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RESIDENT CONANT was born in Dorchester, Mass., in 1893. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1913 and received his Ph.D. degree in 1916. From 1916 until 1917 he was Instructor in Chemistry at Harvard, Assistant Professor from 1919 until 1925, Associate Professor from 1925 until 1927, Professor from 1927 until 1929 and Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry until 1933. In June of that year he was elected President of Harvard University succeeding A. Lawrence Lowell. A member of the board of scientific directors of the Rockefeller Institute since 1930, President Conant is an honorary fellow of Emmanuel College, Cam- bridge. He served as a lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps of the United States Army in 1917 and as a major in the Chemical Warfare Service in 1918. From 1941 to 1946 he was Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. In 1946 President Conant became a member of the General Advisory Com- mittee to the United States Atomic Energy Commission. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the Imperial Academy of Science fHallel, the Royal Society flilnglandj , and the Royal Society of Edinburgh fEnglandJ . He is the author of many important volumes of Organic Chemistry and is one of the outstanding authorities in this field. 22 JANIES BRYANT CONANT President of Harvard Umverslty