Guggenheim Fellows				updated 4/25/07
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Total non-duplicated Faculty and University Alumni Guggenheim Fellow recipients - 284
Faculty
Total Faculty Guggenheim Fellows - 137			Discipline	Election Year
1	Alpert, Daniel	Alpert was a successful research physicist and manager of the physics department at Westinghouse Research Laboratories, then came to the University of Illinois. At UIUC, he played a key role in initiating computer-based education and developed a technologically advanced education program called PLATO.	Physics	1965
2	Anderson, Ansel Cochran	Anderson studied the thermal conductivity of liquid.	Physics	1966
3	Baillargeon, Renee	Baillargeon received the Guggenheim for her research on the development of infants' knowledge about physical events.	Psychology	1991
4	Baumgarte, Thomas	Baumgarte is an adjunct assistant professor at UIUC and received the Guggenheim fellowship for his work with computer simulations of gravitational waves.	Physics	2004
5	Baym, Nina	Baym received the Guggenheim to study American women writers before the Civil War. The study produced a book called, "Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and About Women in America, 1820-1870." The book opened up the field of women's writing in the US, and re-evaluated the criteria according to which novels were deemed "worth" reading and not worth reading.	English	1975
6	Beak, Peter A.	Beak researches synthetic, structural and mechanistic organic chemistry, new reaction processes, synthetic methodology, and reactive intermediates.	Chemistry	1968
7	Berenbaum, May R.	Berenbaum is internationally known for her contributions to the field of chemical ecology, and also studies insect/plant interactions and insect ecology.  She received the Guggenheim fellowship for her work in these areas.	Entomology	1987
8	Berndt, Bruce C.	Berndt was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship for his extensive work on Ramanujan's Notebooks, which provided mathematical proofs for the claims present in the notebooks.	Mathematics	1998
9	Binkerd, Gordon Ware (deceased)	Binkerd was recognized as a prolific composer. His first major work was "Sonata for Cello and Piano" (1952). We wrote several symphonies, piano sonatas, choral and vocal music, among other works. He received the Guggenheim for his contributions in music.	Music	1959
10	Birnbaum, Howard Kent (deceased)	Birnbaum was internationally recognized for his work on mechanical deformation and plastic flow in materials and how these processes are influenced by hydrogen. He is credited with establishing one of the fundamental mechanisms of hydrogen-induced degradation of materials.	Physical Metallurgy	1967
11	Brown, Theodore L.	Brown researches inorganic chemistry and organometallic chemistry, with an emphasis on the kinetics and mechanisms of reactions.	Chemistry	1979
12	Buckmaster, John David	Buckmaster, trained as a fluid dynamicist and applied mathematician, researches theoretical combustion.	Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering	1990
13	Burkhardt, Richard W. Jr.	Burkhardt specializes in the history of biology, evolution and social thought and social relations of science. His current research focuses on the scientific and social dimensions of animal behavior studies from 1800 to the present, the social and cultural history of zoos, and naturalist voyagers.	History	1992
14	Calder, William Musgrave III	Calder is a world-renowned expert on Greek religion and epigraphy, Greek and Roman tragedy and the history of modern classical scholarship.	Classics	1964
15	Cassell, Anthony K	Cassell used the Guggenheim Fellowship to write his "Lectura Dantis Americana: Inferno I" (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1989), which explains critical heritage.  Its longest chapter, "Three Beasts," describes animal lore, both naturalistic and symbolic, in bestiaries and encyclopedias of the ancient and medieval world. He became recognized as an expert in this area.	Italian	1984
16	Clark, John Magruder Jr.	Clark, professor of biochemistry, studies amino acid activation and protein synthesis.	Biochemistry	1965
17	Coates, Robert M.	Coates researches synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry, natural products, and biosynthesis, focusing on the chemistry and biochemistry of isoprenoid compounds.	Chemistry	1979
18	Creese, Walter Littlefield (deceased)	Creese was nationally honored for his work in architectural history.  He focused on modern architecture and urban development; and was instrumental in getting Manhattan's Chrysler Building designated a national landmark.	Architecture	1971
19	Crofts, Antony Richard	Crofts was appointed a Guggenheim fellowship for his study of the mechanism of electron transfer in photosynthesis. He studied in Italy, Germany and France.	Biophysics	1985
20	Davidson, Edward Hutchins	Davidson studied romantic genre and is known for his study of Nathaniel Hawthorne.	English	1965
