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Competition: US & Canada
William R. Amberson
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1926–27: Amberson, Willliam R.: Appointed for the study of mechanisms involved in the electrical stimulation of nerve and muscle, principally with Dr. A. V. Hill, at University College, London; tenure, eight months from February 1, 1928. Born June 17, 1894, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Education: Lafayette College, Ph.B., 1915;
Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez was born and raised in Berkeley, attended Carleton College in Minnesota, and received his Ph.D. in geology at Princeton. His thesis research (and honeymoon) was in the roadless desert of northernmost South America, living with Guajiro Indians and smugglers. He then worked for an oil company in Holland, and in Libya at the