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	James Bryant Conant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 - February 11, 1978) was a chemist, educational administrator, and public servant.
		Conant also did much to move general undergraduate curriculum away from its traditional emphasis on the classics, and towards a more scientific and modern subject matter.
		Conant died in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1978.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_B_Conant (333 words)

	AIP International Catalog of Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Conant, James B. (James Bryant), 1893-1978 -- Inauguration, 1933.
		James B. Conant (Harvard, A.B., 1914; Ph.D., 1916) taught organic chemistry from 1916 to 1933 and served as President of Harvard University from 1933 to 1953.
		Consists of a wide range of material reflecting Conant's early education at Roxbury Latin School; his scientific research and interaction with other chemists; his professorship and presidency at Harvard and service as U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to Germany; and his theories and studies of education.
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/528.html (200 words)

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		Along with being president of Harvard University, James B. Conant also developed poison gases during WWI, became High Ambassador to Germany, was chief scientific advisor to the White House, was one of the vaunted “Wise Men” during the Cold War, and became an administrator on the highly secretive Manhattan Project.
		Conant was so impacted and freaked-out by this vision that he actually thought the world was coming to an end.
		James B. Conant also had intimate ties to a man named Vannevar Bush, who was appointed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Director of the NDRC (National Defense Research Council).
	www.reachone.net /~trufax/online/4/kerry.html (2557 words)

	U:\1997\OCONNEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Impatient with privileged sloth, Conant sympathized with the Ameatballs@ C the ambitious, lower-middle-class local students, the first- and second-generation ethnic immigrants who worked overtime to overcome prejudice (and quotas) so as to enter the establishment at Harvard and then, with their degrees, in the outside world.
		Conant=s qualifier in the last parenthesis is reminiscent of another Massachusetts= president dealing, as Conant repeatedly had to do, with precisely the same problem nearly forty years later.
		Conant=s way of handling fund raising chores certainly illustrates one of his principal virtues as an administrator: he was a superb delegator.
	www.law2.byu.edu /jel/sp1997/html/Oconnell.htm (4213 words)

	Alsos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hershberg contends that Conant was close to a Nobel Prize when he accepted the presidency of the University and abandoned the laboratory.
		Conant was the civilian administrator of the Manhattan Project, and attended the Trinity test in Alamogordo New Mexico.
		Conant abandoned the realm of nuclear policy when he and J. Robert Oppenheimer lost a bitter fight to prevent the building of the hydrogen bomb.
	alsos.wlu.edu /information.aspx?id=204 (197 words)

	America 1950-1959: Education History Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1953 James B. Conant vacated his position as president of Harvard University to become the U.S. high commissioner for Germany.
		While at Harvard, Conant gained a reputation for championing the concept of liberal education, with its emphasis on a broad curriculum of study for college freshmen and sophomores.
		Proclaiming the "typical" American high school to be a myth, Conant argued that schools differed widely from one education district to the next, given America's cultural and geographic diversity.
	www.bookrags.com /history-america-1950s-education/sub36.html (352 words)

	Amazon.com: James B. Conant : Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		James Bryant Conant (1893-1978), while president of Harvard University and as scientific adviser to the Roosevelt administration, advised FDR of the feasibility of building an atomic bomb; his recommendations spurred the secret crash program that culminated in the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
		Conant, one of the most prominent educators of the this century, served his country in many capacities throughout his long career.
		It is sure good that James Conant did not blow up the world - otherwise the author, Jim Hershberg, would not have been able to travel to over 100 countries in his life and win the World Trip award.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394579666?v=glance (1018 words)

	Learning and Educating About Disabilities
		James B. Conant High School is located in a suburb directly west of Chicago, Illinois.
		Self-determination was infused into the special education programs at Conant High School beginning in the early 1990s through a federally funded transition systems change grant that included interventions for students and parents.
		The special education programs at Conant High School are staffed by 13 teachers, 7 assistants, support staff, and a department chair.
	www.uncc.edu /sdsp/bobby/conant.asp (958 words)

	The Nation: James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age. (book reviews)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age.
		James G. Hershberg worked on this masterful biography for a dozen years, and in the end he says he was "still not sure" whether he "liked" his subject.
		The problem with James Bryant Conant--Harvard's president from 1933 to 1953 and the man most responsible for ushering America into the atomic era--is that for a university president and presumably an intellectual, he was capable of an astonishing degree of deception and self-deception.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:14982152&refid=ink_tptd_mag (204 words)

