List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1969
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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1969
| Fellow | Category | Field of Study |
| Jorge Aceves | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
| John M. Alexander | Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
| Leni Alexander Leni Alexander Leni Alexander was a German-Chilean composer.-Biography:Helene Alexander Pollak was born in Breslau, and her family lived in Hamburg and then emigrated to Chile in 1939 to escape the Nazis... |
Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Luis Raúl Almodóvar | Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences |
| Stanford Anderson | Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
| Richard Allen Askey | Natural Sciences | Mathematics |
| Arthur Lee-Francis Askins | Humanities | Spanish & Portuguese Literature |
| Anna Balakian | Humanities | French Literature |
| Eric A. Barnard | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
| Erik Barnouw Erik Barnouw Erik Barnouw was a U.S. historian of radio and television broadcasting.According to the Scribner Encyclopia of American Lives, Erik Barnouw was born in Den Haag in the Netherlands, the son of Adriaan , and Ann Eliza Barnouw... |
Creative Arts | General Nonfiction |
| Scott Bartlett Scott Bartlett Scott Bartlett was one of the premiere abstract experimental filmmakers of the late 1960s and the 1970s. His acclaimed work, such as his intense abstract 16mm movie Moon 1969, is greatly admired by many filmmakers, including Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas... |
Creative Arts | Film |
| Damián Carlos Bayón | Fine Arts Research | |
| Jose Carlos Becerra Ramos | Poetry | |
| Elmer Lewis Becker | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Larry S. Bell | Fine Arts | |
| Carlos Germán Belli de la Torre | Poetry | |
| Michael Benedikt Michael Benedikt (poet) Michael Benedikt was an American poet, editor, and literary critic.-Biography:Michael Benedikt was born in 1935 in New York City. He received his B.A... |
Poetry | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch Sacvan Bercovitch Sacvan Bercovitch is a Canadian Americanist, literary and cultural critic and academic.-Education and academic career:Bercovitch is perhaps the most influential and controversial Americanist of his generation. Born in Montreal, Quebec, He received his B.A. at Sir George Williams College, now... |
American Literature | |
| Samuel Morris Berman | Physics | |
| Joachim Birke | German & Scandinavian Literature | |
| Edward Alan Bloom | English Literature | |
| Jacob J. Blum | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Charles Kincaid Bockelman | Physics | |
| Dwight Bolinger Dwight Bolinger Dwight Le Merton Bolinger was an American linguist and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He began his career as the first editor of the "Among the New Words" feature for American Speech. As an expert in Spanish, he was elected president of the American... |
Linguistics | |
| Alfredo S. C. Bolsi | Earth Science | |
| Marie Borroff Marie Borroff Marie E. Borroff is an American poet, translator, and the Sterling Professor Emerita in English at Yale University.-Life:She graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA and MA in 1946, and from Yale University with a Ph.D. in 1956... |
English Literature | |
| Beverly Mary Boyd | Medieval Literature | |
| Robert Browning Bradfield | Medicine & Health | |
| Ralph Bray | Physics | |
| Rubin Bressler | Medicine & Health | |
| Roger Hamilton Brown | U.S. History | |
| Stephen Douglas Burton | Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| Carlos Salvador Carbonell | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Manuel Cardona Manuel Cardona Manuel Cardona Castro is a physicist. According to the ISI Citations web database, Cardona is one of the eighth most cited physicist since 1970... |
Physics | |
| John Edward Casida | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Theodore Grant Castner | Physics | |
| Joseph Cerny | Chemistry | |
| Seymour Chatman Seymour Chatman Seymour Chatman is an American film and literary critic, a professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley... |
Literary Criticism | |
| Daniel J. Christensen | Fine Arts | |
| Alain Clément | U.S. History | |
| Paul Joseph Cohen | Mathematics | |
| Albert Spaulding Cook | Literary Criticism | |
| John R. Coplans | Fine Arts Research | |
| Gordon Alexander Craig | German & East European History | |
| Richard Lincoln Crocker | Music Research | |
| Lewis Perry Curtis | British History | |
| Lawrence Frederick Dahl | Chemistry | |
| Albert Damon | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Arthur C. Danto | Philosophy | |
| Howard Ted Davis | Chemistry | |
