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
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomi
James B. Conant
…within the AEC to provide it with scientific and technical advice. It was widely expected that Conant would chair the GAC, but the position went to Robert Oppenheimer, the wartime director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory that had designed and developed the first atomic bombs. At the same time, the Joint Research…
Oppenheimer in the Harvard University yearbook, 1926
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Laboratory in Leiden, Netherlands, July 1927. Oppenheimer is in the middle row, second from the left.
University of California Radiation Laboratory staff, including Robert R. Wilson and Nobel prize winners Ernest Lawrence, Edwin McMillan, and Luis Walter Alvarez, on the magnet yoke for the 60-inch (152 cm) cyclotron, 1938. Oppenheimer is the tall figure holding a pipe in the top row, just right of center.