	Parameters: Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War II ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Through the influence of both James B. Conant and Loomis, the novel quickly dropped out of sight, since it was personally embarrassing to both families (it hinted at an extramarital affair by Loomis) and highly sensitive from a national security perspective.
		Jennet Conant's book draws on private, unpublished papers and photographs from the Loomis and Conant families, as well as from the archives of other key scientists and government officials.
		The author's grandfather, James B. Conant, the president of Harvard University, became the administrator of the Manhattan Project.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IBR/is_4_33/ai_111852960 (1030 words)

	James B. McPherson -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Irwin, James B. astronaut and air force test pilot James B. Irwin was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on March 17, 1930.
		Eads, James B. The best-known achievement of James B. Eads was the construction of the steel triple-arch bridge in St. Louis, Mo. The Eads Bridge was the largest bridge of any type built up to that time, and it was considered a landmark in engineering.
		LYNDON B. At 2:38 PM, on Nov. 22, 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office as 36th president of the United States.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049843?tocId=9049843 (630 words)

	James B. Hunt Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born in Greensboro on May 16, 1937, Governor Hunt was raised on a Wilson County farm, the son of a schoolteacher and a soil conservationist.
		In addition, he was recently named chairman of the National Education Goals Panel, which was set up in 1990 to monitor the progress of "Goals 2000," an achievement plan developed during a summit of the nation’s governors.
		The Governor has been awarded many prestigious awards, including the James B. Conant Award, and the 1999 Education Press Award, honoring him as the public leader in America contributing most significantly to public educational progress.
	govhunt.gov.state.nc.us /welcome/biopic.htm (1204 words)

	The New York Review of Books: The Education of James Conant and Paul Goodman
		The Education of James Conant and Paul Goodman
		There is not a line in Conant's work to suggest that he is even aware that a student spends actual years in school and is affected personally by the experience and ennui that constitute the curriculum—that this is his life, and the only sort of life the state authorizes him to have.
		Conant's conception of the educative process is as empty as a lunar landscape has been, up to now; there are certain features, and these are sharply drawn, but there are no people and if there were there would be nothing for them to breathe.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/article-preview?article_id=13139 (453 words)

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		[1 p.] B 05/08/42 Letter from James Forrestal, Acting Secretary of the Navy, to Alfred N. Richards, Chairman, Committee on Medical Research, Office of Scientific Research and Development, Washington, D.C. (Authorization of scientific investigations of war gases).
		[2pp.] E Undated "Use of Radioactive Material as a Military Weapon." Summarized from a report written by James B. Conant, Chairman, A. Compton, and H. Urey, comprising the Subcommittee of the 5-1 Executive Committee.
		James B. Conant, Chairman, A. Compton, H. Urey.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/commeet/meet3/brief3.gfr/tab_f/br3f1.txt (483 words)

	Impacts of the Early Cold War on the Formulation of U.S. Science Policy
		He left me the page proofs of the last chapter of his forthcoming book[1] which he said are relevant and also some pencil doodlings on organizational ideas.
		That is, those in which he is not particularly qualified, both to advise him and to support him and when necessary act as a barrier or shelter between him and other scientists or scientific groups.
		Conant said that this was probably true with regards to research matters but he had his doubts about whether any such new agency should go into development work, that is, making of gadgets and selling them in three dimensional forms to the military and the like.
	www.aaas.org /spp/cstc/pne/pubs/golden/3-10.htm (1385 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 95067507 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		James B. Conant (1893-1978) was one of the giants of the American establishment in the twentieth century.
		President of Harvard University from 1933 to 1953, he was also a scientist who led the US government's effort to develop weapons of mass destruction, and his story mirrors the transition of the United States from isolationism to global superpower at the dawn of the nuclear age.
		It is a huge, ambitious work - a history of the Cold War as Conant encountered it as well as a study of the man.' The New Yorker 'Magnificent...
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam027/95067507.html (344 words)

