Nine professors were awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship Awards averaging about $19,000 per recipient, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced last week.

Fellowships were given for past accomplishments and "strong promise for the future" in the areas of science, scholarship, and the arts, Foundation President Gordon N. Ray, said in a prepared release.

Alfred W. Crompton, Agassiz Professor of Zoology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, said he was "relieved" when he first heard he had won, because he now has "the opportunity to do what I want to do."

China Trip

Crompton will be finishing his study of the control of mastication that he has been working on for more than a decade. He will leave with his family for England and possibly China in mid-June.

Harvard tied Stanford for second place with nine recipients each in the Foundation's 59th annual competition. Cornell was awarded the most, receiving 11. Two hundred ninety-two recipients were chosen from among 3571 applicants.

In all, 102 institutions are represented by one or more new fellows.

Other Harvard Fellowship recipients included Dr. Daniel Bell, Ford Professor of Social Sciences; Barry C. Mazur, Petachek Professor of Mathematics; Alessandro Pizzorno, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies: Simson M. Schama, professor of History: Dr. Jerry Sebag, clinical fellow in Opthamology at the Medical School; Steven M. Shavell, professor of Law and Economics: Dr. Susan R. Suleiman, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; and Dr. James D. Wilkinson '65, associate professor of History.