Harvard Faculty members have won 17 of 313 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships awarded this year for research and creative activity in the arts and sciences.

The awards, carrying stipends of varying amounts, are made annually to scholars, scientists, and artists to free them from professional and financial obligations and allow them to devote themselves to projects of their own choosing.

The Harvard winners include Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government; Walter J. Bate '39, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of Humanities; Larry D. Benson, assistant professor of English; Reuben A. Brower, professor of English; and Roger W. Brown, professor of Social Psychology.

Also Roger D. Fisher '43, professor of Law; Donald H. Fleming, professor of History; Alfred B. Harbage, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature; Henry A. Kissinger '50, professor of Government; William N. Lipscomb Jr., professor of Chemistry; and John W. Littlefield '46, assistant professor of Medicine.

Also Martin Lubin '42, assistant professor of Pharmacology; Paul C. Martin '52, professor of Physics; Richard E. Piper, professor of History; Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin; John G. Terrey, professor of Botany; and James D. Watson, professor of Biology.