List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1945 explained

Ninety-six Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1945.^[1] More than 36 additional awards were postservice fellowships given to artists and scholars unable to apply in previous years due to the war.

1945 Post-Service Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Branch/service	Civilian institution	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Fine Arts				Painting: Oil industry's part in World War II		[2]
					Sculpture		[3]
						Also won in 1947
					Painting: Ohio landscapes
					Painting		[4]
						Also won in 1947	[5]
					Painting: Works based on his convalescence in England in World War II		[6]
					Painting: Southwest Pacific, based on combat sketches
						Also won in 1947	[7]
	Fiction					Also won in 1941
					Book about Japan
					Writing	Also won in 1944	[8]
	Poetry				Prose based on his army experience
Humanities	American Literature
	Biography					Also won in 1936
	Classics				Cicero and great Roman nobles
	Economic History				Industrial planning in Brazil		[9]
	English Literature					Also won in 1941, 1942, 1956
	Fine Arts Research				Study of the printed books of hours, their development, style, schools, iconography, and influences
	French History				Political thought in 17th-century France	Also won in 1948, 1953	[10]
	General Nonfiction			Delta Democrat Times
						Also won in 1958
	History of Science and Technology				Place of Copernicus in the development of modern thought	Also won in 1941	[11]
	Italian Literature
	Medieval History				Origin and development of the feudal institution, and judgment by peers on the Continent and in England
	Medieval Literature
	Near Eastern Studies				Early cultures of Baluchistan, and the relationships of the civilizations of the Indus Valley and Mesopotamia during the third millennium
	Philosophy
					Ethico-philisophical content of humanism of the first half of the 15th century		[12]
	United States History					Also won in 1944
					History of Mormonism and the Mormons, with particular reference to the influence of the Mormons upon American life since 1830	Also won in 1970
					History of World War II on the home front and the military front	Also won in 1944	[13]
					America's part in the development of world air routes and the history of American foreign air policy
					Origins of the New South, 1880-1913 (published 1951)	Also won in 1959
Natural Sciences	Applied Mathematics				Acoustics		[14]
	Medicine and Health				Application of physiological methods to problems of degeneration in nerve fibers and myelin sheaths		[15]
	Organismic Biology and Ecology				Evaluation of evolutionary concepts	Also won in 1936, 1953
	Physics				Electrical and mechanical properties of matter at microwave radio frequencies	Also won in 1956, 1963
	Plant Science				Marine algae and marine flora on the Pacific coast of Mexico and Central America
					Absorption and behavior of inorganic ions in plant nutrition	Also won in 1957
Social Sciences	Anthropology and Cultural Studies				Philippine folklore	Also won in 1941
						Also won in 1941
	Education				Educational system in Japan with a view to rehabilitation after the war	Also won in 1949, 1952
	Political Science
	Psychology				Nervous tension in man
					Comparative study of Navajo, Eskimo, and Japanese peoples
						Also won in 1947
	Sociology						[16]

