Personal Life
Nicholas Peppas is married to Lisa Brannon-Peppas, whom he met at Purdue University where she received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, have two children, Katherine and Alexander. They reside in Austin, Texas. Peppas is involved in writing about the history of chemical engineering and has published books and review articles on the subject. His latest review of the Centennial of AIChE was published by the Chemical Heritage Foundation in August 2008. Peppas is also an avid record collector and author of biographies and monographs on opera. A recent book on Vasso Argyris: The Great Greek Tenor of the Interwar Years was published in 2008.
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