Eighty-five Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1941.[1]
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fiction | The Death of Virgil | Also won in 1940 | [2] | ||
| Writing | ||||||
| The Nashville Banner | ||||||
| The Charlotte News | Also won in 1940, 1959 | |||||
| Also won in 1946 | [3] | |||||
| Fine Arts | Sculpture | Also won in 1940 | ||||
| Painting | Also won in 1950 | [4] | ||||
| [5] | ||||||
| Painting | [6] | |||||
| [7] [8] | ||||||
| Printmaking | [9] | |||||
| Ancient and modern textiles of South America | Also won in 1940 | [10] [11] | ||||
| Sculpture | Also won in 1942 | [12] | ||||
| Music Composition | Composition | [13] | ||||
| Also won in 1954 | [14] | |||||
| Also won in 1940 | [15] | |||||
| Also won in 1940, 1963 | [16] | |||||
| Dramatization of Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes | Also won in 1940 | [17] | ||||
| Photography | New York subway portraits | Also won in 1940, 1959 | [18] | |||
| American social scene in rural communities | [19] | |||||
| Bird photography | Also won in 1946 | [20] [21] | ||||
| Poetry | Writing | [22] | ||||
| [23] | ||||||
| Also won in 1940 | ||||||
| Humanities | British History | British sea power in the dreadnought era, with reference to the German naval menace from 1905-1914 | Also won in 1946, 1947 | [24] | ||
| Also won in 1943, 1948, 1963 | ||||||
| Classics | Also won in 1943 | [25] | ||||
| Also won in 1942 | [26] | |||||
| Economic History | [27] | |||||
| English Literature | Also won in 1942, 1945, 1956 | |||||
| Also won in 1942, 1948, 1973 | [28] | |||||
| Fine Arts Research | Also won in 1942 | [29] | ||||
| French Literature | Also won in 1951 | [30] | ||||
| General Nonfiction | Plantation labor in Hawaii | Also won in 1944 | ||||
| History of Bigotry in the United States (published 1943) | Also won in 1942 | [31] | ||||
| History of Science and Technology | Also won in 1945 | [32] | ||||
| Iberian & Latin American History | [33] | |||||
| Book on the history of the democratic tradition of Spain | Also won in 1942 | [34] | ||||
| Linguistics | Languages of Slavic-speaking immigrants and their families in Pennsylvania coal and iron mining communities, and the mutual influences these languages have on each other, on the language of the immigrants' children, and on the English of the immigrants themselves | |||||
| Literary Criticism | ||||||
| Spanish and Portuguese Literature | The Spanish-American novel | [35] | ||||
| United States History | ||||||
| [36] | ||||||
| Natural Sciences | Astrology and Astrophysics | [37] | ||||
| Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Bacteriological biochemistry | Also won in 1961 | ||||
| Chemistry | Spectroscopic study of molecules | |||||
| Processes to utilize uranium-235 as a source of atomic power | Also won in 1940 | |||||
| Earth Science | [38] | |||||
| Dynamical processes by which sedimentary particles are abraded, changed in shape, and sorted into deposits found in nature | ||||||
| Also won in 1942 | [39] | |||||
| Mathematics | Modern algebra, with special reference to the theory of groups of finite order and their characters | [40] | ||||
| Calculus of variation and geometry | Also won in 1940 | [41] | ||||
| Action of topographical transformation of groups on various types of spaces, particularly on Euclidean spaces and manifolds | ||||||
| Mathematical logic and the logical foundations of mathematics | Also won in 1942, 1955 | |||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Radioactive phosphorus and iodine in "tracer studies" of metabolic processes in animals | |||||
| Nutritional requirements and the chemistry of salivary secretions of certain insects | [42] | |||||
| Neuroscience | Electrical aspects of the structure and function of living nerve | [43] | ||||
| Integrative mechanisms of the spinal cord, with reference to the basic locomotor patterns of behavior | Also won in 1940 | [44] | ||||
| Organismic Biology and Ecology | Metamorphosis in insects | Also won in 1942 | ||||
| Book on ticks and their relation to animal and human diseases | ||||||
| Embryology of the fruit fly, with special reference to the cytology and differentiation of the organs and organ systems in the larva | [45] | |||||
| Physics | Application of atom smashing methods to the chemistry of living things | Also won in 1951, 1959 | ||||
| Cosmic ray research, particularly a cloud chamber study of the abundance and energy distribution of slow protons and mesotrons at high altitudes | Also won in 1942 | [46] | ||||
| Development of machinery for the production of high energy x-rays | ||||||
| Plant Science | Cyto-histological study of the growth of buds of tropical ferns in Hawaii | Also won in 1948 | ||||
| Taxonomic study of the Hepaticae of Mexico and Central America | [47] | |||||
| Botanical field work and collection in South America | Also won in 1940 | [48] | ||||
| Social Science | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Translation of the Hudhud | Also won in 1945 | [49] | ||
| Also won in 1940 | ||||||
| Also won in 1945 | ||||||
| Comparative study of the influences of contact with other cultures upon the Yaqui communities of Mexico and Arizona | Also won in 1955 | [50] | ||||
| Economics | Competition between wheat and rice as food in Hawaii | |||||
| Economy of Chile, 1920-1940 | ||||||
| Also won in 1942 | ||||||
| Political Science | [51] | |||||
| Psychology | Application of the principles and methods of Gestalt psychology to art analysis | Also won in 1942 | [52] | |||
| Book on the formation and change of opinion and attitude | Also won in 1943 | [53] | ||||
| Comparative investigation of the neurophysicological determinants of the phenomena of dissociation | Also won in 1958 | [54] | ||||
| Psychology of learning, with special reference to the differences in learning by understanding and learning by memorization and drill | Also won in 1940 | [55] | ||||
| Sociology | Socioeconomic significance of population | [56] |
| Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts | Fiction | [57] [58] | |||||
| Fine Arts | Also won in 1942 | ||||||
| Humanities | Education | Dr. G. Carrasco Experimental School | Elementary and vocational education in the United States | [59] | |||
| Natural Sciences | Earth Science | Soil mechanics and its application to the construction of building and dam foundations | Also won in 1940 | [60] | |||
| Engineering | Photoelastic method of determining stresses and the application of this method to practical problems in reinforced concrete design | [61] | |||||
| Medicine and Health | Institute of Endocrinology (Montevideo) | Endocrinology | Also won in 1947 | [62] | |||
| Juqueri Psychiatric Hospital | Electrical activity of the cortex of the brain and its variations under pathological conditions | [63] | |||||
| [64] | |||||||
| Neurophysiology | Also won in 1940 | [65] | |||||
| Also won in 1942 | [66] | ||||||
| Molecular and Cellular Biology | Institute of Endocrinology (Montevideo) | Also won in 1940 | [67] | ||||
| Quantitative chemical studies of immunity phenomena | Also won in 1945, 1946 | [68] | |||||
| Electrical stimulation of muscle | Also won in 1942 | [69] | |||||
| Also won in 1940 | [70] | ||||||
| Physics | Application of nuclear and atomic physics to astrophysics | Also won in 1940 | [71] | ||||
| Also won in 1940 | [72] | ||||||
| Plant Science | |||||||
| Instituto Agronômico de São Paulo | Cytogenetics of corn and tobacco | [73] | |||||
| Taxonomic and morphological studies of South American forage plants | Also won in 1942, 1943 | [74] | |||||
| Social Science | Political Science | Also won in 1940 | [75] |