Dr James Tyldesley Kendall

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FIP FRIC (14 December 1916 – 31 July 1991) was a 20th-century American chemist and research physicist of Scots descent.

Life

He was born in

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on 14 December 1916 the son of Alice Tyldesley and her husband,

James Pickering Kendall James Pickering Kendall FRS FRSE (30 July 1889, in Chobham, Surrey – 14 June 1978, in Edinburgh) was a British chemist. Life Kendall was born in Chobham, Surrey to soldier William Henry Kendall of the Royal Horse Artillery, and his second w ...

. In 1928 he returned to Scotland with his Scots-born parents when his father took a role at the

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. He was then educated at

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1929 to 1935. He won a place at the

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and graduated first with a BA then an MA (1944) (disrupted by the

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). He began to specialise in research and obtained a doctorate (PhD) from the

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in 1953. In 1951 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Mowbray Ritchie,

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and

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. In 1966 he returned to the United States to work for the

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, rising to be head of technical staff in 1981. He retired in 1983. He died on 31 July 1991.

Publications

*''Electronic Conduction in Homopolar Crystals'' (1954)

Family

In 1950 he married Rosemary Mundy-Castle.

References

1916 births 1991 deaths Scientists from New York (state) People educated at Edinburgh Academy Alumni of the University of Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 20th-century American physicists {{US-scientist-stub