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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1927

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Sixty-three John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded in 1927 to representatives of 22 states.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] $143,000 was disbursed.^[5]

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"DEMOS MADE GUGGENHEIM FELLOW FOR 1927-28 TERM". The Harvard Crimson. 1927-03-23. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Award of Fellowships by the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Science. 65 (1683): 316–317. 1927-04-01. doi:10.1126/science.65.1683.316.

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"63 fellowships in research given". Evening Star. Washington, DC, USA. 1927-03-21. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-04-10 – via newspapers.com.

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"Jane White". Smith College Libraries. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Walter White". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Prof. Dietz and Prof. Secord given Guggenheim Fellowships". The Daily Illini. Urbana, Illinois, USA. 1927-03-22. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-04-10 – via newspapers.com.

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"John Carroll Biography". The Annex Galleries. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Sculptor Avard Tennyson Fairbanks, who fashioned a bust of..." United Press International. 1987-01-01. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Glen A. Mitchell". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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Schwendener, Martha (2007-07-27). "Following the Leader, and Sometimes Moving Past". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"DOROTHY OCHTMAN, STILL‐LIFE PAINTER". The New York Times. 1971-04-27. p. 46. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Phi Beta Kappa Members Appointed to Guggenheim Fellowships". The Phi Beta Kappa Key. 1927. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Nathaniel Peffer of Columbia, Expert on the Far East, Dies". The New York Times. 1964-04-14. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Nathaniel Peffer". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Guggenheim Fellowship (1925-1929)". University of Washington. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Guggenheim grants honor Caltech men". The Pasadena Post. Pasadena, California, USA. 1927-03-21. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-04-10 – via newspapers.com.

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"Roger Sessions". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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Fulton, Joe B. "Stephen Vincent Benet 1898-1943". Mark Twain Quarterly. 6 (2): 1–3. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Stephen Vincent Benet". The Chattanooga News. Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. 1927-04-09. p. 25. Retrieved 2023-04-10 – via newspapers.com.

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"John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Awards Fellowships" (PDF). Pencil Points. Vol. 8, no. 4. April 1927. p. 248. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Myron Bement Smith". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"William Jerome Wilson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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Noles, Randy; Gfeller, Ed (2016-06-21). "Talent for Tumult". Winter Park Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"John Andrew Rice Jr". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Secord, Arthur Wellesley (1891-1957)". University of Illinois Archives. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"U. of M. faculty members are highly honored". The Bangor Daily News. Bangor, Maine, USA. 1927-03-21. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-04-10 – via newspapers.com.

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"Fred G. Hoffherr". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Frank Dunstone Graham". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Guggenheim Fellowships". University of Chicago. Retrieved 2022-10-10.

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"Odell Shepard". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Nichoalas G. Ballanta". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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Greenberg, Moshe (1968). "In Memory of E. A. Speiser". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 88=number=1. American Oriental Society: 1–2. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Helen Moore Johnson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Frank Lawrence Owsley". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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Nolan, Hugh J. "In Memoriam: RICHARD J. PURCELL". Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia. 61 (1). American Catholic Historical Society: 3–8. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"George Malcolm Stephenson papers". University of Minnesota. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"George M. Stephenson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Guggenheim Fellowship". University of Minnesota. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Wallace R. Brode". Optica. 2021-09-17. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Wallace R. Brode". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Fellowship given Washington man to study in Europe extended one year". Hardwick Gazette. Hardwick, Vermont, USA. 1927-05-26. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-04-10 – via newspapers.com.

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Giauque, W.F.; Hildebrand, J.H.; Seaborg, G.T. "George Ernest Gibson". UC Berkeley. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Linus Pauling". The Nobel Prize. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Linus Pauling". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Guggenheim Fellowships". University of Texas. Retrieved 2022-10-10.

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"William R. Amberson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Edward F. Adolph, Ph.D." University of Rochester Medical Center. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Ralph Erskine Cleland". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Edwin Blake Payson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Carl Henry Eckart". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Richard Bradfield". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"James Penrose Harland". University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"J. Penrose Harland". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Excavator Returns". The Chapel Hill News. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. 1927-09-23. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-04-10 – via newspapers.com.

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"Mollie Ray Carroll". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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"Roger Hewes Wells". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11.

