Mather, Kirtley F. (Kirtley Fletcher), 1888-1978

Geologist. Taught at Harvard University.

From the description of Papers, 1943-1946 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 52247418

Kirtley F. Mather was a professor of geology at Harvard University and Radcliffe College from 1924 to 1954. He also served as chairman of the geology department and director of the Harvard Summer School.

From the description of Student papers, 1933. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009654

Mather taught geology and served as Director of the Summer School at Harvard.

From the description of Papers of Kirtley Fletcher Mather, 1925?-1970 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973118

Kirtley Fletcher Mather, a professor emeritus of geology, Harvard University, had spent the summer of 1923 in Alaska, part of a United States Geology Survey party, surveying and mapping the Alaska Peninsula, between Kamishak Bay and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. In 1951, Mather returned to Alaska as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), to give an address at the second Alaskan Science Conference to establish the Alaska Division of the AAAS.

From the description of Kirtley Fletcher Mather Papers, 1923-1973. (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). WorldCat record id: 643109794

Kirtley F. Mather helped organize and was chairman of the National Wartime Conference, which met in New York on May 8-9, 1943 and June 2-3, 1944. The NWC's aim was the federation of organizations representing scientists, technicians, professional and "white-Collar" workers in order to gain a stronger voice for the "war-effort" and for more liberal legislation in Congress. In addition to his work in the NWC, Mather, during the Second World War, was President of the American Association of Scientific Workers, an association founded in 1938 to "promote and extend the applications of science and the scientific method to all problems of human welfare."

From the guide to the Mather, Kirtley Fletcher. Papers, 1943-1946, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.)