1945 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Fine Arts
					Also won in 1947
						[17]
				Painting: Harlem life and 14-panel series on war		[18]
				Painting	Also won in 1947	[19]
				Sculpture		[20]
				Painting	Also won in 1944	[21]
	Fiction			Writing		[22]
					Also won in 1948
	Music Composition			Composition	Also won in 1947, 1949	[23]
					Also won in 1950
					Also won in 1959
					Also won in 1944	[24]
					Also won in 1951
					Also won in 1953
	Photography		Farm Security Administration			[25]
						[26]
	Poetry			Writing		[27]
					Also won in 1950
Humanities	American Literature				Also won in 1959	[28]
				Part played in American history by the forest between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River	Also won in 1946	[29]
	Architecture, Design and Planning
	Biography			Thomas Jefferson, 1776-1789, including his governorship of Virginia and his ministry to France	Also won in 1946
	British History					[30]
					Also won in 1944	[31]
					Also won in 1936, 1953, 1960	[32]
	Classics			Preparation of an annual list of the magistrates of the Roman Republic, including minor officials and members of the priestly colleges	Also won in 1958	[33]
						[34]
				Structure and composition of the Iliad		[35] [36]
	English Literature
					Also won in 1952	[37]
	Film, Video and Radio Studies			"Social, political, and artistic situation of postwar Germany"	Also won in 1943, 1944	[38]
	Fine Arts Research		[Harvard University]]	Corpus of Rembrandt's drawings	Also won in 1942
						[39]
					Also won in 1944
	Folklore and Popular Culture					[40]
				White magic and the miracles of Christian legend
	General Nonfiction
				Narrative on immigration of Japanese to the United States	Also won in 1946
	German and East European History			Book titled The Prusso-German Junkers: A History of a Social Class	Also won in 1946
	German and Scandinavian Literature				Also won in 1946	[41]
	Intellectual and Cultural History				Also won in 1939	[42]
						[43]
	Medieval History			Relations between conscious and casuistry in the moral philosophy and law of the later Middle Ages (12th-16th centuries)
	Medieval Literature			History of Romanesque literature in Western Europe between approx. 325 and 1125 A.D.	Also won in 1939	[44]
				History of the medieval religious plays of France, Germany, and England exclusive of the saints' plays	Also won in 1946	[45]
	Music Research			Organization of music libraries and archives		[46]
	Philosophy					[47]
						[48]
						[49]
						[50] [51]
				Theory of knowledge, with special reference to the problems of empiricism		[52]
	United States History			Liberalism in the New South, 1865-1929		[53]
				Growth of the petroleum industry in the United States, 1870-1895
				History of the United States during the confederation period, 1781-1789
Natural Sciences	Astronomy and Astrophysics				Also won in 1952	[54]
	Chemistry
					Also won in 1961
	Mathematics				Also won in 1946
					Also won in 1946	[55]
				Topology	Also won in 1955
					Also won in 1947
	Medicine and Health
	Molecular and Cellular Biology			Ion competition as a factor in the nutrition of plants		[56]
					Also won in 1947	[57]
					Also won in 1982
				Fundamental mechanisms that control biological processes and phenomena	Also won in 1944, 1950	[58]
					Also won in 1951, 1967	[59]
	Organismic Biology and Ecology				Also won in 1944	[60]
					Also won in 1948	[61]
				Genetics	Also won in 1944
				Physiological and chemical interrelationships in crustaceans		[62]
				Genetic effect of ultra-high frequency irradation	Also won in 1974	[63]
	Plant Science					[64]
				Correlations between plants of the Southern Appalachians and the temperate floras of the mountains and highlands of Mexico and Central America	Also won in 1944	[65]
Social Science	Economics					[66]
						[67]
	Psychology		Cornell University (visiting)	Mathematical analysis of physiological regulatory systems on the basis of physical automatic control theory	Also won in 1947	[68]
			New York University	Relationship between instinct and learning in insect psychology	Also won in 1944	[69]
	Sociology			(published 1951)		[70]

1945 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Fine Arts				Also won in 1946	[71]
					Also won in 1943, 1944, 1953, 1964	[72]
						[73]
	Music Composition				Also won in 1954	[74]
Humanities	Geography and Environmental Studies				Also won in 1947	[75]
	Iberian and Latin American History			Mexican historiography in the 16th century	Also won in 1943	[76]
	Linguistics				Also won in 1948, 1957	[77]
Natural Sciences	Astronomy and Astrophysics				Also won in 1942	[78]
			University of Chicago (PhD student)		Also won in 1944, 1958	[79]
						[80]
	Mathematics					[81]
	Medicine and Health					[82]
			Instituto de Medicina Experimental		Also won in 1947	[83]
						[84]
	Molecular and Cellular Biology				Also won in 1941, 1946	[85]
	Organismic Biology and Ecology				Also won in 1944	[86]
					Also won in 1946	[87]
					Also won in 1946	[88]
	Plant Science					[89]
				Plant pathology	Also won in 1944	[90]
Social Science	Economics			Agrarian policy in the United States	Also won in 1943	[91]

See also

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1944
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1946

