Guggenheim Fellowship

The Guggenheim Fellowship (English Guggenheim Fellowship ) is a scholarship from the American John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation ( engl. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation ) awarded to Americans (in the sense of the inhabitants of the continent America) will that have excelled in science, social science, humanities, or the arts. The performing arts is excluded, but film directors and choreographers can be promoted.

The prestigious scholarship is addressed to experienced professionals in mid-career ( mid-career ). , (2004: 36 fellows ), a smaller proportion of Latin American and Caribbean citizens awarded:; (185 fellows eg 2004 U.S. Americans and Canadians ) In two separate calls each year, the majority of scholarships to North Americans. Scholarship recipients are usually promoted for six or twelve months, and in exceptional cases even longer. This time to the grantees the opportunity to carry out their work with the utmost creative freedom; the promotion should not be used for further training.

Among the grantees ( Guggenheim Fellows ) have several future Nobel Prize winner, Pulitzer Prize winners and winners of other prestigious awards belongs. Promoted, amongst other things,

  • Linus Carl Pauling (1926, Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1954, 1963 Nobel Peace Prize for his commitment to nuclear weapons tests)
  • The photographer Edward Weston (1937 )
  • The semitist Wolf Leslau (1946 and 1947)
  • The physicist Felix Bloch (1952, Nobel Prize 1952)
  • The musicologist David Dodge Boyden (1954, 1967 and 1970 )
  • The writer Philip Roth and John Updike (both 1959)
  • The linguist William G. Moulton (1965? )
  • The physicist Frank Oppenheimer (1965 )
  • The literary scholar and writer Richard Exner (1967 )
  • The photographer Joel Sternfeld (1978, 1982)
  • The chemist Yuan T. Lee ( 1977 Nobel Prize 1986 )
  • The art historian Walter S. Gibson ( 1978)
  • The poet Jared Carter (1982 )
  • The physicist Carl E. Wieman (1990-1991; Nobel Prize 2001 )
  • The psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak (1991 )
  • The composer Sebastian Currier (1992 )
  • The artist Sue Williams ( 1993)
  • The psychologist John A. Bargh (2001)
  • The photographer Mitch Epstein (2003)

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 for the purpose of awarding scholarships from the American businessman and politician Simon Guggenheim and his wife in memory of their deceased on April 26, 1922 Son of John Simon Guggenheim. Simon Guggenheim was the younger brother of Solomon R. Guggenheim, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation founded, the (such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York ) worldwide, the Guggenheim Museums. The two Foundations are, however, no relation.

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