John S. Brownson ’53

John S. Brownson, a scientist, died on Feb. 26, 2018 at age 85. He earned a master’s degree from Columbia University and a PhD from Boston University. He retired from the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1993, where he worked for 30 years. He served in the U.S. Army in Korea. At Wesleyan, he majored in economics. He leaves behind his wife Sonya (Mayer) Brownson.