Two hundred and eighty-six scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1970.
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| Anna Halprin || <!--San Francisco--> || Experiments in kinetic theatre || ||
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| rowspan="3" | Drama and Performance Art || Ben Caldwell || || rowspan="3" | Playwriting || ||
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| George P. Elliott || Syracuse University || Michael of Byzantium (unfinished) || Also won in 1961 ||
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| Gregory J. Markopoulos || || Filmmaking || ||
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| Mildred Chick Strand || Occidental College || Guacamole || ||
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| rowspan="17" | Fine Arts || Romare Bearden || <!--none--> || || ||
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| James Bishop || Cooper Union || Painting || ||
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| Ronald Bladen || || Drawing || ||
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| Robert Duran || || Painting || ||
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| Patricia Johanson || || Painting: Cyrus Field || Also won in 1980 ||
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| Freda Koblick || <!--San Francisco--> || Sculpture || ||
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| Gerald Nichols || Philadelphia College of Art || rowspan="2" | Painting || ||
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| Irving Petlin || || ||
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| John Stockdale || <!--Oak Ridge, TN; physician--> || Painting || ||
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| Walasse Ting || || || ||
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| Anne Truitt || || Sculpture || ||
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| Jack Tworkov || Yale University || Painting || ||
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| Christopher Wilmarth || Cooper Union || Sculpture || Also won in 1983 ||
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| rowspan="7" | Music Composition || Jon H. Appleton || Dartmouth College || Electric music composition || ||
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| Paul Earls || Duke University || rowspan="6" | Composing || ||
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| Richard Hoffmann || Oberlin Conservatory of Music || Also won in 1977 ||
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| Karl Korte || State University of New York at Binghamton || Also won in 1959 ||
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| Stefan Wolpe || || Also won in 1962 ||
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| rowspan="5" | Photography || Imogen Cunningham || <!--San Francisco--> || Turning old negatives into prints || ||
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| Benedict J. Fernandez, III || New School for Social Research || Changing forms of protest in the United States, from violence to peaceful revolution || ||
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| Joel Meyerowitz || <!--none--> || Leisure time || Also won in 1978 ||
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| Tod Papageorge || || Spectator sports in the United States during the Vietnam War || Also won in 1977 ||
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| Minor White || Massachusetts Institute of Technology || || ||
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| rowspan="4" | Poetry || James D. Reed || University of Montana (student) || rowspan="4" | Writing || ||
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| rowspan="104" | Humanities || African Studies || Robert I. Rotberg || Massachusetts Institute of Technology || || ||
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| rowspan="2" | American Literature || Norman S. Grabo || University of California, Berkeley || History of Anglo-American devotional literature, 1670-1730 || ||
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| Peter S. Stevens || Oceans General Inc. || Nature and its relationship to building || ||
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| Sim Van der Ryn || University of California, Berkeley || Design of classrooms || ||
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| rowspan="2" | British History || George Dangerfield || University of California, Santa Barbara || || ||
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| Paul S. Seaver || Stanford University || Experience of religious reform in urban England, 1560-1662 || ||
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| James R. Wiseman || University of Texas, Austin || Historical and political commentary on Xenophon's Hellenika || ||
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| rowspan="2" | East Asian Studies || Derk Bodde || University of Pennsylvania || Annual festivals in China during the Han dynasty || ||
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| Economic History || John P. McKay || University of Illinois || || ||
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| rowspan="17" | English Literature || Stephen Booth || University of California, Berkeley || Critical study of Shakespeare's plays as actions upon the understanding of their audiences || ||
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| Jerome J. McGann || University of Chicago || || Also won in 1975 ||
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| Yvonne Noble || University of Illinois || || ||
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| Mark L. Reed || University of North Carolina || Chronology of the life and works of Wordsworth, 1800-1815 || Also won in 1965 ||
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| John J. Richetti || Columbia University || || ||
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| Robert H. Super || University of Michigan || || Also won in 1962 ||
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| Georg Bernhard Tennyson || University of California, Los Angeles || Victorian devotional poetry || ||
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| Ann B. Sutherland Harris || Columbia University || || ||
