R. Graham Cooks

{{Infobox scientist

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| name = Robert Graham Cooks

| birth_date =

| birth_place = Benoni, South Africa

| nationality = American

| field = Chemistry, Mass spectrometry

| work_institutions = Purdue University

| alma_mater = University of Natal
Cambridge University

| doctoral_advisor = Frank L. Warren
Peter Sykes

| doctoral_students = Jennifer S. Brodbelt
Gary Glish
Livia S. Eberlin
Scott A. McLuckey
Vicki Wysocki
Abraham Badu-Tawiah

| known_for = Mass Spectrometry

| prizes =

| footnotes = Boyle Medal; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Aston Medal

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Robert Graham Cooks is the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the Aston Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry at Purdue University. He is an ISI Highly Cited Chemist,{{R|HC}} with over 1,000 publications and an H-index of 150.{{R|web}}{{cite web | title=Robert Graham Cooks | website=Google Scholar | url=https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?hl=en&user=_Jxju_sAAAAJ | access-date=25 February 2023}}

Education

Cooks received a bachelor of science and master of science degrees from the University of Natal in South Africa in 1961 and 1963, respectively. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Natal in 1965 and a second Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1967, where he worked with Peter Sykes. He then did post-doctoral work at Cambridge with Dudley Williams.

Career

Cooks became an assistant professor at Kansas State University from 1968 to 1971. In 1971, he took a position at Purdue University. He became a professor of chemistry in 1980 and was appointed the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor in 1990.{{cite web |title=R. Graham Cooks |url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20018376.html |website=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=8 September 2021}}

Cooks was co-editor of the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry from 2013-2017.{{cite web |title=Co-editors of the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry - Volume 6, 2013 |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/db/directory?2013,anchem |website=Annual Reviews Directory |access-date=8 September 2021}}{{cite web |title=Co-editors of the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry - Volume 10, 2017 |url=

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Select research interests

Research in Cooks' laboratory (the Aston Laboratories) has contributed to a diverse assortment of areas within mass spectrometry, ranging from fundamental research to instrument and method development to applications. Cooks' research interests over the course of his career have included the study of gas-phase ion chemistry,{{R|C1}} tandem mass spectrometry,{{R|C2}} angle-resolved mass spectrometry{{R|C3}} and energy-resolved mass spectrometry (ERMS);{{R|C4}} dissociation processes, including collision-induced dissociation (CID),{{R|D1}} surface-induced dissociation (SID),{{R|D2}} and photodissociation (PD);{{R|D3}} and desorption processes, including secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS),{{R|E1}} laser desorption ionization (LD){{R|E2}} and desorption electrospray ionization (DESI).{{R|E3}}

His research has ranged through areas from preparative mass spectrometry, ionization techniques and quadrupole ion traps (QITs) and related technologies{{R|F1}} to as far afield as abiogenisis (also known as "the origin of life") via homochirality.{{R|G1}}

Awards and fellowships

1984 ACS Analytical Division's Chemical Instrumentation Award
1985 Thomson Medal for International Service to Mass Spectrometry
1990 and 1995 NSF Special Creativity Award
1991 Frank H. Field & Joe Franklin Award, (ACS Award for Mass Spectrometry)
1997 Fisher Award (ACS Award for Analytical Chemistry)
2006 Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry Award{{R|pmid18160305}}
2008 Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science
2012 F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research of the American Chemical Society
2013 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences
2014 ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry, shared with graduate student Livia S. Eberlin{{R|purdue}}
2015 Member, National Academy of Sciences
2017 Aston Medal, British Mass Spectrometry Society

References

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{{cite journal | last1 = Williams | first1 = D.H. | last2 = Cooks | first2 = R.G. | year = 1968| title = The Role of 'Frequency Factors' in Determining the Difference Between Low and High Voltage Mass Spectra | journal = Chemical Communications | volume = 1968 | issue = 12| page = 663 | doi = 10.1039/C19680000663 }}

{{cite journal | last1 = Kruger | first1 = T.L. | last2 = Litton | first2 = J.F. | last3 = Kondrat | first3 = R.W. | last4 = Cooks | first4 = R.G. | year = 1976 | title = Mixture Analysis by Mass-Analyzed Ion Kinetic Energy Spectrometry | journal = Analytical Chemistry | volume = 48 | issue = 14| pages = 2113–2119 | doi = 10.1021/ac50008a016 }}

{{cite journal | last1 = Laramee | first1 = J.A. | last2 = Carmody | first2 = J. | last3 = Cooks | first3 = R.G. | year = 1979 | title = Angle Resolved Mass Spectrometry | journal = International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics | volume = 31 | issue = 4| pages = 333–343 | doi = 10.1016/0020-7381(79)80071-6 | bibcode = 1979IJMSI..31..333L }}

