List Of Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded In 1979
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Guggenheim Fellowships Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
awarded in 1979.
Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
s are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been ...
to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." 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
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and the
Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...
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1979 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

* Irving Martin Abella, Professor of History, York University: 1979. *
Vito Acconci Vito Acconci (, ; January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) was an influential American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design. His foundational p ...
, artist, Brooklyn, New York: 1979. * Nina Agabian, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, University of Washington: 1979. *
Jeffrey C. Alexander Jeffrey Charles Alexander (born 1947) is an American sociologist, and a prominent social theorist. He is the founding figure in the school of cultural sociology he refers to as the "strong program". Career He was born May 30, 1947, in Milwaukee ...
, Chair, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles: 1979. *
Thom Andersen Thom Andersen (born 1943 in Chicago) is an American filmmaker, film critic, and teacher best known for his works of experimental film, including his 1975 film ''Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer'' and the 2003 essay film ''Los Angeles Plays Itse ...
, filmmaker; Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts: 1979. * Jonathan Arons, Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley: 1979. *
Nina Auerbach Nina Auerbach (May 24, 1943 in New York City – February 4, 2017) was the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. Her special area of concentration was nineteenth-century England. She published, lecture ...
, John Welsh Centennial Professor of History and Literature, University of Pennsylvania: 1979. * Richard Frederick William Bader, Professor of Chemistry, McMaster University: 1979. *
Jean-Loup Baer Jean-Loup Baer is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. Biography Jean-Loup Baer received the Diplome d'Ingénieur in Electrical Engineering and the Doctorat 3e cycle in Computer Science from the University ...
, Boeing Pennell Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington: 1979. * Robert Ely Bagg, poet and translator; Emeritus Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst: 1979. * Marshall Baker, Professor of Physics, University of Washington: 1979. *
Paul N. Banks Paul Banks (April 15, 1934 – May 10, 2000) was Conservator and Head of the Conservation Department and Laboratory at the Newberry Library from 1964 to 1981. He left the Newberry Library in 1981 to establish the first United States degree-grantin ...
, deceased. Bibliography: 1979. * Philip C. Bankwitz, Professor Emeritus of History, Trinity College, Hartford: 1979. *
Lance Banning Lance Banning (January 24, 1942 – January 31, 2006) was an American historian who specialized in studying the politics of the United States' Founding Fathers. He taught mostly at the University of Kentucky. Life Banning was a native of Kan ...
, Professor of History, University of Kentucky: 1979. * Bernard Barber, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Barnard College and Graduate Faculties, Columbia University: 1979. * Elizabeth J. Barber, Professor of Linguistics and Archaeology, Occidental College: 1979. * Michael A. Becker, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago: 1979. * Jere R. Behrman, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania: 1979. *
Benjamin Bennett Benjamin Bennett may refer to: * Benjamin Bennett (governor), Governor of Bermuda, 1701–1713 * Benjamin Bennett (politician) (1872–1939), Australian politician * Benjamin Bennett (writer) Benjamin Bennett (1904–1985) was a well known South ...
, Professor of German, University of Virginia: 1979. * Suzanne Berger, Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1979. *
Frank Bidart Frank Bidart (born May 27, 1939) is an American academic and poet, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Biography Bidart is a native of California and considered a career in acting or directing when he was young. In 1957, he began to s ...
, poet; Professor of English, Wellesley College: 1979. *
Chester Biscardi Chester Biscardi (b. Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kenosha, Wisconsin, October 19, 1948; nicknamed Chet) is an Italian American composer and educator. He received a B.A. degree in English literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1970); he stu ...
, composer; Chairman, Music Department, Sarah Lawrence College: 1979. *
Phyllis Pray Bober Phyllis Pray Bober (December 2, 1920 – May 30, 2002) was an American art historian, scholar, author and professor at Bryn Mawr College. She specialized in Renaissance art, classical antiquity, and she was a scholar in culinary history. Early l ...
, Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities, Bryn Mawr College: 1979. * Felicia Bonaparte, Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York: 1979. * Charles Clyde Bowden, writer, Tucson, Arizona: 1979. * Raymond Bowers, deceased. Science: 1979. * Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, scholar, Toronto: 1979. * Kenneth S. Brecher, director, The William Penn Foundation: 1979. * James O. Breeden, Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University: 1979. * Eugene Brodsky, artist, New York City: 1979, 1987. * Lowell S. Brown, Professor of Physics, University of Washington: 1979. *
Theodore L. Brown Theodore Lawrence Brown (born October 15, 1928) is an American scientist known for research, teaching, and writing in the field of physical inorganic chemistry, a university administrator, and a philosopher of science. In addition to his research ...
, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1979. * Thomas C. Bruice, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara: 1979. *
Peter C. Bunnell Peter Curtis Bunnell (October 25, 1937 – September 20, 2021) was an American author, scholar and historian of photography. For more than 40 years he had a significant impact on collecting, exhibiting, teaching and practicing photography through ...