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1945. Guggenheim Foundation. 2022-10-10. dead. 2008-03-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20080324145031/http://www.gf.org/45fellow.html.
2. Web site: Donald W. "Don" Burns. Meibohm Fine Arts. 2022-10-24.
3. Guggenheim Art Awards. College Art Journal. 5. 1. November 1945. 52–53.
4. Web site: Edward Reep biography. California Watercolor. 2022-10-24.
5. Web site: Mitchell Sporin. chicagomodern.org. 2022-10-24.
6. Web site: Frank Vavruska. Corbett vs Dempsey. 2022-10-24.
7. News: 41 men in service win fellowships. Chattanooga Daily Times. Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. 1945-04-23. 9. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
8. News: Ellis Wilson, Artist, 76; Painted Harlem and Haiti, Was Guggenheim Fellow. 1977-01-07. The New York Times. 19. New York City, New York, USA.
9. News: Pittsburghers win $2500 fellowships. The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. 1945-04-24. 4. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
10. News: Famous Guggenheim Fellowship won by William F. Church. The Herald-Palladium. Benton H arbor, Michigan, USA. 1945-04-30. 3. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
11. News: DR. EDWARD ROSEN, CITY U. PROFESSOR. 1985-03-30. Waggoner. Walter H.. 28. The New York Times. New York City, New York, USA. 2022-10-22.
12. Web site: OLIVER, Revilo Pendleton. Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. 2022-10-24.
13. News: D.C. area residents win Guggenheim Fellowship awards. Evening Star. Washington, DC, USA. 1945-04-23. 2. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
14. Book: Memorial Tributes. Leo L. Beranek. 22. 2019. National Academies Press. 25. 2022-10-24.
15. News: 4 Guggenheim Fellowships won by N.E. scholars. The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 1945-10-22. 11. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
16. News: Post-service awards made by Guggenheim. The Daily Oklahoman. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. 1945-10-22. 11. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
17. Web site: Grand Canyon recognizes Fred Kabotie in November. 2020-12-01. NHO News. 2022-10-24.
18. Web site: 1945. MoMA. 2022-10-24.
19. Web site: Jack Levine, 95, an artist who always kept it real. 2010-12-22. amNY. 2022-10-24.
20. Web site: Eleanor Platt. National Academy of Design. 2022-10-24.
21. News: Ellis Wilson, Artist, 76; Painted Harlem and Haiti, Was Guggenheim Fellow. 1977-01-07. The New York Times. 19. New York City, New York, USA.
22. News: Book Briefs. Haynes. Caroline. The Leaf-Chronicle. Clarksville, Tennessee, USA. 1945-06-07. 7. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
23. Web site: Guggenheim Fellowship (1945-1949). University of Washington. 2022-10-24.
24. Web site: Norman Dello Joio. American Ballet Theatre. 2022-10-24.
25. Web site: Jack Delano. Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery. 2022-10-24.
26. Web site: End Frame: Mendenhall Glacier, 1973 by Brett Weston. Nicholson. Rupert. 2018-04-17. On Landscape. 2022-10-24.
27. Web site: Roll Over, Sophocles-Kunitz Is Now Oldest Poet Ever. Matz. Aaron. 1999-08-23. Observer. 2022-10-24.
28. Web site: Richard Beale Davis. Lemay. J.A. Leo. 2018. Dictionary of Virginia Biography. 2022-10-24.
29. Historical News. The American Historical Review. 878–879. 50. 4. July 1945.
30. Web site: Franklin L. Baumer. John Simon Guggeheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-24.
31. Web site: William H. Dunham Jr.. John Simon Guggeheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-24.
32. Web site: Garrett Mattingly. John Simon Guggeheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-24.
33. Web site: BROUGHTON, Thomas Robert Shannon. Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. 2022-10-24.
34. Notes and Events. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 20. 3. July 1965. 283.
35. News: Two British Columbia men win Guggenheim Awards. The Province. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 1945-04-23. 3. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
36. Web site: MACKAY, Louis Alexander. Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. 2022-10-24.
37. Web site: Frederick Pottle. Poetry Foundation. 2022-10-24.
38. Book: Quaresima, Leonardo. From Caligari to Hitler. INTRODUCTION TO THE 2004 EDITION: REREADING KRACAUER. 10.1515/9780691192086-003. xx. 2004. Princeton University Press.
39. Web site: Edward Millman. Meyerowitz. Lisa. chicagomodern.org. 2022-10-24.
40. Web site: Anderson, George K.. Brown University. Mitchell. Martha. 2022-10-24.
41. News and Notes. Scandinavian Studies. 42. 4. November 1970. 472.
42. Web site: Ernest C. Mossner. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-10.
43. News: Fellowship in England to an ex-Algona boy. Kossuth County Advance. Algona, Iowa, USA. 1945-05-01. 6. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
44. Web site: Charles W. Jones. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-10.
45. News: 1 Maine woman, 10 Bay State men get fellowships. The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 1945-04-23. 2. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
46. News: Leonia resident has fellowship. The Record. Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. 1945-04-23. 5. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
47. Web site: Frederic B. Fitch. John Simon Guggeheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-24.
48. Web site: Abraham Kaplan. Zenith City Press. 2022-10-24.
49. Web site: Norman A. Malcolm. John Simon Guggeheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-24.
50. News: Guggenheim Award won by former Cincinnatian. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. 1945-04-24. 20. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
51. Web site: Chrales Leslie Stevenson. University of Michigan. Frankena. William K.. May 1979. 2022-10-24.
52. News: Dr: F. L. Will is Guggenheim Award winner. The Evening Courier. Urbana, Illinois, USA. 1945-04-23. 3. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
53. News: U.N.C. alumni win Guggenheim Awards. The Herald-Sun. Durham, North Carolina, USA. 1945-05-25. 5. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
54. Web site: Samuel Herrick, Engineering; Astronomy: Los Angeles. Aller. Lawrence. Barnes. John L.. Abell. George O.. University of California Libraries. 2022-10-24.
55. News and Notices. The American Mathematical Monthly. 52. 7. 1945. 406. 10.1080/00029890.1945.11991595.
56. News: Fellowships awarded 2 Cornell men. The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, New York, USA. 1945-04-23. 3. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
57. Web site: Britton Chance. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-24.
58. Web site: Frank H. Johnson. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-24.
59. Roger Yate Stanier. 22 October 1916-29 January 1982. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Clarke. Patricia H.. 32. December 1986. 546.
60. Web site: In Memoriam: Kenneth Willard Cooper. University of California Academic Senate. 2022-10-24.
61. News: U.C. leads in Guggenheim Fellowships. Metropolitan Pasadena Star-News. Pasadena, California, USA. 1945-05-03. 13. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
62. News: Former Colby instructor gets Guggenheim Award. Kennebec Journal. Augusta, Maine, USA. 1945-10-27. 10. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
63. News: Guggeheim Fellowship given Edward Novitski. The Times Leader. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. 1945-04-24. 11. newspapers.com. 2022-10-24.
64. Web site: Carlos E. Chardon. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-24.
65. A Tribute to Aaron John Sharp. July 29, 1904-November 16, 1997. McFarland. Kenneth D.. Anderson. Lewis E.. Crum. Howard A.. The Bryologist. 101. 4. 1998. 484.
66. Web site: Leonid Hurwicz. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-25.
67. In Memoriam: Mabel F. Timlin. Spafford. Duff. The Canadian Journal of Economics. 10. 2. May 1977. 280.
68. News: Cornell man awarded fellowship. The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, New York, USA. 1945-10-24. 4. newspapers.com. 2022-10-25.
69. Web site: Theodore C. Schneirla. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-25.
70. Web site: Charles Wright Mills. Columbia University. 2022-10-25.
71. Web site: José Alonso. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-25.
72. Web site: Mauricio Lasansky. National Gallery of Art. 2022-10-23.
73. Web site: Jesús Escobedo. Blanton Museum of Art. 2022-10-25.
74. Web site: Juan A. Orrego-Salas. University of Iowa. 2022-10-25.
75. Web site: Gerardo A. Canet. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-25.
76. Web site: Ramón Iglesia. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-24.
77. Web site: John Corominas. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-25.
78. Web site: Félix Cernuschi. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-23.
79. Guido Münch. 2020-08-31. Physics Today. Münch. Christopher. 10.1063/PT.6.4o.20200831a.
80. Web site: Carlos Ulrrico Cesco. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-25.
81. Web site: Rafael Laguardia. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-25.
82. Web site: Eduardo Aguirre Pequeño.. H. Congreso del Estado de Nuevo León. 2022-10-25. es.
83. Web site: José Jesús Estable. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-25.
84. Web site: Alfonso Graña. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-25.
85. Web site: Otto Guilherme Bier. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-22.
86. Web site: Manuel Maldonado Koerdell. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-25.
87. Web site: Luis René Rivas y Díaz. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-25.
88. Web site: Villa Ramírez, Bernardo. 2020-03-11. Enciclopedia Guerrerense. 2022-10-25. es.
89. Web site: Sigurd Arentsen Steeger. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-25.
90. Web site: Latin American Women and the Guggenheim Foundation. Vergara. Ángela. 2021-08-04. Latin American Women and the Guggenheim Foundation. 2022-10-25.
91. Web site: Raúl García. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2022-10-25.