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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.

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   Mar 22, 2024 · James B. Conant 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 division of the chemical warfare.

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   • James B. Conant High School is a public four-year high school located in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Township High School District 211, which also includes William Fremd High School, Hoffman Estates High School, Palatine High School, and Schaumburg High School.

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   What was Dr Conant famous for?

   • In those dozen years, Dr. Conant became highly respected among scientists for his work on the nature of chlorophyll, the green substance in plants, and hemoglobin, contained in the red corpuscles in blood. He was seen as a possible Nobel Prize winner. The Professor preferred research and writing to the perfecting of classroom techniques.

   James B. Conant Is Dead at 84; Harvard President for 20 Years

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   Who were James Scott Conant and Jennett Orr Bryant?

   • New Hampshire, II February 1978). organic chemistry, science policy. Conant was the third child and only son of James Scott Conant and Jennett Orr Bryant. His mother was deeply involved in transcendental religious movements. His father was a photoengraver who had a shop laboratory that he used to master the chemical procedures in this new field.

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   What did Dr Conant do in World War II?

   • As a prelude to his diplomatic service Dr. Conant had served in World War II as a scientific adviser to the Government on the atomic bomb project and was one of those involved in the selection of the target in Japan for the first bomb, which was dropped over Hiroshima Aug. 6, 1945.

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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...

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   May 29, 2018 · He was the general editor of the Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science (1948; reissued 1957). In 1950 he was a principal advocate before Congress for federal support of science and the formation of the National Science Foundation.

6. ahf.nuclearmuseum.org › ahf › profileJames B. Conant - Nuclear Museum

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   1970 Received the Atomic Pioneers Award. 1978 Feb 11th Died in Hanover, New Hampshire. James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was an American chemist and government official. Early YearsConant was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and attended the Roxbury Latin School.

7. direct.mit.edu › jcws › articleMan of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist

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   Apr 1, 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_r_00858. Cite. Permissions. Share. Nearly thirty years ago, as I was researching a study of James B. Conant (1893–1978)—chemist, Harvard University president, Manhattan Project administrator, diplomat (Ike's man in Germany), and more—I interviewed the great man's granddaughter, Jennet.