| Victoria de la Jara | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Walter De Maria Walter De Maria -Early life and career:De Maria was born in Albany, California on October 1, 1935. He studied history and art at the University of California, Berkeley from 1953 to 1959. Although trained as a painter, De Maria soon turned to sculpture and began using other media... |
Fine Arts | |
| Johannes Martenis Jacob de Wet | Plant Sciences | |
| Kenneth M. Dolbeare | Political Science | |
| Bernard F. Dukore | Theatre Arts | |
| John Edmunds | Music Composition | |
| Elliot W. Eisner Elliot W. Eisner Elliot Eisner is emeritus professor of Art and Education at the Stanford University School of Education. He is active in several fields including arts education, curriculum reform, qualitative research, and is the recipient of a Grawemeyer Award in 2005 for his work in education as well as the... |
Education | |
| Bernard F. Erlanger | Natural Sciences | Molecular & Cellular Biology |
| Alejandro Feinstein | Natural Sciences | Astronomy--Astrophysics |
| George R. Feiwel | Social Sciences | Economics |
| Eliot Feld Eliot Feld Eliot Feld is an American modern ballet choreographer, performer and director.-Life and career:Feld was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Alice , a travel agent, and Benjamin Noah Feld, an attorney... |
Creative Arts | Choreography |
| Herbert Ferber Herbert Ferber Herbert Ferber was an American sculptor and painter, born in New York City. He began his independent artistic studies in New York in 1926 at evening classes at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, while attending Columbia University Dental School... |
Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Henry Albert Fischel | Humanities | Near Eastern Studies |
| Alfred G. Fischer | Natural Sciences | Earth Science |
| Stanley Fish Stanley Fish Stanley Eugene Fish is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island... |
Humanities | English Literature |
| Robert Forster Robert Forster Robert Forster is an American actor, best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, and as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.- Early life :Forster was born Robert Wallace... |
Humanities | French History |
| Irwin M. Freedberg | Natural Sciences | Medicine & Health |
| William W. Freehling William W. Freehling William W. Freehling is an American historian, and Singletary Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Kentucky.His work appeared in The New York Review of Books.-Awards:... |
Humanities | U.S. History |
| Margit Frenk | Humanities | Spanish & Portuguese Literature |
| Tom S. Fricano | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Sheldon Kay Friedlander | Natural Sciences | Engineering |
| Edward Allan Frieman | Natural Sciences | Astronomy--Astrophysics |
| Ivan Frisch | Natural Sciences | Applied Mathematics |
| Alan Garen | Physics | |
| William H. Gass William H. Gass William Howard Gass is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written two novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award... |
Fiction | |
| Jaime F. George | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Robert Augustus Georges | Folklore & Popular Culture | |
| Brian Albert Gerrish | Religion | |
| Ivar Giaever Ivar Giaever Ivar Giaever is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids". Giaever's share of the prize was specifically for his "experimental discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in ...... |
Physics | |
| A. Bartlett Giamatti A. Bartlett Giamatti Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti was the president of Yale University and later the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti negotiated the agreement that terminated the Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport, avoiding further... |
English Literature | |
| Margaret Brenman Gibson | Psychology | |
| Diane Giguère | French Literature | |
| Alberto Gironella | Fine Arts | |
| Murray Glanzer | Psychology | |
| Robert Gomer Robert Gomer Robert Gomer is an Austrian scientist, known for his research on field electron emission and field ionization, and his role as an adviser to the United States government.... |
Chemistry | |
| Joseph Goto | Fine Arts | |
| Ronald Gottesman | American Literature | |
| Loren R. Graham | Russian History | |
| Moltke Stefanus Gram | Philosophy | |
| Ralph Greif | Applied Mathematics | |
| Reinhold Grimm | German & Scandinavian Literature | |
| Erich S. Gruen Erich S. Gruen Erich Stephen Gruen is an American classicist and ancient historian. He was the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught full-time from 1966 until 2008... |
Classics | |
| Ricardo Gullón | Spanish & Portuguese Literature | |
| John Hagan | Creative Arts | English Literature |
| Walter S. H. Hamady | Fine Arts | |
| William Lee Hansen | Education | |
| Chauncey Hare | Creative Arts | Photography |
| James Thomas Harrison James Thomas Harrison James Thomas Harrison was an American politician and a signatory of the Confederate States Constitution. He was born in Anderson County, South Carolina and later moved to Columbus, Mississippi... |
