Mary K. Bryan

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Mary K. Bryan
Born 1877
Died unknown
Occupation Botanist, Phytopathologist

Mary Katherine Bryan (February 13, 1877 - ?) 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 Maryland. She earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1908. 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.[3]

She and Nellie A. Brown worked for Erwin Frink Smith.[4]

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. Staff report (July 21, 1929). Farm News of the Great Southwest. Los Angeles Times
  4. Ainsworth, Geoffrey Clough (1981). Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521230322

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