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Category	Field of Study	Fellow	Institutional association	Research topic	Notes	Ref
Creative Arts	Fiction	Walter White	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	Lynching in the United States		^[6]^[7]^[8]
	Fine Arts	John Wesley Carroll	Art Students League of New York	Painting		^[9]^[8]
		Samuel Vance Chamberlain	University of Michigan	Etching and drypoint		^[8]^[5]
		Avard Fairbanks	University of Oregon	Sculpture		^[10]^[8]^[5]
		Glen Amos Mitchell		Painting	Also won in 1926	^[11]
		Isamu Noguchi		Sculpture	Also won in 1928	^[12]^[8]
		Dorothy Ochtman		Painting		^[13]^[8]
	Fine Arts Research	Ernest Theodore DeWald	Princeton University	Publication of manuscripts of Stuttgart Psalter and a catalogue of the illuminated manuscripts at the library in Einsiedeln, Switzerland	Also won in 1931	^[14]^[8]^[5]
	General Nonfiction	Nathaniel Peffer	New School for Social Research	Effects of industrialism and nationalist on the Far East	Also won in 1928	^[15]^[16]^[8]
	Music Composition	Roy Harris		Composition	Also won in 1928, 1976	^[17]^[8]^[18]^[5]
		Carl McKinley	Capital Theatre		Also won in 1928	^[17]^[8]
		Bernard Rogers			Also won in 1928	^[17]
		Roger Sessions			Also won in 1926	^[17]^[19]
		Theodore J. Stearns				^[17]
	Poetry	Stephen Vincent Benét		Long narrative poem about the American Civil War	Also won in 1926	^[20]^[21]
Humanities	Architecture, Planning and Design	Myron Bement Smith		Italian brickwork of the Lombard period	Also won in 1928	^[22]^[23]^[8]
	British History	Frederick Charles Dietz	University of Illinois, Urbana	English government finance from 1558 to 1640		^[14]^[8]^[5]
	British History	Judith Blow Williams	Wellesley College	Efforts, both of individuals and through concerted private and governmental action, to open markets for the products of the Industrial Revolution in England	Also won in 1929	^[14]^[8]
	Classics	Marion Elizabeth Blake	Converse College	Republican and Augustan pavements of Italy	Also won in 1929, 1953	^[14]^[8]^[5]
	Classics	William Jerome Wilson	State Normal School at Cheney	The Shepherd of Hermas		^[24]^[8]^[5]
	English Literature	Ford Keeler Brown	St. John's College, Annapolis	Hannah More	Also won in 1929, 1930	^[14]^[8]^[5]
		John William Draper	University of Maine	Bibliography of 18th century works on aesthetics and for origins of the "Graveyard School" of 18th century poetry in Great Britain	Also won in 1928	^[14]^[8]
		John Andrew Rice, Jr.	University of Nebraska	Authorship of A Tale of a Tub		^[25]^[26]^[8]^[5]
		Arthur Wellesley Secord	University of Illinois	Daniel Defoe		^[27]^[8]^[5]
		Harold William Thompson	New York State College for Teachers	Biography	Also won in 1925	^[28]
	French History	E. Malcolm Carroll	Duke University	Influence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third French Republic	Also won in 1928	^[14]^[8]^[5]
	French History	Raphael Demos	Harvard University	Philosophy of evolution and social philosophy in France		^[1]^[8]
	French Literature	Fred G. Hoffherr	Columbia University	Preparation for the publication of the manuscript Victor Hugo's Journal d'Exil		^[29]^[8]
	German and East European History	Frank Dunstone Graham	Princeton University	Commercial and industrial consequences of the rapid depreciation of the German and Polish monetary units of the post-war period		^[30]^[8]^[5]
	German and Scandinavian Literature	Archer Taylor	University of Chicago	Methods used in folklore study for tracing the history of the popular ballad	Also won in 1960	^[31]^[8]^[5]
	Iberian and Latin American History	J. Fred Rippy	Duke University	Latin America in world affairs		^[8]^[5]
	Intellectual and Cultural History	Bernadotte Everly Schmitt	University of Chicago	Origins and responsibility for the World War		^[31]^[8]^[5]
	Literary Criticism	Odell Shepard	Trinity College	Preparation of a book Romantic Solitude and for research in the history of the romantic movement		^[32]^[8]
	Music Research	Nicholas G.J. Ballanta		Musical conceptions of African peoples and comparison to older musical systems of Europe	Also won in 1928	^[33]^[34]^[8]
	Near Eastern Studies	Ephraim Avigdor Speiser	University of Pennsylvania		Also won in 1926	^[35]^[5]
