and Eisenhower, Dwight D., 438–40, 442, 469–70, 476, 481
and Fishing Party committee, 410–11
“Force and Freedom” article by, 410
and General Advisory Committee (GAC), 426–30, 438
and Groves, Leslie R., 254, 260, 262, 305–7, 407–8, 493
and Hanfstaengl episode, 139–41, 147
at Harvard University, 11, 13–14, 27–28, 30–32, 34–46
health and injuries of, 71, 114, 195, 198, 201, 216, 220, 237, 419, 433, 434, 482, 491, 495
hemoglobin, study of by, 93, 94–95, 102
as high commissioner for and ambassador to Germany, 15, 438–40, 444–55, 461–71, 480
and hydrogen bomb, 422, 424–30, 477
on Interim Committee, 323–26, 329, 354
and international inspection and control policy, 343, 358–59, 364–67, 369–71, 374–76, 378, 381, 389, 396–97, 403, 419
as interventionist, 312, 436
and Kohler, Elmer P., 44–45, 52
and Korean War, 434–35, 437
letters to wife from, 60, 64–66, 92, 104, 124, 177, 208, 213, 216–17, 220, 280, 281, 287, 291, 330–31, 390, 475–76
London mission of, 206–9, 211–21, 281
and loyalty oaths, 152–54, 415, 416
Marbury, William, 412–13
married life of, 96–98, 177–78, 353, 420, 473
and McCarthy, Joseph P., 449–51
in Moscow delegation, 360–61
and mountain climbing, 29, 45, 100, 118, 158–60, 195
and Murrow, Edward R., 471–72
My Several Lives: Memoirs of a Social Inventor by, 9–10, 17, 19, 28, 40, 73, 135, 173, 228, 305, 341, 352, 385, 475, 491–92, 492
and National Academy of Sciences, 432–33
on National Defense Research Committee (NRDC), 192–96, 198, 204, 215, 219, 220, 226, 230, 236, 244
as National Science Foundation chairman, 433
and Nazi bomb program, 300–305, 319
and Nazism, 138–49, 161, 211, 223, 464
Newsweek cover of, 441
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 379–80
and nuclear interchange with Britain, 282–87, 313
in Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), 226–27, 234, 239–44
and Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 271, 273, 310–11, 404–7, 426, 431–33, 455–61
painting as hobby of, 112–13, 216
parents of, 17
and Pearl Harbor attack, 234–36, 489
and Pennock’s death, 57
personal ambitions of, 91, 118, 192, 419–20, 440
personal traits of, 14–15, 24, 38, 86, 106–7, 110, 119, 127, 129, 173, 271, 442, 495
physical appearance of, 23, 29, 30, 38, 70, 122, 172
poison gas research by, 64–73, 75–76, 78, 94, 251, 261
and politics, 49, 53, 87, 108–9, 194, 200, 276–80
and post-atomic reactions, 347–56, 383–85
as president of Harvard University, 3, 9, 12–15, 114, 121–57, 160–65, 169–73, 190–91, 201, 204–5, 207, 224–25, 235–37, 245, 280, 290, 351, 353, 365, 373–74, 404, 413, 414, 417–18, 439–42, 473
and press, 14, 122, 127, 141, 171–72, 191, 195, 206–7, 446, 451–52, 464, 466, 471, 472, 495
and preventive war movement, 408–10
and radiological attack danger, 306–8
and refugee scholars, 142–44
and Richards, Theodore William, 45, 52, 54, 82, 107–8
and Roosevelt, Franklin D., 190, 202–4, 209, 220–23
and rubber crisis, 245–49
and Senate confirmation hearings, 445
Slums and Suburbs: A Commentary on Schools in Metropolitan Areas by, 485–86
and Smyth Report, 343, 380, 404
sons, relations with, 173–77, 245, 330–31, 345–46, 420, 473–75, 482–85, 492–93
and Soviet atomic bomb, 8–9, 421–22
speech at Harvard tercentenary, 155
and Stalin, Joseph, 6–8
and Stimson, Henry L., 222, 324, 390–91
and Stimson Harper’s essay, 385–91
superacidity, study of by, 93, 105–6
teaching at Harvard by, 55–58, 76–77, 87, 93, 96, 100, 103, 104, 107, 121, 420
and tenure controversy, 169–73, 441
textbooks by, 87, 108
Time magazine covers of, 156, 374, 478
Truman, Harry S., meeting with, 371
On Understanding Science: An Historical Approach by, 494–95
and universal military service, 410, 437