	Memorandum to: Brigadier General L. R. Groves From: Drs. Conant, Compton, and Urey / War Department, United States ...
		Doctors Compton and Urey, two members of the Committee, felt that radioactive material may be used by the Germans against United Nations in the autumn of 1943.
		Conant apparently does not concur in this opinion.
		It is the recommendation of this Subcommittee that if military authorities feel that the United States should be ready to use radioactive weapons in case the enemy started it first, studies on the subject should be started immediately.
	www.mindfully.org /Nucs/Groves-Memo-Manhattan30oct43.htm (1468 words)

	Player Bio: Kristen Landis :: Softball
		Landis earned four letters in softball at James B. Conant HS where she earned Mid-Suburban League all-conference honors in 1999, 2000 and 2002.
		She took the Conant Cougars to the regional championships as a freshman and sophomore.
		Landis pitched her team to a regional championship win her senior year and hit a grand slam with two outs in the bottom of the eighth to win the title.
	cornellbigred.collegesports.com /sports/w-softbl/mtt/landis_kristen00.html (367 words)

	My Grandfather and the Bomb
		For James B. Conant's family, Los Alamos was a grim morality tale
		Jennet Conant is the author of "Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II" (Simon and Schuster, 2003).
		Her new book, "109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos," is being published by Simon and Schuster this month.
	www.commondreams.org /views05/0502-26.htm (1161 words)

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		From left: Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, President of Harvard James B. Conant, Mrs.
		India; Nehru, Jawaharlal; Pandit, Vijaya; Gandhi, Indira; Universities - Harvard; Conant, James B.; Conant, Mrs.
		Gandhi, Indira, 1917-1984; Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964; Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978; Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, 1900-; Conant, Mrs.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Truman_Kids/http@@/www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/view.php?id=3334 (114 words)

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		CONANT, James B. The American High School Today: A First Report to Interested Citizens (New York, 1959).
		CONANT, James B. The Comprehensive High School: A Second Report to Interested Citizens (New York, 1967).
		PRESKILL, Stephen J. "Raking from the Rubbish: Charles W. Eliot, James B. Conant and the Public Schools." Doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1984).
	www.zzbw.uni-hannover.de /herbsthist/herbst46_31.htm (1828 words)

	School and Society \| Multiple Choice Quiz
		Conant argued that the U.S. military-industrial complex was
		Conant brought ___________ with him when he assumed the presidency of Harvard in 1933.
		Conant's concern(s) about the students enrolling in college prior to World War II was (were) that
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/0072322764/student_view0/chapter8/multiple_choice_quiz.html (629 words)

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		A pathologist and cancer specialist, James B. Murphy spent most of career associated with the Rockefeller Institute (1911-1950) investigating the role of lymphocytes in tuberculosis, x-ray mutagenesis, and the nature of malignant tumors in fowls.
		The James B. Murphy Papers offer significant insight into the state of cancer research during the critical period of the 1920s through 1940s.
		Murphy was particularly close to Clarence Cook Little, James Ewing (head of the Memorial Hospital in New York), and Ernest Kennaway, and their letters, both in-coming and retained copies of out-going, are filled with candid assessments of researchers, the competing theories on the origin of cancer, lymphocytes, and mutagenesis.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/m/murphyjb.xml (1082 words)

	Find in a Library: [James B. Conant, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, testifying before the Senate Foreign ...
		[James B. Conant, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
		Subjects: Conant, James Bryant, -- 1893-1978 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/0b082dab0fa14917a19afeb4da09e526.html (93 words)

	Carnegie Corporation - About
		James B. Hunt, a four-term governor of North Carolina and nationally recognized educational leader, was elected to Carnegie Corporation of New York’s board of trustees in October 2000.
		During his tenure as governor (1977-85, 1993-2001), Hunt focused on supporting early childhood development, raising standards in public schools, and improving the quality of teaching.
		The son of a school teacher, James Hunt holds B.A. and MS.
	www.carnegie.org /sub/about/j.hunt.html (390 words)

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	James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age - James G. Hershberg
		James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age - James G. Hershberg
		“The bomb would be as much Conant’s as it was anyone’s in government.
		His inner response to that burden of responsibility has long been obscured, but it is illumined here.
	www.sup.org /book.cgi?book_id=+2619 (279 words)

	Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
		Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #6840316 - James B. Conant, nuclear weapons, and the cold war, 1945-1950
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		James B. Conant, nuclear weapons, and the cold war, 1945-1950
	www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6840316 (104 words)

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