Since its establishment, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted over $400 million in Fellowships to more than 19,000 individuals, among whom are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award, and other internationally recognized honors. The broad range of fields of study is a unique characteristic of the Fellowship program.
The Foundation’s 100th Class of Fellows includes 198 Trailblazing Artists and Scholars Across 53 Fields. Professor Lithgow-Bertelloni, who also serves as chair of UCLA’s Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, was the only researcher representing the field of Earth Sciences honored in this year’s class of Fellows.