Poetry | |
| Michael A. Harrison | Computer Science | |
| Geoffrey H. Hartman | Literary Criticism | |
| Eugene Helfand | Chemistry | |
| Juan José Hernández | Fiction | |
| William Mayo Hindle | Creative Arts | Film |
| Marion E. Hodes | Medicine & Health | |
| Donald R. Howard | Medieval Literature | |
| Antonín Hruby | German & Scandinavian Literature | |
| Chih-tsing Hsia | East Asian Studies | |
| Stanley Edgar Hyman Stanley Edgar Hyman Stanley Edgar Hyman was a literary critic who wrote primarily about critical methods: the distinct strategies critics use in approaching literary texts. Though most likely to be remembered today as the husband of writer Shirley Jackson, he was influential for the development of literary theory in... |
Literary Criticism | |
| Jorge Ibargüengoitia Jorge Ibargüengoitia Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón , was a Mexican novelist and playwright who achieved great popular success with his satires, three of which have appeared in English: Las Muertas , Dos Crimenes , and Los Relámpagos de Agosto Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón (Guanajuato, Mexico, January 22, 1928 -... |
Creative Arts | Fiction |
| Will Insley | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| David J. Jacob | Architecture, Planning, & Design | |
| Fredric Ruff Jameson | French Literature | |
| Richard C. Jeffrey | Philosophy | |
| Daniel D. Joseph Daniel D. Joseph Daniel Donald Joseph was an American mechanical engineer. He was the Regents Professor Emeritus and Russell J. Penrose Professor Emeritus of Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota... |
Applied Mathematics | |
| Richard Vincent Kadison | Mathematics | |
| Ludwig W. Kahn | German & Scandinavian Literature | |
| Thomas Kailath Thomas Kailath Thomas Kailath is an Indian electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University... |
Computer Science | |
| Edward J. Kane | Economics | |
| Simon Karlinsky | Slavic Literature | |
| Gordon D. Kaufman Gordon D. Kaufman Dr. Gordon D. Kaufman was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at Harvard University where he taught since 1963. He lectured widely, and taught at universities across the United States , and also in India, Japan, South Africa, England, and Hong Kong... |
Religion | |
| David Richard Kearns | Chemistry | |
| Raymond K. Kent | African Studies | |
| Larry Kevan | Chemistry | |
| James Roger King | Organismic Biology & Ecology | |
| Robert M. Kingdon Robert M. Kingdon Robert M. Kingdon was an American historian of the Protestant Reformation."Bob" Kingdon was born in Chicago and spent many of his early years in Hawaii... |
French History | |
| James L. Kinsey James L. Kinsey James L. Kinsey is an American chemist, and D. R. Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor at Rice University.He won the 1995 Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy.... |
Chemistry | |
| Arthur C. Kirsch | English Literature | |
| Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher | English Literature | |
| Arthur Kornberg Arthur Kornberg Arthur Kornberg was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid " together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University... |
Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Robert Alan Kraft | Religion | |
| Harry Dieter Krause | Law | |
| Irene S. Kubota | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| David Charles Kubrin | Humanities | History of Science & Technology |
| Hilda Kuper Hilda Kuper Hilda Beemer Kuper, née Beemer, was a social anthropologist most notable for her extensive work on Swazi culture. Born to Lithuanian Jewish and Austrian Jewish parents in Bulawayo, she moved to South Africa after the death of her father... |
Social Sciences | Anthropology & Cultural Studies |
| Norma J. Lang | Plant Sciences | |
| Robert Langbaum Robert Langbaum Robert Woodrow Langbaum is an American Author and a University of Virginia James Branch Cabell prof. English and Am. lit., 1967—1999, prof... |
Literary Criticism | |
| Victor William Laurie | Chemistry | |
| Richard S. Lazarus | Psychology | |
| Miguel León-Portilla Miguel León-Portilla Miguel León-Portilla is a Mexican anthropologist and historian, and a prime authority on Nahuatl thought and literature.He wrote a doctoral thesis on Nahua philosophy under the tutelage of Fr... |
Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Ilse Lehiste | Linguistics | |
| Alfred Leslie Alfred Leslie Alfred Leslie is an American artist and filmmaker. He first achieved success as an Abstract Expressionist painter, but changed course in the early 1960s and became a painter of realistic figurative paintings.-Biography:... |
Fine Arts | |
| Edmund Chi Chien Lin | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Roberto Juan Llaryora | Sociology | |
| Gerhard Loewenberg | Political Science | |
| Francis Donald Logan | Medieval History | |
| Edwin London | Music Composition | |
