Kenneth L. Johnson

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Kenneth Langstreth Johnson FRS FEng (19 March 1925 – 21 September 2015) was a British engineer and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1982 [1] and won their Royal Medal in 2003[2] "In recognition of his outstanding work in the field of contact mechanics."

In 1999, Johnson won the William Prager Medal awarded by the Society of Engineering Science. He was also awarded the 2006 Timoshenko Medal.[3]

He died on 21 September 2015.[4]

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  4. Kenneth Johnson: Inspirational lecturer and researcher who wrote the definitive text on contact mechanics