, David Hunter McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art, Princeton University: 1979. * Stanley P. Burg, plant physiologist, Miami: 1979. * John G. Burke, deceased. History of Science: 1979. * David E. Bynum, Professor of Religious Studies, Cleveland State University: 1979. * Thomas Byrom, deceased. 19th Century English Literature: 1979. * Richard Calendar, Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley: 1979. *
John Carisi John E. Carisi (February 23, 1922 – October 3, 1992) was an American trumpeter and composer. Early life and career Carisi was born in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey on February 22, 1922,Larkin, Colin (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popula ...
, deceased. Music Composition: 1979. * John Casey, writer, Charlottesville, Virginia: 1979. *
F. Stuart Chapin III F. Stuart Chapin III (or Terry Chapin) (born February 2, 1944) is a professor of Ecology at the Department of Biology and Wildlife of the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska. He was President of the Ecological Society of America (ESA ...
, Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley: 1979. * Eric L. Charnov, Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of New Mexico: 1979. * Anwar G. Chejne, deceased. Near Eastern Studies: 1979. *
Lucinda Childs Lucinda Childs (born June 26, 1940) is an American postmodern dancer/ choreographer and actress. Her compositions are known for their minimalistic movements yet complex transitions. Childs is most famous for being able to turn the slightest mov ...
, choreographer; Artistic Director, Lucinda Childs Dance Company, New York City: 1979. * Bruno Civitico, artist, Charleston, South Carolina: 1979. *
Robert M. Coates Robert Myron Coates (April 6, 1897 – February 8, 1973) was an American novelist, short story writer and art critic. He published five novels; one classic historical work, '' The Outlaw Years'' (1930) which deals with the history of the land pi ...
, Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1979. * James S. Cockburn, Professor of History, University of Maryland at College Park: 1979. * Robert S. Coe, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz: 1979. *
Linda Connor Linda Connor (born in New York, November 18, 1944) is an American photographer living in San Francisco, California. She is known for her landscape photography. She has photographed in a multitude of countries throughout her career including, bu ...
, photographer; Professor of Photography, San Francisco Art Institute: 1979. * Frederick A. Cooper, Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota: 1979. * John M. Cooper, Jr., E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1979. *
Rose Laub Coser Rose Laub Coser (born May 4, 1916 August 21, 1994) was a German-American sociologist, educator, and social justice activist. She taught sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1968 until her retirement in 1987. She wa ...
, deceased. Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine and of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook: 1979. * William J. Courtenay, C. H. Haskins Professor and Hilldale Professor of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1979. * Barbara Crane, photographer; Emeritus Professor of Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; 1979. * Robert I. Cukier, Professor of Chemistry, Michigan State University: 1979. *
Jonathan Culler Jonathan Culler (born 1944) is an American literary critic. He was Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His published works are in the fields of structuralism, literary theory and literary critici ...
, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University: 1979. * Robert D. Cumming, Frederick J. E. Woodbridge Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University: 1979. * Allan Cunningham, deceased. British History: 1979. * Robert Daly, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, State University of New York at Buffalo: 1979. * Glyn Dawson, Professor of Pediatrics and Biochemistry, University of Chicago: 1979. *
Don DeLillo Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, per ...
, writer, Bronxville, New York: 1979. *
Lloyd Demetrius Lloyd A. Demetrius is an American mathematician and theoretical biologist at the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary biology, Harvard University. He is best known for the discovery of the concept evolutionary entropy, a statistical parame ...
, Professor of Biology, Harvard University: 1979. * Donna Dennis, artist; Professor, SUNY Purchase, NY: 1979. * Pierre Deslongchamps, Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Sherbrooke: 1979. *
Laddie John Dill Laddie John Dill (born Long Beach, CA, 1943) is an American artist. Dill calls his work "light sentences". Dill received a BFA degree from Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, in 1968. Education Dill was educated at the Chouinard Art Institute ...
, artist, Venice, California: 1979. *
Rudiger Dornbusch Rüdiger Dornbusch (June 8, 1942 – July 25, 2002) was a German economist who worked in the United States for most of his career. Early life and education Dornbusch was born in Krefeld in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia. After completing his ...
, Ford International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1979. * Robert C. S. Downs, writer; Emeritus Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University: 1979. *
John Duff John Francis Duff (January 17, 1895 – January 8, 1958) was a Canadian racecar driver who won many races and has been inducted in the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame. He was one of only two Canadians who raced and won on England’s famous Br ...
, artist, New York City: 1979. * Joseph J. Duggan, Associate Dean of the Graduate Division and Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley: 1979. *
Christopher Durang Christopher Ferdinand Durang (born January 2, 1949) is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s, though his career seemed to get a second wind in the late 1990s. ...
, playwright, Pipersville, Pennsylvania: 1979. * B. Curtis Eaves, Professor of Operations Research, Stanford University: 1979. * Craig Jon Eckhardt, Professor of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1979. * P. D. Elliott, Professor of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder: 1979. *
John Engels John Engels (January 19, 1931 South Bend, Indiana - June 13, 2007 Vermont) was an American poet. Life John Engels graduated from University of Notre Dame in 1952. After Navy service, Engels studied at the University College, Dublin, then gradua ...
