| Authorised form of name | Cook; Sir; Alan Hugh (1922 - 2004) |
| Dates | 1922 - 2004 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Felsted, Essex, England |
| Date of birth | 02/12/1922 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |
| Date of death | 23/07/2004 |
| Occupation | Geophysicist |
| Activity | 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 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1969 |
| Age at election | 46 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1972-1973
Lectures:
Humphry Davy 1994 |
| Relationships | Son of Reginald Thomas and Ethel Cook; married (1948) Isabell Weir Adamson |
| OtherInfo | Associated material:
Papers deposited at Selwyn Collegre, University fo Cambridge - NCUACS 169/12/08; |
| Source | 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 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/29594337 |
| Code | NA2260 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| HWT/25/10/2 | Correspondence and papers regarding visit of Royal Society delegation to China | November - December 1973 |
| IM/GA/GRS/5390 | Cook, Alan Hugh | 8 May 1969 |
| RR/71/73 | Referee's report by Felix Eugen Fritsch, on a paper 'Fertilization, including chemotactic phenomena in the Fucaceae' by Alan Hugh Cook, J A Elvidge and Ian Morris Heilbron | [1948] |
| HWT/41/3/6 | Correspondence and papers regarding the effect on spectroscopy of the adoption of the international system of units (SI System) | January - June 1968 |
| EC/1969/04 | Cook, Alan Hugh: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| AP/81/22 | Paper, 'A determination of the differences in gravity between the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington [England], the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa [Canada] and the National Bureau of Standards, Washington [USA]' by G D Garland and Alan Hugh-Cook | 1954 |
| RR/73/182 | Referee's report by Edward Crisp Bullard, on a paper 'The calculation of deflexions of the vertical from gravity anomalies' by Alan Hugh Cook | 29 July 1950 |
| RR/75/58 | Referee's report by Edward Crisp Bullard, on a paper 'A note on the errors involved in the calculation of elevation of the geoid' by Alan Hugh Cook | 6 March 1951 |