Albert Satoshi Kobayashi (born December 9, 1924) is an American engineer and scientist.
He earned a master's degree from the University of Washington in 1952 and a doctorate in mechanics from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1958.
[citation needed] From 1947 to 1950 Kobayashi worked as an engineer at Konishiroku Photo Industry in Japan.
His research includes the mechanics of brittle fractures, experimental stress analysis, Moiré interferometry, elasticity theory, statics and dynamics of mechanical structures.
The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences named the Kobayashi Award after him.