John P. Pratt
1945-

	Wife: Ruth M. Pratt Children: John C. Pratt Julie K. Pratt Mary K. Pratt Jared M. Pratt Joseph B. Pratt Father: LeGrand B. Pratt Mother: Kathryn W. Pratt

John P. Pratt was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has always loved science and math. As a youth, he discovered prime numbers when he was four (by playing with beans and noticing that some numbers could not be laid out in a rectangle), studied dinosaurs intensely in the fourth grade, and raised several pet reptiles and amphibians, and even ant lions. He placed second in the Salt Lake City science fair in junior high, and graduated first in his class from high school. He was chosen the outstanding student of physics at the University of Utah for 1968, spent two years in Southern Brazil as an LDS missionary, graduated from the U. of Utah with bachelor's degrees in physics and math, and received his PhD in astronomy from the U. of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.

Brazilian Missionary

John married Ruth McOmber of Pocatello, Idaho, and they have five children. Their first married years were in Tucson, after which they lived in Kaysville, Utah, where John did computer programming at Hill Air Force Base for the Minuteman Missile program (yes, that would make him a "rocket scientist"). He has written over seventy articles on science and religion for the Meridian Magazine, which are all found on this website. His real specialty is doing research in ancient calendars and chronology, and has written over eighty articles in those fields. He has many side interests, including outdoor survival, hapkido, table tennis, playing guitar, and gardening. Some amusing and inspirational anecdotes from his life are included on this website.