and uranium research project, 228–32
and US–Soviet relations, 352–53, 395–402, 408–10, 481–82
What We Are Fighting to Defend by, 479
and World War I, 48–54, 57–61, 64–68, 77, 78, 94, 188, 208, 218, 272, 293
and World War II, 166, 168, 178, 186–205, 206–24, 235–38
Conant, James R., “Jimmy” Richards, 98, 111–12, 124, 136, 158, 159, 173, 174, 177, 197, 235, 290–91, 330, 345n, 345–46, 360, 412, 420, 474, 482–84, 493
Conant, James Scott, 16–25, 34, 42, 46, 87, 96
Conant, Jennet Richards, 484
Conant, Jennet Orr Bryant, 12, 17, 19, 20, 22–24, 31, 39–42, 48, 96, 136
Conant, Jeremiah, 16
Conant, John (grandson of Nathaniel), 16
Conant, John (son of Thomas), 16
Conant, Lot, 16
Conant, Marjorie. See Bush-Brown, Marjorie Conant
Conant, Nathaniel, 16
Conant, Norice O’Malley, 474, 482, 483
Conant, Richard, 15
Conant, Roger, 11, 15–16
Conant, Sarah Horton, 16n
Conant, Teddy, 111, 112, 123–24, 136, 158, 159, 173–77, 180, 186, 245, 263, 330, 346, 420, 474–75, 483–85, 492, 493
Conant, Thomas, 16
Conant, Thomas (son of Thomas), 16, 17
Conant-Douglas round-robin statement, 202, 203
Condon, Edward, 294, 412, 416
Coolidge, Charles, 190
Coolidge, Martha “Muffy” Henderson, 12, 97, 181
Copeland, Charles Townsend, 39
Corcoran, Thomas, 149
Cornell University, 142, 146
Coughlin, Charles, 197
Council of Foreign Ministers, 357
Council of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 156
Cousins, Norman, 353, 381, 383
Cox, James, 87
Crombie, Charles, 30, 36, 46, 59, 107
Cromwell, Oliver, 135, 157, 409
Cronyn, Hume, 381
Cuban Missile Crisis, 489
Curtis, Charles P., 115, 116
Cushing, Harvey, 61
Cutter, R. Ammi, 434, 484
cyclotron, 181–83, 200, 229, 233, 238, 241, 266, 298, 372, 423
Czechoslovakia, 161, 163, 398, 399
D-Day, 305, 308
Dahlgren Naval Proving Ground, 310
Daily Boston Globe, 93, 141
Daily Worker, 175
Dallek, Robert, 437
Dallet, Joseph, 264
Dartmouth College, 201, 451, 491
Davis, Elmer, 196
“Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, The” (Stimson), 388–91
destroyer-bases deal, 196, 200
deuterium, 241, 267, 294
Dever, Paul, 153
Dewey, John, 245, 411
Dewey, Thomas E., 319, 402
Diamond, Sigmund, 418, 419n
Dickey, John S., 491
Dietz, Emma, 136
Dill, Sir John, 287
Directorate of Tube Alloys, 263, 291, 292
Dixon, Harold, 91
Dodds, Harold W., 148, 204
Donham, Wallace B., 172
Donlevy, Brian, 381
Donne, John, 321
Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill,” 195, 218, 236, 437
Dorchester, Massachusetts, 12–13, 19, 21, 22, 46, 88
Dorchester Company, 16
Dorsey, Frank,
69, 75
Dos Passos, John, 50
Douglas, Lewis W., 196, 202
Douglass, Paul F., 94, 190
Dowling, Alice, 474–75
Dowling, Walter “Red,” 474–75
Dresden, Germany, 328n
Dublin School, New Hampshire, 176, 245
DuBridge, Lee, 425, 427, 456, 460
Dulles, Allen, 196, 448
Dulles, John Foster, 411, 438–40, 446, 447, 449–51, 453–54, 457, 461–62, 465–69, 480
Dumbarton Oaks Conference, 318
Duncan, Robert, 40
Dunkirk, 188
Dunn, James, 324–25
DuPont Company, 68, 108, 109, 143, 255, 256
Eade, Charles, 213, 214
Eden, Anthony, 462
Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, 65
“Education for a Classless Society” (Conant), 278
Education in a Divided World: The Function of the Public School in Our Unique Society (Conant), 400, 420
Education of American Teachers, The (Conant), 487
Education Policies Commission (EPC), 417
educational reform, 9, 15, 126, 129–36, 224–25, 278, 279, 400, 439, 441, 465, 472–73, 476–80, 482, 485–87
Educational Testing Service (ETS), 133, 472, 491
Eichelberger, Clark, 168
Einstein, Albert, 145, 165, 185, 215, 264, 337, 353
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 417, 436, 454, 468