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| Eila M. Kokkinen || Museum of Modern Art || || ||
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| Rosalind E. Krauss || Massachusetts Institute of Technology || || ||
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| Charles Mitchell || Bryn Mawr College || || ||
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| Carlo Pedretti || University of California, Los Angeles || Literary works of Leonardo da Vinci || ||
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| Victor E. Graham || University of Toronto || Literary and artistic associations in Renaissance France || ||
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| Jonathan Kozol || Storefront Learning Center || Free school movement || Also won in 1980 ||
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| Noel Perrin || Dartmouth College || Circumstances surrounding the cessation of production of firearms in 1620 in Japan || Also won in 1985 ||
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| George Steiner || Churchill College, Cambridge || || ||
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| Jose Yglesias || || Research in Spain || Also won in 1976 ||
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| German and East European History || Istvan Deak || Columbia University || || ||
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| rowspan="5" | German and Scandinavian Literature || || University of Wisconsin || Unpublished papers of Caroline von Wolzogen || ||
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| Dorrit Cohn || Indiana University || Comparative study of the techniques for presenting consciousness in fiction || ||
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| John M. Ellis || University of California, Santa Cruz || Narrator in the German novelle || ||
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| Charles Weiner || American Institute of Physics || || ||
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| Italian Literature || Robert Hollander || Princeton University || || ||
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| William D. Labov || Columbia University || || Also won in 1987 ||
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| rowspan="3" | Literary Criticism || Frederick C. Crews || University of California, Berkeley || Implications of psychoanalytic method for literary and social criticism || ||
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| Paul de Man || Johns Hopkins University || European Romanticism and Post-Romanticism, from Rousseau to Nietzsche || Also won in 1981 ||
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| Lawrence Gushee || University of Wisconsin || Musical culture of 14th-century France || Also won in 1982 ||
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| Leonard B. Meyer || University of Chicago || || ||
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| rowspan="5" | Near Eastern Studies || Roderic H. Davison || George Washington University || || ||
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| Shelomo Dov Goitein || University of Pennsylvania || Letters and documents from the Cairo Geniza translated from Arabic into English || Also won in 1965 ||
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| Walter Laqueur || Brandeis University || || ||
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| Abraham L. Udovitch || Princeton University || || ||
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| rowspan="5" | Philosophy || Max Black || Cornell University || Foundations of theoretical linguistics || Also won in 1950 ||
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| David B. Lyons || Cornell University || Philosophy of Jeremy Bentham || ||
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| Richard Alan Wasserstrom || University of California, Los Angeles || Philosophical arguments concerning the morality of war || ||
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| rowspan="3" | Russian History || Samuel H. Baron || University of California, San Diego || The Weber thesis and the failure of capitalist development in early modern Russia || ||
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| Herbert H. Kaplan || Indiana University || Social and economic management of landed estates in 18th-century Russia || ||
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| Slavic Literature || Maurice Friedberg || Indiana University || Impact of Western culture on Russia since 1953 || Also won in 1981 ||
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| rowspan="3" | Spanish and Portuguese Literature || Andrew P. Debicki || University of Kansas || Poetry of Jorge Guillen || Also won in 1979 ||
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| Joseph Chaikin || The Open Theater || || Also won in 1975 ||
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| Henry F. May || University of California, Berkeley || European scenic design || ||
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| Hugh D. Graham || Johns Hopkins University || Political history of the American South since 1948 || ||
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| Eric L. McKitrick || Columbia University || || Also won in 1976 ||
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| Dale L. Morgan || Bancroft Library || History of the North American fur trade, 1763-1870 || Also won in 1945 ||
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| Paul A. Robinson || Stanford University || History of sexual thought in the 20th century || ||
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| Robert Sklar || University of Michigan || || ||
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| Clifton K. Yearley || State University of New York at Buffalo || Comparative studies in urban history, 1850-1939 || ||
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| Joel Roudolph Williamson || University of North Carolina || Race relations in the American South, 1865-1915 || ||
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| Michael E. Fisher || Cornell University || Mathematical physics and chemistry || Also won in 1978 ||
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| Yu-Chi Ho || Harvard University || || ||
