Joseph Neng Shun Kwong (October 28, 1916 – January 4, 1998) was a chemical engineer, most famous for his role in the development of the Redlich–Kwong equation of state.

Joseph Kwong was born in Chung Won, China in 1916, and emigrated to the United States as a child with his family.

Kwong earned a bachelor's degree in 1937 from Stanford University in chemistry and basic medical sciences.

[1] Kwong worked as a chemical engineer at Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. (later 3M) from 1942 to 1944, helping to develop adhesive products.

During his time at Shell, Kwong met Otto Redlich, a physical chemist who had fled his native Austria to the United States in 1938 as the Nazis took power.