A total of 342 scholars, artists, and scientists received Guggenheim Fellowships in 1974. $4,151,500 was disbursed between the recipients, who were chosen from an applicant pool of 2,668. Of the 113 universities represented, University of California, Berkeley boasted the most faculty winners (17), with Columbia University (15) in second, and Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania (11) in third.
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| Phyllis Lamhut || Phyllis Lamhut Dance Company || Dance performance: Country Mozart || ||
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| Twyla Tharp || Twyla Tharp Dance || || Also won in 1971 ||
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| rowspan="5" | Drama and Performance Art || Paul Foster || La MaMa Theatre || rowspan="5" | Playwriting || ||
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| Frank Gagliano || University of Texas at Austin || ||
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| Mark Medoff || New Mexico State University || ||
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| Susan Yankowitz || || ||
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| rowspan="10" | Fiction || Robert Coover || <!--not at brown until 1981--> || rowspan="10" | Writing || Also won in 1971 ||
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| George Palmer Garrett || University of South Carolina || ||
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| Shirley Hazzard || || ||
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| Jack Matthews || Ohio University || ||
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| Tom McHale || Northeastern University || ||
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| Richard Rhodes || || ||
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| Alexander L. Theroux || Harvard University || ||
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| John A. Yount || University of New Hampshire || ||
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| rowspan="5" | Film || David N. Hancock || Rice University || || ||
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| Paul Ronder || Brooklyn College || || ||
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| Robert Beauchamp || || rowspan="4" | Painting || ||
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| Nell Blaine || || ||
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| Howard Buchwald || || ||
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| Gene Davis || || ||
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| Charles Ginnever || Windham College || Sculpture || ||
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| Barry Le Va || || Sculpture || ||
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| William Majors || || Equipping his New Hampshire studio for painting and printmaking || ||
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| Nicholas Marsicano || Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture || Painting and graphics || ||
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| Joel Perlman || School of Visual Arts, New York City || ||
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| Edwin Bennett Shostak || || ||
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| Steven Sloman || New York Studio School || Painting || ||
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| William Tarr || || Sculpture || ||
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| James A. Turrell || || Enclosure and sky space in the Arizona desert || ||
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| Primous Fountain || <!--Madison, WI--> || Also won in 1977 ||
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| Fred Lerdahl || Harvard University || ||
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| Pandit Pran Nath || Mills College (visiting) || Music composition within the Kirana style of Indian classical music || ||
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| R. Murray Schafer || Simon Fraser University || Composition of two major works, one for the National Arts Centre and one for the Festival Singers of Canada || ||
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| Preston A. Trombly || Yale University || ||
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| rowspan="12" | Photography || William Clift || <!--Santa Fe, NM--> || New Mexico landscape "considered sacred by the Indians" || Also won in 1980 ||
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| Michael Di Biase || || Photography || ||
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| William J. Eggleston || <!--Memphis, TN--> || Cheap color printing || ||
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| Emmet Gowin || Princeton University || Peru and Ireland || ||
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| Ken T. Ohara || Menken Seltzer Studios || rowspan="4" | Photography || ||
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| Tetsu Okuhara || || ||
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| rowspan="10" | Poetry || Stephen Berg || University of the Arts || rowspan="10" | Writing || ||
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| Russell Edson || <!--Stamford, CT--> || ||
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| Christopher Middleton || University of Texas at Austin || ||
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| Mark Strand || Brandeis University (visiting) || ||
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| C. K. Williams || || ||
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| Jay Wright || || ||
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| Video & Audio || Keith Sonnier || <!--none--> || || ||
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| Richard Poirier || Rutgers University || Poetry and poetic career of Robert Frost || ||
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| rowspan="4" | Architecture, Planning and Design || Donald Appleyard || University of California, Berkeley || Urban environmental studies || ||
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| rowspan="3" | Biography || Kenneth Sydney Davis || <!--Princeton, MA--> || Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1945 || ||
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| Elinor Langer || Goddard College || Josephine Herbst || ||
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| Frank MacShane || Columbia University || Raymond Chandler || ||
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| rowspan="4" | Classics || Norman Austin || University of California, Los Angeles || || ||
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| rowspan="2" | East Asian Studies || Philip A. Kuhn || University of Chicago || || ||
