James Bryant Conant, 26 March 1893 - 11 February 1978

@article{Kistiakowsky1979JamesBC,  title={James Bryant Conant, 26 March 1893 - 11 February 1978},  author={George B. Kistiakowsky and Frank Henry Westheimer},  journal={Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society},  year={1979},  pages={208 - 232},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:73248264}}
The invention of the half-tone reproduction process, and its introduction into the printing business, confronted the senior Conant with the need to learn the complicated procedures required for etching copper plates and, although he totally lacked any previous contact with chemistry, he soon added the preparation and developing of wet photographic plates to his chemical techniques.
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