One hundred thirty-two Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1946. Sixty of these were awarded as part of the post-service program, which provided fellowships to otherwise qualified artists and scholars who were taken away from their studies due to the war.
1946 Post-Service Fellows
Category Field of Study Fellow Branch/service Civilian institution Research topic Notes Ref Creative Arts Fiction Sam Byrd United States Navy Preparation of Last Train Home (unpublished) Also won in 1948 Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. Office of Strategic Services Reading, learning Spanish, and writing in Mexico Fine Arts Manuel Bromberg United States Army Painting Corrado Cagli Painting: Battlefields Carroll Cloar United States Air Force Painting Barse Miller United States Army Painting: Sacramento River region Music Composition John Ayres Lessard Composing Also won in 1953 Humanities American Literature Stephen Addison Larrabee Critical study of Hellenism in American literature General Nonfiction Bradford Smith United States Office of War Information Japanese immigration to the United States Also won in 1945 History of Science and Technology James R. Newman Office of War Mobilization Social economical implications of atomic energy Also won in 1947 Near Eastern Studies Franz Rosenthal United States Army United States Department of State Muslim historiography Philosophy Charles Alexander Moore Army Medical Department University of Hawaii William Donald Oliver United States Army Air Forces University of Minnesota Natural Sciences Chemistry Elwood Vernon Jensen United States chemical weapons program University of Chicago Chemistry of natural products Earth Science Ernest Robert Tinkham United States Army Air Forces Certain aspects of the biology of the North American deserts Mathematics G. Baley Price University of Kansas John Williams Calkin Also won in 1945 Molecular and Cellular Biology James Thomas Culbertson Office of Scientific Research and Development Columbia University Biography of Patrick Manson Also won in 1936 Arthur William Galston United States Navy California Institute of Technology Research at Yale University Also won in 1950 Physics John Archibald Wheeler Princeton University Problem of measurement in electron theory Also won in 1949 Plant Science Donovan Stewart Correll United States Navy Harvard University Also won in 1959 Social Science Psychology Donald Vincent McGranahan United States Army Psychological study of the German people Sociology Herbert Aptheker Documentary History of the Negro People (published 1951)
1946 U.S. and Canadian Fellows