| Franklin A. Long | Chemistry | |
| Murray Louis Murray Louis Murray Louis is an American modern dancer and choreographer. He grew up in Manhattan, not far from Henry Street where his company was to be founded years later. At the same time, his sister took him to many of the early modern dance concerts. After his discharge from the Navy in 1946, Mr... |
Creative Arts | Choreography |
| Danny Lyon | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Robert Alan Maguire | Slavic Literature | |
| Robert P. Mangold | Fine Arts | |
| Ezio Marchi | Mathematics | |
| Robert Mortimer Marsh | Sociology | |
| Edward Andrew Maser | Fine Arts Research | |
| Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and modernist genres. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road... |
Fiction | |
| James McConica | British History | |
| James R. McConkey | Fiction | |
| Donald Bertram McIntyre | History of Science & Technology | |
| Alan Parkhurst Merriam | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| James E. Miller James E. Miller James E. Miller, Jr. was an American scholar and the Helen A. Regenstein Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, where he completed his graduate work, taught, and served as chairman of the English department.He has also served previously as president of... |
American Literature | |
| Jerome R. Mintz | Folklore & Popular Culture | |
| C. Bradley Moore | Chemistry | |
| Ivan Morris Ivan Morris Ivan Ira Esme Morris was a British author and teacher in the field of Japanese Studies.Ivan Morris was born in London, of mixed American and Swedish parentage, to Ira Victor Morris and Edita Morris. He studied at Gordonstoun, before graduating from Phillips Academy... |
East Asian Studies | |
| Robert E. Morris | Fine Arts | |
| Frederick Mosteller | Statistics | |
| Richard L. Myers | Creative Arts | Film |
| Gary Baring Nash | Humanities | U.S. History |
| Robert A. Nelson | Creative Arts | Film |
| Richard E. Norris | Plant Sciences | |
| Benedito José Nunes | Humanities | Latin American Literature |
| John Opper | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| Robert Andrew Parker | Fine Arts | |
| José Perea-Sasiaín | Medicine & Health | |
| Martin Lewis Perl Martin Lewis Perl Martin Lewis Perl is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.His parents were Jewish emigrants to the US from the Polish area of Russia.... |
Physics | |
| Richard Henry Popkin | Philosophy | |
| Robert C. Postma | Fine Arts | |
| John Webb Pratt | U.S. History | |
| Jack Preiss | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Edward T. Price | Geography & Environmental Studies | |
| Frank W. Putnam | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Theodore K. Rabb Theodore K. Rabb Theodore K. Rabb is a historian of the early modern period and is Emeritus Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the son of the late historian, author, and philanthropist, Dr. Oskar K. Rabinowicz, and the father of mystery historical novelist, Jonathan Rabb.Along with Robert I... |
British History | |
| Douglas W. Rae Douglas W. Rae *Douglas Whiting Rae is Richard Ely Professor of Management and Political Science at Yale University. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison... |
Political Science | |
| Yvonne Rainer Yvonne Rainer Yvonne Rainer is an American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental. Her work is classified as minimalist art.- Early life :... |
Creative Arts | Choreography |
| Peter H. Raven Peter H. Raven Peter Hamilton Raven is a botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden.-Early life:... |
Natural Sciences | Plant Sciences |
| Albert E. Rees | Economics | |
| Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of numerous books on Russian history. He was born in Harbin, China to lawyer Valentin A. Riasanovskii and Antonia Riasanovskii, a novelist... |
Russian History | |
| W. Allyn Rickett | East Asian Studies | |
| Philip Rieff Philip Rieff Philip Rieff was an American sociologist and cultural critic, who taught sociology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1961 until 1992. He was the author of a number of books on Sigmund Freud and his legacy, including Freud: The Mind of the Moralist and The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of... |
Sociology | |
| Henry Schroder Robinson | Classics | |
| John Mercel Robson | English Literature | |
| Alfredo Rodriguez Arias | Theatre Arts | |
| Thomas H. Rogers | Fiction | |
| Alan Roper | English Literature | |
| George Allan Russell | Music Composition | |
| Bruce Martin Russett | Political Science | |
| Alan Saret | Fine Arts | |
| Edward Vale Sayre | Chemistry | |
| John A. Schellman | Chemistry | |
| Seymour O. Schlanger | Earth Science | |
| Per Fredrik Scholander | Medicine & Health | |
| A. C. Scott | Theatre Arts | |
| Peter Dale Scott Peter Dale Scott Peter Dale Scott is a Canadian born, former English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a former diplomat and a poet.... |
