James Bryant Conant was an American chemist, a President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.
Conant in 1932
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
Nathan Marsh Pusey was an American academic. Originally from Council Bluffs, Iowa, Pusey won a scholarship to Harvard University out of high school and went on to earn bachelor's, master's, and doctor
James B. Conant
…Succeeded by David K. E. Bruce 23rd President of Harvard University In office October 9, 1933 – 1953 Preceded by Abbott Lawrence Lowell Succeeded by Nathan Marsh Pusey Personal details Born James Bryant Conant March 26, 1893 Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S. Died February 11, 1978 (aged 84) Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S…
Pusey at Boston College, where he received an honorary degree in 1963