Mary K. Bryan

Mary K. Bryan
Born February 13, 1877
Prince George's County, Maryland
Died February 22, 1962(1962-02-22) (aged 85)
Napa, California
Author abbrev. (botany) Bryan

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

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.[3] 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.[4]

She and Nellie A. Brown worked for Erwin Frink Smith.[5]

Bryan died on February 22, 1962 in Napa, California.[6]

References

  1. Harvey, Joyce; 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 M. K. Studies on bacterial canker of Tomato. Journal of Agricultural Research 1930 Vol. 41 No. 12 pp. 825-851
  3. Cattell, Jaques (1921). American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory. Bowker. p. 95.
  4. Staff report (July 21, 1929). Farm News of the Great Southwest. Los Angeles Times
  5. Ainsworth, Geoffrey Clough (1981). Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521230322
  6. "Person Details for Mary K Bryan, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"". FamilySearch.org.


  1. IPNI.  Bryan.
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