Background
Mather, Bryant was born on December 27, 1916 in Baltimore. Son of Leon Bryant and Julia (Ferguson) Mather.
Mather, Bryant was born on December 27, 1916 in Baltimore. Son of Leon Bryant and Julia (Ferguson) Mather.
Graduate, Baltimore City College, 1934. Bachelor of Arts in Geology, Johns Hopkins, 1936. Postgraduate, Johns Hopkins, 1938.
Postgraduate, American University, 1939. Honorary Doctor of Science, Clarkson University, 1978.
Curator mineralogy Field Museum Natural History, 1939-1941. With United States Army Corps Engineers, from 1941. Geologist Central Concrete Laboratory, United States Military Academy, 1941-1942, Mount Vernon, New York, 1942-1946.
Supervisory research civil engineer, chief engineering science branch, concrete laboratory Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1946-1965, assistant chief concrete laboratory, 1965-1966, chief, 1966-1978, acting chief structures laboratory, 1978-1980, chief laboratory, 1980-1992, director structures laboratory, 1992-1998, Waterways Experiment Station (now Corps Engineers Research and Development Center), 1998-2000, director emeritus structures laboratory, 2000—2002. Research associate Florida Department Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, from 1968, Mississippi Museum Natural Sciences, from 1979. Board directors Mississippi Ent.
Museum Mississippi State University, 1985—1999, research associate, from 1985, board directors emeritas, from 1999. Research associate American Museum Natural History, New York City, from 1979. Member Senior Executive Association, 1980—2000.
Member United States Committee of International Commission Large Dams, from 1959. Lecturer Purdue University, 1961, Old Master lecturer, 91. Lecturer University Notre Dame, 1964, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966, Clemson University, 1967.
Henry M. Shaw lecturer North Carolina State University, 1967. Lecturer University Wisconsin, from 1978, University Texas, from 1987, Oklahoma State University, 1987, 99, Johns Hopkins University, 1991, Utah State University, 1995, University Mo (Rolla), 2002. Stanton Walker lecturer University Maryland, 1969.
Edgar Marburg lecturer American Society for Testing and Materials, 1970. Member 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th International Symposia Chemistry Cement, International Symposium Movement Water in Porous Bodies, Paris, 1964.
Fellow: American Society for Testing and Materials (secretary committee C-9 1952-1960, chairman 1960-1966, chairman committee C-1 1968-1974, chairman committee E-39 1973-1975, director 1970-1973, vice president 1973-1975, president 1975-1976, Award of Merit 1959, Sanford E. Thompson award 1961, Frank E. Richart award 1972, William T. Cavanaugh award 1990, Bryant and Katharine Mather award 1998, 2001), American Association for the Advancement of Science, NAS-National Research Council (chairman concrete division 1963-1969, chairman curing committee 1970-1976, honorary member concrete division and concrete committees 1987, Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service award 1966, 2d Distinguished lecturer 1993), Transportation Research Board, Institute Concrete Technologists (honorary. United Kingdom); member: National Academy of Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (honorary), Mencken Society, Society Kentucky Lepidopterists, Mining Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (Legion of Honor), Southern Lepidopterists Society (John Abbot award 1983), Mississippi Gem and Mineral Society, Mississippi Academy of Sciences, Lepidopterists Society, American Concrete Institute (honorary. President 1964, Henry C. Turner medal 1973, Charles S. Whitney medal 1974, Delmar L. Bloem award 1990, Robert E. Philleo award 1992, Arthur R. Anderson award 2001), American Museum Natural History (honorary.
Honorary patron 1974), Orleans County (Vermont) History Society, Natural History Society Maryland, Meeoritical Society, Michigan Entomological Society, Entomological Society Maryland, Entomological Society of America, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Katharine Selden Kniskern, March 27, 1940 (deceased February 1991).