Famous People with Name Mather

Mather Brown            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Mather Brown: was a portrait and historical painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts but active in England.Brown was the son of Gawen and Elizabeth (Byles) Brown, and descended from the Rev. Increase Mather on his mother's side. He was taught by his aunt and around 1773

Mather Byles DesBrisay            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mather Byles DesBrisay: was a Canadian lawyer, judge, politician, and historian in the Province of Nova Scotia whose collections form the DesBrisay Museum in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. In 1867, DesBrisay entered provincial politics as part of the anti Confederation movement and in the Nova Scotia general election was voted to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Reelected in 1874, the following year he was named Speaker of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia. After 1875 DesBrisay was out of politics and in 1876 he married Ada Adams Harley.

John Cromwell Mather            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Cromwell Mather: an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on COBE with George Smoot. COBE was the first experiment to measure "... the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation."This work helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe using the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE). According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE-project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science."Mather is a senior astrophysicist at the U.S. space agency's (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2007, Mather was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World.

Margrethe Mather            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Margrethe Mather: was an American photographer known for his work documenting the American Civil Rights Movement.Martin was born in Fairfield, Alabama.[1] His best known photograph document of the civil rights era is the March 1965 beating of marchers in the Selma to Montgomery march. Known as “Bloody Sunday”, the event that greatly influenced the course of civil rights in the U.S.

Barry Mather            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barry Mather: was a Canadian journalist, columnist, and politician. Born in Condor, Alberta, he was a journalist for the Vancouver News Herald and a columnist with The Vancouver Sun before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 federal election for the British Columbia riding of New Westminster. A member of the New Democratic Party, he was re-elected in the 1963, 1965, 1968, and 1972 elections in the ridings of New Westminster, Surrey, and Surrey—White Rock.