1950 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

• Robert Arnold Alberty, Professor of Chemistry, School of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1950.
• Edward Wyllys Andrews, IV, Deceased. Anthropology: 1950.
• Boris Aronson
  Boris Aronson
  Boris Aronson was an American scenic designer for Broadway and Yiddish theatre. He won the Tony Award for Scenic Design six times in his career.-Biography:...
  
  , Deceased. Theatre Arts: 1950.
• Lincoln Barnett
  Lincoln Barnett
  Lincoln Kinnear Barnett was an editor and author, most notably at Life Magazine for many years.Lincoln Barnett wrote a number of books, including "The Universe and Doctor Einstein","The World We Live In",and "The Treasure of Our Tongue"....
  
  , Deceased. Letters-General: 1950.
• Monroe Curtis Beardsley, Deceased. Philosophy: 1950.
• Sidney William Benson, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Southern California: 1950.
• William Eugene Berg, Professor Emeritus of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley: 1950.
• David Bidney, Deceased. Anthropology: 1950.
• Julian Himely Bigelow, Permanent Member, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey: 1950.
• Max Black
  Max Black
  Max Black was a British-American philosopher, who was a leading influential figure in analytic philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century. He made contributions to the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics and science, and the philosophy of art, also publishing studies...
  
  , Deceased. Philosophy: 1950.
• Herbert Bloch
  Herbert Bloch
  Herbert Bloch was professor emeritus of Classics at Harvard and a renowned authority on Greek historiography, Roman epigraphy and archaeology, medieval monasticism, and the transmission of classical culture and literature....
  
  , Pope Professor Emeritus of the Latin Language and Literature, Harvard University: 1950.
• Ralph Philip Boas, Jr., Deceased. Mathematics: 1950.
• Bart Jan Bok, Deceased. Astronomy: 1950.
• Ernest Borek, Deceased. Microbiology, 1950, 1957.
• Rosalie Moore Brown
  Rosalie Moore
  Rosalie Moore, Gertrude Elizabeth Moore was an American poet.-Life:She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley magna cum laude with a B.A. in 1932; with an MA in 1934. From 1935 to 1937 she worked for KLX, and then the Census Bureau...
  
  , Poet, Petaluma, California: 1950, 1951. Appointed as Rosalie Moore.
• Edward Charles Cantino, Deceased. Biochemistry-Molecular Biology: 1950.
• Howard I. Chapelle
  Howard I. Chapelle
  Howard Irving Chapelle was an American naval architect, and curator of maritime history at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.. In addition, he authored many books and articles books on maritime history and marine architecture.-Biography:...
  
  , Deceased. Architecture: 1950.
• Albert William Christ-Janer, Deceased. Fine Arts Research: 1950.
• Robert Donald Clark, Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Communication and President Emeritus, University of Oregon: 1950.
• Isabel Pope Conant, Deceased. Music Composition: 1950. Appointed as Pope, Isabel.
• Bryce L. Crawford, Deceased. Professor of Chemistry, University of Minnesota: 1950, 1972.
• Norman Henry Cromwell, Regents' Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1950, 1957.
• Robert Alan Dahl, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Yale University: 1950, 1978.
• Sidney Michael Dancoff, Deceased. Particle Physics: 1950.
• William Garfield Dauben, Deceased. Chemistry: 1950, 1965.
• Frank Host Dickey, Senior Research Consultant, Continental Oil Company: 1950.
• Aubrey Diller, Deceased. Classics: 1950.
• Paul Mead Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry; Professor of Public Policy, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University: 1950.
• Wolfram Eberhard
  Wolfram Eberhard
  Wolfram Eberhard was a professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley focused on Western, Central and Eastern Asian societies.-Biography:...
  
  , Deceased. Sociology: 1950, 1951.
• Franklin Edgerton, Deceased. Indian Linguistics, 1950.
• Samuel Eilenberg
  Samuel Eilenberg
  Samuel Eilenberg was a Polish and American mathematician of Jewish descent. He was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire and died in New York City, USA, where he had spent much of his career as a professor at Columbia University.He earned his Ph.D. from University of Warsaw in 1936. His thesis advisor...
  
  , Deceased. Mathematics: 1950, 1974.
• Jean Evans, Writer, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: 1950, 1955.
• Irving Gifford Fine, Deceased. Music Composition: 1950, 1958.
• Richard Harter Fogle, deceased.University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1950.
• Robert A. Fowkes, deceased.Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Germanic Languages, New York University: 1950.
• John Hope Franklin
  John Hope Franklin
  John Hope Franklin was a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and...
  
  , James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University: 1950, 1973.
• Herbert Friedmann
  Herbert Friedmann
  Herbert Friedmann was an American ornithologist. He worked at the Smithsonian Institution for more than 30 years. In 1929 he became a fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union and served as the President of the A.O.U. from 1937 to 1939. He published 17 books and was noted for study of Avian...
  
