James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age By James Hershberg Knopf, 949 pages, $35 In the autumn of 1950, as a first-year graduate student in Cambridge, Mass., I grew … ...

Now Conant's granddaughter, the best-selling author Jennet Conant, is writing about his life and career in the new book, "Man of the Hour: James B. Conant, Warrior Scientist," published by Simon ...