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| Donald A. Ludwig || New York University || || ||
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| Forman Arthur Williams || University of California, San Diego || Flame theory || ||
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| George Cunliffe McVittie || University of Illinois || || Also won in 1962 ||
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| rowspan="11" | Chemistry || Alma L. Burlingame || University of California, Berkeley || Current problems in bio-organic and biomedical research || ||
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| Jack Kenneth Crandall || Indiana University || Organometallic chemistry || ||
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| John Polanyi || University of Toronto || Dynamics of chemical reactions || Also won in 1979 ||
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| Arthur M. Poskanzer || Lawrence Radiation Laboratory || Nuclear chemistry || ||
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| Michell J. Sienko || Cornell University || Solid-state chemistry || ||
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| rowspan="3" | Computer Science || Malcolm Bersohn || University of Toronto || || ||
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| Henry D. Block || Cornell University || Biomathematics || ||
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| Johannes Weertman || Northwestern University || Research at University of Cambridge || ||
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| rowspan="3" | Engineering || Dale F. Rudd || University of Wisconsin || Design synthesis || ||
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| William A. Tiller || Stanford University || Science of crystallization || ||
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| Marshall Hall, Jr. || California Institute of Technology || Research at Cambridge University || Also won in 1955 ||
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| George W. Mackey || Harvard University || || Also won in 1949, 1961 ||
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| Jurgen Moser || New York University || || ||
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| Hugo Rossi || Brandeis University || || ||
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| Shôichirô Sakai || University of Pennsylvania || Examples of type II1-factors, derivations on operator algebras and the Stone-Weierstrass theorem for operator algebras || ||
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| Goro Shimura || Princeton University || || ||
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| Perry B. Molinoff || University of Pennsylvania || || ||
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| Alexander Nadas || Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard Medical School || || ||
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| Edward A. Smuckler || University of Washington || || ||
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| Keith B. Taylor || Stanford University || Comparative studies in medical education and human nutrition || ||
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| rowspan="21" | Molecular and Cellular Biology || Giuseppe Attardi || California Institute of Technology || Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and Pasteur Institute || Also won in 1986 ||
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| Jonathan Beckwith || Harvard Medical School || || ||
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| Charles J. Brokaw || California Institute of Technology || Research at Cambridge University || ||
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| Alexander N. Glazer || University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine || Microbial physiology and biochemistry || Also won in 1982 ||
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| Irving Goldberg || Harvard Medical School || || ||
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| Chien Ho || University of Pittsburgh || Biological membranes || ||
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| Shinya Inoué || University of Pennsylvania || Actions of groups of cells or organisms as these relate to the physiological activity and interaction with the environment of these organisms || ||
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| Rachmiel Levine || New York Medical College || || ||
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| Robert K. Mortimer || University of California, Berkeley || Genetics of yeast || ||
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| || Northwestern University || || Also won in 1956 ||
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| Drew Schwartz || Indiana University || Molecular genetics || ||
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| Esmond E. Snell || University of California, Berkeley || Enzyme biochemistry || Also won in 1954, 1962 ||
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| George R. Stark || Stanford University || Biochemistry of proteins || ||
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| Gregorio Weber || University of Illinois || || ||
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| Samuel B. Weiss || University of Chicago; Argonne Cancer Research Hospital || || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Neuroscience || Moise H. Goldstein, Jr. || Johns Hopkins University || Auditory physiology || ||
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| Paul A. Johnsgard || University of Nebraska–Lincoln || Biology of North American grouse and quail || ||
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| Karel F. Liem || University of Illinois Medical Center || Evolution of fish in Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa || Also won in 1978 ||
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| Leonard Muscatine || University of California, Los Angeles || Symbiotic associations between plants and animals || ||
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| Robert R. Borchers || University of Wisconsin || Nuclear physics || ||
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| Hung Cheng || Massachusetts Institute of Technology || || ||
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| James W. Cronin || Princeton University || || Also won in 1982 ||