21	Drickamer, Harry George (deceased)	Harry G. Drickamer, professor of physics, chemistry, and chemical engineering at Illinois, contributed extensive understanding to the physics and chemistry of matter at high pressure. His experiments have demonstrated the essential nature of pressure as a tool for understanding electronic behavior in condensed systems.	Chemistry	1951
22	Ehrlich, Gert	Ehrlich studies surface science, including crystal growth on the atomic level, atomic interactions and clusters.	Pyshical Metallurgy	1984
23	Fishbein, Martin E.	Fishbein studies the relations between belief, attitude, intention, and behavior in laboratory and field settings; attitude measurement; and, health psychology.	Psychology	1967
24	Fradkin, Eduardo H.	Fradkin was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship for his studies in low-temperature quantum phenomena.	Physics	1998
25	Frauenfelder, Hans	Frauenfelder works with the structure of surfaces and solids, and space-time symmetries in nuclear and particle physics. He works on the dynamics and function of biomolecules.	Physics, Chemistry	1958, 1972
26	Freund, Eric Conrad (deceased)		Urban and Regional Planning	1967
27	Friedberg, Maurice	Friedberg used his Guggenheims in writing his books, "A Decade of Euphoria: Western Literature in Post-Stalin Russia" (Indiana University Press, 1977) and "Literary Translation in Russia: A cultural history" (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997).	Russian Literature	1970, 1981
28	Friedman, John B.		English	1979
29	Fritzsche, Peter	Fritzsche received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete his book on the origins of modern historical consciousness, "Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History."	History	1999
30	Gallo, Frank	Sculptor	Art	1966
31	Gennis, Robert B.	Gennis received his Guggenheim fellowship to work in Cambridge, England with John Walker, now Sir John Walker, Nobel Prize winner. His work was in the field of molecular bioenergetics of mitochondrial Complex I.	Biochemistry	1988
32	Goldstein, Ladislas (deceased)	Goldstein studied gaseous electronics of plasma, microwave propagation through media containing free electrons, infrared radiation detection, and nuclear physics.	Electrical and Nuclear Engineering	1957
33	Goldwasser, Edwin L.	Golwasser is an emeritus professor and studied optics, waves, atoms, and nuclei.	Physics	1957
34	Gottlieb, Alma	Gottlieb used her Guggenheim fellowship to complete her book, titled, "Afterlife is Where We Come From: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa."	Anthropology	1998
35	Granato, Andrew Vincent	Granato received the Guggenheim for his study of non-linear elastic effects in crystals.	Physics	1959
36	Gumport, Richard I.	Gumport received his Guggenheim to pursue studies on nucleic acid enzymology with Professor James Wang at Harvard University.	Biochemistry	1979
37	Gunsalus, Irwin Clyde	Gunsalus studied biological catalysis and regulation, mechanism of chemical transformations and energy transfer, formation of essential metabolites including pyredoxal phosphate and lipoic acid, and oxidation and oxygenation reactions and energy transfer.	Biochemistry	1949, 1959, 1967
38	Gushee, Lawrence	Gushee taught at Yale and the University of Wisconsin at Madison before coming to the University of Illinois.  He received his first Guggenheim Fellowship for his research on medieval music. He spent two years conducting the research in European libraries.  He received his second Guggenheim Fellowship for his research on the early history of jazz and related musics.	Music	1970, 1982
39	Guttenberg, Albert Z.	Guttenberg led the implementation of multidimensional land use; synthesized social, economic, and physical aspects of urban structure in relation to plans; and contributed to the social interpretation of planning history. His ideas continue to influence planning theory and practice today	Urban and Regional Planning	1970
40	Hager, Lowell Paul	Hager received a Guggenheim Fellowship to go to Oxford University and study with Professor Hans Krebs.  He worked on enzymes involved in intermediary metabolism.	Biochemistry	1959
41	Hajek, Bruce	Hajek researches communication networks and stochastic processes. His research contributed to the integration of communication and computers.	Electrical and Computer Engineering and Coordinated Science	1992
42	Havens, Thomas R.	Havens researches Japanese history, East Asian cultures, and Japanese literature in translation.	History	1976
43	Henderson, Donald Munro		Geology	1958
44	Hertzog, David W.	Hertzog used his Guggenheim fellowship for two high-profile projects in precision electroweak physics, which measured of the Fermi constant and the muon anomaly and worked to reduce uncertainty on the muon anomalous magnetic moment measurement.	Physics	2004
45	Hewitt, Barnard	Barnard is known for writing "Theatre U.S.A." and "History of Theatre from 1800 to the Present." He also was the founding editor of "Educational Theatre Journal."	Theatre and Speech	1962