and Conant, James Bryant, 438–40, 442, 469–70, 476, 481
and election of 1952, 438
and election of 1956, 465, 469
and German rearmament, 461
health of, 465, 469
and McCarthy, Joseph P., 449, 451
and nuclear weapons buildup, 477
open skies proposal of, 463
and World War II, 306–8
electromagnetic separation method, 239, 241, 249, 252, 255, 259, 268, 283, 291–92
Eliot, Charles William, 32–33, 42, 119–20, 122, 149, 495
Eliot, Thomas H., 149
Ely, Joseph B., 140
Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars, 142
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 277, 494–95
Engels, Friedrich, 278
English Channel, 188
Enola Gay (B-29 bomber), 339
Erikson, Erik, 144
Espionage Act, 235
European Defense Community (EDC), 440, 444–45, 447, 453–55, 461
European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan), 44, 394–95, 398, 412, 435
Evans, Ward V., 457, 459, 460
Fact magazine, 276
Fairbank, John King, 414
Faraday, Michael, 43
Farquhar, Francis P., 159
Farrand, Livingston, 142
Fascism, 224, 312
Fat Man bomb, 299, 311, 323, 338, 341
FBI, 198, 264, 265, 270, 405, 406, 417, 419, 455, 484
Federal Council of Churches, 378, 380
Federation of Atomic Scientists, 367
Fermi, Enrico, 182, 184, 185, 214, 240–41, 256–58, 264, 295, 306, 309, 310, 325, 333–34, 350, 384, 425, 428
Fermi, Laura, 350–51
Feynman, Richard, 296
Fieser, Louis, 94, 328
Fight for Freedom (FFF) Committee, 222
Financial Panic of 1873, 17
Finley, John, 99
firebombing, 328, 328n, 342, 344, 379–80, 382, 388
Fischer, Hans, 95, 105
Fish, Hamilton III, 167, 210
Fishing Party committee, 410–11
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 483
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 483
Flexner, Simon, 109
Forbes, George Fairfield, 24
“Force and Freedom” (Conant), 410
Ford Foundation, 464, 488
Foreign Affairs journal, 396, 414
Foreign Legion, 52
Foreign Policy Association, 318
Foreign Service, 415, 448, 450
Forrestal, James, 360, 373, 408, 410–12
Fourteen Points, 86
Fox, John B., Jr., 13, 34, 90
Franck, James, 62, 264, 351
Frank, Philipp, 144
Frankfurter, Felix, 116, 119, 123, 144–45, 149–51, 279, 303, 315, 388, 412
French, John, 62
Fries, Amos A., 75
Frisch, Otto, 184, 230, 292
Frost, Robert, 137, 157
Fuchs, Klaus, 292, 431
gadget, 294, 332, 333
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 415
Gardner, John W., 15, 465
Garrison, Lloyd, 149, 455
gaseous diffusion, 232, 292
General Education in a Free Society (Harvard University), 441
General Electric, 44, 69, 365
Geneva Conference, 461
Geneva Protocol of 1925, 260
Geneva Summit, 463, 464
George VI, King of England, 212, 216
Gilkey, J. Gordon, 40
Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, 18
Golden, William T., 477
Göring, Hermann, 447
Gray, Gordon, 457, 460
Great Depression, 119, 125, 130, 131, 151, 152
Gregory, Caspar Rene, 81
Gregory, Elinor, 97. See also Metcalf, Elinor Gregory
Gregory, Lucy, 81
Griffin, John, 68
Gromyko, Andrei, 370
Gropius, Walter, 144
Groves, Leslie R., 250, 257, 258, 260, 261, 268, 284, 287, 291, 292, 294, 298, 309, 310, 319, 325, 330, 331, 341, 342, 346, 352, 355, 360, 365, 367, 369, 371, 372, 377, 387, 407, 408, 421
administrative style of, 262, 266, 283, 296–97, 313
and Atomic Power Award, 493
and Conant, James Bryant, 254, 260, 262, 273, 305–7, 407–8, 493
and German bomb, 301–4
and implosion bomb, 320–21
and Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 267–73, 405, 406, 408
personality of, 253, 254
and radiological attack danger, 305–8
and targets of atomic bomb, 328–29
and Trinity test, 332–36, 338, 381
Guthrie, William F., 65
H. M. Pulham, Esquire (Marquand), 32, 42
Haber, Fritz, 62, 102–3
Haber, Ludwig F., 65
