Thirty-eight Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1933.[1][2] Arnold and Lucile Blanch were the first couple to both win a Guggenheim award in the same year.[3]
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Arts | Fiction | Leonard Ehrlich | Writing | Also won in 1934 | [4][5] | |
Younghill Kang | New York University | Also won in 1934 | [6][5] | |||
Glenway Wescott | [4][2] | |||||
Fine Arts | Arnold Blanch | Byrdcliffe Colony | Painting | [7][2][5][3] | ||
Lucile Blanch | Byrdcliffe Colony | Painting and lithography | [8][2][5][3] | |||
Louis Bouché | Painting | [4][5] | ||||
Miguel Covarrubias | Painting | Also won in 1940 | [4][2][5] | |||
Emil Ganso | Painting | [4][2][5] | ||||
Georgina Klitgaard | Painting | [9][2][5] | ||||
Mary Lightfoot Tarleton | Sculpture | [10][5] | ||||
Gwen Lux | Sculpture | [4][2][5] | ||||
Carlotta Petrina | Book illustrations | Also won in 1935 | [11][5] | |||
Music Composition | George Antheil | Composing | Also won in 1932 | [4][2][5] | ||
Paul Nordoff | Also won in 1935 | [2][4][12][5] | ||||
Poetry | Louise Bogan | Writing | [4][5] | |||
E. E. Cummings | Also won in 1951 | [4][2][5] | ||||
George Dillon | Also won in 1932 | [4][2][5] | ||||
Humanities | Biography | Matthew Josephson | Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Staël | [4][2][5] | ||
Classics | Kenneth Scott | Western Reserve University | Religious and political history of the Roman Empire, particularly the development of Roman emperor worship in the 1st century, A.D. | [2][5] | ||
French History | Lowell Joseph Ragatz | George Washington University | Social and economic structure of the French Antilles during the 17th and 18th centuries | [2][5] | ||
Natural Sciences | Chemistry | Herrick Lee Johnston | Ohio State University | Advances in molecular spectra and their application to problems in chemical equilibria and to photochemistry | [2][5] | |
Carl Robert Noller | Stanford University | Determination of the constitution of naturally occurring organic compounds, especially the sapogenins and sterols | [2][13][5] | |||
Mathematics | Charles F. Roos | American Association for the Advancement of Science | Dynamical economics | [2][4][5] | ||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Arthur Loveridge | Museum of Comparative Zoology | Vanishing vertebrate fauna of the tropical rain forests remnants in East Africa | Also won in 1938 | [4][2][5] | |
Physics | Kenneth Bainbridge | Franklin Institute | Nuclear physics | Also won in 1934 | [2][5][14] | |
Francis Bitter | Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company | Magnetism, with special reference to the structure of crystals | [2][5] | |||
Thomas Charles Poulter | Iowa Wesleyan College | Antarctic expedition with Richard Byrd | [2][5] | |||
Plant Sciences | Barbara McClintock | California Institute of Technology | Genetics | [11][15][5] | ||
Social Sciences | Anthropology and Cultural Studies | Alfredo Barrera Vásquez | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Translation of the Chilam Balam and Maya linguistics | Also won in 1934 | [16][5] |
Economics | Henry Schultz | University of Chicago | Mathematical and statistical economics in Europe | [2][4][5] |
Category | Field of Study | Fellow | Institutional association | Research topic | Notes | Ref |
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Creative Art | Music Composition | Juan José Castro | Teatro Colón; Buenos Aires Philharmonic | Composing | [12][5] | |
Humanities | Economic History | Eugenio Pereira Salas | Children's Lyceum N°1, Santiago | History of commercial relations between the United States and Spanish America, especially Chile | [17][5] | |
Iberian and Latin American History | Herminio Portell Vilá | University of Havana | Historical relationship between Cuba and the United States, with particular attention to the question of annexation | Also won in 1931, 1932 | [18][5] | |
Natural Sciences | Engineering | David Segura y Gama | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Organization and functioning of metallurgical laboratories with special reference to the treatment of precious metals | [19][5] | |
Medicine and Health | José Matias Cid | Hospital Psiquiátrico Agudo Avila Rosario | Pathology of the central nervous system | [20][5] | ||
Juan Farill y Solares | Department of Public Health, Mexico | Clinical theory and orthopedics with special reference to the nonsurgical treatment of deformities in children | Also won in 1932 | [21][5] | ||
Organismic Biology and Ecology | Enrique Beltrán | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Marine biology and protozoology | Also won in 1932 | [22][5] | |
Plant Sciences | José A. Nolla | University of Puerto Rico | Inheritance of disease resistance in tobacco | Also won in 1933 | [23][5] |