| James B. Conant  AKA James Bryant Conant
Born: 26-Mar-1893
Birthplace: Dorchester, MA
Died: 11-Feb-1978
Location of death: Hanover, NH
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Educator Nationality: United States
Executive summary: President of Harvard, 1933-53 Military service: US Army (WWI, Chemical Warfare Service) Father: James Scott Conant
Mother: Jennett Orr Bryant
Wife: Patty Thayer Reynolds
Wife: Grace Richards
High School: Roxbury Latin School, West Roxbury, MA (1904-10)
University: BA, Harvard University (1914)
University: PhD, Harvard University (1916)
Professor: Chemistry, Harvard University
Administrator: President, Harvard University (1933-53)
US Ambassador to Germany (1955-57)
US Official High Commissioner, Bonn, Germany (1953-55)
Committee on the Present Danger Chairman
Manhattan Project
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (WWII)
Century Group (WWII)
National Defense Research Committee (WWII)
Rockefeller Foundation for Medical Research Scientific Advisor
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
National Science Foundation Advisor
Author of books:
Practical Chemistry (1920, science, with N. H. Black)
Chemistry of Organic Compounds (1933, science)
On Understanding Science (1947, science)
Education in a Divided World (1948, nonfiction)
Science and Common Sense (1951, nonfiction)
Anglo-American Relations in the Atomic Age (1952, nonfiction)
Modern Science and Modern Man (1952, nonfiction)
Education and Liberty (1953, nonfiction)
Germany and Freedom (1958, nonfiction)
The American High School Today (1959, nonfiction)
Slums and Suburbs (1961, nonfiction)
My Several Lives (1970, memoir)
The Education of American Teachers (1963, nonfiction)
My Several Lives: Memoirs of a Social Inventor (1970, memoir)
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