Robert Graham Cooks

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Robert Graham Cooks (born July 2, 1941 in Benoni , South Africa ) is a South African-American chemist, known for developments in mass spectrometry .

Life

Cooks studied chemistry at the University of Natal in South Africa with a bachelor's degree in 1961. He received his doctorate in 1965 at the University of Natal with Frank L. Warren and again in 1967 with Peter Sykes at the University of Cambridge . In 1968 he became an assistant professor at Kansas State University and an associate professor in 1975 and a professor in 1980 at Purdue University , where he headed the Mass Spectrometry Center from 1973 to 1986 and Henry Bohn Hass became a Distinguished Professor. In 2012 he received the FA Cotton Medal , in 2011 the Centenary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry , in 2008 the Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science and in 2013 the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences . He also received the Fisher Award (ACS Award for Analytical Chemistry) in 1997, the Frank H. Field & Joe L. Franklin Award (ACS Award for Mass Spectrometry) in 1991, the ACS Analytical Division's Chemical Instrumentation Award in 1984 and the Thomson Medal in 1985. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1999 he received an honorary doctorate (D.Sc.) from the University of Natal.

He developed mass spectrometers for a wide variety of purposes, from dimensions that filled an entire room to pocket-sized. He was involved in the early development of tandem mass spectrometers and, among other things, desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) was developed in his group.

Fonts

  • RG Cooks, JH Beynon, RM Caprioli, GR Lester: Metastable Ions , Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1973 (Reprint as American Society for Mass Spectrometry Classic Book 2004)
  • JB Lambert, HF Shurvell, L. Verbit, RG Cooks, George H. Stout: Organic Structural Analysis , Macmillan, New York, 1976
  • RG Cooks (Ed.): Collision Spectroscopy , Plenum Press, New York, 1978
  • JB Lambert, HF Shurvell, D. Lightner, RG Cooks: Introduction to Organic Spectroscopy , Macmillan, New York, 1987
  • Joseph B. Lambert, Herbert F. Shurvell, David A. Lightner, R. Graham Cooks: Organic Structural Spectroscopy , Prentice Hall, 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career dates according to Pamela Kalte u. a., American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of R. Graham Cooks at academictree.org, accessed January 28, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Cooks, Robert Graham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African-American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Benoni , South Africa