, poet; Professor of English, St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vermont: 1979. * Leon D. Epstein, Hilldale Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1979. * Robert N. Essick, Professor of English, University of California, Riverside: 1979. *
Heinz Eulau The H. J. Heinz Company is an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactures thousands of food products in plants on six contine ...
, William Bennet Munro Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stanford University: 1979. * Irene R. Fairley, Professor of English, Northeastern University: 1979. *
Louis Faurer Louis Faurer (August 28, 1916 – March 2, 2001) was an American candid or street photographer. He was a quiet artist who never achieved the broad public recognition that his best-known contemporaries did; however, the significance and caliber of ...
, artist, New York City: 1979. *
Frederick Feirstein Frederick Feirstein (1940-2020) was a New Formalist and New Narrative poet, playwright and psychoanalyst. He published nine books of poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literatu ...
, psychoanalyst, poet, New York City: 1979. *
Charles A. Ferguson Charles Albert Ferguson (July 6, 1921 – September 2, 1998) was an American linguist who taught at Stanford University. He was one of the founders of sociolinguistics and is best known for his work on diglossia. The TOEFL test was created under ...
, deceased. Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Stanford University: 1979. *
Hartry H. Field Hartry H. Field (born November 30, 1946) is an American philosopher. He is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University; he is a notable contributor to philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, and philosophy of min ...
, Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California: 1979. *
Louise Fishman Louise Fishman (January 14, 1939 – July 26, 2021) was an American abstract painter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For many years she lived and worked in New York City, where she died. Biography Louise Fishman was born in Philadelphia on Jan ...
, artist, New York City: 1979. * Jack D. Flam, Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History, Brooklyn College, City University of New York: 1979. * Robert Folkenflik, Professor of English, University of California, Irvine: 1979. * Robert C. Fried, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles: 1979. * John B. Friedman, Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1979. *
Charles Garabedian Charles Garabedian ( hy, Չարլզ Կարապետյան, December 29, 1923 – February 11, 2016) was an American-Armenian artist known for his paintings and drawings rich in references to Greek and Chinese symbolism. His artwork reveals a deep ...
, artist; Lecturer in Art, College of Creative Studies, University California, Santa Barbara: 1979. *
Serge Gavronsky Serge Gavronsky (born 1932) is an American poet and translator. Life Gavronsky was born in Paris. He fled Nazi-occupied France in 1940. Gavronsky received his A.B. in European History and French in 1954 from Columbia College and an M.A. in Europe ...
, Chair, Professor of French, Barnard College, Columbia University: 1979. *
Haile Gerima Haile Gerima (born March 4, 1946) is an Ethiopian filmmaker who lives and works in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A. Rebellion film movement, also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers. His films have receive ...
, filmmaker; Professor of Film, School of Communications, Howard University: 1979. *
Walter Goffart Walter Goffart (born February 22, 1934) is a German-born American historian who specializes in Late Antiquity and the European Middle Ages. He taught for many years in the History Department and Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of To ...
, Lecturer in History and Senior Research Scientist, Yale University: 1979. * Dick Goldberg, Playwright, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1979. * Ward H. Goodenough, University Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania: 1979. * Douglas Greenberg, President and Director, Chicago Historical Society: 1979. *
Ulf Grenander Ulf Grenander (23 July 1923 – 12 May 2016) was a Swedish statistician and professor of applied mathematics at Brown University. His early research was in probability theory, stochastic processes, time series analysis, and statistical theory (pa ...
, Professor of Probability and Statistics and L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Applied Mathematics, Brown University: 1979. * Michael Groden, Professor of English, University of Western Ontario: 1979. * Arthur B. Groos, Professor of German Literature, Medieval Studies, and History of Science, Cornell University: 1979. * Robert Alan Gross, Forrest D. Murden, Jr. Professor of American Studies and History, College of William and Mary: 1979. * Herschel I. Grossman, Merton P. Stoltz Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics, Brown University: 1979. * Richard I. Gumport, Professor of Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1979. *
Mel Gussow Melvyn Hayes "Mel" Gussow (; December 19, 1933 – April 29, 2005) was an American theater critic, movie critic, and author who wrote for ''The New York Times'' for 35 years. Biography Gussow was born in New York City and grew up in Rockville ...
, arts critic, The New York Times: 1979. *
Jack K. Hale Jack Kenneth Hale (3 October 1928 – 9 December 2009) was an American mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations. Biography Jack Hale defended his Ph.D. thesis "On the Asymptotic Beha ...
, Regents Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology: 1979. * Stuart Handwerger, Robert and Mary Shoemaker Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Anatomy, Neurobiology and Cell Biology, University of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center: 1979. * Alexander E. Harris, photographer; Professor of the Practice of Documentary Studies, Duke University: 1979. * Hilary T. Harris, deceased. Film making: 1979. * Paul Harris, artist; Professor of Sculpture, California College of Arts and Crafts: 1979. *
Robert Hass Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection ''Time and Materials: Poems 1997 ...
, Poet Laureate, United States of America; Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley: 1979. * Phoebe Helman, deceased. Fine Arts-Sculpture: 1979. *
Louis Henkin Louis Henkin (November 11, 1917 – October 14, 2010), widely considered one of the most influential contemporary scholars of international law and the foreign policy of the United States, who was "often credited with creating the field of human ...
