Kenneth L. Johnson

Kenneth Johnson

Born(1925-03-19)19 March 1925
Died21 September 2015(2015-09-21) (aged 90)
Awards
Scientific career
ThesisAn experimental investigation of the effects of an oscillating tangential force at the interface between elastic bodies in contact (1954)

Kenneth Langstreth Johnson FRS[1] FREng (19 March 1925 – 21 September 2015) was a British engineer, Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 1977 to 1992 and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.[2] Most of his research was in the areas of tribology and contact mechanics.

  1. ^ a b Smith, Roderick Arthur (2016). "Kenneth Langstreth Johnson. 19 March 1925 – 21 September 2015". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 62. London: Royal Society: 247–265. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2016.0012.
  2. ^ "JOHNSON, Prof. Kenneth Langstreth". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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