Award Recipients Plan Studies Here

Two winners of 1944 Guggenheim Latin American Fellowships, Professor Alberto Barajas Celis of the National University of Mexico and Dr. Elisha Hirschhorn of La Plata, Argentina, will come to Harvard this year to carry on advanced research work.

Professor Celis, member of the Faculty of Sciences at the National University, will use his fellowship for studies in the theory of gravitation, and will work principally with George D. Birkhoff, professor of Mathematics here.

Dr. Hirschhorn, plant pathologist, is planning investigations in the biology of the smut fungi, and has alternate research scheduled for Harvard and the University of Minnesota.

The Guggenheim Latin American Fellowships are granted annually to assist and encourage research and creative work in all fields of art and scholarship. The stipend is usually $2,000, plus travelling expenses. In addition to the Fellowships for work at Harvard, two-were granted this year to artists, three to philosophers, two to biologists, and one each to an historian, a chemist, an economist, and a lawyer.

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships are available to scholars in the United States and Canada as well as Latin American and are awarded to persons who, by work accomplished, have already proved themselves of the highest ability. The Foundation was set up in 1925 by the late United States Senator Simon Guggenheim and Mrs. Guggenheim in memory of a son.