His son Philip Henry Kuenen was professor of geology.
[1][2] For most of this period the college was part of the University of St Andrews.
While at Dundee he performed early experiments with x-rays with the physiologist Edward Waymouth Reid.
On the basis of his scientific work he was elected in 1911 as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW),[4] and became a member of the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen in 1915.
(Measurements on the Van der Waals surface for mixtures of carbonic acid and methyl chloride).