James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conantwas 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. He researched the physical structures of natural products, particularly chlorophyll, and he...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth26 March 1893
CountryUnited States of America