, Emeritus Professor of Law, Columbia University: 1979. * James Hepburn, Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of English, Bates College: 1979. *
Jaakko Hintikka Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani Hintikka (12 January 1929 – 12 August 2015) was a Finnish philosopher and logician. Life and career Hintikka was born in Helsingin maalaiskunta (now Vantaa). In 1953, he received his doctorate from the University of Helsin ...
, Professor of Philosophy, Boston University: 1979. * David I. Hirsh, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University: 1979. * Michael P. Hlastala, Professor of Medicine and of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington: 1979. *
Norman N. Holland Norman N. Holland (September 19, 1927, New York City - September 28, 2017) was an American literary critic and Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar Emeritus at the University of Florida. Holland's scholarship focused largely on psychoanalytic criti ...
, Marston-Milbauer Professor of English, University of Florida: 1979. *
John Hollander John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic. At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Connecticut College, Hunter C ...
, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University: 1979. * Berthold K. Hölldobler, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Harvard University: 1979. *
Elizabeth Gilmore Holt Elizabeth Gilmore Holt (July 5, 1905 – January 26, 1987) was an American art historian. Early life and education Elizabeth Basye Gilmore was born in San Francisco, California in 1905, and raised in Madison, Wisconsin; her father Eugene Allen Gi ...
, deceased. Fine Arts Research: 1979. *
David Horowitz David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939) is an American conservative writer. He is a founder and president of the right-wing David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); editor of the Center's website ''FrontPage Magazine''; and director of Disco ...
, writer, Marina Del Rey, California: 1979. * Jere Trent Hutcheson, composer; Professor of Composition, Michigan State University: 1979. * Larry M. Hyman, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley: 1979. * John E. Jackson, Professor of Political Science and of Business Administration, and Research Scientist, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan: 1979. * Marius B. Jansen, Professor of Japanese History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University: 1979. *
De Lamar Jensen De Lamar Jensen is a historian of early modern Europe, and was a faculty member of the history department at Brigham Young University (BYU). He wrote several books on Europe during the Renaissance and Reformation. Biography Jensen was born and ra ...
, Professor Emeritus of History, Brigham Young University: 1979. * José Olivio Jiménez, Distinguished Professor of Romance Languages, Hunter College, City University of New York: 1979. * Harold G. Jones, Professor of Spanish, Syracuse University: 1979. * Horace Freeland Judson, writer: 1979. *
Charles H. Kahn Charles H. Kahn (born May 29, 1928) is a classicist and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. His work is focused on early Greek philosophy, up to the times of Plato. His 1960 monograph on Anaximander was still as ...
, Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania: 1979. * Steven J. Kaltenbach, artist; Associate Professor of Art, California State University, Sacramento: 1979. * John H. Kareken, Chair, Minnesota Professor of Banking and Finance, University of Minnesota: 1979. * David M. Katzman, Professor of History, University of Kansas: 1979. *
Stanley Kauffmann Stanley Kauffmann (April 24, 1916 – October 9, 2013) was an American writer, editor, and critic of film and theater. Career Kauffmann started with ''The New Republic'' in 1958 and contributed film criticism to that magazine for the next fifty ...
, film and theatre critic; Visiting Distinguished Professor of Theater, Hunter College: 1979. * Herbert B. Keller, Professor of Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology: 1979. *
Bryce Kendrick Bryce Kendrick (born 1933) is an English-Canadian biologist, who spent the majority of his career in Canada, principally at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Biography Kendrick was born in Liverpool in 1933. After completing his bachelor's deg ...
, Emeritus Professor of Biology, University of Waterloo: 1979. *
Kenneth Keniston Kenneth Keniston (January 6, 1930 – February 14, 2020) was an American social psychologist. Keniston was born in Chicago, and attended secondary school abroad, at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. He enrolled in Harvard College, and later ea ...
, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Human Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1979. * Kenneth King, choreographer, New York City: 1979. *
John W. Kingdon John Wells Kingdon (born 1940) is Professor Emeritus and was Acting Chair of Political Science (1989–1990 when the Chair, Jack L. Walker, was on leave) at the University of Michigan. He is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Wisco ...
, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Michigan: 1979. * Steven L. Kleiman, Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1979. * Stuart D. Klipper, photographer, Minneapolis: 1979, 1989. * Georg Nicolaus Knauer, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania: 1979. *
David Koblitz David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
, composer; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Humanities, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York: 1979. * Thomas Koenig, Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon. 1979. *
Peter Kolchin Peter Robert Kolchin (born June 3, 1943) is an American historian. He has specialized in slavery and labor in the American South before and after the Civil War, and in comparisons with Russian serfdom and other forms of labor. He won the Bancroft P ...
, Professor of History, University of Delaware: 1979. * Vladimir J. Konečni, Professor of Psychology, University of California, San Diego: 1979. * Sam Koperwas, writer, Ventnor, New Jersey: 1979. *
David Kopf David Kopf is professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. A research scholar on South Asian history South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The region consists of ...