46	Hoddeson, Lillian	Hoddeson is a historian of modern physics and used the support of her 2002 Guggenheim to write her book, coauthored with Vicki Daitch, "True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen" (Joseph Henry Press, 2002).	History, Physicist	2000
47	Huang, Thomas Shi-Tao	Huang studies broad areas of information technology, especially the transmission and processing of multidimensional signals. He has published 12 books, and over 300 papers in Network Theory, Digital Filtering, Image Processing, and Computer Vision.	Electrical and Computer Engineering	1971
48	Hubert, Lawrence	Hubert analyzes methods in psychology and the behavioral sciences with particular emphasis on representation techniques; strategies of combinatorial data analysis including exploratory optimization approaches.	Psychology	1981
49	Iben, Icko Jr.	Iben studies the structure and evolution of stars and comparisons between theoretical models of stars and observed properties of stars.	Astronomy, Physics	1985
50	Irwin, David E.	Irwin concentrates on sensory perception.  He examines what people remember from a single glance at a scene, and uses this research to show how people combine information across eye movements. He also investigates the effects of eye movements on cognitive processing. He also studies interactions between perception and language.	Psychology	1991
51	Jacobson, Sheldon H.	Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Willett Faculty Scholar, and Director, Simulation Optimization Laboratory, Aviation security problems and solutions.	Mechanical and Industrial Engineering	2003
52	Johannsen, Robert Walter	Johannsen received  the Guggenheim fellowship to support the research and writing of a biography of Stephen A. Douglas. The biography was published in 1973 by Oxford Univ. Press and won the Parkman Prize.	History	1967
53	Johnston, Benjamin Burwell Jr.	Johnston taught composition and theory at the University of Illinois from 1951 to 1983. He's a composer of contemporary music in the just intonation system. He's best known for extending Harry Partch's experiments in just intonation tuning to traditional instruments through his system of notation.	Music	1959
54	Jonas, Jiri	Jonas, physical chemist, served as director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology from 1993 to 2001. He conducts high-pressure studies of the dynamic structure of liquids and biological systems. He also researches physical chemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance, and organizational aspects of academic multidiscimplinary research.	Chemistry	1972
55	Kaler, James Bailey	Kaler researches the field of planetary nebulae, shells of compressed ionized gas that surround dying stars.  He received the Guggenheim Fellowship for research on planetary nebulae at the University of Illinois and for consultation at western universities and observatories.	Astronomy	1972
56	Katzenellenbogen, John A.	Katzenellenbogen received the Guggenheim to study mutgenesis mechanisms and general aspects of genetic toxicology at the University of California, Berkeley . The sabbatical experience refined his research interest in basic mechanisms of hormone action.	Chemistry	1977
57	Kellman, Herbert	Kellman primarily studies the music and culture of the Renaissance, and the composers Josquin des Prez, Heinrich Schütz, and Igor Stravinsky.	Music	1989
58	Kelly, Brigit Pegeen	Kelly used the Guggenheim fellowship to work on a book of poetry.	English	2006
59	Klemperer, Walter G.	Klemperer has taught at the University of Illinois since 1981 and studies inorganic chemistry at the interface between solution and the solid state.	Chemistry	1980
60	Koehler, James Stark		Physics	1956
61	Koenker, Diane P.	Koenker received her Guggenheim for her project entitled, "Proletarian tourism and vacations in the USSR."	History	2006
62	Kogut, John B.	Kogut specializes in high-energy theory and uses supercomputers to answer fundamental questions in elementary particle physics, quantum chromodynamics, and the theory of quarks and gluons.	Physics	1987
63	Korban, Schuyler S.	Korban received his Guggenheim for his studies of plant-based vaccines.	Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology	2006
64	Krause, Harry Dieter	Krause is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has been a consultant on family law and social legislation to U.S. congressional committees, state legislatures, and judicial and executive commissions. He is admitted to the bars of Michigan (1959), the District of Columbia (1959), Illinois (1963), and the United States Supreme Court (1963). Krause also serves on several committees, including the American Bar Association.	Law	1969
65	Krummel, Donald W.	Krummel is professor emeritus of library science and of music at the University of Illinois. He specializes in rare books and special collections of musicology. He has been recognized for his teaching and scholarship in these areas.	Library Science and Music	1976
