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James Bryant Conant (1893–1978)

Autore di Modern Science and Modern Man

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(eng) James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist and president of Harvard University. Not to be confused with James (Ferguson) Conant (b. 1958), an American philosopher.

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Opere di James Bryant Conant

On Understanding Science (1947) 47 copie
Science and Common Sense (1951) 43 copie

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1893-03-26
Data di morte
1978-02-11
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di residenza
Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
Hanover, New Hampshire, USA (death)
Istruzione
Harvard University (BA | 1914 | PhD | 1917 | Chemistry)
Attività lavorative
chemist
educational administrator (President | Harvard | 1933-1953)
government official
Relazioni
Conant, Jennet (granddaughter)
Organizzazioni
Harvard University
Premi e riconoscimenti
Priestley Medal (American Chemical Society | 1944)
Sylvanus Thayer Award (U.S.M.A. | West Point)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (Distinction, 1963)
Breve biografia
Conant was involved in getting the Manhattan Project under way and later acted as advisor to the National Science Foundation. From 1953 to 1957 he was U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
His studies of and reports on education in the late '50's led to the adoption of tests such as the SAT.
Nota di disambiguazione
James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist and president of Harvard University. Not to be confused with James (Ferguson) Conant (b. 1958), an American philosopher.

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This book is the series of four Bampton lectures of 1952 which were delivered at Columbia University by the author. When he was chosen as the lecturer, President Eisenhower expressed on behalf of the committee the hope that he would provide "some understanding of the significance of recent developments in the physical sciences".
 
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Voto
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ISBN
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