, Professor of History, University of Minnesota: 1979. *
Barbara Kopple Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director known primarily for her documentary work. She has won two Academy Awards, the first in 1977 for ''Harlan County, USA'', about a Kentucky miners' strike, /sup> and the second in ...
, filmmaker, New York City: 1979. *
Spiro Kostof Spiro Konstantine Kostof (7 May 1936, Istanbul – 7 December 1991, Berkeley) was a Turkish-born American leading architectural historian, and educator. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His books continue to be widely ...
, Deceased. Architecture: 1979. * Abraham D. Kriegel, Professor of History, Memphis State University: 1979. * Samuel Krislov, Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Minnesota: 1979. *
William Kruskal William Henry Kruskal (; October 10, 1919 – April 21, 2005) was an American mathematician and statistician. He is best known for having formulated the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance (together with W. Allen Wallis), a widely used ...
, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Statistics, University of Chicago: 1979. * Jeffrey G. Kurtzman, Associate Professor of Music, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University: 1979. *
Bentley Layton Bentley Layton (born 12 August 1941), is Professor of Religious Studies (Ancient Christianity) and Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Coptic) at Yale University (since 1983). He is a Harvard-educated scholar who has been central ...
, Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University: 1979. * Richard D. Leppert, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Humanities, University of Minnesota: 1979. * Robert J. LeRoy, Professor of Chemistry; Associate Dean of Science for Computing, University of Waterloo: 1979. *
Simon A. Levin Simon Asher Levin (born April 22, 1941) is an American ecologist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the director of the Center for BioComplexity at Princeton University. He spec ...
, George M. Moffett Professor of Biology, Princeton University: 1979. *
Donald N. Levine Donald Nathan Levine (June 16, 1931 – April 4, 2015) was an American sociologist, educator, social theorist and writer. He was a central figure in Ethiopian Studies. Within sociology, he is perhaps best known for his work in sociological the ...
, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago: 1979. * Fred J. Levy, Professor of History, University of Washington: 1979. *
Aaron Lewis Aaron Lewis (born April 13, 1972) is an American musician who is best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and founding member of the nu metal band Staind, with whom he released seven studio albums. Since 2010, he has pursued a solo ca ...
, Professor of Applied Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem: 1979. *
Richard C. Lewontin Richard Charles Lewontin (March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021) was an American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator. A leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, h ...
, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Professor of Biology, Harvard University: 1979. * Stephen J. Lieberman, Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania Museum: 1979. *
Michael Loew Michael Loew (May 8, 1907 — November 14, 1985) was an American Abstract Expressionist artist who was born in New York City. Career In the late 1920s, Loew studied at the Art Students League with the Ashcan School and was a recipient of a Sadi ...
, deceased. Fine Arts: 1979. * John B. Logan, deceased. Poetry: 1979. *
Wm. Roger Louis William Roger Louis Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (born May 8, 1936), commonly known as Wm. Roger Louis or, informally, Roger Louis, is an American historian and a professor at the ...
, Kerr Professor of English History and Culture, University of Texas at Austin: 1979. *
Tom Lowenstein Tom Lowenstein (born 1941) is an English poet, ethnographer, teacher, cultural historian and translator. Beginning his working life as a school teacher, he visited Alaska in 1973 and went on to become particularly noted for his work on Inupiaq ( ...
, writer, Pittsburgh: 1979. * Elisabeth B. MacDougall, Professor Emeritus of the History of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks: 1979. * Edward P. Mahoney, Professor of Philosophy, Duke University: 1979. * Kazumi Maki, Professor of Physics, University of Southern California: 1979. * Ladislav Matejka, Retired Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan: 1979. *
David M. Maurice David Myer Maurice (3 April 1922 in London – 20 July 2002 in Manhattan) was a British ophthalmologist, noted for his contributions to the development of the specular microscope used for examination of the cornea. Biography Maurice was educated a ...
, Professor of Opthlmology, Columbia University: 1979. *
Esther McCoy Esther McCoy (November 18, 1904 in Horatio, Arkansas – December 30, 1989) was an American author and architectural historian who was instrumental in bringing the modern architecture of California to the attention of the world. Early life an ...
, deceased. Architecture: 1979. * Elizabeth N. McCutcheon, Professor of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa: 1979. * Larry E. McPherson, photographer; Associate Professor of Art, University of Memphis: 1979. *
Wayne A. Meeks Wayne may refer to: People with the given name and surname * Wayne (given name) * Wayne (surname) Geographical Places with name ''Wayne'' may take their name from a person with that surname; the most famous such person was Gen. "Mad" Anthon ...
, Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University: 1979. * John M. Merriman, Charles Seymour Professor of History, Yale University: 1979. * F. Curtis Michel, Andrew Hays Buchanan Professor of Astrophysics, Rice University: 1979. *
Arthur I. Miller Arthur I. Miller is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London. He took a PhD in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1991 to 2005 he was Professor of History and Philosophy of Scienc ...
