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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 26 March 1893
- Died
- 11 February 1978
- Conflict
- World War I
- Place of birth
- Dorchester
- Place of death
- Hanover (NH)
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- James
- Family name
- Conant
- Father
- James Scott Conant
- Mother
- Jennett Orr Bryant
- Sibling
- Marjorie Conant Bush-Brown
- Field of work
- chemistry
- Occupation
- chemist, diplomat, university teacher, politician, ambassador
- Position held
- High Commissioner, United States Ambassador to Germany, President of Harvard University
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, Commander of the Legion of Honour, doctor honoris causa of Keiō University, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, William H. Nichols Medal, American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Priestley Medal
- academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- doctoral advisor
- Theodore William Richards
- doctoral student
- Louis Fieser, Paul Doughty Bartlett
- educated at
- Harvard College
- employer
- Harvard University
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- medical condition
- stroke
- member of
- Royal Society of London, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, American Philosophical Society
- military, police or special rank
- Major
- name in native language
- James Bryant Conant
- participant in
- Manhattan Project
- place of burial
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
- relative
- James F. Conant
- start of work period
- 1917
- student
- Louis Fieser
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