List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1959
The following is a list of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1959:
1959 U.S. and Canadian Fellows
- Ansel Adams, Photography
- Kinsey A. Anderson, Astronomy-Astrophysics
- Francis M. Bator, Economics
- Stephen B. Baxter, British History
- Robert A. Becker, Physics
- Lipman Bers, Mathematics
- Elias J. Bickerman, Classics
- Gordon W. Binkerd, Music Composition
- Allan Birnbaum, Statistics
- Doris Taylor Bishop, Classics
- Felix Bloch, Physics
- Allan B. Burdick, Genetics
- Dennis Byng, Fine Arts
- Louis Calabro, Music Composition
- Gerald M. Capers, U.S. History
- Richard Raymond Carlson, Physics
- Wen-chung Chou, Music Composition
- Arthur H. Compton, Physics
- Donovan S. Correll, Plant Sciences
- Merce Cunningham, Choreography
- Mark H. Curtis, British History
- Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer
- Michael Danos, Physics
- Theodosius Dobzhansky, Organismic Biology & Ecology
- Thomas M. Donahue, Astronomy-Astrophysics, physics professor at the University of Pittsburgh
- Sterling Dow, Classics
- Douglas F. Dowd, Economic History
- Robert Eisner, Economics
- Paul Engle, Poetry
- Walker Evans, Photography
- Don E. Fehrenbacher, U.S. History
- Peter Feibleman, Fiction
- Robert Jay Finkelstein, Physics
- Shelby Foote, U.S. History
- Lukas Foss, Music Composition
- Harry W. Fritts Jr., Medicine and Health
- Frederick Ernest Joseph Fry, Organismic Biology & Ecology
- Theodor Herzl Gaster, Near Eastern Studied
- Leo Gershoy, French History
- George Gibian, Slavic Literature
- Kahlil Gibran, Sculptor, Boston, Massachusetts
- Norman H. Giles, Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Leo A. Goodman, Statistics
- Andrew V. Granato, Physics
- Robert M. Grant, Religion
- Frédéric Grover, French Literature
- George M. A. Grube, Classics
- Irwin C. Gunsalus, Molecular and Cellular Biology
- James Moody Gustafson, Religion
- Leopold H. Haimson, Russian History
- Jack R. Harlan, Plant Sciences
- Margaret Hastings, British History
- Hermann A. Haus, Engineering
- Anthony Hecht, Poetry
- Ray L. Heffner, English Literature
- Richard H. Hoppin, Music Research
- Bert F. Hoselitz, Economics
- Paul V. C. Hough, Physics
- Philip S. Humphrey, Organismic Biology & Ecology
- Carleen M. Hutchins, Music Research
- Paul Clifford Hutchison, Plant Sciences
- Samuel Hynes, English Literature
- Karl Uno Ingard, Physics
- Ben Johnston, Music Composition
- Luise Kaish, Fine Arts
- W. Barclay Kamb, Geography and Environmental Studies
- Edmund Keeley, Fiction
- George Alexander Kennedy, East Asian Studies
- Karl Korte, composer
- Bertram Kostant, Mathematics
- James A. Krumhansl, Physics
- John La Montaine, Music Composition
- Ernest A. Lachner, Organismic Biology & Ecology
- Basil Langton, Theatre Arts
- Helen Levitt, Photography
- Willard F. Libby, Physics
- William S. Livingston, Political Science
- Lynn H. Loomis, Mathematics
- Katharine Luomala, Anthropology and Cultural Studies
- Andrew Lytle, Fiction
- Yakov Malkiel, Linguistics
- Howard V. Malmstadt, Chemistry
- Victor S. Mamatey, Russian History
- William Manchester, Fiction
- Monroe H. Martin, Mathematics
- Teruhisa Matsusaka, Mathematics
- Mary McCarthy, Fiction
- Robert G. McCloskey, Political Science
- Boyce D. McDaniel, Physics
- Richard H. Milburn, Physics
- J. Hillis Miller, English Literature
- Donald J. Montgomery, Physics
- Brian Moore, Fiction
- John A. Moore, Organismic Biology & Ecology
