1940 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

• Gregory Ain
  Gregory Ain
  Gregory Ain was an American architect active in the mid-20th century. Working primarily in the Los Angeles area, Ain is best known for bringing elements of modern architecture to lower- and medium-cost housing.- Biography :...
  
  , Deceased. Architecture: 1940.
• Bernard Arnest, Deceased. Fine Arts- Painting: 1940.
• Lawrence Louis Barrett, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1940.
• Richmond Barthé
  Richmond Barthé
  James Richmond Barthé was an African American sculptor known for his many public works, including the Toussaint L’Ouverture Monument in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and a sculpture of Rose McClendon for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater House.Barthe once said that “all my life I have be interested in...
  
  , Deceased. Fine Arts-Sculpture: 1940, 1941.
• Howard Bay
  Howard Bay (designer)
  Howard Bay was an American scenic, lighting and costume designer for stage, opera and film. He won the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design twice.-Career:...
  
  , Deceased. Theatre Arts: 1940.
• Richmond C. Beatty, Deceased. Biography: 1940.
• Marc Blitzstein
  Marc Blitzstein
  Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, better known as Marc Blitzstein , was an American composer. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration...
  
  , Deceased. Music Composition: 1940, 1941.
• Hermann J. Broch, Deceased. Fiction: 1940, 1941.
• Facundo Bueso-Sanllehí, Deceased. Physics: 1940, 1941.
• Stanley A. Cain, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1940.
• Berry Campbell, Deceased Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine: 1940, 1941.
• Arthur C. Cope
  Arthur C. Cope
  Arthur C. Cope was a highly successful and influential organic chemist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is credited with the development of several important chemical reactions which bear his name including the Cope elimination and the Cope rearrangement.Cope was born on June...
  
  , Deceased. Chemistry: 1940.
• Donald Grant Creighton, Deceased. History: 1940.
• Luther S. Cressman, Deceased. Anthropology: 1940, 1949.
• Raymond E. Crist, Deceased. Geography: 1940, 1953.
• David Mathias Dennison, Deceased. Physics: 1940.
• Ward Allison Dorrance, Deceased. Fiction: 1940.
• Jesse Douglas
  Jesse Douglas
  Jesse Douglas was an American mathematician. He was born in New York and attended Columbia College of Columbia University from 1920–1924. Douglas was one of two winners of the first Fields Medals, awarded in 1936. He was honored for solving, in 1930, the problem of Plateau, which asks whether a...
  
  , Deceased. Mathematics: 1940, 1941.
• David Lion Drabkin, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1940.
• John T. Edsall, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Harvard University: 1940, 1953.
• Katherine Esau
  Katherine Esau
  Katherine Esau was a German-American botanist.She was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire to a family of Mennonites of German descent. After the Revolution her family moved to Germany, and then to California, where she achieved her doctorate in 1931...
  
  , Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1940.
• Alvin Etler
  Alvin Etler
  Alvin Derald Etler was an American composer and oboist.-Career:A student of Paul Hindemith, Etler is noted for his highly rhythmic, harmonically and texturally complex compositional style, taking inspiration from the works of Bartók and Copland as well as the dissonant and accented styles of...
  
  , Deceased. Music Composition: 1940, 1941, 1963.
• Walker Evans
  Walker Evans
  Walker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera...
  
  , Deceased. Photography: 1940, 1941, 1959.
• Lloyd Frankenberg, Deceased. Poetry: 1940.
• Edward Franklin Frazier
  E. Franklin Frazier
  Edward Franklin Frazier , was an American sociologist. His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation The Negro Family in Chicago, later released as a book The Negro Family in the United States in 1939, analyzed the cultural and historical forces that influenced the development of the African American family from the...
  
  , Deceased. Sociology: 1940.
• Lewis Galantière, Deceased. German and East European History: 1940.
• Aristid von Grosse
  Aristid von Grosse
  Aristid von Grosse was a German nuclear chemist. During his work with Otto Hahn, he got access to waste material from radium production, and with this starting material he was able in 1927 to isolate protactinium oxide and was later able to produce metallic protactinium by decomposition of...
  
  , Deceased. Chemistry: 1940, 1941.
• Alfred Irving Hallowell
  Alfred Irving Hallowell
  Alfred Irving Hallowell pronounced [hăl'uwel"] was an American anthropologist, archaeologist and businessman. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania receiving his B.S. degree in 1914, his A.M. in 1920, and his Ph.D. in...
  
  , Deceased. Anthropology: 1940.
• John Hovannes, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1940.
• George Thomas Johnson, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1940, 1941.
• George Katona
  George Katona
  George Katona was a Hungarian-born American psychologist who was one of the first to advocate a rapprochement between economics and psychologists. Originally trained as a Gestalt psychologist working on problems of learning and memory, during the Second World War he became involved in American...
  
  , Deceased. Psychology: 1940, 1941.
• Alfred Kazin
  Alfred Kazin
  Alfred Kazin was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America....
  
  , Deceased. American Literature, Literary Criticism: 1940, 1947, 1958, 1969.
• Isabel Truesdell Kelly, Deceased. Anthropology and Cultural Studies: 1940, 1941.
• Hans Kohn
  Hans Kohn
  Hans Kohn was a Jewish philosopher and historian. Born in Prague during the Habsburg Empire, he was captured as a prisoner of war during World War I and held in Russia for five years...
  