, University Professor, University of Lowell; Associate in Physics, Harvard University: 1979. * Peter Molnar, Senior Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1979. * John Montague, poet; Director of Anglo-Irish and American Studies, University College Cork: 1979. * Peter B. Moore, Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University: 1979. * Stefan R. Moore, video artist, New York City: 1979. * Thomas C. Moser, Professor of English, Stanford University: 1979. *
Howard Frank Mosher Howard Frank Mosher (June 2, 1942 – January 29, 2017) was an American author of thirteen books: eleven fiction and two non-fiction. Much of his fiction takes place in the mid-20th century and all of it is set in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermon ...
, writer, Irasburg, Vermont: 1979. * Michael C. A. Mott, writer; Professor Emeritus of English, Bowling Green State University; Adjunct Professor of English, College of William & Mary: 1979. * John F. Nagle, Professor of Physics and Biological Sciences, Carnegie-Mellon University: 1979. *
Manuel Neri Manuel John Neri Jr. (April 12, 1930October 18, 2021) was an American sculptor who is recognized for his life-size figurative sculptures in plaster, bronze, and marble. In Neri's work with the figure, he conveys an emotional inner state that is re ...
, artist, Benica, California; Professor Emeritus of Art, University of California, Davis: 1979. *
Rosalind Newman Rosalind Newman (born November 12, 1946) is an internationally acclaimed choreographer who has created a body of over 70 works. Career Newman's original New York City company, Rosalind Newman and Dancers, had major seasons in New York at the Joyc ...
, choreographer, New York City: 1979. * Maria Nordman, artist, Santa Monica, California: 1979. * Robert Offergeld, deceased. Music Research: 1979. * Thomas A. O'Halloran, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1979. *
Norman Page Norman Page (born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshiredied 4 July 1935 in London) was a British actor. He is best known for his portrayal of David Lloyd George, Prime Minister during the First World War, in the 1918 film ''The Life Story of David Lloyd ...
, Head, Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Nottingham: 1979. * Phillip Shaw Paludan, Professor of History, University of Kansas: 1979. * Jogesh C. Pati, Professor of Physics, University of Maryland at College Park: 1979. * Richard Pearson, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Curator of Archaeology, University of British Columbia: 1979. *
Michael Perman Michael Perman (died July 24, 2020) was a history professor and author in the United States. He was a professor emeritus and served as chairman of the history department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. According to his Bio, Perman receive ...
, Professor of History and Research Professor in the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle: 1979. * Hart Perry, filmmaker; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film, School of the Arts, Columbia University: 1979. * Warren Porter, Professor of Zoology, University of Wisconsin–Madison: 1979. * Michael I. Posner, Sackler Institute Professor, Sackler Institute, New York City: 1979. * Robert T. Powers, Professor of Mathematics and of Physics, University of Pennsylvania: 1979. * Pietro Pucci, Professor of Classics, Cornell University: 1979. *
Harvey Quaytman Harvey Quaytman (April 20, 1937 - April 8, 2002) was a geometric abstraction painter best known for large modernist canvases with powerful monochromatic tones, in layered compositions, often with hard edges - inspired by Malevich and Mondrian. ...
, artist, New York City: 1979, 1985. * John Phillip Reid, Professor of Law, New York University: 1979. *
Jay Reise Jay Reise (born 1950) is an American composer. Biography Reise spent his childhood surrounded by classical music and jazz, but began his composition studies with Jimmy Giuffre and Hugh Hartwell in 1970. After graduating at Hamilton College in 1 ...
, composer; Robert Weiss Professor of Music, University of Pennsylvania: 1979. * Peter B. Rhines, Professor of Oceanograph and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington: 1979. * Phillip C. Rhodes, composer; Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence, Carleton College: 1979. * Leland Rice, photographer, Los Angeles, California: 1979. * Lynn M. Riddiford, Professor of Zoology, University of Washington: 1979. *
Terry Riley Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his music became notable for it ...
, composer; Assistant Professor of Music, Mills College: 1979. *
John E. Roemer John E. Roemer (; born February 1, 1945 in Washington, D.C., to Ruth Roemer and Milton Roemer, namesake of Roemer's law) is an American economist and political scientist. He is the Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science ...
, Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis: 1979. *
Jack Roth Jack Roth (1927–2004), also known as "Rodney Jack Roth", was an American painter who developed a style as an Abstract Expressionist, and as a Color Field painter. He was born in Brockway, Pennsylvania. After studying with Mark Rothko, Clyfford ...
, artist, Montclair, New Jersey; Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Ramapo College of New Jersey: 1979. * Gilbert F. Rozman, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University: 1979. * Thomas Savage, Writer: 1979. *
Angelo Savelli Angelo Savelli (30 October 1911 – 27 April 1995) was an Italian painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad ...
, deceased. Fine Arts: 1979. * David Schickele, filmmaker, San Francisco: 1979. *
Stuart B. Schwartz Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University, the Chair of the Council of Latin American and Iberian Studies, and the former Master of Ezra Stiles College. Education Schwartz was born in Springfield, Massa ...
, George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University: 1979. * Kathleen L. Scott, Research Medievalist, Amherst, Massachusetts: 1979. * Laurence Philip Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Drama and Oratory, Tufts University: 1979, 1987. *
Steven Shapin Steven Shapin (born 1943) is an American historian and sociologist of science. He is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is considered one of the earliest scholars on the sociology of scienti ...
, Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego: 1979. * James R. Shortridge, Professor of Geography, University of Kansas: 1979. *
Susan Shreve Susan Shreve (also known as Susan Richards Shreve) is an American novelist, memoirist, and children's book author. She has published fifteen novels, most recently ''More News Tomorrow'' (2019), and a memoir ''Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood' ...
, Writer; Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program, George Mason University: 1979. * Roberta Silman, writer, Ardsley, New York: 1979. * Roberta G. Simmons, deceased. Sociology: 1979. * John Peter Simons, Henry Eyring Professor of Chemistry, University of Utah: 1979. *
Jerome Herbert Skolnick Jerome Herbert Skolnick (born 1931) is a professor at New York University and a former president of the American Society of Criminology. He is also affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley. Skolnick has a Ph.D. in sociology from Yale ...
, Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley: 1979. *
Joel A. Smoller Joel Alan Smoller (2 January 1936 – 27 September 2017) was an American mathematician. Joel Smoller was born in Brooklyn on 2 January 1936 to parents Benjamin, a taxicab driver, and Olga, who died when he was young. Smoller attended New York Univ ...
, Lamberto Cesari Chair, Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan: 1979. *
Rosalind Solomon Rosalind Fox Solomon (born 1930) is an American photographer based in New York City. Life and education Solomon was born on 2 April 1930 in Highland Park, Illinois.Gary Soto Gary Anthony Soto (born April 12, 1952) is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. Life and career Soto was born to Mexican-American parents Manuel (1910–1957) and Angie Soto (1924-). In his youth, he worked in the fields of the San Joaqui ...
, poet; Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, University of California, Berkeley: 1979. *
Jonathan D. Spence Jonathan Dermot Spence (11 August 1936 – 25 December 2021) was an English-born American historian, sinologist, and writer who specialized in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His mos ...
, George B. Adams Professor of History, Yale University: 1979. *
H. Eugene Stanley Harry Eugene Stanley (born March 28, 1941) is an American physicist and University Professor at Boston University. He has made seminal contributions to statistical physics and is one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary science. His current r ...
, Professor of Physiology, Boston University School of Medicine, and Professor of Physics, Boston University: 1979. * David Sudnow, writer, scholar, and musician, New York City: 1979. * Frederick S. Szalay, Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York: 1979. * Edward C. Taylor, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Organic Chemistry, Princeton University: 1979. * William B. Taylor, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley: 1979. * Laurence C. Thompson, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Hawaii at Manoa: 1979. *
Donald W. Tinkle Donald Ward Tinkle (December 3, 1930 – February 21, 1980) was a prominent herpetologist, ecologist, and evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan until his illness and death at age 49. He is best known for his intensive demographic stud ...
, deceased. Biology: 1979. * William Mills Todd, III, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University: 1979. *
Franklin Toker Franklin K. Toker (29 April 1944 – 19 April 2021) was a Canadian-American professor of the history of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of nine books on the history of art and architecture, ranging from the exc ...
, Professor of Architecture, University of Pittsburgh: 1979. *
Harold Troper Harold (Hesh) Troper (born January 1, 1942) is a Canadian writer, historian and academic. He specializes in Jewish Canadian history. Together with Irving Abella, he authored '' None Is Too Many'', the story of the Canadian government's refusal to ...
, Professor of History, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto: 1979. *
James W. Truran James Wellington Truran Jr. (born July 12, 1940, Brewster, New York – March 5, 2022) was an American physicist, known for his research in nuclear astrophysics. Biography Truran graduated in 1961 with a bachelor's degree from Cornell University. ...
, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1979. * Victor TwerskyVictor Twersky
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Joseph B. Keller Joseph Bishop Keller (July 31, 1923 – September 7, 2016) was an American mathematician who specialized in applied mathematics. He was best known for his work on the "geometrical theory of diffraction" (GTD). Early life and education Born i ...
. Professor (1966-1990) of
Applied Mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathematical s ...
;
University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a Public university, public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side, Chicago, Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus esta ...
: 1979. (to work on biophysical applications of scattering theory) *
Stan VanDerBeek Stan VanDerBeek (January 6, 1927 – September 19, 1984) was an American experimental filmmaker known for his collage works. Life VanDerBeek studied art and architecture at Manhattan's Cooper Union before transferring to Black Mountain Colleg ...
, deceased. Video: 1979. * Tyll van Geel, Taylor Professor of Education, University of Rochester: 1979. *
John Van Seters John Van Seters (born May 2, 1935 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian scholar of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Ancient Near East. Currently University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, he was formerly ...
, James A. Gray Professor of Biblical Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 1979. *
Hal R. Varian Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947 in Wooster, Ohio) is Chief Economist at Google and holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. Varian is an economi ...
, Class of 1944 Chaired Professor and Dean, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley: 1979. * B. Woody Vasulka, video artist, Santa Fe, New Mexico: 1979. *
Laurence Veysey Laurence Russ Veysey (1932–2004) was a historian best known for his history of higher education, ''The Emergence of the American University''. He also wrote ''The Communal Experience ''The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Counter ...
, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Santa Cruz: 1979. *
William Weaver William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
, Professor of Literature and Fellow, Bard Center, Bard College: 1979. * Annette B. Weiner, deceased. Anthropology & Cultural Studies: 1979. *
Naomi Weisstein Naomi Weisstein (October 16, 1939 – March 26, 2015) was an American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, author and professor of psychology. Weisstein's main area of work was based in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. She consider ...
, Professor of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo: 1979. *
Allen Wier Allen Wier (born September 9, 1946; died December 4, 2021; pronounced "wire"), was an American writer and a professor. He was the Watkins Endowed Visiting Writer at Murray State University from 2016 until 2020; he is Professor Emeritus having tau ...
, writer; Professor of English, University of Tennessee: 1979. *
Kenneth G. Wilson Kenneth Geddes "Ken" Wilson (June 8, 1936 – June 15, 2013) was an American theoretical physicist and a pioneer in leveraging computers for studying particle physics. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on phase ...
, Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus: 1979. * Roy H. Winnick, writer, Princeton, New Jersey: 1979. *
Gary Witherspoon Gary J. Witherspoon (July 27, 1943-June 16, 2022) was a professor of Native American studies at the University of Washington. His area of expertise was the Navajo language and Navajo people, Navajo culture. Early life and education Born in 1943 ...
, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan: 1979. * Irving N. Wohlfarth, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Oregon: 1979. *
Jack Keil Wolf Jack Keil Wolf (March 14, 1935 – May 12, 2011) was an American researcher in information theory and coding theory. Biography Wolf was born in 1935 in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Weequahic High School in 1952. He received his under ...
, Stephen O. Rice Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst: 1979. *
Ruth Yeazell Ruth Bernard Yeazell (born April 4, 1947) is an American literary critic. Ruth Bernard Yeazell was born on April 4, 1947, in New York City. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1967, then attended Yale University. Yeazell taught at the Univers ...
, Chace Family Professor of English, Yale University: 1979. * William M. Yen, Graham Perdue Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Georgia: 1979. * Steven R. Yussen, Dean, College of Education, University of Iowa: 1979.


1979 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

* Luis Aguirre, Professor of Petrology, University of Aix-Marseille III: 1979. * José Pedro Barrán, historian, Montevideo: 1979. *
Héctor Bianciotti Hector Bianciotti (; 18 March 1930 – 12 June 2012) was an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie française. Biography Born Héctor Bianciotti (, ) in Calchín Oeste in Córdoba Province, Argentina, Córdoba Province, Argentin ...
, writer, Paris, France: 1979. * Natalio Rafael Botana, director, Center for Social Research, Torcuato Di Tella Institute, Buenos Aires: 1979. * César L. Camacho Manco, Professor of Mathematics, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 1979. * Horacio E. Cingolani, Career Investigator, National University of La Plata School of Medicine: 1979. * Alejandro Federico De Nicola, Career Scientist, National Research Council of Argentina; Research Scientist, Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine, Buenos Aires; Adjunct Professor of Biological Chemistry, University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine: 1979. *
Jorge Edwards Jorge Edwards Valdés (born June 29, 1931) is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was the Chilean ambassador to France during the first Piñera presidency. Life and career Edwards attended Law School at the Universidad de Chile. Du ...
, writer, Santiago: 1979. * Gilberto Carlos Gallopín, director, Ecological Systems Analysis Group, Bariloche Foundation, San Carlos de Bariloche: 1979. * Leandro Katz, artist, Professor, Brown University, William Paterson University (retired), lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina: 1979. * Maria Léa Salgado Labouriau, Professor, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Brazil: 1979. * Donald Cuthbert Locke, artist, Atlanta, Georgia: 1979. * Rolf Ricardo Mantel, deceased. Economics: 1979. * Adolfo Martínez-Palomo, Director General, Center for Research and Advanced Studies, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City: 1979. *
Luis Millones Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...
, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, National University of San Marcos, Peru: 1979. *
Benjamín Nahum Benjamín Nahum (2 February 1937) is a Uruguayan historian, professor, and researcher. He is professor of Economic History at the University of the Republic. In 1979 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are gran ...
, historian; Professor of Economic History, University of the Republic, Montevideo: 1979. * Raúl Navarrete, deceased. Fiction: 1979. * Guillermo Alberto O'Donnell, Helen Kellogg Professor of International Studies and Academic Director, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame; Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of State and Society, Buenos Aires: 1979. *
Gonzalo Rojas Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro (December 20, 1916 – April 25, 2011) was a Chilean poet.
, poet, Chillán, Chile: 1979. *
Luis Rafael Sánchez Dr. Luis Rafael Sánchez, a.k.a. "Wico" Sánchez (November 17, 1936) is a Puerto Rican essayist, novelist, and short-story author who is widely considered one of the island's most outstanding contemporary playwrights. Possibly his best known play ...
, writer; Professor of Literature, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras: 1979. * Alberto Juan Solari, Professor of Histology and Cell Biology, University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine: 1979.


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Guggenheim Fellows for 1979


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1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
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