  , Deceased. Biology: 1950, 1953, 1955.
• Northrop Frye
  Northrop Frye
  Herman Northrop Frye, was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century....
  
  , Deceased. 16th & 17th Century English Literature: 1950.
• Dave Fultz, Professor of Meteorology, University of Chicago: 1950.
• Theodore A. Geissman, Deceased. Chemistry: 1950, 1964.
• Howard Scott Gentry
  Howard Scott Gentry
  Howard Scott Gentry was an American botanist recognized as the world's leading authority on the agaves.He worked for the United States Department of Agriculture, and was a research botanist with the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona after 1971...
  
  , Deceased. Biology-: 1950.
• Dietrich Gerhard, Deceased. History: 1950.
• Rosamond Gilder, Deceased. Theatre Arts: 1950.
• Stephen Gilman, Deceased. Renaissance Studies: 1950.
• Roger John Goeb, Composer, Bartlett, Illinois, New York: 1950, 1951.
• Milton Goldstein, Graphic Artist; Professor of Art, Adelphi University: 1950.
• Robert McQueen Grant
  Robert McQueen Grant
  Robert M. Grant is a professor and US economic strategy academic who challenged Michael Porter's views on the basis for competitive advantage. He suggested that competitive advantage was more frequently to be discovered in access to distinctive or unique internal resources, rather than a choice...
  
  , Carl Darling Buck Professor Emeritus of Early Christianity, University of Chicago Divinity School: 1950, 1953, 1959.
• W. Cabell Greet, Deceased. Linguistics: 1950.
• Emil J. Gumbel, Deceased. Statistics: 1950.
• Herbert Norman Halpert, Henrietta Harvey Professor of Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland: 1950.
• Bray Hammond
  Bray Hammond
  Bray Hammond was an American author and assistant secretary of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System between the years of 1944 and 1950.-Authored books:* Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War...
  
  , Deceased. Economic History: 1950, 1955.
• Davis Philoon Harding, Deceased. 16th & 17th C English Literature: 1950.
• Francis Harper
  Francis Harper (biologist)
  Francis Harper was an American naturalist. His research included studies of the Okefenokee Swamp and fieldwork in the north eastern United States and in northern Canada, and he also studied the 18th century American naturalists John and William Bartram...
  
  , Deceased. Biology, Biography: 1950, 1951.
• Philip Hartman, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University: 1950.
• Mary Henle, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, New School for Social Research: 1950, 1960.
• Gilbert Arthur Highet, Deceased. Classics: 1950.
• Henry M. Hoenigswald
  Henry M. Hoenigswald
  Henry Max Hoenigswald was born 17 April 1915 in Breslau, Germany ; Professor of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania 1948-85 ; married 1944 Gabriele Schoepflich ; died Haverford, Pennsylvania 16 June 2003.He was educated in the German Gymnasium, where he learned the classical languages, and...
  
  , Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania: 1950.
• Hjalmar R. Holand, Deceased. Anthropology: 1950.
• Evan Charles Horning, Deceased. Biochemistry-Molecular Biology: 1950.
• Jean Hamilton Hubener, Deceased. Germanics: 1950.
• Robert E. Hungate, Professor Emeritus of Microbiology, University of California, Davis: 1950.
• Harold Robert Isaacs, Deceased. Far Eastern Studies: 1950.
• Michael Kasha
  Michael Kasha
  Michael Kasha is an American physical chemist and molecular spectroscopist who is one of the original founders of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics at Florida State University . Born in Elizabeth, NJ to a family of Ukrainian immigrants, he earned his Ph.D...
  
  , Professor of Physical Chemistry, Florida State University: 1950.
• Pearl Kibre, Deceased. Medieval Studies: 1950.
• M. Amelia Klenke, O.P., Deceased. French Literature: 1950.
• Samuel J. Konefsky, Deceased. Political Science: 1950, 1951.
• Richard Krautheimer
  Richard Krautheimer
  Richard Krautheimer was a 20th century art historian, architectural historian, Baroque scholar, and Byzantinist....
  
  , Deceased. Fine Arts Research: 1950, 1953, 1963.
• Lester Peter Kuhn, Deceased. Chemistry: 1950.
• Gerhart B. Ladner, Deceased. Medieval Literature: 1950.
• Victor Lange
  Victor Lange
  Victor Lange was a renowned Germanist, known primarily for his work at Princeton University.-Biography:Born in Leipzig, Germany, he obtained his M.A. degree from the University College of the University of Toronto in 1931, and his Ph.D...
  
  , John N. Woodhill Professor Emeritus of Modern Languages and Professor Emeritus of German Literature, Princeton University: 1950, 1966.
• Jay Leyda
  Jay Leyda
  Jay Leyda was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film historian, noted for his work on U.S, Soviet and Chinese Cinema. His The Melville Log was a day to day compilation of documents which he had painstakingly collected on the life of Herman Melville. He was a member of the Workers Film and...
  