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| Barbara Stoler Miller || Barnard College || Medieval Sanskrit poetry and its modern expressions || ||
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| Flavia Alaya || Ramapo College of New Jersey || Italy as an imaginative concept among Victorian writers || ||
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| Gerald L. Bruns || University of Iowa || Victorian thought, examining leading nonfiction prose writers of the period" || Also won in 1985 ||
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| Clarence Lee Cline || University of Texas at Austin || Letters to and from the Rossetti family || ||
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| Donald M. Friedman || University of California, Berkeley || The idea of imagination in the Renaissance from Wyatt to Milton || ||
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| Stephen J. Greenblatt || University of California, Berkeley || Fashioning of the self in the English Renaissance || Also won in 1982 ||
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| Jean H. Hagstrum || Northwestern University || || ||
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| Norman Kelvin || City College of New York || || ||
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| || Northwestern University || || ||
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| Michael Murrin || University of Chicago || Allegory and epic in the Renaissance || ||
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| Humphrey R. Tonkin || rowspan="2" | University of Pennsylvania || Structure of Spenser's The Faerie Queen || ||
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| rowspan="9" | Fine Arts Research || Albert Boime || Binghamton University || || Also won in 1984 ||
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| George M. Cohen || Northwestern University || || ||
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| Van Deren Coke || University of New Mexico || Exent of photography's influence on modern art || ||
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| Phyllis J. Freeman || || || ||
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| Charles James || || To write a textbook about his esoteric theory of "meta-morphology" but died before finishing || ||
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| Barbara Novak || Barnard College || Cultural history of 19th-century American landscape painting || ||
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| Charles Tilly || University of Michigan || Evolution of collective action in modern France || ||
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| Jean Louis Bruneau || Harvard University || || ||
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| James R. Lawler || University of California, Los Angeles || || ||
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| Victor S. Navasky || <!--none--> || || ||
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| Robert Pirsig || <!--technical writer--> || "Companion volume" for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, on social problems between whites and Native Americans; became Lila: An Inquiry into Morals || ||
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| Lillian Ross || The New Yorker || || ||
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| rowspan="2" | German & East European History || Martin E. Jay || University of California, Berkeley || Totality in 20th-century Marxist thought || ||
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| Heinz Politzer || University of California, Berkeley || Critical biography of Freud || Also won in 1958 and 1966 ||
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| Howard Stein || Columbia University || Formation and transformation of fundamental concepts in classical physics || ||
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| Latin American Literature || Thomas E. Skidmore || University of Wisconsin, Madison || Brazilian development, 1964-1974 || ||
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| Edward Alexander || University of Washington || || ||
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| Medieval History || Robert Somerville || Columbia University || Canon law in the 11th and 12th centuries || Also won in 1987 ||
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| John P. McCall || University of Cincinnati || "Influence on Chaucer of 14th-century translations into the vernacular" || ||
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| Alan H. Nelson || University of California, Berkeley || Art and doctrine in English morality plays || ||
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| Michael Kassler || || Functions of a standardized music theory transferred into STSC's APL*Plus system || ||
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| Clement A. Miller || John Carroll University || Annotated edition of correspondence between Renaissance musicians || ||
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| Richard G. Hovannisian || University of California, Los Angeles || || ||
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| James W. Cornman || University of Pennsylvania || Theory of empirical knowledge|| ||
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| Lawrence Sklar || University of Michigan || Structures for rational belief || ||
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| Peter C. Hodgson || Vanderbilt University || || ||
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| Krister Stendahl || Harvard Divinity School || || Also won in 1959 ||
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| Renaissance History || Werner L. Gundersheimer || University of Pennsylvania || Despots and Florence in the 15th century || ||
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| Alexander Vucinich || University of Texas at Austin || Third volume in his Science in Russian Culture series || Also won in 1985 ||
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| Science Writing || Gerald Jonas || || || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Spanish and Portuguese Literature || || University of Illinois at Chicago || || ||
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| Leon Livingstone || State University of New York at Buffalo || || ||
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| Theatre Arts || Marian Hannah Winter || <!--Cambridge, MA--> || || ||
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| Richard L. Bushman || Boston University || History of the Latter Day Saints || ||
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| Louis R. Harlan || University of Maryland || || ||
