Edward Stewart Kennedy (3 January 1912 – 4 May 2009) was a historian of science specializing in medieval Islamic astronomical tables written in Persian and Arabic.
He then traveled to Iran to teach at Alborz College, at that time directed by the American Presbyterian Mission.
[2] When war broke out he enlisted with the US Army and was sent to Tehran to serve as an attaché, given his fluency in Persian.
After the war, he saw Sarton and Neugebauer at Harvard as he had taken an interest in early Persian and Arabic science.
He participated at the American Research Center in Egypt until 1978 when he joined the Institute for the History of Arab Science at University of Aleppo.