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...when it became apparent that the Nazi advances in Europe were threatening this country, he asked President Conant for a leave of absence. Conant, then chairman of the Chemistry Division of the National Defense Research Committee, assigned him to research in explosives, a field in which he is now one of the world's foremost experts. In 1943, he was put in charge of the Explosives Division at Los Alamos, Kistiakowsy and his researchers developed the implosion device that triggered the world's first atomic explosion at Almagordo, and later the Nagasaki bomb...
...Boston Pilot, official publication of the archdiocese of Boston, praised President Nathan M. Pusey '28 yesterday for his address at the Divinity School. In an editorial titled "Faith and Dr. Pusey," the paper, which recently had been critical of ex-President conant, said of President Pusey: "We can rejoice that a choice of such prominence saw fit at the beginning of a great task to call unashamedly for a revival of spiritual interests as the first hope of the future...
Today's editorial was The Pilot's first comment on President Pusey. Former President James B. Conant did not fare so well with this publication in April, 1952, when he charged independent schools with contributing to the threat to democratic unity. At that time, conant's policies were attacked by The Pilot and Archbishop Richard J. Crushing, who labelled such views "fascistic...
Hurley said $10,000 of the gift has been set aside to establish a new James Bryant Conant Scholarship. The remaining $260,000 is in the form of an outright gift...
...Conant Scholarship is designed to promote international understanding, and provides for an exchange program between the College and other Universities...