Arthur M. Schlesinger, for an investigation of newspaper propaganda as a factor in the American Revolution.
Theodore Spencer, for a discussion of Shakespeare's plays in relation to the intellectual background of his time.
University Cyclotron Committee: Baldwin R. Curtis, John J. Livingood and Roger W. Hickman, for a monocyclic network for supplying constant current to the cyclotron radio frequency power supply.
Karl Vietor, for the preparation of a book on Goethe's philosophy.
Joshua Whatmough, for the completion and publication of a work on the dialects of ancient Gaul.
Thomas Whittemore, for a study of the mosaics, plaster and marbles in Aya Sofya in Istanbul.
John D. Wild, for a study of the relation between Plato and the Sophists.
George K. Zipf, for the preparation of the manuscript of a book on the principle of least action in individual and social behavior