Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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A native son, President Conant was born in Dorchester in 1893. He specialized in chemistry at Harvard College, graduating in three years with high honors in 1913. Receiving his Ph.D. in 1916, he served as Instructor in Chemistry until 1917. During World War I he worked With the govern- ment, and later was commissioned a Major in the Chemical Warfare Service. Returning to Harvard in 1919 as an Assistant Professor, he became an Associate Professor in 1925, a Professor in 1927, and in 1929 Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry. In June, 1933, he was elected President of Harvard University. War serv- ice called him again in 1940 and until 1946 he was Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee. His work was recog- Page ten JAMES BRYANT CONANT President of Harvard University li nized by an award of the medal of merit. He became a member of the General Ad- visory Committee to the United States Atomic Energy Commission in 1946. Among President Conantis other honors, he is an honorary fellow of Emmanuel Col- lege, Cambridge, a member of the Amerign Chemical Society, the American Academy of Sciences, the Massachusetts Historical So- ciety, the American Philosophical Society, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and England. He is one of the World's outstand- ing authorities on education, and has Written many books on the subject including On Understanding Science, Education in a Di- vided World, and Science and Common Sense.