James Bryant Conant | Author

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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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Works by James Bryant Conant

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Modern Science and Modern Man (1952) 48 copies

On Understanding Science (1947) 47 copies

Science and Common Sense (1951) 43 copies

Slums and suburbs; a commentary on schools in metropolitan areas (1961) 41 copies

Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, Vols. 1 and 2 (1957) 32 copies

The American high school today: a first report to interested citizens (1959) 27 copies

The chemistry of organic compounds; a year's course in organic chemistry (1933) 19 copies

The education of American teachers (1963) 15 copies

Two Modes of Thought: My Encounters with Science and Education (1964) 14 copies

My several lives; memoirs of a social inventor (1970) 12 copies

Education in a divided world (1948) 10 copies

Education and Liberty: The Role of the Schools in a Modern Democracy (1953) 9 copies

Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education (1962) 8 copies

Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science Volume 1 (1957) 8 copies

The child, the parent, and the state (1959) 8 copies

The overthrow of the phlogiston theory; the chemical revolution of 1775-1789 (1950) 7 copies

Germany and freedom : a personal appraisal (1958) 4 copies

Shaping educational policy (1964) 4 copies

Organic Syntheses (2010) 4 copies

Harvard Case Histories In Experimental Science Volume Two (1957) 4 copies

Anglo-American relations in the Atomic age 3 copies

Scientific principles and moral conduct : the twentieth Arthur Stanley Eddington memorial lecture delivered at… (1967) 3 copies

Wissenschaft verständlich gemacht 2 copies

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

Our Fighting Faith (1942) 2 copies

Organic Chemistry, a Brief Introductory Course (1929) 2 copies

Recommendations for Education in the Junior High School Years; A Memorandum to School Boards 1 copy

Gleichheit der Chancen. Erziehung und Gesellschaftsordnung in den Vereinigten Staaten. (1955) 1 copy

Robert Boyle's experiments in pneumatics 1 copy

DEFENSE OF FREEDOM.|THE 1 copy

Conant: Science and Common Sense 1 copy

The citadel of learning (1977) 1 copy

Pasteur's Study of Fermentation 1 copy

"Academical patronage and superintendence," 1 copy

La comprension de la ciencia: Un famoso cientifico explica la ciencia y su mision actual 1 copy

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The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (1957) — Foreword, some editions — 861 copies

General education in a free society; report of the Harvard committee (1945) — Foreword — 46 copies

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Birthdate: 1893-03-26
Date of death: 1978-02-11
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
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)
Short biography: 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.
Disambiguation notice: 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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Modern Science and Modern Man by James B Conant

This book is the series of four Bampton lectures of 1952 which were delivered at Columbia University by the author. When he was chosen as the lecturer, President Eisenhower expressed on behalf of the committee the hope that he would provide "some understanding of the significance of recent developments in the physical sciences".

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