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,[1] with over 1,000 publications and an H-index of 144.[2][3]

Robert Graham Cooks
Born
Benoni, South Africa
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Natal
Cambridge University
Known forMass Spectrometry
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, Mass spectrometry
InstitutionsPurdue University
Doctoral advisorFrank L. Warren
Peter Sykes
Doctoral studentsJennifer S. Brodbelt
Gary Glish
Livia S. Eberlin
Scott A. McLuckey
Vicki Wysocki
Abraham Badu-Tawiah
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Education

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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.[4]

Career

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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.[4] Cooks was co-editor of the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry from 2013-2017.[5][6]

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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,[7] tandem mass spectrometry,[8] angle-resolved mass spectrometry[9] and energy-resolved mass spectrometry (ERMS);[10] dissociation processes, including collision-induced dissociation (CID),[11] surface-induced dissociation (SID),[12] and photodissociation (PD);[13] and desorption processes, including secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS),[14] laser desorption ionization (LD)[15] and desorption electrospray ionization (DESI).[16]

His research has ranged through areas from preparative mass spectrometry, ionization techniques and quadrupole ion traps (QITs) and related technologies[17] to as far afield as abiogenisis (also known as "the origin of life") via homochirality.[18]

Awards and fellowships

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Chemistry - Research Analytics". Archived from the original on December 4, 2011. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  2. ^ "Web of Science" (PDF). December 2011. Retrieved 2015-03-27.[dead link]
  3. ^ "Robert Graham Cooks". Google Scholar. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  4. ^ a b "R. Graham Cooks". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  5. ^ "Co-editors of the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry - Volume 6, 2013". Annual Reviews Directory. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Co-editors of the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry - Volume 10, 2017". Annual Reviews Directory. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  7. ^ Williams, D.H.; Cooks, R.G. (1968). "The Role of 'Frequency Factors' in Determining the Difference Between Low and High Voltage Mass Spectra". Chemical Communications. 1968 (12): 663. doi:10.1039/C19680000663.
  8. ^ Kruger, T.L.; Litton, J.F.; Kondrat, R.W.; Cooks, R.G. (1976). "Mixture Analysis by Mass-Analyzed Ion Kinetic Energy Spectrometry". Analytical Chemistry. 48 (14): 2113–2119. doi:10.1021/ac50008a016.
  9. ^ Laramee, J.A.; Carmody, J.; Cooks, R.G. (1979). "Angle Resolved Mass Spectrometry". International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics. 31 (4): 333–343. Bibcode:1979IJMSI..31..333L. doi:10.1016/0020-7381(79)80071-6.
  10. ^ McLuckey, S.A.; Sallans, L.; Cody, R.G.; Burnier, R.C.; Verma, S.; Freiser, B.S.; Cooks, R.G. (1982). "Energy-Resolved Tandem and Fourier-Transform Mass Spectrometry". International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics. 44 (3–4): 215–229. Bibcode:1982IJMSI..44..215M. doi:10.1016/0020-7381(82)80026-0.
  11. ^ Brodbelt, J.S.; Wysocki, V.H.; Cooks, R.G. (1988). "Thermochemical vs. Kinetic Control of Reaction in an Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer". Organic Mass Spectrometry. 23 (1): 54–56. doi:10.1002/oms.1210230111.
  12. ^ Winger, B.E.; Julian, Jr.; Cooks, R.G.; Chidsey, C.E.D. (1991). "Surface Reactions and Surface-Induced Dissociation of Polyatomic Ions at Self-Assembled Organic Monolayer Surfaces". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 113 (23): 8967–8969. doi:10.1021/ja00023a067.
  13. ^ Louris, J.N.; Brodbelt, J.S.; Cooks, R.G. (1987). "Photodissociation in a Quadrupole Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer Using a Fiber Optic Interface". International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Processes. 75 (3): 345–352. