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Who is James Conant?

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.

What did James B Conant study?

Returning to the United States in 1957, he took up an earlier interest in public education and conducted studies of the comprehensive high school and the junior high school. James B. Conant, 1933. Conant’s publications include two textbooks, Practical Chemistry, written with N.H. Black (1920), and Chemistry of Organic Compounds (1933).

Where was James Bryant Conant born?

James Bryant Conant was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on March 26, 1893, the third child and only son of James Scott Conant, a photoengraver, and his wife Jennett Orr (née Bryant). Conant was one of 35 boys who passed the competitive admission exam for the Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury in 1904.

What is the PMID for James Bryant Conant?

PMID 320157. S2CID 32956693. Kistiakowsky, George; Westheimer, Frank (1979). "James Bryant Conant". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 25: 209–232. doi: 10.1098/rsbm.1979.0006.

What did Conant do?

He specialized in research into free radicals, the chemical structure of chlorophyll, and the quantitative study of organic reactions. In 1933 Conant was elected president of Harvard.

When did James B. Conant return to the US?

Returning to the United States in 1957, he took up an earlier interest in public education and conducted studies of the comprehensive high school and the junior high school. James B. Conant. James B. Conant, 1933. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

What books did Conant write?

Conant’s publications include two textbooks, Practical Chemistry, written with N.H. Black (1920), and Chemistry of Organic Compounds (1933). He was particularly successful in writing about science for the nonscientifically trained person, as in On Understanding Science (1947).

What was the role of Conant in World War II?

After the war he served as a senior adviser to the National Science Foundation and to the Atomic Energy Commission.

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