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| C. Allin Cornell || Massachusetts Institute of Technology || || ||
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| Frank J. Kerr || University of Maryland || || ||
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| Gerry Neugebauer || California Institute of Technology || rowspan="2" | Research at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge || ||
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| Edward A. Spiegel || Columbia University || Astrophysics ||
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| George R. Bird || Rutgers University || Chemistry and physics of photographic processes || ||
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| Philip R. Brooks || Rice University || || ||
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| John M. Deutch || Massachusetts Institute of Technology || || ||
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| Melvin J. Goldstein || Cornell University || Physical organic chemistry || ||
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| Walter Kauzmann || Princeton University || || Also won in 1956 ||
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| Robert Shing-Hei Liu || University of Hawaii at Manoa || Photophysics and photochemistry || ||
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| John Paul McTague || University of California, Los Angeles || || ||
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| George H. Morrison || Cornell University || Ion microprobe analysis || ||
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| Paul N. Schatz || University of Virginia || Inorganic spectroscopy || ||
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| William B. Streett || United States Military Academy || Liquids at the molecular level || ||
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| Robert Yaris || Washington University in St. Louis || Theoretical chemistry || ||
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| Seymour Ginsburg || University of Southern California || Grammars, formal languages and automata theory || ||
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| Frank M. Richter || Massachusetts Institute of Technology || || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Engineering || John C. Berg || University of Washington || || ||
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| Julian Szekely || University of Buffalo || || ||
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| rowspan="10" | Mathematics || Frederick J. Almgren Jr. || Princeton University || Geometric measure theory || ||
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| William Browder || Princeton University || Topology || ||
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| Samuel Eilenberg || Columbia University || Automaton theory || Also won in 1950 ||
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| Leonard Gross || Cornell University || Constructive quantum field theory || ||
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| Donald B. Martin || rowspan="2" | Harvard Medical School || Research in Geneva || ||
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| Fred S. Rosen || || ||
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| Gerald R. Fink || Cornell University || Regulation of protein synthesis in yeast || ||
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| Harry P. C. Hogenkamp || University of Iowa || Structure and function of vitamin B-12 || ||
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| Nathan O. Kaplan || University of California San Diego || || Also won in 1964 ||
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| Robert M. Kark || University of Illinois || || Also won in 1961 ||
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| Lewis J. Kleinsmith || University of Michigan || Phosphorylation of nuclear proteins during the cell cycle || ||
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| Robert P. Perry || University of Pennsylvania || Molecular biology || ||
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| John R. Roth || University of California, Berkeley || Genetic suppression of yeast and bacteria || ||
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| Alfred Stracher || SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University || Zoology research at Oxford University || ||
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| Jack L. Strominger || Harvard University || || ||
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| Ernest Noble || University of California, Irvine || Biochemistry and neurochemistry of alcoholism || ||
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| Dohn G. Glitz || University of California, Los Angeles || || ||
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| Lawrence B. Slobodkin || State University of New York at Stony Brook || How organisms respond to changes in their environment || Also won in 1961 ||
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| rowspan="12" | Physics || Korkut Bardakci || University of California, Berkeley || High energy and elementary particle physics || ||
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| James S. Langer || Carnegie-Mellon University || || ||
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| David M. Lee || Cornell University || Ion microprobe analysis || Also won in 1966 ||
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| Edgar Lipworth || Brandeis University || Research at Hebrew University of Jerusalem || ||
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| Joaquin M. Luttinger || Columbia University || Solid state physics || ||
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| Raymond Mountain || National Bureau of Standards || Research at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University || ||
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| Robert E. Ricklefs || University of Pennsylvania || Evolutionary ecology of birds || ||
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| rowspan="4" | Plant Sciences || George Bruening || University of California, Davis || Mechanisms of plant virus replication || ||
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| Klaus Raschke || Michigan State University || Biochemical and physiological movement of plant stomata || ||
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| Ralph L. Holloway Jr. || Columbia University || Evolution of the human brain || ||
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| Joseph G. Jorgensen || University of Michigan || Comparative history and culture of western North American Indians || ||
