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James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Conant obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard in 1916.
James B. Conant (born March 26, 1893, Dorchester, Mass., U.S.—died Feb. 11, 1978, Hanover, N.H.) was an American educator and scientist, president of Harvard University, and U.S. high commissioner for western Germany following World War II. Conant received A.B. and Ph.D. (1916) degrees from Harvard and, after spending a year in the research ...
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Feb 12, 1978 · CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sunday,Feb. 12 —James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University for 20 years, died yesterday after a long illness, the university announced early today. He was 84 years...
Oct 21, 2011 · On December 2, 1942, James Bryant Conant—Harvard University President and the chairman of the National Defense Research Committee—received a phone call from prominent physicist Arthur...
James B. Conant, in full James Bryant Conant (born March 26, 1893, Dorchester, Mass., U.S.—died Feb. 11, 1978, Hanover, N.H.), American educator and scientist, president of Harvard University, and U.S. high commissioner for western Germany following World War II.
1933 Oct 9th1953 President of Harvard University. 1940 Joined the National Defense Research Committee, becoming head of Division B, responsible for bombs, fuels, gases and chemicals. 1941 Became head of the NDRC, which was subsumed into the Office of Scientific Research and Development.
This case traces the rise of James Conant from a working-class neighborhood in Boston to president of Harvard University. The case describes how Conant, as a young man interested in chemistry and physics, embarks on studies to build his academic credentials and the pathbreaking changes that he makes to admissions criteria and curriculums while ...
