James B. Conant

American chemist (1893–1978)

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.

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