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| || Northwestern University || || ||
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| || Stanford University || Electronic theory of molecules || ||
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| Edwin Kashy || Michigan State University || Assumptions and considerations relating to the stability of nuclei in a region well beyond any of the presently known elements || ||
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| Bunji Sakita || University of Wisconsin || Elementary particle physics || ||
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| Marlan O. Scully || University of Arizona || Quantum electrodynamics || ||
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| Tai Tsun Wu || Harvard University || Research at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron || ||
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| Henry William Wyld || University of Illinois || Theory and phenomenology of strong interactions in high-energy particle physics, particularly the theory of high-energy diffraction scattering and the multiperipheral model || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Plant Sciences || Daniel Branton || University of California, Berkeley || Biological membrane structure || ||
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| Statistics || Peter J. Bickel || University of California, Berkeley || Multivariate nonparemetric analysis || ||
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| Louis C. Faron || State University of New York Stony Brook || Peruvian social stratification || ||
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| June C. Nash || New York University || || ||
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| Robert M. Netting || University of Pennsylvania || Social organization as related to the environmental in which people live and the way resources available are used by the society || ||
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| Hannah Marie Wormington || <!--none--> || || ||
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| rowspan="5" | Economics || Albert Ando || University of Pennsylvania || Theoretical problems in estimation and analysis of large-scale econometric models || ||
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| Jacob Mincer || Columbia University || || ||
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| Martin Lawrence Weitzman || Yale University || Research in the USSR || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Education || Max Beberman || University of Illinois || British early education || ||
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| Theodore R. Sizer || Harvard University || Process of change in American public schools || ||
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| rowspan="3" | Geography and Environmental Studies || Charles F. Bennett || University of California, Los Angeles || Ecological restoration || ||
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| John H. Galloway || University of Toronto || Historical geography in northeastern Brazil || ||
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| Ronald M. Dworkin || University of Oxford || || ||
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| Ralph E. Giesey || University of Iowa || 16th-century French political theory || ||
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| Harry Kalven Jr. || University of Chicago Law School || || ||
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| rowspan="6" | Political Science || Isaac Kramnick || Yale University || || ||
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| Nelson W. Polsby || University of California, Berkeley || Politics of the U.S. House of Representatives || Also won in 1977, 1985 ||
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| Aaron Bernard Wildavsky || University of California, Berkeley || Comparative studies in the economics and politics of governmental budgeting || ||
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| rowspan="8" | Psychology || Clyde H. Coombs || University of Michigan || || ||
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| Werner K. Honig || Dalhousie University || Naturalistic stimuli in the experimental analysis of behavior || ||
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| Gerald S. Lesser || Harvard University || || ||
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| William J. McGuire || University of California, San Diego || Social psychology || ||
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| Allan Silver || Columbia University || || ||
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1970 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
{| class="wikitable sortable static-row-numbers static-row-header-text"
! Category !! Field of Study !! Fellow !! Institutional association <!--(if applicable)--> !! Research topic !! Notes !! class="unsortable"| Ref
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| rowspan="3" | Creative Arts || rowspan="2" | Fiction || Fernando del Paso || || rowspan="2" | Writing || Also won in 1980 ||
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| Augusto Roa Bastos || || Also won in 1979 ||
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| Fine Arts || Hélio Oiticica || <!--none--> || "Poly-sensorial" art, or environments that could be entered and activated as creative centers || ||
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| rowspan="34 | Natural Sciences || Earth Science || Osvaldo Alfredo Reig || University of Buenos Aires || || Also won in 1963 ||
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| rowspan="2" | Molecular and Cellular Biology || Susi Koref-Santibañez || University of Chile || || ||
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| José Mordoh || CONICET || || Also won in 1968 ||
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| Plant Sciences || William Antônio Rodrigues || National Institute of Amazonian Research || || Also won in 1981 ||
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See also
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1969
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1971