  , Deceased. American Literature: 1950, 1951.
• David A. Lind, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Colorado: 1950.
• Charles Edward Lindblom, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics and Political Science, Yale University: 1950, 1985.
• Richard W. Lippman, Deceased. Medicine: 1950, 1951.
• Juan López-Morillas, Deceased. Spanish & Portuguese Literature: 1950, 1957.
• Samuel Lubell, Deceased. Political Science: 1950, 1953.
• Julian Ellis Mack, Deceased. Particle Physics: 1950.
• W. Rupert Maclaurin, Deceased. Economics: 1950.
• Sergius Harry Mamay, Retired Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution: 1950.
• Lauriston C. Marshall, Deceased. Physics: 1950.
• Georges Claude May, Sterling Professor Emeritus of French, Yale University: 1950, 1984.
• Blaine C. McKusick, Retired Consultant, Chelan Associates, Wilmington, Delaware: 1950.
• George Edwin McMillan, Deceased. U.S. History: 1950.
• Harlow Burgess Mills, Deceased. Biology: 1950.
• Edwin Seth Morby, Deceased. Spanish: 1950, 1964.
• Malcolm Haynie Myers, Graphic Artist; Professor of Studio Art, University of Minnesota: 1950, 1951.
• Edwin G. Nourse, Deceased. Economics: 1950, 1951.
• Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer, Deceased. Chemistry: 1950.
• Nicholas Polunin, Deceased. Plant Science: 1950, 1951.
• Stephen Polyak, Deceased. Medicine: 1950.
• Edith Porada
  Edith Porada
  Edith Porada was an art historian and archaeologist, a leading authority on ancient cylinder seals and a professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University.- About :...
  
  , Deceased. Near Eastern Studies and Fine Arts Research: 1950, 1982.
• Lawrence Clark Powell
  Lawrence Clark Powell
  Lawrence Clark Powell was a librarian, literary critic, bibliographer and author of more than 100 books....
  
  , Professor Emeritus of Library Service, University of California, Los Angeles; Director Emeritus, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; Professor in Residence, University of Arizona: 1950, 1966.
• James Z. Rabun, Associate Professor of History, Emory University: 1950.
• Steve Raffo, Deceased. Fine Arts-Painting: 1950, 1951.
• Andrée Ruellan
  Andrée Ruellan
  Andrée Ruellan was an American painter, known for her depictions of everyday scenes in New York and the American South....
  
  , Artist, Shady, New York: 1950.
• Francis Joseph Ryan, Deceased. Biology: 1950.
• Bernard Schwartz, Deceased. Political Science: 1950.
• Harry Richard Seiwell, Deceased. Applied Mathematics & Earth Science: 1950.
• Charles S. Singleton
  Charles S. Singleton
  Charles S. Singleton was an American writer and critic of literature. Expert of Dante Alighieri, but also of Giovanni Boccaccio, wrote An Essay on the Vita Nuova , and the famous Dante Studies...
  
  , Deceased. Italian: 1950, 1954, 1962.
• Leo Smit
  Leo Smit (American composer)
  -Life:Leo Smit was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child his mother took him to Russia where he studied with the composer Dmitri Kabalevsky. He later studied piano in New York with Isabella Vengerova and José Iturbi and composition with Nicolas Nabokov...
  
  , Composer; Professor Emeritus of Music, State University of New York at Buffalo: 1950.
• David Smith
  David Smith (sculptor)
  David Roland Smith was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor and painter, best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures.-Biography:...
  
  , Deceased. Fine Arts Sculpture: 1950, 1951.
• Ray Fred Smith, Professor Emeritus of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley; Executive Director, Consortium for International Crop Protection, Berkeley, California: 1950.
• Milton David Soffer, Deceased. Chemistry: 1950.
• Martin Sebastian Soria, Deceased. Fine Arts Research: 1950.
• Benton Murdoch Spruance
  Benton Murdoch Spruance
  Benton Murdoch Spruance American painter, printmaker, architect.Born and died in Philadelphia. Long-term faculty member and Chairman of the Arts Department at Beaver College in Jenkintown, PA, as well as Chairman of the Printmaking Department of the Philadelphia College of Art...
  
