Mather, Bryant
Civil engineer. Mather, a native of Baltimore, Md., was born in 1916. He graduated with an A.B. (1936) from Johns Hopkins. He was employed as an assistant curator of minerals (1939-1941) at the Chicago Museum of Natural History; a geologist (1941-1942) and concrete research engineer (1942-1946) at the U.S. War Dept. Concrete Laboratory; and then he and his wife, Katharine Kniskern Mather, went to work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Mississippi.
His positions there included Chief of the Special Investigative Branch of the Concrete Division (1946-1965); Assistant Chief and Chief (1965-1992) of the Structural Laboratory; and he is currently the Director of the Structural Laboratory. His research interests are structural geology; composition and properties of concrete and concrete aggregates; methods of testing (particularly of dams); and butterflies and moths of Mississippi.
From the description of Oral history interview, 1997. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 38186611
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| creatorOf | Mather, Bryant. Oral history interview, 1997. | Iowa State University, Parks Library | |
| referencedIn | Mather, Katharine. Papers, 1942-1997. | Iowa State University, Parks Library | |
| creatorOf | Mather, Bryant. Cement specifications / by Bryant Mather. | U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES); Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory (CRREL); Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) | |
| referencedIn | Archives of Women in Science and Engineering (Iowa State University). Oral history interviews, 1997-[ongoing] | Iowa State University, Parks Library | |
| creatorOf | Mather, Bryant. Preventing deterioration of concrete sidewalls [i.e. sidewalks] and curbs / Bryant Mather. | U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES); Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory (CRREL); Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) | |
| referencedIn | Correspondence, 1932-1971, 1950-1971 (bulk) | New York State Historical Documents Inventory | |
| referencedIn | Mather, Katharine. Papers, 1942-1966. | Iowa State University, Parks Library | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1944-1974. | New York State Historical Documents Inventory |
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