James Bryant Conant
American chemist (1893-1978) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 84
James Bryant Conant was an American chemist, a President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.
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1978Died11 February 19781963Presidential Medal of FreedomAward1955Charles Lathrop Parsons AwardAward1954Ernst Reuter MedalAward1951Honorary Doctor of the University of New ZealandAward1947Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of LyonAward1944Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of AlgerAwardPriestley MedalAward1941Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward1934American Institute of Chemists Gold MedalAward1932William H. Nichols MedalAward1893Born26 March 1893
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Honorary degrees recipients pose at the 1947 Harvard University commencement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 5, 1947.
Front row (left to right): Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Cadman Collwell, George C. Marshall, President James B. Conant of Harvard, Omar N. Bradley, T.S. Eliot and James Wadsworth.
Back row (left to right): William Addison Dwiggins, George Henry Chase, William Hodding Carter Jr, Ivor Armstrong Richards, William F Gibbs and Frank L Boyden.
Ernest O. Lawrence, Arthur H. Compton, Vannevar Bush, Conant, Karl T. Compton, and Alfred L. Loomis at the University of California, Berkeley in 1940
Vannevar Bush, Conant, Major General Leslie Groves and Colonel Franklin Matthias at the Hanford Engineer Works in July 1945
Vannevar Bush watches as U.S. President Harry S. Truman presents Conant with the civilian Medal for Merit (with bronze palm) in 1948.
National Science Board Members in July 1951. Conant is front and center.![Glenn Seaborg, President Richard Nixon, presents the 1969 Atomic Pioneers Award to the three recipients, Vannevar Bush, Conant and Leslie Groves, on February 27, 1970.[167]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Atomic_Pioneers_Awards_Washington_DC_%287649993674%29.jpg/1280px-Atomic_Pioneers_Awards_Washington_DC_%287649993674%29.jpg)
Glenn Seaborg, President Richard Nixon, presents the 1969 Atomic Pioneers Award to the three recipients, Vannevar Bush, Conant and Leslie Groves, on February 27, 1970.[167]Awards
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Scientists
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Deceased
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Lived 1893 to 1978 · aged 84