{{cite journal | last1 = McLuckey | first1 = S.A. | last2 = Sallans | first2 = L. | last3 = Cody | first3 = R.G. | last4 = Burnier | first4 = R.C. | last5 = Verma | first5 = S. | last6 = Freiser | first6 = B.S. | last7 = Cooks | first7 = R.G. | year = 1982 | title = Energy-Resolved Tandem and Fourier-Transform Mass Spectrometry | journal = International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics | volume = 44 | issue = 3–4| pages = 215–229 | doi = 10.1016/0020-7381(82)80026-0 | bibcode = 1982IJMSI..44..215M }}

{{cite journal | last1 = Brodbelt | first1 = J.S. | last2 = Wysocki | first2 = V.H. | last3 = Cooks | first3 = R.G. | year = 1988 | title = Thermochemical vs. Kinetic Control of Reaction in an Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer | journal = Organic Mass Spectrometry | volume = 23 | issue = 1| pages = 54–56 | doi = 10.1002/oms.1210230111 }}

{{cite journal | last1 = Winger | first1 = B.E. | last2 = Julian | first2 = Jr. | last3 = Cooks | first3 = R.G. | last4 = Chidsey | first4 = C.E.D. | year = 1991 | title = Surface Reactions and Surface-Induced Dissociation of Polyatomic Ions at Self-Assembled Organic Monolayer Surfaces | journal = Journal of the American Chemical Society | volume = 113 | issue = 23| pages = 8967–8969 | doi = 10.1021/ja00023a067 | bibcode = 1991JAChS.113.8967W }}

{{cite journal | last1 = Louris | first1 = J.N. | last2 = Brodbelt | first2 = J.S. | last3 = Cooks | first3 = R.G. | year = 1987 | title = Photodissociation in a Quadrupole Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer Using a Fiber Optic Interface | journal = International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Processes | volume = 75 | issue = 3| pages = 345–352 | doi = 10.1016/0168-1176(87)83045-8 | bibcode = 1987IJMSI..75..345L }}

{{cite journal | last1 = Grade | first1 = H. | last2 = Winograd | first2 = N. | last3 = Cooks | first3 = R.G. | year = 1977 | title = Cationization of Organic Molecules in Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry | journal =Journal of the American Chemical Society | volume = 99 | issue = 23| pages = 7725–7726 | doi = 10.1021/ja00465a062 | bibcode = 1977JAChS..99.7725G }}

{{cite journal | last1 = Zakett | first1 = D. | last2 = Schoen | first2 = A.E. | last3 = Cooks | first3 = R.G. | last4 = Hemberger | first4 = P.H. | year = 1981 | title = Laser-Desorption Mass Spectrometry/Mass Spectrometry and the Mechanism of Desorption Ionization | journal = Journal of the American Chemical Society | volume = 103 | issue = 5| pages = 1295–1297 | doi = 10.1021/ja00395a086 | bibcode = 1981JAChS.103.1295Z }}

{{cite journal | last1 = Costa | first1 = Anthony B. | last2 = Cooks | first2 = R. Graham | year = 2007| title = Simulation of Atmospheric Transport and Droplet Thin-Film Collisions in Desorption Electrospray Ionization | journal = Chemical Communications | volume = 2007 | issue = 38| pages = 3915–3917 | doi = 10.1039/b710511h | pmid = 17896031 }}

{{cite journal | last1 = Louris | first1 = J.N. | last2 = Amy | first2 = J.W. | last3 = Ridley | first3 = T.Y. | last4 = Cooks | first4 = R.G. | year = 1989 | title = Injection of Ions Into a Quadrupole Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer | journal = International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Processes | volume = 88 | issue = 2–3| pages = 97–111 | doi = 10.1016/0168-1176(89)85010-4 | bibcode = 1989IJMSI..88...97L }}

{{cite journal | last1 = Yang | first1 = Pengxiang | last2 = Xu | first2 = Ruifeng | last3 = Nanita | first3 = Sergio C. | last4 = Cooks | first4 = R. Graham | year = 2006 | title = Thermal Formation of Homochiral Serine Clusters and Implications for the Origin of Homochirality | journal = Journal of the American Chemical Society | volume = 128 | issue = 51| pages = 17074–17086 | doi = 10.1021/ja064617d | pmid=17177460| bibcode = 2006JAChS.12817074Y | url = https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/3037768 }}

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{{cite journal |author=Glish G |title=Focus Honoring R. Graham Cooks, Recipient of the 2006 ASMS Award for Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry |journal=Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=159–60

|year=2008 |pmid=18160305 |doi=10.1016/j.jasms.2007.11.011|doi-access=free |bibcode=2008JASMS..19..159G }}

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