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| rowspan="5" | Economics || Edwin Burmeister || University of Pennsylvania || Economics of capital and time || ||
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| Robert E. Jensen || Trinity University || Measurement of economic, social and environmental impact of business firms || ||
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| Wallace E. Oates || Princeton University || Economics of metropolitan government || ||
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| Ryuzo Sato || Brown University || || ||
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| Education || Douglas M. Sloan || Columbia University || Higher learning in New York City, 1860-1918 || ||
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| Alfred F. Conard || University of Michigan || Comparative evaluation of corporation laws || ||
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| Sanford H. Kadish || University of California, Berkeley || Blame in criminal accountability for actions and consequences || ||
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| Harry Eckstein || Princeton University || Comparative study on the bases of support for governments || ||
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| Milton J. Rosenberg || University of Chicago || || ||
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| Albert Rothenberg || Yale University School of Medicine || Creative processes in art and science || ||
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| rowspan="8" | Sociology || Thomas J. Cottle || Children's Defense Fund of the Washington Research Project || || ||
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| Paul Hollander || University of Massachusetts, Amherst || || ||
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| Leo F. Schnore || University of Wisconsin || Quantitative studies in urban history || ||
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Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
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! Category !! Field of Study !! Fellow !! Institutional association <!--(if applicable)--> !! Research topic !! Notes !! class="unsortable"| Ref
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| rowspan="8" | Creative Arts || Drama and Performance Arts || || National Autonomous University of Mexico || rowspan="3" | Writing || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Fiction || José Francisco S. Bianco || || ||
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| Alfredo Bryce Echenique || || ||
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| Film || Norma Bahia Pontes || || Purchased film equipment for her video series Living in New York City || ||
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| rowspan="3" | Fine Arts || Miguel Condé || || Drawing and etching; 15-part series: Guggenheim Suite || ||
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| Manuel Felguérez || <!--joined UNAM as faculty in 1977--> || Research at Harvard || ||
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| Mario Toral || || Painting || ||
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| Poetry || Javier Sologuren || || Writing || ||
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| rowspan="6" | Humanities || rowspan="2" | Economic History || Pablo Macera || National University of San Marcos || || ||
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| Claudio Véliz || La Trobe University || Economic and social history of Chile || ||
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| General Nonfiction || Humberto Díaz Casanueva || || Wrote Memorias || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Philosophy || Risieri Frondizi || Southern Illinois University || Value theory || ||
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| Roberto Torretti || University of Puerto Rico || Partially dedicated to writing Philosophy of Geometry from Riemann to Poincaré (published 1978) || Also won in 1980 ||
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| Spanish & Portuguese Literature || || Catholic University of America || Structural relationship between Hebraic poetry and the poetry of Spain in the early Middle Ages || Also won in 1967 ||
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| rowspan="12" | Natural Science || rowspan="3" | Earth Science || Héctor L. D'Antoni || NASA Ames Research Center || || ||
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| Alberto Carlos Riccardi || Argentine National Research Council || || ||
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| Mario Vergara Martínez || University of Chile || || ||
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| Mathematics || Neantro Saavedra Rivano || Simón Bolívar University || Article: Finite Geometries in the Theory of Theta Characteristics (1976) || ||
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| Medicine and Health || Marcelino Cereijido || Instituto Politécnico Nacional || Work with David M. Sabatini on culturing MDCK cells || ||
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| Molecular and Cellular Biology || Mario Suwalsky || University of Concepción || || ||
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| Neuroscience || Juan H. Fernández || University of Chile || || ||
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| Organismic Biology and Ecology || Juan Alberto Schnack || Argentine National Research Council || || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Physics || || Federal University of Rio de Janeiro || || ||
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| Luiz C. M. Miranda || Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica || Research at the University of Arizona || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Plant Science || || University of Concepción || Botany research at National Museum of Natural History || ||
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| || || || Also won in 1962 ||
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| rowspan="4" | Social Science || rowspan="2" | Anthropology and Cultural Studies || || National Autonomous University of Mexico || || Also won in 1983 ||
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| Augusto Ricardo Cardich || National University of La Plata || || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Psychology || Lea Baider || Tel HaShomer Hospital || || ||
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| Celia Jakubowicz de Matzkin || University of Paris V || || ||
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See also
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1973
- List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1975