James Bryant Conant

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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 PhD in Chemistry from Harvard in 1916. During World War I he served in the U.S. Army during working on the development of poison gases. He became an assistant professor of chemistry at Harvard in 1919 and the Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1929.

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active years end date

1957-02-19

active years start date

1955-05-14

award

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Clark Kerr Medal, Legion of Honour, Medal of Freedom, Benjamin Franklin Medal (American Philosophical Society), Order of the British Empire, Kentucky colonel, Priestley Medal, Sylvanus Thayer Award, Medal for Merit

battle

World War I

birth date

1893-03-26

birth place

Dorchester Boston

country

United States

death date

1978-02-11

death place

Hanover New Hampshire

LCCN Id

n/50/30042

military branch

Chemical Corps

military rank

Major

order in office

1st

president

Dwight D. Eisenhower

relation

Jennet Conant

service end year

1919-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

service start year

1917-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

successor

Nathan M. Pusey, David K. E. Bruce