  , Deceased. Intellectual History: 1940.
• Edwin Moultrie Lanham, Deceased. Fiction: 1940.
• Otis Hamilton Lee, Deceased. Philosophy: 1940.
• Wassily W. Leontief, Deceased. Economics: 1940, 1950.
• Andrew Nelson Lytle
  Andrew Nelson Lytle
  Andrew Nelson Lytle was an American novelist, dramatist, essayist and professor of literature. He was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and early in his life planned to be an actor and playwright...
  
  , Writer; Professor Emeritus of English, University of the South: 1940, 1941, 1959.
• Paul Marhenke, Deceased. Philosophy: 1940.
• James Ackley Maxwell, Deceased Professor Emeritus of Economics, Clark University: 1940.
• Henry Lee McFee
  Henry Lee McFee
  Henry Lee McFee was a pioneer American cubist painter and a prominent member of the Woodstock artists colony.-Biography:...
  
  , Deceased. Fine Arts-Painting: 1940.
• Franklin P. Metcalf, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1940.
• Tracy Montminy, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1940. Appointed as Elizabeth Tracy.
• Gordon Pall, Deceased. Mathematics: 1940.
• Herman Palmer, Deceased. Fine Arts-Painting: 1940.
• Ruth Reeves
  Ruth Reeves
  Ruth Marie Reeves was a painter, Art Deco textile designer and expert on Indian handicrafts She attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn from 1910-11, and won a Art Students League's scholarship in 1913...
  
  , Deceased. Fine Arts: 1940, 1941.
• Nathan Reich, Deceased. Economics: 1940.
• Warren Aldrich Roberts, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Economics, Wabash College: 1940.
• Earl Robinson
  Earl Robinson
  Earl Hawley Robinson was a singer-songwriter and composer from Seattle, Washington. Robinson is probably as well remembered for his left-leaning political views as he is for his music, including the songs "Joe Hill", "Black and White", and the cantata "Ballad for Americans"...
  
  , Deceased. Music Composition: 1940, 1941.
• Louis Furman Sas, Deceased. Medieval Literature: 1940.
• Carl Schaefer, Painter; Chairman Emeritus, Department of Painting, Ontario College of Art, Toronto: 1940.
• Delmore Schwartz
  Delmore Schwartz
  Delmore Schwartz was an American poet and short story writer from Brooklyn, New York.-Biography:Schwartz was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His parents, Harry and Rose, both Romanian Jews, separated when Schwartz was nine, and their divorce had a profound effect on him. Later, in 1930,...
  
  , Deceased. Poetry: 1940, 1941.
• Francis Reginald Scott, Deceased. Political Science and Law: 1940.
• Robert Chester Smith, Deceased. Fine Arts Research: 1940.
• Frank Allan Southard, Jr, Deceased. Economics: 1940.
• Richard F. S. Starr, Deceased. Near Eastern Studies: 1940.
• Henry K. Svenson, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1940.
• Harold Ernest Vokes, W. R. Irby Professor Emeritus of Geology, Tulane University: 1940.
• Christine Weston, Deceased. Fiction: 1940.
• Edward Weston
  Edward Weston
  Edward Henry Weston was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his forty-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of...
  
  , Deceased. Photography, 1939, 1940.
• Raymond Louis Wilder
  Raymond Louis Wilder
  Raymond Louis Wilder was an American mathematician, who specialized in topology and gradually acquired philosophical and anthropological interests.-Life:...
  
  , Deceased. Mathematics: 1940.
• Aurel Friedrich Wintner, Deceased. Mathematics: 1940.
• Raymund Lull Zwemer, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1940.

1940 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

• Américo S. Albrieux Murdoch, Endocrinologist, Montevideo: 1940, 1941.
• Santos Primo Amadeo, Deceased. Political Science: 1940, 1941.
• José Pérez Carabia, Botanist: 1940.
• Nabor Carrillo, Deceased. Earth Science: 1940, 1941.
• Eduardo Etzel, Retired Surgeon, São Paulo: 1940.
• J. Eugene Garro, Linguist: 1940.
• Fernando G. Huidobro Toro, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1940.
• Jorge Kingston, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Retired Economist, Getúlio Vargas Foundation: 1940, 1947.
• Carlos Arnaldo Krug, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1940.
• Jorge C. Muelle, Deceased. Anthropology: 1940.
• Carlos Nicholson Jefferson, Deceased. Earth Science: 1940.
• Ciro A. Peluffo, Professor Emeritus of Bacteriology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Hygiene, Montevideo: 1940.
• Arthur Ramos de Araujo Pereira, Deceased. Anthropology: 1940.
• Nilson Torres de Rezende, Physician, Rio de Janeiro: 1940, 1941.
• Mauricio Rocha e Silva
  Maurício Rocha e Silva
  Maurício Oscar da Rocha e Silva was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and pharmacologist...
  
  , Deceased. Pharmacology: 1940, 1941.
• Mario Schenberg
  Mário Schenberg
  Mário Schenberg, , var. Mário Schönberg, Mario Schonberg, Mário Schoenberg), was a Jewish Brazilian electrical engineer, physicist, art critic and writer.-The Urca process:...
  
  , Deceased. Astrophysicist and Art Critic, São Paulo: 1940, 1941

See also

• Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...