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 James Bryant Conant

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James Bryant Conant

Birth
Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
11 Feb 1978 (aged 84)
Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
Burial
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.3726292, Longitude: -71.1430001
Memorial ID
6473486 View Source

Chemist, educator, diplomat, researcher and teacher in organic chemistry, mainly at Harvard University (1919-33), president of Harvard (1933-53), United States High Commissioner to West Germany (1953-55), and Ambassador to West Germany (1955-57), during the late 1950s and early 1960s made a series of controversial studies on American public school education, recommending wide-ranging reform.

Chemist, educator, diplomat, researcher and teacher in organic chemistry, mainly at Harvard University (1919-33), president of Harvard (1933-53), United States High Commissioner to West Germany (1953-55), and Ambassador to West Germany (1955-57), during the late 1950s and early 1960s made a series of controversial studies on American public school education, recommending wide-ranging reform.


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