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James Bryant Conant
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American chemist (1893–1978)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 40
Top works
- Copernican Revolution
- The American High School Today
- Harvard Case Histories In Experimental Science Volume I
- General Education In A Free Society
- Education and Liberty The Role of The Schools In A Modern Democracy
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1962-10-11
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,951x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,286x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,835x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,712x
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Key facts
- President
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Preceded by
- Leland B. Morris (as chargé d'affaires , 1941)
- Succeeded by
- David K. E. Bruce
- Born
- James Bryant Conant , ( 1893-03-26 ) March 26, 1893, Dorchester, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- February 11, 1978 (1978-02-11) (aged 84), Hanover, New Hampshire , U.S.
- Spouse
- Patty Thayer Richards ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. April 17, 1920</span>"}]]}'>1920 )
- Relations
- Conant family
- Education
- Harvard University ( AB , PhD )
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch service
- Chemical Warfare Service
- Years of service
- 1917–1919
- Rank
- Major
- Battles wars
- World War I
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Encyclopedic overview
James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.
During World War I, he served in the U.S. Army, where he worked on the development of poison gases, especially lewisite. He became an assistant professor of chemistry at Harvard University in 1919 and the Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1929. He researched the physical structures of natural products, particularly chlorophyll, and he was one of the first to explore the sometimes complex relationship between chemical equilibrium and the reaction rate of chemical processes. He studied the biochemistry of oxyhemoglobin providing insight into the disease methemoglobinemia, helped to explain the structure of chlorophyll, and contributed important insights that underlie modern theories of acid-base chemistry.
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