J.P. Brannen

J. P. Brannen, a resident of New Mexico since 1963, died on Thursday, June 20, 2024.

He is survived by his daughter Anne and her wife Laura; sons: Carl, James; grandchildren: Ambergris, Courtney, Joseph; great-granddaughter Arabella; sister Frances; nieces and nephews: Ross and Julie, Karen and Sam, Patrick and Nelda.

Born in Texas in 1927, he entered the Navy V-3 pilot training program in 1945. Later he graduated from Texas A&M in 1949 with a BS degree. He received an MS from Sam Houston State in 1956, and a PhD in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in1962. He was a mathematics teacher. He taught high school math and physics for four years and mathematics in universities for eight years. He retired from Sandia Labs after 24 years, 9 months, and 14 days.

He was a national lecturer in biomathematics for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and a guest scientist at the Institut für Reaktorforschung in Würenlingen, Switzer­land. In 2002 the Board of Regents of the University of Texas at Austin established in his name a graduate fellowship for excellence in mathematics.

There will be no memorial service.

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