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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. 

Such clear cut conclusions are invariably supported by the accounts of participants. On the British side these were often meant as warnings of the failure to invest in scientific education and basic research, and revise an inadequate patent system. This was the message of Raphael Meldola s 1886 lecture before the Society of Arts in London in which he advised his audience that a survey of British dye users had revealed that over eighty per cent of the colorants they employed were Made in Germany. ... 

In 2001, the European commission held a discussion to review the scientific and ethical issues surrounding embryonic stem cells and found significant differences in how countries viewed the issues. Much to the dismay of some countries within the EU, the commission recommended the use of European Commission funds for basic research, albeit with careful monitoring (84). Germany, Italy, and Spain for example ban such stem cell research within their borders, while the UK was less ethically compromised. Various groups in the EU mobilized to ban such research throughout the member countries. 

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