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James Bryant Conant (1893–1978)

Author of On Understanding Science

Includes the names: James B. Conant, James Bryant ed. Conant

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James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist and president of Harvard University. Not to be confused with James (Ferguson) Conant (b. 1958), an American philosopher.

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On Understanding Science 32 copies
Modern Science and Modern Man 31 copies
Slums and suburbs; a commentary on schools in metropolitan areas 22 copies
Science and Common Sense 21 copies
Harvard case histories in experimental science 18 copies
The American high school today: a first report to interested citizens 17 copies
Two Modes of Thought: My Encounters with Science and Education 10 copies
The chemistry of organic compounds; a year's course in organic chemistry 9 copies
The education of American teachers 8 copies
My Several Lives: Memoirs of a Social inventor (American Biography Series) 5 copies
Education and Liberty: The Role of the Schools in a Modern Democracy 4 copies
The child, the parent, and the state 3 copies
Harvard Case Studies In Experimental Science Volume 2 3 copies
Education in a divided world; the function of the public schools in our… 3 copies

Shaping Educational Policy. 3 copies

The overthrow of the phlogiston theory; the chemical revolution of… 2 copies

GENERAL EDUCATION IN A FREE SOCIETY Report of the Harvard Commitee 2 copies

Organic Syntheses 2 copies

Anglo-American relations in the Atomic age 2 copies

Germany & Freedom a Personal Appeal 2 copies

The comprehensive high school; a second report to interested citizens 2 copies

Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education. 2 copies

Wissenschaft verständlich gemacht 2 copies

Slums & Suburbs, revised edition 1 copy

Our fighting faith;: Six addresses to college students, 1 copy

Robert Boyle's Experiments in Pneumatics (Harvard case histories in… 1 copy

Organic chemistry;: A brief introductory course, 1 copy

Scientific principles and moral conduct: the twentieth Arthur Stanley… 1 copy

Pasteur's Study of Fermentation 1 copy

The Citadel of Learning 1 copy

"Academical patronage and superintendence," 1 copy

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Date of birth

1893-03-26

Date of death

1978-02-11

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Places of residence

Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA (birth)

Hanover, New Hampshire, USA (death)

Education

Harvard University (BA ∙ 1914 ∙ PhD ∙ 1917 ∙ Chemistry)

Occupations

chemist

educational administrator (President ∙ Harvard ∙ 1933-1953)

government official

Relationships

Conant, Jennet (granddaughter)

Organizations

Harvard University

Awards and honors

Priestley Medal (American Chemical Society ∙ 1944)

Sylvanus Thayer Award (U.S.M.A. ∙ West Point)

Presidential Medal of Freedom (Distinction ∙ 1963)

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Conant was involved in getting the Manhattan Project under way and later acted as advisor to the National Science Foundation. From 1953 to 1957 he was U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
His studies of and reports on education in the late '50's led to the adoption of tests such as the SAT.

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James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist and president of Harvard University. Not to be confused with James (Ferguson) Conant (b. 1958), an American philosopher.

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