Hague conventions of 1899 and 1907, 62
Hahn, Otto, 62, 184, 303, 304
Halban, Hans von, 219, 241
Hall, Norris, 87, 90, 105
Halsey, William F. “Bull,” 381, 383
Ham, Paul, 385
Hammett, Louis P., 94
Hanford, Washington, 292, 297, 308, 330
Hanfstaengl, Ernst Franz “Putzi,” 138–41, 147
Harding, Warren, 88
Harper’s magazine, 74, 388–91
Harper’s Weekly, 18
Harriman, W. Averell, 216, 218, 221
Harrison, George L., 323, 387
Harvard, John, 212
Harvard Advocate, 53
Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 417
Harvard Corporation, 80, 114–21, 129, 131, 132, 140, 141, 143, 155, 156, 190, 203, 204, 207, 278, 280, 413, 441
Harvard Crimson, 38–41, 49, 52, 122, 140, 149, 150, 168, 190, 191, 201, 207, 418, 442
Harvard Divinity School, 80
Harvard Lampoon, 36, 37, 171, 201
Harvard Medical School, 61
Harvard Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage, 41
Harvard Progressive, 169
Harvard Teachers Union, 170
Harvard University, 82, 130
and anti-Communist policy, 417–18
commencement (1947), 393–94
Conant as president of, 3, 9, 12–15, 114, 121–57, 160–65, 169–73, 190–91, 201, 204–5, 207, 224–25, 235–37, 245, 280, 290, 351, 353, 365, 373–74, 404, 413, 414, 417–18, 439–42, 452, 473
Conant as student at, 11, 13–14, 27–28, 30–32, 34–46
Conant as teacher at, 55–58, 76–77, 87, 93,
96, 100, 103, 104, 107, 121, 420
Littauer School of Public Administration, 441
Nieman Fellowship, 441
Russian Research Center, 414, 418
scholarship program, 131–33, 150, 156, 165, 441
search for Lowell’s successor, 114–20
tenure controversy, 169–73, 441
tercentenary of, 147, 148, 151–52, 154–56
Walsh-Sweezy controversy, 170–73
in wartime, 48–53, 59–60, 236–37
women admitted to, 236–37
Harwell, England, 431
Haskins, Caryl P., 93
Hasty Pudding Club, 37, 139
Hatfield, Henry, 149
Haworth, Norman, 91
Hearst, William Randolph, 152
Heisenberg, Werner, 263, 300, 303–5, 305n, 319
Henderson, Edith, 81, 91
Henderson, Gregory, 483, 484
Henderson, Lawrence Joseph, 81, 119, 120, 181
Henry L. Pierce Grammar School, Massachusetts, 20
Hersey, John, 376–77, 387
Hershberg, James, 318, 385, 391–92, 397
Hewlett, Richard G., 234, 357
Higinbotham, William A., 367
Hildebrand, Joel, 99
Hindenburg, Paul von, 101
Hinton, Carmelita, 245
Hirohito, Emperor, 344
“Hiroshima” (Hersey), 376–78
Hiroshima, Japan, 3, 9, 329, 337–39, 339n, 341, 351, 352, 356, 361, 376–78, 381, 382n, 383, 390
Hiss, Alger, 412–14, 431
Hitler, Adolf, 101, 114, 131, 138, 139, 141–42, 144, 145, 148, 154, 161–66, 169, 187, 189, 193, 197, 198, 203, 204, 207, 210, 222, 223, 240, 260, 280, 304, 305, 344, 449, 453, 464
Hobson, Henry, 196
Hocking, Agnes, 112
Hocking, Ernest, 112
Hollywood Ten, 412
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 412
Holy Sonnets (Donne), 321
Homans, Roger, 115–20, 125
Hood (British battle cruiser), 223
Hoover, Herbert, 109, 168, 223, 435
Hoover, J. Edgar, 404–6, 418, 455
Hopkins, Ernest M., 201–2
Hopkins, Harry, 192, 284, 285
House Military Affairs Committee, 364
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 407, 412, 413, 416, 418, 431
Hovde, Frederick L., 206, 211
Howe, Clarence D., 287
Hughes, Charles Evans, 53, 418
Hughes, H. Stuart, 418
Hungarian uprising, 469
hydrogen bomb (H-bomb), 266, 294, 309, 316, 411, 422–33, 438, 455–59, 483
Immerwahr, Clara, 103
Imperial Chemical Industries, 283
implosion program, 309–11, 320, 321, 323, 335, 341
Ingold, Christopher Kelk, 93
Institute for Advanced Study, 406, 424
intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), 476, 477
Interim Committee, 323–26, 329, 340, 354, 358, 387
Iron Curtain, 8, 395, 396, 401, 448, 463, 487
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