1955 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

• John Richard Alden, Deceased. U.S. History: 1955.
• Thomas B. Alexander, Middlebush Professor Emeritus of History, University of Missouri-Columbia: 1955.
• Isadore Amdur, Deceased. Chemistry: 1955.
• Arthur J. O. Anderson
  Arthur J. O. Anderson
  Arthur James Outram Anderson was an American anthropologist specializing in Aztec culture and translator of the Nahuatl language. He was renowned for his and Charles E...
  
  , Deceased. Anthropology: 1955, 1957.
• Herbert L. Anderson
  Herbert L. Anderson
  Herbert Lawrence Anderson was an American nuclear physicist who contributed to the Manhattan Project. He was also a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States, in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University. He participated in the first...
  
  , Deceased. Particle Physics: 1955.
• Thomas Foxen Anderson, Deceased. Biochemistry - Molecular Biology: 1955.
• Yury Arbatsky, Deceased. Music Research and Composition: 1955, 1956.
• Walter E. Aschaffenburg, Composer; Emeritus Professor of Music Theory and Composition, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music: 1955, 1973.
• Peter Axel, Deceased. Particle Physics: 1955.
• John Grieve Bald, Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside: 1955, 1963.
• Isaac Barshad, Lecturer Emeritus of Soils and Plant Nutrition, University of California Berkeley: 1955.
• Paul Doughty Bartlett
  Paul Doughty Bartlett
  Paul Doughty Bartlett was an American chemist.Bartlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and grew up in Indianapolis. He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1928. After his graduation from Harvard with James Bryant Conant, Bartlett worked at the Rockefeller Institute and the University of...
  
  , Deceased. Chemistry: 1955, 1971.
• Ernest Bender
  Ernest Bender
  Ernest Bender was a Professor of Indo-Aryan languages and literature at the University of Pennsylvania....
  
  , Professor of Indo-Aryan Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania: 1955.
• Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Classics, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1955.
• Harold William Blodgett, Deceased. American Literature: 1955.
• Charles Mitchill Bogert
  Charles Mitchill Bogert
  Charles Mitchill Bogert was an American herpetologist, and curator of herpetology and researcher for the American Museum of Natural History.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Deceased. Biology: 1955.
• Paul Delos Boyer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Director, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles: 1955.
• Jerome Seymour Bruner, Research Professor of Psychology, New York University: 1955.
• Jean Robertson Burnet, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Glendon College, York University, Toronto: 1955.
• Robert Kyle Burns, Deceased. Biology: 1955.
• Milton Burton, Deceased. Chemistry: 1955.
• John Frank Cady, Professor Emeritus of History, Ohio University: 1955, 1960.
• Denzel Raybourne Carr, Deceased. Linguistics: 1955.
• Douglass Cater, Jr., Deceased. Political Science: 1955.
• Shou-Yi Ch'en, Deceased. Far Eastern History: 1955.
• Dmitry Cizevsky, Deceased. Slavic Studies: 1955.
• Calvin M. Class, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Rice University: 1955.
• Robert Theodore Clausen, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1955.
• Ernst Cloos, Deceased. Earth Science: 1955.
• Giuseppe Cocconi
  Giuseppe Cocconi
  Giuseppe Cocconi was a former director of the Proton Synchrotron at CERN in Geneva. He is known for is work in particle physics and for his involvement with SETI.-Life:...
  
  , Senior Physicist, CERN, Geneva: 1955.
• Waldo E. Cohn, Consultant, Retired Senior Biochemist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: 1955, 1962.
• Robert Hugh Cole, Deceased. Chemistry: 1955, 1961.
• Irving Marmer Copi, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii at Manoa: 1955.
• Stanley Jerome Cristol, Joseph Sewall Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Colorado: 1955, 1980.
• Burris Bell Cunningham, Deceased. Chemistry: 1955.
• Philip J. Davis
  Philip J. Davis
  Philip J. Davis is an American applied mathematician.Davis was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He is known for his work in numerical analysis and approximation theory, as well as his investigations in the history and philosophy of mathematics...
  
  , Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, Brown University: 1955.
• John Courtney Decius, Deceased. Chemistry: 1955.
• Paul Delahay, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, New York University: 1955, 1971.
• Everett Ross Dempster, Deceased. Biochemistry-Molecular Biology: 1955.
• José de Onís, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of Colorado: 1955.
• David K. Detweiler, Professor Emeritus of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania: 1955.
• Liselotte Dieckmann, Deceased. German Literature: 1955.
• Raymond Nicholas Doetsch, Professor Emeritus of Microbiology, University of Maryland, College Park: 1955.
• V. Rada Dyson-Hudson, Anthropologist; Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University: 1955.
• Mark Eccles, Deceased.R. E. Neil Dodge Professor Emeritus of English, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1955.
• Edris Eckhardt, Deceased. Fine Arts: 1955, 1959.
• Frank Edwin Egler
  Frank Edwin Egler
  Frank Edwin Egler was an American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of vegetation science. He is of historical significance through his assistance to Rachel Carson in preparing Silent Spring....
  
  , President, Aton Forest, Norfolk, Connecticut: 1955.
• Irvin Ehrenpreis, Deceased. Biography: 1955, 1961.
• Friedrich Engel-Janosi, Deceased. German and East European History: 1955.
• Stephen Enke, Deceased. Economics: 1955.
• Gerhard Fankhauser
  Gerhard Fankhauser
  Gerhard Fankauser was an embryologist known for his studies on amphibian development. He was a Princeton professor from 1931 to 1969.Fankhauser's research showed the correlation between ploidy and cell size....
  
  , Deceased. Biology: 1955.
• Charles Feidelson, Jr., Deceased. American Literature: 1955.
• Jacob Joel Finkelstein, Deceased. Near Eastern Studies: 1955.
• Shelby Foote
  Shelby Foote
  Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the...
  
  , Writer, Memphis: 1955, 1956, 1959.
• Joseph N. Frank, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Stanford University: 1955, 1975.
• Robert Frank
  Robert Frank
  Robert Frank , born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 photobook titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American...
  
  , Photographer, New York City: 1955, 1956.
• John Langworthy Fuller, Deceased. Psychology: 1955.
• Norman Francis Furniss, Deceased. U.S. History: 1955.
• John Kenneth Galbraith
  John Kenneth Galbraith
  John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith , OC was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism...
  
  , Paul M. Warburg Professor Emeritus of Economics, Harvard University: 1955.
• Eugene Maximilian Karl Geiling, Deceased. History of Science: 1955.
• James Frank Gilliam, Deceased. Classics: 1955.
• Peggy Glanville-Hicks
  Peggy Glanville-Hicks
  Peggy Glanville-Hicks was an Australian composer.- Biography :Peggy Glanville-Hicks was born Melbourne in 1912. At age 15 she began studying composition with Fritz Hart in Melbourne...
  
  , Deceased. Composer, Sydney, Australia: 1955, 1957.
• Eric Frederick Goldman, Deceased. U.S. History: 1955.
• Barbara Gibbs Golffing
  Barbara Gibbs Golffing
  Barbara Gibbs Golffing was an American poet, and translator.Her work appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Nation.-Life:She was married to J. V. Cunningham from 1937 to 1945.She was a 1955 Guggenheim Fellow.-Works:...
  
  , Poet, Waldoboro, Maine: 1955, 1956.
• Aubrey Gorbman, Professor Emeritus of Zoology, University of Washington: 1955.
• Arthur Ernest Gordon, Deceased. Classics: 1955.
• Ronald Grant, Deceased. Neuroscience: 1955.
• Louis Craig Green, Deceased. Astronomy-Astrophysics: 1955.
• Noah Greenberg
  Noah Greenberg
  Noah Greenberg was an American choral conductor.In 1937, aged 18, Greenberg joined the Socialist Workers Party of Max Schachtman, and worked as a lathe operator and party activist. He lost work-related draft deferment in 1944 and joined the U.S. Merchant Marine till 1949. By this time he had lost...
  
