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Authorised form of nameCook; Gilbert (1885 - 1951)
Dates1885 - 1951
Date of birth26 October 1885
Date of death28/08/1951
ActivityEducation:
DSc (Manchester)
Career:
Professor of Engineering, Kings College, London; Professor-elect in Glasgow University.
Memberships:
MICE; MIMechE
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election14/03/1940
SourceObituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1952-1953 vol 8 pp 109-117, plate, by A Robertson
CodeNA3263
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1940/05Cook, Gilbert: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/71/220Referee's report by Gilbert Cook, on a paper 'The lateral instability of yielded mild steel beams of rectangular cross-section. II. The initial torsional rigidity' by B G Neal1948
RR/67/404Letter from Gilbert Cook, on a paper 'Complex potentials in two dimensional elasticity' by A C Stevenson to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society21 October 1941
RR/71/222Referee's report by Gilbert Cook, on a paper 'The lateral instability of yielded mild steel beams of rectangular cross-section. III. The conditions causing lateral instability' by B G Neal1948
RR/67/403Letter from Gilbert Cook, on a paper 'Complex potentials in two dimensional elasticity' by A C Stevenson to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society15 October 1941
RR/71/217Referee's report by Gilbert Cook, on a paper 'The lateral instability of yielded mild steel beams of rectangular cross section. I. The initial secondary flexural rigidity' by B G Neal1948
RR/71/15Referee's report by Gilbert Cook, on a paper 'The behaviour of continuous stanchions' by J F Baker, M R Horne and J W Roderick[1948]
RR/71/223Letter from Gilbert Cook, on a paper 'The lateral instability of yielded mild steel beams of rectangular cross-section. Parts I, II and III' by B G Neal to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society9 July 1949
RR/71/16Letter from Gilbert Cook, to David Christie Martin, regarding a paper 'The behaviour of continuous stanchions' by J F Baker, M R Horne and J W Roderick24 March 1949
IM/GA/WS/2060Cook, Gilbertnd
RR/71/4Referee's report by Gilbert Cook, on a paper 'Flexural vibrations of the walls of thin cylindrical shells having freely supported ends' by R N Arnold and G B Warburton[1948]
RR/41/51Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'The yield point and initial stages of plastic strain in mild steel subjected to uniform and non-uniform stress distributions' by Gilbert Cook11 November 1930
RR/41/52Referee's report by Richard Vynne Southwell, on a paper 'The yield point and initial stages of plastic strain in mild steel subjected to uniform and non-uniform stress distributions' by Gilbert CookDecember 1930
RR/45/60Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'The elastic limit of metals exposed to tri-axial stress' by Gilbert Cook27 May 1932
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