- Lawrence K. Moss, Music Composition
- Lee Mullican, Fine Arts
- Theodore Newcomb, Psychology
- Robert A. Nilan, Plant Sciences
- Yutaka Ohashi, Fine Arts
- Louis Shreve Osborne, Physics
- Claude Victor Palisca, Music Research
- Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Professor and Director Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
- Andreas G. Papandreou, Economics
- William Paul, Physics
- Bernard Perlin, artist
- Vincent Zetterberg Peterson, Physics
- Arie Poldervaart, Earth Science
- Mel Powell, Music Composition
- Hilary Putnam, Philosophy
- J. Saunders Redding, Fiction
- Eugene F. Rice Jr., Renaissance History
- Stuart A. Rice, Chemistry
- Adrienne Rich, Poetry
- Charles P. Roland, U.S. History
- Louis Rosen, Physics
- John Ross, Chemistry
- Eugene V. Rostow, Political Science
- Philip Roth, celebrated American author for his debut work, Goodbye Columbus
- Herbert H. Rowen, German and Eastern European History
- Richard C. Rudolph, Anthropology and Cultural Studies
- Robert G. Sachs, Physics
- Karl Sax, Plant Sciences
- John P. Schiffer, Physics
- Robert E. Schofield, History of Science and Technology
- Boris Schwartz, Music Composition
- Seymour J. Shifrin, Music Composition
- Judith N. Shklar, Political Science
- Charles G. Sibley, Organismic Biology & Ecology
- S. J. Singer, Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Otto J. M. Smith, Applied Mathematics
- I. S. Sokolnikoff, Applied Mathematics
- Milada Součková, Slavic Literature
- Herbert Spiro, Political Science
- Donald E. Stanford, American Literature
- Richard C. Starr, Plant Sciences
- Wallace Stegner, Fiction
- Krister Stendahl, Religion
- Philip Van Doren Stern, U.S. History
- Edward C. Stone, Plant Sciences
- Gilbert Stork, Chemistry
- Carol Summers, Fine Arts
- May Swenson, Poetry
- Stuart M. Tave, English Literature
- Lily Ross Taylor, Classics
- Ruthven Todd, General Nonfiction
- John Philip Trinkaus, Organismic Biology & Ecology
- Arlin Turner, American Literature
- Francis J. Turner, Earth Science
- John Updike, Fiction
- George Veronis, Earth Science
- Robert G. Vosper, Bibliography
- Harry H. Wasserman, Chemistry
- Robert K. Webb, British History
- Elbert Weinberg, Fine Arts
- Uriel Weinreich, Linguistics
- Morris Weitz, Philosophy
- Frederick Robert Whatley, Plant Sciences
- Ulfert Wilke, German-born American calligrapher and painter
- Oscar Osburn Winther, U.S. History
- John Baptist Wolf, French History
- C. Vann Woodward, U.S. History
- Pedro Wygodzinsky, Organismic Biology & Ecology
- Yehudi Wyner, Music Composition
- Chia-Shun Yih, Applied Mathematics
- Thomas J. Ypsilantis, Physics
1959 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows
- Mitzy Canessa, Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Rosa Chacel, General Nonfiction
- Luis Antonio Escobar, Music Composition
- Ernesto Foldats, Plant Sciences
- Sebastian Alberto Guarrera, Plant Sciences
- Raimundo Lida, Spanish and Portuguese Literature
- Maria Luisa Pacheco, Fine Arts
- Angel O. Pogo, Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Eduardo Quisumbing, Plant Sciences
- Victor Stafford Reid, Fiction
- Pedro Rudomin Zevnovaty, Neuroscience
- Juan Jorge Schäffer, Mathematics
- Oscar Tovar Serpa, Plant Sciences
Each year, the foundation makes several hundred awards in each of two separate competitions: one open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada and the other to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean.