When the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved, one of the physicists, Arthur Compton, made a coded phone call to James Conant, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee.

Meeting at UC Berkeley concerning the planned 184-inch cyclotron ( seen on the blackboard ): Lawrence, Arthur Compton | A. Compton, Vannevar Bush | V. Bush, James Bryant Conant | J.

B. Conant, Karl Taylor Compton | K. Compton, and Alfred Lee Loomis | A. Loomis ( March 1940 )

The professional history of radioactive weaponry may be traced to a 1943 memo from James Bryant Conant, Arthur Holly Compton, and Harold Urey, to Brigadier General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project and to a 1940 science fiction story, " Solution Unsatisfactory " by Lt. J. G. Robert A. Heinlein, USN ( R ).

A March 1940 meeting at the University of California at Berkeley concerning the planned 184-inch cyclotron ( seen on the blackboard ), from left to right: Ernest O. Lawrence, Arthur H. Compton, Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Karl T. Compton and Loomis

Lawrence then also contacted Conant and Arthur Compton.

From left to right: Ernest O. Lawrence, Arthur H. Compton, Vannevar Bush, Conant, Karl T. Compton, and Alfred Lee Loomis | Alfred L. Loomis

Oliphant then contacted Ernest Lawrence, James Conant, Enrico Fermi and Arthur Compton and managed to increase the urgency of the American research programmes.

After the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved, a coded phone call was made by one of the physicists, Arthur Compton, to James Conant, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee.

The other members were: James F. Byrnes, former US Senator and soon to be Secretary of State, as President Truman's personal representative ; Ralph A. Bard, Under Secretary of the Navy ; William L. Clayton, Assistant Secretary of State ; Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and president of the Carnegie Institution ; Karl T. Compton, Chief of the Office of Field Service in the Office of Scientific Research and Development and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; James B. Conant, Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee and president of Harvard University ; and George L. Harrison, an assistant to Stimson and president of the New York Life Insurance Company.

Seated, left-to-right: Brigadier General George V. Strong, James B. Conant, Vannevar Bush, Richard C. Tolman, Frank B. Jewett ; standing: Karl T. Compton, Irvin Stewart, and Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen.

The original eight members of the NDRC were: Vannevar Bush, President of the Carnegie Institution ( Chairman ); Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen ; Conway P. Coe, Commissioner of Patents ; Karl Compton, President of MIT ; James B. Conant, President of Harvard University ; Frank B. Jewett, President of the National Academy of Sciences and President of Bell Telephone Laboratories ; Brigadier General George V. Strong ; and Richard C. Tolman, Professor of Physical Chemistry and Mathematical Physics at California Institute of Technology.

The NDRC of the OSRD membership consisted of Conant ( Chairman ), Tolman ( Vice-Chairman ), Adams, Compton, and Jewett, along with the Commission of Patents ( Coe until September 1945, and then Casper W. Ooms ), and the representatives of the Army and Navy ( which changed periodically ).

A 1940 meeting at Berkeley with ( from left to right ) Ernest O. Lawrence, Arthur H. Compton, Bush, James B. Conant, Karl T. Compton, and Alfred Lee Loomis | Alfred L. Loomis

In 1871, Civil War veterans led by Army and Navy Journal editor William Conant Church organized the NRA in New York, with General Burnside as President and George Wood Wingate as secretary.

* 2012-Awarded the Levi L. Conant Prize.

1865, Lewis Sliter ; 1866, William M. Horton: 1867, William Moul ; 1868, John L. Lape ; 1869, Moses Coul ; 1870, James Clark ; 1871, William Moul ; 1872, Burton A. Thomas ; 1873, William M. Horton ; 1874, Jeremiah Conant, Moses Coul ; 1875, William Moni ; 1876, Burton A. Thomas ; 1877, Frank Pettit, Joel B. Peck ; 1878.

In February 1941, Roosevelt sent Conant to Britain as head of a mission that also included Frederick L. Hovde and Carroll L. Wilson to evaluate the research being carried out there and the prospects for cooperation.

In 2005 he received the American Mathematical Society's Levi L. Conant Prize with Allen Knutson, and in 2006 he was awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize.

In 2007, he won the Levi L. Conant Prize for his expository paper, " The Poincaré Dodecahedral Space and the Mystery of the Missing Fluctuations " ( Notices of the AMS 2004 ), and in 2008 he gave the first Levi Conant Lecture at Conant's former employer, the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Lyon was accompanied by Blair and his staff Maj. H. L. Conant.

J. E. Surrick and L. M. Conant published a book Laddergrams of such puzzles in 1927

Dr. James B. Conant has earned a nationwide reputation as a moderate and unemotional school reformer.

Dr. Conant has come away shocked and angry.

Dr. Conant may underestimate the psychological importance of even token equality.

The villains of the piece are those who deny job opportunities to these youngsters, and Dr. Conant accuses employers and labor unions alike.

The reaffirmation of American faith in the comprehensive high school, as expressed in the Conant study, is another indication of the liveliness of the ideal of maximizing opportunity through the equalizing of educational opportunity.

Such academic statesmen as James B. Conant were consulted.

Works by J. C. Bach, Anton Craft, Joseph Haydn, Giuseppe Sammartini, Comenico Dragonetti and J. G. Janitsch were performed by seven instrumentalists including Anabel Brieff, flutist, Josef Marx, oboist, and Robert Conant, pianist and harpsichordist.

Oliver Conant ( born November 15, 1955 ) is an American actor.

Born in New York City, New York, Conant appeared as " Benji " in the 1971 coming-of-age drama, Summer of ' 42 and the Class of ' 44, appearing in both with Gary Grimes and Jerry Houser as a trio of adolescent boys.

After a three decades or so hiatus from acting, Conant re-emerged on off and off-off Broadway stages in productions ranging from Gene Ruffini's dystopian Homeland, Anne Fizzard's back-stage comedy Good Opinions, and Tuvia Tenenbom's absurdist satire Kabbalah.

Conant will be appearing in the NICU ' S SPOON production of Elizabeth Rex in April 2008 in New York City.

** James B. Conant, American chemist and headmaster of Harvard University ( b. 1893 )

* November 19 – Roger Conant Massachusetts governor, founder of Salem, Massachusetts ( b. 1592 )

At this time, the United States had just entered World War I, and Mulliken took a position at American University in Washington, D. C., making poison gas under James B. Conant.

With his brother William Conant Church he established The Army and Navy Journal in 1863, and Galaxy magazine in 1866.

Naming and confirmation of the first LSC board was delayed by inaction and opposition, but by July 1975 President Gerald R. Ford had named, and the Senate approved, the first board, with Cornell University Law School Dean Roger Conant Cramton as its first chair.

A meeting that included Conant decided Groves should be answerable to a small committee called the Military Policy Committee, chaired by Bush, with Conant as his alternate.

Thus, Conant remained involved in the administration of the Manhattan Project at its highest levels.

It is part of Township High School District 211, which also includes James B. Conant High School, Hoffman Estates High School, Palatine High School, and Schaumburg High School.