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A Brief History of the History of Science—Asterisk
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What do Works in Progress and Social Text have in common?
A Brief History of the History of Science—Asterisk What do *Works in Progress* and *Social Text* have in common? James Bryant Conant created the new world then tried to teach us how it works. A celebrated organic chemist, Conant spent the first World War developing poison gases and the interwar period on the theory of acids and bases. He was named President of Harvard University in 1933, where he overhauled the school’s curriculum, and then chaired the National Defence Research Committee, which oversaw the Manhattan Project. He advised President Truman to drop atomic bombs on Japan. Conant wit
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