James Bryant Conant (1893–1978)

Auteur de Modern Science and Modern Man

34+ oeuvres 386 utilisateurs 2 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

Comprend les noms: James B. Conant, James Bryant ed. Conant, James Bryant Conant Conant, James Bryant - Editor Conant

Comprend aussi: James Bryant (2), James Conant (2)

Notice de désambiguation :

(eng) James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist and president of Harvard University. Not to be confused with James (Ferguson) Conant (b. 1958), an American philosopher.

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Œuvres de James Bryant Conant

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Modern Science and Modern Man (1952) 48 exemplaires

On Understanding Science (1947) 47 exemplaires

Science and Common Sense (1951) 43 exemplaires

Slums and suburbs; a commentary on schools in metropolitan areas (1961) 41 exemplaires

Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, Vols. 1 and 2 (1957) 32 exemplaires

The American high school today: a first report to interested citizens (1959) 27 exemplaires

The chemistry of organic compounds; a year's course in organic chemistry (1933) 19 exemplaires

The education of American teachers (1963) 15 exemplaires

Two Modes of Thought: My Encounters with Science and Education (1964) 14 exemplaires

My several lives; memoirs of a social inventor (1970) 12 exemplaires

Education in a divided world (1948) 10 exemplaires

Education and Liberty: The Role of the Schools in a Modern Democracy (1953) 9 exemplaires

Thomas Jefferson and the Development of American Public Education (1962) 8 exemplaires

Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science Volume 1 (1957) 8 exemplaires

The child, the parent, and the state (1959) 8 exemplaires

The overthrow of the phlogiston theory; the chemical revolution of 1775-1789 (1950) 7 exemplaires

Germany and freedom : a personal appraisal (1958) 4 exemplaires

Shaping educational policy (1964) 4 exemplaires

Organic Syntheses (2010) 4 exemplaires

Harvard Case Histories In Experimental Science Volume Two (1957) 4 exemplaires

Anglo-American relations in the Atomic age 3 exemplaires

Scientific principles and moral conduct : the twentieth Arthur Stanley Eddington memorial lecture delivered at… (1967) 3 exemplaires

Wissenschaft verständlich gemacht 2 exemplaires

The comprehensive high school; a second report to interested citizens 2 exemplaires

Our Fighting Faith (1942) 2 exemplaires

Organic Chemistry, a Brief Introductory Course (1929) 2 exemplaires

Recommendations for Education in the Junior High School Years; A Memorandum to School Boards 1 exemplaire

Gleichheit der Chancen. Erziehung und Gesellschaftsordnung in den Vereinigten Staaten. (1955) 1 exemplaire

Robert Boyle's experiments in pneumatics 1 exemplaire

DEFENSE OF FREEDOM.|THE 1 exemplaire

The citadel of learning (1977) 1 exemplaire

Pasteur's Study of Fermentation 1 exemplaire

"Academical patronage and superintendence," 1 exemplaire

La comprension de la ciencia: Un famoso cientifico explica la ciencia y su mision actual 1 exemplaire

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The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (1957) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 861 exemplaires

General education in a free society; report of the Harvard committee (1945) — Avant-propos — 46 exemplaires

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Date de naissance: 1893-03-26
Date de décès: 1978-02-11
Sexe: male
Nationalité: USA
Lieux de résidence: Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
Hanover, New Hampshire, USA (death)
Études: Harvard University (BA | 1914 | PhD | 1917 | Chemistry)
Professions: chemist
educational administrator (President | Harvard | 1933-1953)
government official
Relations: Conant, Jennet (granddaughter)
Organisations: Harvard University
Prix et distinctions: Priestley Medal (American Chemical Society | 1944)
Sylvanus Thayer Award (U.S.M.A. | West Point)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (Distinction, 1963)
Courte biographie: Conant was involved in getting the Manhattan Project under way and later acted as advisor to the National Science Foundation. From 1953 to 1957 he was U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
His studies of and reports on education in the late '50's led to the adoption of tests such as the SAT.
Notice de désambigüisation: James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist and president of Harvard University. Not to be confused with James (Ferguson) Conant (b. 1958), an American philosopher.

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Modern Science and Modern Man par James B Conant

This book is the series of four Bampton lectures of 1952 which were delivered at Columbia University by the author. When he was chosen as the lecturer, President Eisenhower expressed on behalf of the committee the hope that he would provide "some understanding of the significance of recent developments in the physical sciences".

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