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Saturday Review Of Literature Magazine-February 17,1951-50 pages. This vintage magazine-whichoriginally sold for twenty cents-features a cover devoted to James B. Conant.The magazine also features a two page article and review on James Conant and his book-"Science And Common Sense".James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 - February 11, 1978) was a chemist, educational administrator, and government official. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1893 and graduated from the Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury in 1910. He went on to study chemistry at Harvard (B.A., 1914; Ph.D., 1917). At Harvard he studied under Charles Loring Jackson, and became acquainted with Roger Adams, Farrington Daniels, Frank C. Whitmore and James B. Sumner. As a Harvard professor, he worked on both physical and organic chemistry. The American Chemical Society honored him with its highest prize, the Priestley Medal, in 1944.
In 1933, Conant accepted an appointment as the President of Harvard University, a post he held until 1953. Between 1941 and 1946, he also served as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee; from that position he played a key role, along with his close friend Vannevar Bush, in ramping up the Manhattan Project which developed the first nuclear weapons. After World War II he was an advisor to both the National Science Foundation and the Atomic Energy Commission. He served as U.S. High Commissioner and United States Ambassador to Germany from 1953 to 1957. The magazine has been autographed on the front by James B. Conant with a fountain pen in black..............BOTH MAGAZINE AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION..........