  , Deceased. Music Research: 1955.
• Judson Linsley Gressitt, Deceased. Biology: 1955.
• Benjamin Vincent Hall, Deceased. Biology: 1955.
• Hessel Duncan Hall, Deceased. British History: 1955.
• Marie Boas Hall
  Marie Boas Hall
  Marie Boas Hall was a historian.She won the George Sarton Medal, the most prestigious award of the History of Science Society, together with her husband Alfred Rupert Hall in 1981.-Works:...
  
  , Retired Reader in History of Science and Technology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London: 1955. Appointed as Marie Boas.
• Marshall Hall, Jr., Deceased IBM Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology; Visiting Distinguished Professor, Emory University: 1955, 1970.
• John Hamilton Hallowell, Deceased. Political Science: 1955.
• George Dawson Halsey, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Washington: 1955.
• George Simms Hammond, Chemist, Beaverton, Oregon; Distinguished Visiting Research Professor, Bowling Green State University: 1955.
• Harold Hart, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Michigan State University: 1955.
• William Zev Hassid, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1955, 1962.
• Oliver Howard Hauptmann, Deceased. Spanish: 1955.
• Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr., Deceased. Fine Arts Research: 1955. .
• Burton Lehman Henke, Emeritus Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley: 1955.
• Gertrude Himmelfarb
  Gertrude Himmelfarb
  Gertrude Himmelfarb , also known as Bea Kristol, is an American historian. She has written extensively on intellectual history, with a focus on Britain and the Victorian era, as well as on contemporary society and culture....
  
  , Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, Graduate School, City University of New York: 1955, 1957.
• Oscar Hirsch, Deceased. Medicine: 1955.
• Gerhard Paul Hochschild, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley: 1955.
• Robert W. Holley
  Robert W. Holley
  Robert William Holley was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for describing the structure of alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis.Holley was born in Urbana, Illinois, and graduated from Urbana High School in 1938...
  
  , Deceased. Biochemistry-Molecular Biology: 1955.
• Barbara Howes
  Barbara Howes
  Barbara Howes was an American poet.-Life:She was adopted by well-to-do Massachusetts family, and reared chiefly in Chestnut Hill, where she attended Beaver Country Day School. She graduated from Bennington College in 1937...
  
  , Poet, North Pownal, Vermont: 1955.
• Henry Stuart Hughes, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, San Diego: 1955.
• Kermit H. Hunter, Playwright; Senior Lecturer, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas Christian University: 1955.
• Clyde A. Hutchison, Jr., Carl William Eisendrath Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Chicago: 1955, 1972.
• Lloyd L. Ingraham, Deceased. Biochemistry- Molecular Biology: 1955.
• Joseph Logan Irvin, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1955.
• William Irvine, Deceased. 19th Century English Literature: 1955, 1962.
• Ralph A. James, Deceased. Chemistry: 1955.
• Henry R. Kahane, Deceased. Linguistics: 1955, 1962.
• Ben Kamihira, Painter, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1955, 1956.
• Carl Kaysen
  Carl Kaysen
  Carl Kaysen was an economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-chair of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Committee on International Security Studies. He is the father of Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen. He was married for 50 years to Annette Neutra...
  
  , David W. Skinner Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1955.
• Wilbert Keith Kennedy, Provost Emeritus, Cornell University: 1955.
• Edward Chase Kirkland, Deceased. U.S. History: 1955.
• Leslie Stephen George Kovasznay, Applied Science: 1955.
• Sol Kramer, Deceased. Biology: 1955.
• Norman Myles Kroll, Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego: 1955.
• Gleb Krotkov
  Gleb Krotkov
  Gleb Krotkov was a Canadian academic and plant physiologist.Born in Moscow, Russian Empire, he joined the White Russian Navy. After the defeat of the White forces in 1920 during the Russian Civil War, he managed to escape to Prague.Later he emigrated to Canada and received his Ph.D. from the...
  
  , Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1955.
• James Kucyniak, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1955.
• Stephen William Kuffler, Deceased. Neuroscience: 1955.
• Wulf Bernard Kunkel, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of California, Berkeley: 1955, 1972.
• Ernest Albert Lachner, Curator Emeritus, Division of Fishes, Smithsonian Institution: 1955, 1959.
• Gobind Behari Lal, Deceased. Non Fiction-Science General: 1955.
• André Langevin, Writer, Montreal: 1955.
• Robert Briggs Leachman, Senior Physicist, SAIC, Arlington, Virginia: 1955.
• Waclaw Lednicki, Deceased. Russian Studies: 1955, 1956.
• Erich L. Lehmann, Professor Emeritus of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley: 1955, 1966, 1979.
• John Marion Letiche, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of California, Berkeley: 1955.
• David Lipkin, William G. Eliot Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Washington University: 1955.
• Monroe Lippman, Deceased. Theatre Arts: 1955.
• Arthur J. Lohwater
  Arthur J. Lohwater
  Arthur John "Jack" Lohwater was an American mathematician.He obtained a Ph.D. in mathematics at University of Rochester , on the dissertation The Boundary Values of a Class of Analytic Functions, advised by Wladimir Seidel.Later he joined the faculty at University of Michigan and Case Western...
  
  , Deceased. Mathematics: 1955.
• Cyril Norman Hugh Long
  Cyril Norman Hugh Long
  Cyril Norman Hugh Long was an English-American biochemist and academic administrator. He was Sterling Professor of physiological chemistry at Yale University for 31 years during the middle part of the 20th century....
  
  , Deceased. Medicine: 1955.
• Katharine Luomala, Deceased . Anthropology: 1955, 1959.
• Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr., Deceased. Folklore: 1955.
• Kemp Malone
  Kemp Malone
  Kemp Malone was a prolific medievalist, etymologist, philologist, and specialist in Chaucer who was lecturer and then professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University from 1924 to 1956....
  
  , Deceased. Medieval Studies: 1955.
• Louis Kimball Mann, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1955.
• Gerhard Strassman Masur, Deceased. Intellectual and Cultural History: 1955.
• Edward James McShane, Deceased. Mathematics: 1955.
• Philip Merlan, Deceased. Philosophy: 1955.
• Richard Holmes Merriam, Deceased Earth Science: 1955.
• Lynne L. Merritt, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Indiana University: 1955.
• Charles Duncan Michener
  Charles Duncan Michener
  Charles Duncan Michener is an American entomologist born in Pasadena, CA.-Biography:Much of his career has been devoted to the systematics and natural history of bees. His first peer-reviewed publication was in 1934, at the age of 16. He received his B.S. in 1939 and his Ph.D. in Entomology in...
  
  , Elizabeth M. Watkins Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Entomology, University of Kansas: 1955, 1966.
• Malcolm Ray Miller, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco: 1955, 1966.
• John D. Montgomery, Emeritus Ford Foundation Professor of International Studies, Harvard University: 1955.
• M. Rosalind Morris, Professor Emeritus of Agronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1955.
• Seong Moy
  Seong Moy
  Seong Moy was a painter who won a Guggenheim Fellowships in 1955.-Biography:He was born in Canton, China on April 12, 1921. He emigrated to the United States in 1931, and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota.-References:...
  
  , Painter; Associate Professor of Art, City College, City University of New York: 1955.
• Harry H. Murakishi, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1955.
• George Emmanuel Mylonas, Deceased. Classics: 1955, 1968.
• William Nelson, Deceased. Renaissance Studies: 1955.
• Nicholas Nicolaides, Deceased. Biochemistry-Molecular Biology: 1955, 1956.
• Arnold Theodore Nordsieck, Deceased. Physics: 1955.
• Richard M. Noyes
  Richard M. Noyes
  - Life and work :Richard Macy Noyes was born April 6, 1919 in Champaign, Illinois.In 1959 Noyes became Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oregon. His research area was focused on the kinetic studies of oscillating reactions. Together with Richard J. Field, Endre Koros he developed a model ...
  
