Person Cook; Sir; Alan Hugh (1922 - 2004) Cook Alan Hugh Sir 1922 - 2004 British Male Felsted, Essex, England 02/12/1922 19221202 Cambridge 23/07/2004 20040723

Geophysicist Education: Westcliff High School for Boys (until 1939); Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (BSc, 1939-1943; Phd 1946-) Career: Admiralty Signals Department, Haslemere, Surrey (1943) working on development of radar; Postdoctoral Assistant, Department of Geodesy and Geophysics; metrology department, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington (1952-1969); lectured to Institute of Geodesy and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (1957); visiting fellow to Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder; Professor of Geophysics, Edinburgh University (1969-1971); Jacksonian Chair of Natural Philosophy, Cambridge Physics Department (1971-1990); Fellow, King's College (1971-1983); head of Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (1979); Master, Selwyn College, Cambridge (1983); responsible for Cambridge University's computer facilities; chairman of the board of directors, Cambridge University Press; visiting professor, Univeristy of California at Los Angeles and Berkeley (1981) and Green Scholar at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetrary Physics, La Jolla, San Diego (1982); published biography of Edmond Halley 'Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas' (1998); Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1970); Fellow of Institute of Physics; Foreign Fellow of the Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome (1971); C F Boys Prize, IoP and Chalres Chree Medal, IoP (1967) Honours: Kt 1988 Son of Reginald Thomas and Ethel Cook; married (1948) Isabell Weir Adamson Associated material: Papers deposited at Selwyn Collegre, University fo Cambridge - NCUACS 169/12/08; Royal Society roles: Council: 1972-1973 Lectures: Humphry Davy 1994 Fellow 20/03/1969 46 Sources: Obituaries in The Times (08/08/2004) Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 87-100, plate, by Terry Quinn FRS References: A Cook, 'A Roman tercentenary' by A Cook in NR 2002 vol 56 p273 A Cook, '1703 and other anniversaries' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 1-2 A Cook, 'The end of the affair. The correspondence of John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, vol 3 (1703-1719) by E G Forbes, L Murdin and F Willmoth' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 113-116 A Cook, 'Rome and the Royal Society, 1660-1740' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 3-19 A Cook, 'Report. Robert Hooke at Christ Church, Oxford' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 93-95 T Quinn, 'In this issue' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 245 - 247 A Cook, 'Shipborne radar in Word War II: some recollections' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 295 - 298 A Cook, 'Report. Migrants to The Royal Society, 1930-1940' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 303 - 304 A Cook, 'A Roman correspondence: George Ent and Cassiano dal Pozzo, 1637-55' in NR 2005 vol 59 pp 5-23 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 2 Dec 1922 - 23 Jul 2004 NA2260 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/29594337 753c6cff-a02b-4968-ad92-b07c12b645b8