Kenneth L. Johnson

Kenneth Johnson
Born(1925-03-19)19 March 1925
Died21 September 2015(2015-09-21) (aged 90)
Awards
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
ThesisAn experimental investigation of the effects of an oscillating tangential force at the interface between elastic bodies in contact (1954)
Academic work
Disciplineengineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Main interestscontact mechanics

Kenneth Langstreth Johnson (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. ^ 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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