Competition: US & Canada

Rick Altman

Rick Altman is Professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa, where he has taught since 1974. He is an Angier B. Duke Fellow, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Danforth Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, a Cornell University Society for the Humanities Fellow, a University of Iowa Faculty Scholar, an NEH Fellow, and

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Theodore L. Althausen

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1929–30: Althausen, Theodore L.:  Appointed for an investigation of certain physiological disturbances and functional regeneration of the liver under various conditions of experimental and spontaneous injury, principally with Professor P. Morawitz at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and with Profess

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Robert B. Alter

Robert Alter is Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, and is past president of the

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Dinsmore Alter

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1929–30: Alter, Dinsmore:  Appointed for research on the application of statistical methods to meteorological and astronomical problems, especially with reference to the rainfall of the British Isles; tenure, twelve months from September 1, 1929.

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Howard Alper

Howard Alper is currently Visiting Executive at the International Development Research Center (IDRC), and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Ottowa.   Mr. Alper researches both organic and inorganic chemistry, with potential applications in the pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and commodity chemical industries.  He has discovered new reactions using homogeneous, phase transfer, and heterogeneous catalysis (such as

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