  , Deceased. Chemistry: 1955.
• Lloyd Milton Nyhus, Warren H. Cole Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University of Illinois at the Medical Center, Chicago: 1955.
• Daniel J. O'Kane, Retired Professor of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania: 1955.
• Lindsay Shepherd Olive, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1955.
• Charles Egerton Osgood, Deceased. Philosophy: 1955, 1972.
• Hall Franklin Overton, Deceased. Music Composition: 1955, 1967.
• Irene Dakin Paden, Deceased. Bibliography: 1955.
• Edith Tilton Penrose
  Edith Penrose
  Edith Elura Tilton Penrose was an American-born British economist whose best known work is The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, which describes the ways which firms grow and how fast they do. Writing in The Independent the economist Sir Alec Cairncross, stated that the book brought Dr...
  
  , Deceased. Economics: 1955.
• Isadore Perlman, Deceased. Chemistry: 1955, 1962.
• Bessie Louise Pierce
  Bessie Louise Pierce
  Bessie Louise Pierce was an American historian.She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955.-References:...
  
  , Deceased. U.S. History: 1955, 1957.
• George Wilson Pierson
  George Wilson Pierson
  George Wilson Pierson was an American academic, historian, author and Larned Professor of History at Yale University. He was the first official historian of the university.-Family life:...
  
  , Deceased. U.S. History: 1955.
• Hobson Pittman, Deceased. Fine Arts-Painting: 1955.
• George Placzek
  George Placzek
  Georg Placzek was a Czech physicist.Born in Brno, Moravia, Placzek studied physics in Prague and Vienna. He worked with Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Rudolf Peierls, Werner Heisenberg, Victor Weisskopf, Enrico Fermi, Niels Bohr, Lev Landau, Edoardo Amaldi, Emilio Segrè, Leon van Hove and many other...
  
  , Deceased. Particle Physics: 1955.
• Irving Putter, Professor of French, University of California, Berkeley: 1955.
• Henry Rapoport
  Henry Rapoport
  Henry Rapoport was an internationally renowned organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He is widely recognized for his work in the development of the chemical synthesis of biologically important compounds and pharmaceuticals.Henry Rapoport obtained a...
  
  , Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley: 1955.
• John Thomas Reid, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1955.
• George Thomas Reynolds, Class of 1909 Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Princeton University: 1955.
• Rossell Hope Robbins, Deceased. Medieval Literature: 1955.
• William Jacob Robbins, Deceased. Biology-Plant Science: 1955.
• Charles Ensign Rogers, Deceased. Theatre Arts: 1955.
• Sylvan Meryl Rose, Deceased. Biology: 1955.
• Lloyd Eugene Rozeboom, Deceased. Biology & Ecology: 1955.
• Ernest Samuels
  Ernest Samuels
  Ernest Samuels was an American biographer and lawyer.Born in Chicago, he received his J.D. in 1926, but switched to literature in 1930. Nevertheless he did legal work as well for much of the 1930s. He might be best known for his biography of Henry Adams in three volumes...
  
  , Deceased. American Literature: 1955, 1971.
• George Clarence Schoolfield, Professor Emeritus of German and Scandinavian Literatures, Yale University: 1955.
• Detlev Walther Schumann, Deceased . German: 1955.
• Rudolf M. Schuster, Professor of Botany, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: 1955, 1967.
• Martin Schwarzschild
  Martin Schwarzschild
  Martin Schwarzschild was a German American astronomer. He was the son of famed astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild and the nephew of the Swiss astrophysicist Robert Emden.-Biography:...
  
