Dr James Tyldesley Kendall FRSE FIP FRIC (14 December 1916 – 31 July 1991) was a 20th-century American chemist and research physicist of Scots descent.
He was born in New York City on 14 December 1916 the son of Alice Tyldesley and her husband, James Pickering Kendall.
He won a place at the University of Cambridge and graduated first with a BA then an MA (1944) (disrupted by the Second World War).
His proposers were Mowbray Ritchie, Ronald Arnold, Max Born and Sir Edmund Whittaker.
[1] In 1966 he returned to the United States to work for the National Cash Register Corporation, rising to be head of technical staff in 1981.