeley || Comparative studies in problems of social policy || Also won in 1954 ||
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| Rita J. Simon || University of Illinois, Urbana || || ||
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| rowspan="4" | Fine Arts || Alberto W. Collie || Harvard Graduate School of Design (student) || Sculpture || ||
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| Marta Minujín || || Move to New York City || ||
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| Honorio Morales || || Travel to New York City || ||
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| Luis Felipe Noé || || || Also won in 1965 ||
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| Poetry || Homero Aridjis || Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes || || Also won in 1979 ||
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| rowspan="10" | Humanities || Architecture, Planning and Design || Teresa Gisbert de Mesa || Higher University of San Andrés || || Also won in 1958 ||
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| Fine Arts Research || || State University of Campinas || || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Folklore and Popular Culture || Isabel Aretz || Instituto Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes || Indigenous music of South and Central America|| ||
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| Luis Felipe Ramón y Rivera || National Institute of Folklore || || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Iberian and Latin American History || José A. Gautier || Universidad de Puerto Rico || || ||
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| José Miranda González || Universidad Nacional de México || || Also won in 1957 ||
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| Linguistics || || Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos || Philological studies || ||
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| Music Research || Francisco Curt Lange || || || ||
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| Spanish and Portuguese Literature || || Universidad de Buenos Aires || Poetry of Octavio Paz || ||
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| Theatre Arts || Gabriela Roepke Bahamonde || Universidad Católica de Chile || || ||
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| rowspan="13" | Natural Sciences || rowspan="2" | Earth Sciences || Carlos de Paula Couto || National Museum of Brazil || || Also won in 1949, 1951 ||
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| José F. Bonaparte || National University of Tucumán || || Also won in 1972 ||
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| Engineering || Kenneth S. Julien || University of the West Indies || || ||
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| Medicine and Health || João Garcia Leme || Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto || || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Molecular and Cellular Biology || Jorge E. Allende || Institute of Physical Chemistry and Pathology || || Also won in 1971 ||
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| Fernando Bastarrachea || Instituto Politécnico Nacional || || Also won in 1965 ||
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| rowspan="3" | Organismic Biology and Ecology || || National Museum of Natural History, Uruguay || || ||
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| Pablo R. San Martín || Universidad de Montevideo || General study on the Bothriuridae family || ||
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| Eduardo del Solar Osses || University of Chile || || Also won in 1965 ||
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| rowspan="4" | Plant Sciences || || Universidade de São Paulo || || ||
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| Armando Dugand || National University of Colombia || || Also won in 1965 ||
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| Maria Eneyda Pacheco Kauffman Fidalgo || Botanical Garden of São Paulo || || Also won in 1964 ||
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| Rafael Ramon Romero Castañeda || Universidad Nacional de Colombia || || ||
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| rowspan="3" | Social Sciences || rowspan="3" | Anthropology and Cultural Studies || Fernando Horcasitas || National School of Anthropology and History || || ||
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| Ramiro Matos Mendieta || National University of the Center of Peru || || Also won in 1965 ||
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| Alberto Rex González || National University of La Plata, National University of the Littoral || || Also won in 1956, 1967 ||
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See also
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1965
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1967