66	Kurtz, Lester Touby	Kurtz' research specialized on soil science and mineralization of soils.	Soil Fertility	1953
67	LaFave, Wayne R.	LaFave received the Guggenheim to start a treatise assessing the manner in which the Supreme Court and the lower federal and state courts have interpreted the Fourth Amendment (search and seizure practices) in the U.S. Constitution.  The treatise was published in three volumes in 1978, has been updated annually, and now is in its six-volume fourth edition (published in 2004).  The treatise has been quoted and/or cited in nearly six thousand appellate opinions of the federal and state courts.	Law	1977
68	Lamb, Frederick Keithley	Lamb researches theoretical physics and astrophysics; and, arms control and space policy. His research greatly contributed and forwarded these areas. His strength has been to bring the analytical and quantitative tools of physics to bear on a wide variety of astrophysical problems, and he is widely recognized as providing fundamental theoretical understanding of many important astrophysical phenomena.	Physics and Astronomy	1985
69	Lazarus, David	Lazarus is a professor emeritus and researches solid state physics. He is recognized for his work in these areas.	Physics	1968
70	Leonard, Nelson J.	Nelson researches the synthesis and examination of surrogates of the purine-pyrimidine base pairs of the DNA/RNA, Watson-Crick double-helical cross sections that possess similar peripheral dimensions and orientations; and, the incorporation of the coplanar, covalently-linked cross sections in oligodeoxynucleotides.	Chemistry	1959, 1967
71	Liu, Chung Laung	Liu was the first professor of computer science. He studies discrete mathematics and technological advancements in teaching.  His research moved progress forward in these fields.	Computer Science	1987
72	Love, Joseph L.	Love received his Guggenheim fellowship to work on "Crafting the Third World:  Theorizing Underdevelopment in Rumania and Brazil."	History	1989
73	Maggs, Peter B.	Maggs received a Guggenheim fellowship to study the legal regulation of the Soviet economy.	Law	1978
74	Malmstadt, Howard Vincent (deceased)	Malmstadt was widely considered the father of modern electronic and computerized instrumentation in chemistry.	Chemistry	1959
75	Mapother, Dillon Edward	Mapother researches studies relating to solid state physics research, cryogenics, and superconductivity.	Physics, Engineering	1960
76	Marchand, James Woodrow	Marchand used his Guggenheim to research and photograph manuscripts of Gothic and Old High German in Germany, Italy and France.	German, Linguistics	1957
77	Marcovich, Miroslav (deceased)	Marcovich research ranged from studying Heraclitus and the pre-Socratics in PWRE to Gnostics, the Barcelona Alcestis, and Prosper of Aquitaine.	Classics	1983
78	McKay, John Patrick	McKay specializes in modern French history, and nineteenth-century European economic and social history.	History	1970
79	Melby, John	Melby is best known for his music written for computer-synthesized tape, in combination with live performers and for tape alone.	Composer, Music	1983
80	Miley, George H.	Miley researches fusion systems, plasma engineering, reactor kinetics, high voltage technology, nuclear pumped lasers, direct energy conversion, hydrogen energy production, low energy nuclear reactions in solids.	Nuclear and Electrical Engineering	1985
81	Mittra, Rajjeshwar		Electrical Engineering	1965
82	Mouschovias, Telemachos Ch.	Mouschovias was chosen for the Guggenheim fellowship for his work in plasma physics and astronomy and used the fellowship to spend a year on sabbatical in Germany to study star formation.	Physics and Astronomy	1993
83	Murav, Harriet	Murav is department head of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She studies Russian culture, film, women's studies, theater, and 19th century literature; as well as, Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies.	Slavic Languages and Literatures, World and Comparative Literature	2006
84	Neal, Larry	Neal received his Guggenheim fellowship for his work in economics and used it to study at the London School of Economics.	Economics	1996
85	Nelson, Robert James	Nelson is known to be a deconstructionist and is best known for his study of Willa Cather and France.	French	1966
86	O'Halloran, Thomas A. Jr.		Physics	1979
87	Oliver, Revilo P.  (deceased)	Oliver wrote and polemicized extensively for Racial Nationalist causes. He has been described as a fascist and proponent of antisemitism. He gained national notoriety for the article, "Marxmanship in Dallas," concerning the Kennedy assassination.  Because of the article, Oliver was called to testify before the Warren Commission.	Classics	1945
88	Perkins, Ann Louise	Perkins is best known for her book, "The Comparative Archaeology of Early Mesopotamia," (1949).	Art	1954