	South Asian Studies	Helen Moore Johnson		Translation and commentary of Hemacandra's Loves of Sixty-three Famous Men		^[14]^[36]^[8]^[5]
	United States History	Frank Lawrence Owsley	Vanderbilt University	Certain phases of the relations of Europe and the Confederacy		^[37]^[8]^[5]
		Richard Joseph Purcell	Catholic University of America	Irish immigration to the United States from 1790 to the time of the American Civil War		^[38]^[8]^[5]
		George Malcolm Stephenson	University of Minnesota	History of Swedish immigration to the United States		^[39]^[40]^[41]^[8]^[5]
Natural Sciences	Chemistry	Wallace R. Brode	Bureau of Standards	Absorption spectra of aniline dyes	Also won in 1926	^[42]^[43]^[5]^[44]
		George Ernest Gibson	University of California, Berkeley	Theory of band spectra		^[45]^[8]^[18]
		Linus Pauling	California Institute of Technology		Also won in 1926, 1965	^[46]^[47]^[18]^[5]
		Lloyd Hilton Reyerson	University of Minnesota	Contact catalysis	Also won in 1957	^[2]^[41]^[8]^[5]
	Mathematics	Philip Franklin	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Integral equations, orthogonal functions, and their relation to almost periodic functions		^[14]^[8]
	Mathematics	Harry Shultz Vandiver	University of Texas, Austin	Fermat's Last Theorem and the laws of reciprocity in the theory of algebraic numbers	Also won in 1930	^[48]^[8]^[5]
	Medicine and Health	William Ruthrauff Amberson	University of Pennsylvania	Mechanisms involved in the electrical stimulation of nerve and music		^[14]^[49]^[8]
	Molecular and Cellular Biology	Edward Frederick Adolph	University of Rochester	Internal factors that control the size of organisms, particularly during growth		^[50]^[8]
	Organismic Biology & Ecology	Ralph Erskine Cleland	Goucher College	Chromosome constitution and behavior of the evening primrose, as related to certain genetical problems	Also won in 1928	^[14]^[51]^[8]^[5]
		Lewis Victor Heilbrunn	University of Michigan	Colloid chemistry of protoplasm		^[52]^[8]^[5]
		Edwin Blake Payson	University of Wyoming	Taxonomy in relation to generic phylogenies		^[53]^[5]
	Physics	Carl Eckart	California Institute of Technology	New quantum theory		^[54]^[8]^[18]^[5]
		William Vermillion Houston	California Institute of Technology	Recent developments in quantum mechanics as applied to the explanation of spectra		^[14]^[8]^[18]^[5]
		Frank C. Hoyt	University of Chicago	Quantum theory and its meaning for radiation and atomic structure		^[31]^[8]^[5]
		Victor F. Lenzen	University of California, Berkeley	Statistical mechanics		^[14]^[8]
		Manuel Sandoval Vallarta	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Connection between Schrödinger's wave mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity		^[8]
		Jay Walter Woodrow	Iowa State College	Phosphorescent, chemiluminescencent and photoelectric properties of cod liver oil and other substances which either have anti-rachitic characteristics or can be activated by treatment with ultra-violet light		^[2]^[8]^[5]
	Plant Sciences	Richard Bradfield	University of Missouri	Principles involved in the purification of colloids by electrodialysis	Also won in 1928	^[55]^[8]^[5]
		William Henry Eyster	University of Maine	Physiology of the chloroplastid pigments		^[2]^[8]
		Rodney Beecher Harvey	University of Minnesota	Low temperature effects on plants	Also won in 1928	^[41]^[8]^[5]
Social Sciences	Anthropology and Cultural Studies	James Penrose Harland	University of Cincinnati	Civilizations of the Bronze Age in and around Greece	Also won in 1927	^[56]^[57]^[5]^[58]
	Economics	Mollie Ray Carroll	Goucher College	Present-day system of unemployment insurance in Germany		^[59]^[8]^[5]
	Political Science	Roger Hewes Wells (de)	Bryn Mawr College	Preparation of the book Municipal Government in the German Commonwealth		^[60]^[8]^[5]
	Political Science	Leonard Dupee White	University of Chicago	Trade unions and professional organizations in the public service of Great Britain	Also won in 1928	^[14]^[31]^[8]^[5]

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List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1927

1927 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

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