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Max Tryon, research chemist
Published: January 23 — Adam Bernstein, The Washington Post
Max Tryon, 90, a research chemist at the National Bureau of Standards for
more than 30 years until retiring in 1976, died Jan. 3 at his home in Bethesda after
a heart attack.
The death was confirmed by his daughter Kim Tryon Shaw.
At the National Bureau of Standards — now the National Institute of
Standards and Technology — Mr. Tryon published papers about rubber, polymers
and building materials research. Outside of work, he was an inventor. In the
1960s, he created and patented a bubble-blowing device sold in the 1960s as
Crazy Bubble Bubble-Blowing Bubble Bath.
Max Tryon was a Brentwood native and a 1939 graduate of McKinley
Technical High School in Washington. He was a 1943 chemistry graduate of the
University of Maryland.
During World War II, he served in the Army in Europe. Just after the war, he
was a Signal Corps photographer.
His wife of 58 years, Mary-Elizabeth Green Tryon, died in 2006.
Survivors include four children, Jan Tryon of Wheat Ridge, Colo., Scott
Tryon of Rockville, Kim Tryon Shaw of Fredericksburg and Mark Tryon of
Arlington; a sister; and three granddaughters.
Published: January 23 — Adam Bernstein, The Washington Post
Max Tryon, 90, a research chemist at the National Bureau of Standards for
more than 30 years until retiring in 1976, died Jan. 3 at his home in Bethesda after
a heart attack.
The death was confirmed by his daughter Kim Tryon Shaw.
At the National Bureau of Standards — now the National Institute of
Standards and Technology — Mr. Tryon published papers about rubber, polymers
and building materials research. Outside of work, he was an inventor. In the
1960s, he created and patented a bubble-blowing device sold in the 1960s as
Crazy Bubble Bubble-Blowing Bubble Bath.
Max Tryon was a Brentwood native and a 1939 graduate of McKinley
Technical High School in Washington. He was a 1943 chemistry graduate of the
University of Maryland.
During World War II, he served in the Army in Europe. Just after the war, he
was a Signal Corps photographer.
His wife of 58 years, Mary-Elizabeth Green Tryon, died in 2006.
Survivors include four children, Jan Tryon of Wheat Ridge, Colo., Scott
Tryon of Rockville, Kim Tryon Shaw of Fredericksburg and Mark Tryon of
Arlington; a sister; and three granddaughters.
