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KENNETH G. McKAY
Pages 241-248

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... …Then back to physics research at Bell Labs. After establishing a world reputation in solid state physics (now called condensed matter physics)
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... At McGill University KG earned a BSc in 1938, winning the Anne Moldson Gold Medal for Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and an MS in 1939. He received a Moyse Traveling Fellowship to support further graduate study at Oxford University, but the start of World War II prevented his attendance, so he earned his doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1941.
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... and the Commission on Sociotechnical Systems of the US National Research Council; and the US Department of Commerce Technical Advisory Board. NASA gave him its Public Service Award and its Public Service Group Achievement Award in 1969.
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... Dr. McKay was survived by his wife of 67 years, Renee McKay, a professional artist who died in 2011, son Kip McKay, daughter Margo McKay Mulligan, and grandchildren Lisa and Chris.
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... His first assignment involved developing a pioneering shear-lag analysis that could predict structural failures in a carrier-based aircraft folding wing. Successive lead stress analysis efforts on the F6F Hellcat wing fold and center section and the F7F 249
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