  , Deceased. Fine Arts: 1950, 1962.
• Chester G. Starr, Deceased. Classics: 1950, 1958.
• Marshall Winslow Stearns, Deceased. Folk Music: 1950.
• Norman Earl Steenrod, Deceased. Mathematics: 1950.
• George Winchester Stone, Jr., Professor Emeritus of English and Dean Emeritus, University Libraries, New York University: 1950, 1951, 1963.
• Hugh Thomas Swedenberg, Deceased. 16th & 17th Century English Literature: 1950.
• F. H. L. Taylor, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1950.
• Peter M. H. Taylor, Deceased. Fiction: 1950.
• Walter Taylor, Deceased. Anthropology & Cultural Studies: 1950.
• M. C. Terry, Deceased. Medicine: 1950.
• Kenneth V. Thimann
  Kenneth V. Thimann
  Kenneth Vivian Thimann was an English-American plant physiologist and microbiologist known for his studies of plant hormones, which were widely influential in agriculture and horticulture. He isolated and determined the structure of auxin, the first known plant hormone...
  
  , Deceased. Biochemistry - Molecular Biology: 1950, 1957.
• Julian Towster, Deceased. Political Science: 1950.
• Diana Trilling
  Diana Trilling
  Diana Trilling was an American literary critic and author, one of the New York Intellectuals. Born Diana Rubin, she married the literary and cultural critic Lionel Trilling in 1929....
  
  , Deceased. General Nonfiction: 1950, 1991.
• Christopher Tunnard
  Christopher Tunnard
  Christopher Tunnard was an Canadian-born landscape architect, garden designer, city-planner, and author of Gardens in the Modern Landscape...
  
  , Deceased. Planning: 1950.
• Francis John Turner
  Francis John Turner
  Francis John Turner was a New Zealand geologist. He received his BSc and MSc from the Auckland University College...
  
  , Deceased. Earth Science: 1950, 1959.
• Gregory Vlastos
  Gregory Vlastos
  Gregory Vlastos was a scholar of ancient philosophy, and author of several works on Plato and Socrates. He was also a Christian and has written on Christian faith as well.-Life and works:...
  
  , Deceased. Philosophy: 1950, 1958.
• Eric Herman Wilhelm Voegelin, Deceased. Political Science: 1950, 1955.
• Gerhardt von Bonin, Deceased. Medicine: 1950.
• Ben Brian Weber, Deceased. Music Composition: 1950, 1952.
• George Willard Wharton, Jr, Deceased; Professor Emeritus of Entomology, Ohio State University: 1950.
• John Harold Wilson, Deceased. 16th & 17th Century English Literature: 1950.
• Edgar Wind
  Edgar Wind
  Edgar Wind was a German-born British interdisciplinary art historian, specializing in iconology in the Renaissance era. He was a member of the school of art historians associated with Aby Warburg and the Warburg Institute as well as the first Professor of art history at Oxford University...
  
  , Deceased. Fine Arts Research: 1950.
• Janet Lewis Winters, Deceased. Fiction: 1950.
• George Kingsley Zipf, Deceased. Statistics: 1950.

1950 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

• José Bebin Bustamante, Professor of Pathology, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson: 1950, 1951.
• Augusto A. Camara, Physician, Makati Medical Center, Metro-Manila, Philippines: 1950, 1951.
• Milciades Chaves Chamorro, Anthropologist, Bogota: 1950.
• Mischa Cotlar, Professor of Mathematics, Central University of Venezuela: 1950, 1952.
• Juan Cruz Reyes, Sculptor, Mexico D.F.: 1950.
• José Cuatrecasas
  José Cuatrecasas
  José Cuatrecasas was a botanist. He was born on March 19, 1903 in Camprodon, Catalonia, Spain.His research focused on the high-elevation páramo and sub-páramo regions of the Andes Mountains in South America, especially the flowering plant families Asteraceae and Malpighiaceae.In 1997, the...
  
  , Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1950, 1951.
• Francisco Cuevas Cancino, Ambassador Emeritus, Mexican Foreign Service; Former Permanent Representative of Mexico to UNESCO: 1950.
• Ismael Escobar Vallejo, Former Head, Office of the Inter-American Development Bank, Mexico, D.F.: 1950.
• Ramón Ferreyra Huerta, Director, Javier Prado Natural History Museum, University of San Marcos, Lima: 1950.
• Francisco J. S. Lara, Professor of Biochemistry, University of São Paulo: 1950, 1951.
• Henri Alain Liogier, Taxonomist, University of Puerto Rico Botanical Garden: 1950, 1953, 1957.
• Simao Mathias, Deceased. Chemistry: 1950.
• Alvaro Ortega, Retired; United Nations, Center for Human Settlements; Research Consultant, Montreal: 1950.
• Osvaldo Argentino Peso, Microbiologist, Buenos Aires: 1950.
• Dioscoro S. Rabor, Deceased. Biology & Ecology: 1950, 1956.
• Veridiana Victoria Rossetti, Retired Director, Division of Plant Pathology, Biological Institute, São Paulo: 1950.
• Alberto Soriano, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1950.
• Marcos Tschapek, Soil Scientist: 1950.
• Luis Vargas García Alonso, Entomologist, Mexico, D.F.: 1950.

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...