Cook, Sir Alan (Hugh)
COOK, Sir Alan (Hugh)
COOK, Sir Alan (Hugh). British, b. 1922. Genres: Physics, Earth sciences, Astronomy, Biography. Career: Jacksonian Professor Emeritus of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge, since 1990 (Professor, 1972-90). Master, Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1983-93; Supt., Division of Quantum Metrology, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middx., 1966-69; Professor of Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, 1969-72. Publications: Gravity and the Earth, 1969; (with R.H. Tucker, H.M. Iyer, and F.D. Stacey) Global Geophysics, 1970; Interference of Electromagnetic Waves, 1971; Physics of the Earth and Planets, 1973; Celestial Masers, 1977; Interiors of the Planets, 1980; The Motion of the Moon, 1988; (with Y.T. Chen) Gravitational Experiments in the Laboratory, 1993; The Observational Foundations of Physics, 1994; Edmund Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas, 1998. Address: 8 Wootton Way, Cambridge CB3 9LX, England. Online address: ahc13@cam.ac.uk