Professor Emeritus, Physics & Astronomy
E-mail address: Cook@Dial.Msstate.Edu
Robert L. Cook was a Professor of Physics and Chemistry and Deputy Director of the MHD Energy Center at Mississippi State University, a member of the American Physical Society, the American Chemical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, the Mississippi Association of Physicists, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Society of Sigma Xi. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame in 1963. Before coming to MSU in 1971 he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Professor Walter Gordy at the Microwave Laboratory at Duke University. He was later an Instructor and Assistant Professor of Physics at Duke University. Dr. Cook is coauthor of a book, Microwave Molecular Spectra, the third edition of which was published in 1984. In 1982, he received the Faculty Achievement Award in Research and was a member of the AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Technical Committee(1983-86). In 1985, he received the College of Arts and Sciences Paideia Award. Dr. Cook retired from Mississippi State University in January 2004.
