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Robert M Kenedi was born in Hungary. He arrived in Glasgow to study civil engineering at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow in 1938 where he received an Associateship. He continued to study at the University of Glasgow where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1941 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1949. He was awarded the James Muir Prize in 1940 and the Dr J. Mackenzie Prize for research in 1943.
In 1941 Kenedi was appointed to the Royal Technical College as a research assistant in the department of civil and mining engineering and applied mechanics, he became a lecturer in 1945, then senior lecturer in 1947. In 1956 he became reader in strength and materials. In 1963 the Medical Research Council made a grant for the institution of a Bioengineering Unit at Strathclyde and Kenedi was appointed Professor and head of the Unit. This subsequently became the Wolfson Centre following an additional grant from the Wolfson Foundation which Kenedi steered to widespread international recognition as a postgraduate teaching and research institution.
Kenedi took early retirement in 1980 to become the Assistant Director of the Hong Kong Polytechnic. He returned to Strathclyde in 1984 as Advisor on External Relations to the Principal's Office establishing the University's European Office and the Learning in Later Life programme. Kenedi was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of the University of Strathclyde in 1991.
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Created by Carol Stewart, May 2021.
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Obituary in Prism, October 1998, p.8.
University of Glasgow story 'Robert Maximilian Kenedi' https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH24057&type=P
Royal Society of Edinburgh 'Professor Robert Maximilian Kenedi FRSE' https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/robert-maximilian-kenedi/