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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...
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  • James Conant is the name of: James B. Conant (1893–1978), American chemist and educational administrator James B. Conant High School, a public high school...
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    James B. Conant High School is a public four-year high school located in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United...
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    Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-30634-6. OCLC 45661689. Hershberg, James G. (1993). James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the making of the nuclear age. New...
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    Commissioner of Patents; Karl Compton, President of MIT; James B. Conant, President of Harvard University; Frank B. Jewett, President of the National Academy of...
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    1900, Harvard co-founded the Association of American Universities. James B. Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II, and...
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  • the 1950s. Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist (2017) is a biography of Conant's grandfather James B. Conant, a prominent chemist, president...
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    leadership of Vannevar Bush (OSRD), at it incorporated the NDRC, now under James B. Conant. The Uranium Committee became the Uranium Section of the OSRD, which...
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    system of a smorgasbord of elective courses available to each student; James B. Conant worked to introduce standardized testing; Derek Bok and Neil L. Rudenstine...
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  • better known as the Conant Report, is a 1959 assessment of American secondary schooling and 21 recommendations, authored by James B. Conant. During his term...
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  • Thomas Jefferson Conant (1802–1891), American Bible scholar James B. Conant High School, a public school in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Conant family conan...
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    his own research into uranium. He in turn spoke to James B. Conant, Arthur H. Compton and George B. Pegram. Oliphant's mission was therefore a success;...
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    Sarah Gorden (category James B. Conant High School alumni)
    pitch inspired her to join her high school track team. While attending James B. Conant High School she played as a defender for the Eclipse Select Soccer...
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    Lawrence's early work. In February 1936, Harvard University's president, James B. Conant, made attractive offers to Lawrence and Oppenheimer. The University...
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    weekend of the Trinity test. Observers included Vannevar Bush, James Chadwick, James B. Conant, Thomas Farrell, Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman...
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    Laboratory. On May 18, 1942, National Defense Research Committee Chairman James B. Conant, who had been one of Oppenheimer's lecturers at Harvard, asked Oppenheimer...
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    Among them were Fermi, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Hans Bethe, John J. McCloy, James B. Conant and Bush, as well as two former AEC chairmen and three former commissioners...
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    book The American High School Today (1959), former Harvard president James B. Conant laid out his critique of the status quo. In particular, he pointed...
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    his assassination were formally awarded by his successor in office, Lyndon B. Johnson. President Barack Obama awarded 118 medals, the most of any president...
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    coded phone call to James B. Conant, the chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. I picked up the phone and called Conant. He was reached at...
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  • Tim Tyrrell (category James B. Conant High School alumni)
    1 in (1.85 m) Weight: 204 lb (93 kg) Career information High school: James B. Conant (Hoffman Estates, Illinois) College: Northern Illinois Undrafted: 1984...
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    Development and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; James B. Conant, Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee and president...
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    senator Nathan Marsh Pusey. The younger Pusey was educated at Harvard College (B.A.), and received M.A. (1928) and Ph.D (1937) degrees from Harvard University...
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    is part of Township High School District 211, which also includes James B. Conant High School, Hoffman Estates High School, Palatine High School, and...
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  • is part of Township High School District 211, which also includes James B. Conant High School, William Fremd High School, Palatine High School, and Schaumburg...
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  • Parks, James (2023-12-09). "Heisman Trophy winner, full ballot for 2023 college football season". College Football HQ. Retrieved 2024-01-06. News, N. B. C...
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    president. The new organisation subsumed the NDRC, now chaired by James B. Conant, the President of Harvard University. The Uranium Committee became...
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    in the Hoffman Estates village limits: Hoffman Estates High School James B. Conant High School Other high schools in the same township high school district:...
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    the Wayback Machine Conant, Jennet (2002). Tuxedo Park. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. pp. 213–249. ISBN 0-684-87287-0. Conant, Jennet (2002). pp. 271–272...
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    Creig Federico (category James B. Conant High School alumni)
    2 in (1.88 m) Weight: 205 lb (93 kg) Career information High school: James B. Conant College: Iowa Central CC Illinois State Undrafted: 1986 Career history...
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