James B. Conant
Former United States Ambassador to Germany
James Bryant Conant was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Conant obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard in 1916. Wikipedia
Born: March 26, 1893, Dorchester, Boston, MA
Died: February 11, 1978 (age 84 years), Hanover, NH
Education: Harvard College (1916) and Harvard University
Children: Theodore Richards Conant and James Richards Conant
Academic advisors: Theodore William Richards and Elmer Peter Kohler
Notable students: Louis Fieser, Frank Westheimer, Paul Doughty Bartlett, and more