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Alexander Hamilton Rice, Jr. (August 29, 1875July 21, 1956) was an American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer especially noted for his expeditions to the Amazon Basin. He was professor of geography at Harvard University from 1929 to 1952, and was the founder and director of the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration.〔("A Nod to Ham Rice" ), ''Harvard Magazine'', March 1999.〕 ==Early life and military service== Rice's grandfather was former Boston mayor, Massachusetts governor and US Congressman Alexander Hamilton Rice. After attending the Noble and Greenough School he earned an A.B. from Harvard College (1898) and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School (1904). In 1915, he married widowed ''RMS Titanic'' survivor Eleanor Elkins Widener. In 191415 he volunteered for the Paris surgical staff of the Ambulance Américain, a group of American civilian doctors serving in Europe prior to the United States' entry into World War I. From 1915 to 1917 he directed the ''Hôpital 72, Société de Secours aux Blessés Militaires'', a French charity hospital also in Paris. On the United States' 1917 entry into the war, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve, directing the 2nd Naval District Training School for Reserve Officers at Newport, Rhode Island, where he served until 1919.〔p.799 In: Frederick Sumner Mead (ed.) 1921. Harvard's Military Record in the World War. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Alexander Hamilton Rice, Jr. Biographical Summary )〕 In 1919, he was awarded the Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur for his service to the people of France. In 1922 Rice was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for US Congress from the Massachusetts 12th Congressional District.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= U.S. Representatives from Massachusetts (1920s) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander H. Rice, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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