89	Peshkin, Alan (deceased)	Peshkin wrote on qualitative research that he gathered from case studies and focused on matters of subjectivity in scholarly inquiry.  His books and articles focused on qualitative research methods and relationships between school and community. His studies ranged from Native American education to fundamentalist Christian schools to private, residential schools for elite; and about how these different forms of education correlate with the consequences in that community.	Education	1973
90	Phillips, Tommy L.	Phillips's research interests include the use of coal-ball concretions with peat to morphologically establish whole plant species and interpret their ontogeny, habits, and reproductive biology.	Plant Biology and Geology	1975
91	Phipps, Thomas Erwin Sr. (deceased)		Chemistry	1930, 1931
92	Pickering, Andrew	Andy's research interests range widely within the field of the sociology and philosophy of science.	Sociology	1997
93	Pines, David	Professor Pines received national and international recognition for his contributions to the theory of many-body systems and to theoretical astrophysics.	Physics and Electrical Engineering	1962, 1969
94	Plath, David William	Cultural anthropology, human development and aging, maritime cultures, visual ethnography; Japan	Anthropology and Asian Studies	1972
95	Porta, Horacio Alberto		Mathematics	1963
96	Porton, Gary G.	Porton's major research interests include "the other" in Judaism, rabbinic ideas of the gentile, conversion in Judaism in late antiquity, Jewish biblical exegesis, literary studies of rabbinic literature, the feminine in rabbinic literature, American liberal Judaism.	Religious Studies	1982
97	Prosser, Clifford Ladd (deceased)	Ladd's research interests were comparative animal physiology.	Physiology and Zoology	1963
98	Queller, Donald Edward		Medieval and Renaissance History	1972
99	Rauchfuss, Thomas B.	Rauchfuss researches the synthesis and reactivity of inorganic, organometallic, and main-group compounds and materials.	Chemistry	1991
100	Reiner, Irving  (deceased)		Mathematics	1962
101	Rhoads, Bruce L.	Rhoads was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship for his project on fluvial dynamics of river confluences.	Geography	2005
102	Rinehart, Kenneth Lloyd Jr.		Chemistry	1961
103	Robinson, Gene E.	Robinson received his Guggenheim fellowship for his work with genes and social behavior.	Entomology and Neuroscience	2003
104	Savage, Jerome Anthony	art; painter	Art	1964
105	Schoedel, William R.		Classics and Religious Studies	1976
106	Schowalter, William R.	Schowalter researches non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, and promotion of fluid mechanics as a discipline transcending specific engineering fields	Chemical Engineering	1987
107	Schulman, Ivan Albert		Spanish	1968
108	Schupp, Paul E.	Schupp researches group theory, automata theory, computational complexity.	Mathematics	1977
109	Shapiro, David Jordon	Shapiro received a Guggenheim fellowship for sabbatical research at the Center for Cancer research at MIT in the laboratory of  Philip Sharp (Nobel Laureate and U.I. Ph.D. recepient). This research was related to the development of new systems to study the way in which estrogen works.	Biochemistry	1984
110	Shapiro, Stuart L.	Shapiro received the Guggenheim fellowship for his research in theoretical astrophysics and general relativity theory.  The work dealt with the physics of compact objects, including black holes and neutron stars.  It emphasized computer simulations to probe Einstein's equations of general relativity.	Physics	1989
111	Shield, Richard T.	Shield has studied variational principle of the complementary energy type s	Theoretical and Applied Mechanics	1961
112	Shwayder, David S.	Shwayder used his Guggenheim fellowship to begin his book, "Statement and Referent: An enquiry into the foundations of our conceptual order."	Philosophy	1966
113	Smith, James Hammond		Physics	1965
114	Snyder, Harold Ray (deceased)	Snyder was a classical organic chemist who investigated the synthesis of amino acids, heteroaromatic systems, and the reactions of amines and indoles.  He also invented a new reaction process and helped produce sufficient quantities of anitmalarials to fight malaria-carrying mosquitoes.	Chemistry	1951
115	Spence, Clark C.	Spence is a western historian and primarily researches mining. However, he is best known for The Rainmakers and also researched the Salvation Army farm colonies.	History	1969
116	Stannard, Lewis Jr. (deceased)	Stannard's research concentrated on the the Thrips, or Thysanoptera of Illinois. Lewis J. Stannard and his students amassed 44,000 slides and another 121,000 specimens in ethanol. This makes it one of the largest collections of this order in North America.	Agricultural Entomology and Taxonomist	1954
117	Steinberg, Mark D.	Steinberg specializes on the cultural, intellectual, and social history of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His research interests focus on the cultures of the city, modernities,