Conant, James

Conant, James B. "Progress Report, Organic Section, Feb. 18, 1918" enclosed in a letter from G. Burrell to W. McPherson, Feb. 26, 1918, Records of the Chemical Warfare Service, Record Group 175, National Archives. 

Conant, James Bryant. Organic Chemistry. A Brief Introductory Course. Rev. ed. New York Macmillan, 1936. 

Conant, James B. The Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory. Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press, i960. 

Conant, James B. Organic Chemistry, Macmillan, New York, 1928, p. 117. 

CONANT, JAMES BRYANT (1893-1978). An American chemisi and educator, bom in Boslon, who received his doctorate in chemisiry from Harvard in 1916 and was president of Harvard for 20 years (1933-19531. His major scientific activities included pioneering research on chlorophyll and importanl contributions to the Manhattan Project. Perhaps his greatest achievements lay in the educational field, in which he exerted a strong liberalizing influence at both the collegiate and secondary school levels. He also was ambassador to postwar Germany and educational adviser to Berlin. He wrote many books on science and education, including basic chemical tests, and received a number of scientific and educational awards. 

Conant, James Bryant, The Chemistry of Organic Compounds, The Macmillan Company, New York, N. Y., 1940. 

Any good textbook on organic chemistry. The following are suggested Conant, James B., and A. H. Blatt, The Chemistry of Organic Compounds,... 

Conant, James Bryant. 1943. A History of the Development of an Atomic Bomb. Unpublished MS. OSRD S-1, Bush-Conant File, folder 5. National Archives. 

Commoner, Barry, 10, 42, 82, 165 Conant, James Bryant, 164 Cooke, Morris Llewellyn, 70 Cooper, Daniel I., 154 Cox, Harvey, 60 Crockeg John, Jr., 181... 

Conant, James B. "The Scientific Education of the Layman." Yale Review 36 (Autumn 1946) 15-36. 

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