Background
Rice, Alexander Hamilton was born on August 29, 1875 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Hamilton and Cora Lee (Clark) Rice.
Rice, Alexander Hamilton was born on August 29, 1875 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Hamilton and Cora Lee (Clark) Rice.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1898, Doctor of Medicine 1904, Master of Arts (honorary), 1915. Honorary Doctor of Science, Hamilton, 1951. Surgical intern Massachusetts General Hospital, 1903-1905.
Certificate Royal Geography Society School of Geography Surveying and Field Astronomy, 1908-1910.
Surgeon, director Hospital Northern 72, Societe de Secours aux Blesses Militaires. Paris, France, 1914-1915. Surgeon American Ambulance, Neuilly, 1914-1915.
Commissioned Lieutenant United States North.R., 1917.
Instructor navigation and nautical astronomy, 2d Naval District Training School, Newport, Rhode Island, 1917. Director same school, 1917-1919.
Lecturer Lowell Institute, 1922. Instrumental in establishing Indian School, hospital and creche at Sāo Gabriel, Brazil.
Established Institute of Geography Exploration, Harvard, director, professor same honorary curator South America section Peabody Museum Archaeology and Ethnology.
Lecturer diseases of tropical South. America, Department Tropical Medicine, Harvard Medical School Has devoted much time to exploration, research and science investigations of tropical South America Organized and conducted 7 expeditions into the Colombian Caqueta, Brazilian Amazonas and Venezuelan Guayana, exploring, surveying and mapping an area of 500,000 square miles, carrying out at the same time investigations of geological, biological, anthropological, ethnological, character. Expedition, 1924-1925, to Rio Branco-Uraricuera-Parima, hydroplane successfully employed in reconnaissance and air photography, efficiency of short wave, low power wireless in such work first conclusively demonstrated.
Fellow Royal Astronomical, Society, Royal Meteorological Society, Royal Anthropological Institute, Geological Society, American Association Advancement of Science New York Academy of Medicine. Member Royal Geography Society. London (honorary correspondent fellow, former vice president), American Geography Society, Reale Società Georgrafica Italiana, Societe des Americanistes (Paris), Louisiana Sociedad Geogràfica (Madrid) (honorary fellow all three), Instituto Hispano Americano de Relaciones Culturales, Madrid (honorary councillor), Hispanic Society of America (correspondent.
Member), Newport County Medical Society, American Museum of Health (director).
Member Geological Society American, Societe de Geographie de Paris. Societe de Geographie d’Anvers, Philadelphia Geography Society, Royal Institution of Great Britain, American Anthropological Society, Council on Foreign Relations, National Institute Social Sciences, Society of Cincinnati, Massachusetts Society Mayflower Descendants, Society Colonial Government’son, Society Colonial Wars, The Pilgrims, Massachusetts History and Genealogical Society, New York History Society, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Society New York Hospital, Society Descendants of Knights of Most Noble Order of the Garter, Hereditary Order Descendants Colonial Government’son
(honorary v. governor general). Clubs: Tavern, Tennis and Racquet, Harvard, Harvard Travelers of Cambridge (ex-president), Somerset (Boston).
Married Mistress;; married second, Mistress.