John Joseph Jolly Kyle award, 1990 Rodolfo Roberto Brenner was an Argentine emeritus professor of chemistry.

[1] In 1940 and  1946 he graduated as the best B. Sc and PhD chemistry student at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and the University of Buenos Aires winning gold medals for his performances[4][2][1] Rodolfo Brenner started as a graduate assistance till he became a professor.

He worked as a Chairman of Bromatology and Industrial Analysis of the Faculty of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires between 1946 and 1954.

[3][1] In his last year as the chair of Bromatology and Industrial Analysis, he was awarded a British Council Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on "lipid chemistry and biochemistry" with Professor John Arnold Lovern at the Torry Research Institute in Aberdeen in Scotland.

[1] He also received the “Supelco AOCS Research Award” from the American Oil Chemists' Society, in Baltimore, US, in 1990[6] In 2001, he won the TWAS Basic Medical Sciences award for leading a research on the resolution of the mechanism of polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in animals and their regulation by dietary components and hormones and their biochemical and physiological effects.