Medieval Literature | |
| L. E. Scriven | Engineering | |
| George Andrew Seielstad | Astronomy--Astrophysics | |
| Alfred Erich Senn | Russian History | |
| Anne Sexton Anne Sexton Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967... |
Poetry | |
| Patricia Cayo Sexton | Sociology | |
| Norman S. Shiren | Physics | |
| John Willard Shy | U.S. History | |
| Frank Thomas Siebert | Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Anthony E. Siegman Anthony E. Siegman Anthony E. Siegman was president of the Optical Society of America in 1999 and was awarded the in 2009.- Personal :Tony Siegman was born on November 23, 1931, in Detroit and raised in rural Michigan. He graduated from Catholic Central High School in Detroit in 1949. He died at his home, in... |
Applied Mathematics | |
| Rubens da Silva Santos | Earth Science | |
| Art Sinsabaugh | Creative Arts | Photography |
| Brian John Skinner | Earth Science | |
| G. William Skinner G. William Skinner George William Skinner was a leading American anthropologist and scholar of China. Skinner was a leading proponent of the spatial approach to Chinese history, as explained in his Presidential Address to the Association for Asian Studies in 1984... |
Anthropology & Cultural Studies | |
| Gonzalo Sobejano | Spanish & Portuguese Literature | |
| Harvey Sollberger Harvey Sollberger Harvey Sollberger is an American composer, flutist, and conductor specializing in contemporary classical music.-Life:... |
Music Composition | |
| Gabor A. Somorjai Gabor A. Somorjai Gabor A. Somorjai is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry and catalysis... |
Chemistry | |
| Frank J. Sorauf | Political Science | |
| Patricia M. Spacks | English Literature | |
| Clark C. Spence | U.S. History | |
| John Arnott Spence | Plant Sciences | |
| George Alexander Starr | English Literature | |
| Gunther Siegmund Stent | Molecular & Cellular Biology | |
| Fritz Stern Fritz Stern Fritz Richard Stern is a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history, and historiography. He is a University Professor Emeritus and a former provost at New York's Columbia University... |
German & East European History | |
| Joseph Eugene Stiglitz | Economics | |
| Thomas H. Stix Thomas H. Stix Thomas Howard Stix was an American physicist. Stix performed seminal work in plasma physics, and wrote the first mathematical treatment of the field in 1962's The Theory of Plasma Waves.... |
Astronomy--Astrophysics | |
| Henry Melson Stommel | Earth Science | |
| Myron S. Stout | Fine Arts | |
| Robert O. Swain | Creative Arts | Fine Arts |
| James Herbert Swinehart | Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
| G. Thomas Tanselle | Humanities | Bibliography |
| Herbert S. Terrace | Social Sciences | Psychology |
| Marcel Tetel | Humanities | French Literature |
| Robert Edwards Thach | Natural Sciences | Chemistry |
| Stephan Albert Thernstrom | Humanities | U.S. History |
| Josiah D. Thompson | Humanities | Philosophy |
| Alar Toomre Alar Toomre Alar Toomre is an Estonian-born astronomer and mathematician who immigrated to the United States in 1949. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology... |
Natural Sciences | Astronomy--Astrophysics |
| Donald T. Trautman | Social Sciences | Law |
| Melvin Marvin Tumin | Social Sciences | Sociology |
| Bastiaan Cornelis van Fraassen | Humanities | Philosophy |
| George T. Walker | Creative Arts | Music Composition |
| John M. Wallace | Humanities | English Literature |
| John Henry Warkentin | Social Sciences | Geography & Environmental Studies |
| Russell F. Weigley | Humanities | U.S. History |
| Bernard Weiner Bernard Weiner Bernard Weiner is a cognitive psychologist who is known for developing a form of attribution theory that explains the emotional and motivational entailments of academic success and failure. Bernard Weiner got interested in the field of attribution after first studying achievement motivation... |
Social Sciences | Psychology |
| Roy Weinstein | Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Burton A. Weisbrod | Social Sciences | Economics |
| Alexander Welsh | English Literature | |
| Virgil Keeble Whitaker | Humanities | English Literature |
| Robert Lee White | Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Harry A. Wilmer | Social Sciences | Psychology |
| Richard Saul Wurman Richard Saul Wurman Richard Saul Wurman is an architect and graphic designer who is considered to be a pioneer in the practice of making information easily understandable. Wurman has written and designed over 80 books, and created the TED conferences, but remains associated only with TEDMED.-Early life and... |
Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
| Alfred Fabian Young | Humanities | U.S. History |
| Oscar Yujnovsky | Humanities | Architecture, Planning, & Design |
| Fredrik Zachariasen | Natural Sciences | Physics |
| Luther Harmon Zeigler | Social Sciences | Education |