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James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Conant obtained a PhD in Chemistry from Harvard in 1916. During World War I he served in the U.S. Army, working on the development of poison gases. He became an assistant professor of chemistry at Harvard in 1919, and the Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1929.

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rdfs:comment	James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Conant obtained a PhD in Chemistry from Harvard in 1916. During World War I he served in the U.S. Army, working on the development of poison gases. He became an assistant professor of chemistry at Harvard in 1919, and the Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1929.
foaf:name	Conant, James Bryant James Bryant Conant
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dc:description	American diplomat
active years end date	1957-02-19(xsd:dateTime)
active years start date	1955-05-14(xsd:dateTime)
award	Priestley Medal dbpedia:Clark_Kerr_Award dbpedia:Kentucky_colonel American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal dbpedia:Benjamin_Franklin_Medal_(American_Philosophical_Society) dbpedia:Medal_of_Freedom dbpedia:Sylvanus_Thayer_Award dbpedia:Legion_of_Honour dbpedia:Medal_for_Merit dbpedia:Order_of_Merit_of_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany dbpedia:Order_of_the_British_Empire
battle	dbpedia:World_War_I
birth date	1893-03-26(xsd:dateTime)
birth place	Dorchester
birth year	1893-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
country	United States
death date	1978-02-11(xsd:dateTime)
death place	Hanover, New Hampshire
death year	1978-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
military branch	United States Army Chemical Corps
military rank	dbpedia:Major
order in office	1st
president	dbpedia:Dwight_D._Eisenhower
relation	Conant, Jennet
service end year	1919-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
service start year	1917-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
successor	Nathan M. Pusey Bruce, David K.E.
thumbnail	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_B_Conant_1948_cropped.jpg?width=300
is doctoral advisor of	Louis Frederick Fieser Bartlett, Paul Doughty
is predecessor of	Nathan M. Pusey
is starring of	Atomic Power
is successor of	Abbott Lawrence Lowell

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