Mary K. Bryan

Mary Katherine Bryan (February 13, 1877 February 22, 1962) was an American botanist and phytopathologist.[1] Much of her research involved leaf spots and cankers caused by bacteria.[2][3]

Mary K. Bryan
BornFebruary 13, 1877
Prince George's County, Maryland
DiedFebruary 22, 1962(1962-02-22) (aged 85)
Napa, California
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, Phytopathology
Author abbrev. (botany)Bryan

Life and career

Bryan was born in Prince George's County, Maryland, on February 13, 1877. She earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1908.[4] She worked at the Bureau of Plant Industry in the United States Department of Agriculture as a scientific assistant and assistant pathologist from 1909 to 1918.[5]

She and Nellie A. Brown worked for Erwin Frink Smith.[6]

Bryan died on February 22, 1962, in Napa, California.[7]

References

  1. Harvey, Joy; Ogilvie, Marilyn (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century, Volume 1. Taylor & Francis, ISBN 9780203801451
  2. Bryan, Mary K. (1930). "Studies on bacterial canker of Tomato". Journal of Agricultural Research. 41 (12). Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  3. Bryan, Mary K. (1926). "Bacterial Leafspot on Hubbard Squash". Science. 63 (1623): 165. Bibcode:1926Sci....63..165B. doi:10.1126/science.63.1623.165. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17735959.
  4. Cattell, Jaques (1921). American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory. Bowker. p. 95.
  5. Staff report (July 21, 1929). Farm News of the Great Southwest. Los Angeles Times
  6. Ainsworth, Geoffrey Clough (1981). Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521230322
  7. "Person Details for Mary K Bryan, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"". FamilySearch.org.
  8. International Plant Names Index.  Bryan.


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