  , Deceased. Astronomy-Astrophysics: 1955.
• Donal Sheehan, Deceased. Medicine: 1955.
• Raymond K. Sheline, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Physics, Florida State University: 1955, 1956, 1964.
• Sanford Marvin Siegel, Deceased. Plant Science: 1955.
• Cyril Stanley Smith
  Cyril Stanley Smith
  Cyril Stanley Smith was a renowned metallurgist and historian of science. Smith is perhaps most famous for his work on the Manhattan Project where he was responsible for the production of fissionable metals....
  
  , Deceased. History of Science: 1955, 1978.
• Morton Smith
  Morton Smith
  Morton Smith was an American professor of ancient history at Columbia University. He is best known for his controversial discovery of the Mar Saba letter, a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria containing excerpts from a Secret Gospel of Mark, during a visit to the monastery at Mar Saba in...
  
  , Deceased. Classics: 1955.
• Russell Smith Composer, Munich, Germany: 1955.
• Arthur Smithies, Deceased. Economics: 1955.
• Theodore Soller, Deceased. Physics: 1955.
• Glenn Allen Sonnedecker, Professor Emeritus of Pharmacy and History of Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1955.
• Robert Dean Spence, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Michigan State University: 1955.
• Mark A. Stahmann, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1955.
• Bernard Stambler, Deceased. Music Research: 1955.
• Henry Burr Steinbach, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1955.
• Calvin Lee Stevens, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Wayne State University: 1955.
• James Edward Storer, President, Symbionics Consultants, Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts: 1955.
• Julian Munson Sturtevant, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University: 1955.
• Clyde Wilson Summers, Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania: 1955.
• Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1955.
• Sahl Swarz, Sculptor, Kanagawa, Japan: 1955, 1958.
• Stith Thompson
  Stith Thompson
  Stith Thompson was an American scholar of folklore. He is the "Thompson" of the Aarne-Thompson classification system.- Biography :...
  
  , Deceased. Folklore: 1955.
• Donald S. Thrall, Deceased. Fine Arts: Painting: 1955.
• Brian Tierney, Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor Emeritus in Humanistic Studies, Cornell University: 1955, 1956.
• John Hughes Tinlot, Deceased. Astronomy-Astrophysics: 1955.
• Charles Hard Townes
  Charles Hard Townes
  Charles Hard Townes is an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and educator. Townes is known for his work on the theory and application of the maser, on which he got the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel...
  
  , University Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley: 1955.
• David B. Truman, President Emeritus, Mount Holyoke College: 1955.
• John Maurice Tucker, Professor Emeritus of Botany, University of California, Davis: 1955.
• Victor C. Twitty, Deceased. Biology: 1955.
• Edwin Albrecht Uehling, Deceased. Physics: 1955.
• Frank Everson Vandiver, Director, Mosher Institute for Defense Studies, Texas A&M University: 1955.
• William Spencer Vickrey, Deceased. Economics: 1955.
• Robert Lee Walker, Professor Emeritus of Physics, California Institute of Technology: 1955.
• Todd Webb
  Todd Webb
  Todd Webb was an American photographer notable for documenting everyday life and architecture in cities such as New York, Paris as well as from the American west. His photography has been compared with Harry Callahan, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and the French photographer Eugène Atget...
  
  , Deceased. Photography: 1955, 1956.
• Joseph Weber
  Joseph Weber
  Joseph Weber was an American physicist. He gave the earliest public lecture on the principles behind the laser and the maser and developed the first gravitational wave detectors .-Early education:...
  
  , Deceased. Physics: 1955, 1962.
• Max Weinreich
  Max Weinreich
  Max Weinreich was a linguist, specializing in the Yiddish language, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary.- Biography :Max Weinreich began his studies in a German school in Kuldiga,...
  
  , Deceased. Linguistics: 1955, 1956.
• Hugo Weisgall
  Hugo Weisgall
  Hugo David Weisgall was an American composer and conductor, known chiefly for his opera and vocal music compositions...
  
  , Deceased. Music Composition: 1955, 1960, 1966.
• Robert Cooper West, Boyd Professor of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge): 1955.
• George W. Whitehead
  George W. Whitehead
  George William Whitehead, Jr. was a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is known for his work on algebraic topology...
  
  , Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1955.
• Alfred Lawrence Wilds, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1955.
• Carroll M. Williams, Deceased. Biology: 1955.
• Francis Dudley Williams, Distinguished Regents Professor Emeritus of Physics, Kansas State University: 1955.
• Franklin B. Williams, Jr., Professor Emeritus of English, Georgetown University: 1955.
• John Warren Williams, Deceased. Chemistry: 1955.
• Mildred Stratton Wilson, Deceased. Biology: 1955.
• Robert Francis Winch, Deceased. Sociology: 1955, 1974.
• Walter Lincoln Woodfill, Deceased. Music Research: 1955.
• Carl Woodring, George Edward Woodberry Professor Emeritus of Literature, Columbia University: 1955.
• Arthur N. Young, Deceased. Economics: 1955.
• Daniel Zelinsky, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Northwestern University: 1955.

1955 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

• Jorge de Alba Martinez, President, Mexican Association of Animal Production Experimental Farm: 1955.
• Arturo Alcaraz
  Arturo Alcaraz
  Arturo Alcaraz is a Filipino volcanologist and a Thomasian 'Awardee' for government service.- Early life : was born Arturo Pineda Alcaraz to Conrado Alcaraz and Paz Pineda in Manila, Philippines...
  
  , Geothermal Consultant, Manila: 1955.
• J. Enrique Avila Laguna, Deceased. Biology: 1955, 1956.
• Segundo Bernal, Professor of Sociology, University of the Andes: 1955.
• Margarita Bravo Hollis, Retired Professor, Institute of Biology, National Autonomous University of Mexico: 1955.
• Alberto Cazorla Talleri, Rector, Cayetano, Heredia University of Peru, Lima; Peruvian Ambassador to Mexico: 1955.
• Alvaro Santos Costa, Plant Virologist Emeritus, Institute of Agronomy, Campinas, São Paulo: 1955.
• Alfredo de la Torre y Callejas, Malacologist and Paleontologist: 1955, 1956.
• Fausto Folquer, Retired Professor of Agronomy, National University of Tucumán: 1955, 1957.
• Nicolas L. Galvez, Deceased. Earth Science: 1955.
• Isabel Gutiérrez del Arroyo, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Puerto Rico: 1955.
• Carlos Oton Rüdiger Jaschek, Professor of Astrophysics and Director, Steallar Data Center, Strasbourgh, France: 1955. Appointed as Jaschek, Rüdiger.
• Edgardo Raúl Montaldi, Professor of Plant Physiology and Director, Plant Physiology Institute, National University of La Plata: 1955, 1957.
• Mariano Dy-Liacco Obias, Psychologist, Naga City, Philippines: 1955.
• Victor Manuel Patiño Rodríguez, Former Director, Cauca Valley Institute of Scientifical Research, Cali, Colombia: 1955, 1956, 1965.
• José Ramírez de Arellano, Deceased. Biochemistry: 1955, 1956.
• Samuel Selvon
  Samuel Selvon
  Samuel Selvon was a Trinidad-born writer. Selvon was educated at Naparima College, San Fernando before moving to London, England in the 1950s, and later to Alberta, Canada. He is known for novels such as The Lonely Londoners and Moses Ascending...
  
  , Deceased. Fiction: 1955, 1968.
• Jorge A. Soria Vasco, Research Coordinator; 1955, 1957.
• Alcides Ribeiro Teixeira, Retired Botanist, Brazilian National Research; Former Director General, Botanical Institute, São Paulo: 1955.
• Edilberto K. Tiempo
  Edilberto K. Tiempo
  Edilberto Kaindong Tiempo , also known as E.K. Tiempo, was a Filipino writer and professor. He and his wife, Edith L. Tiempo, are credited by Silliman University with establishing "a tradition in excellence in creative writing and the teaching of literacy craft which continues to this day" at that...
  
  , Writer in Residence, Silliman University: 1955.

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...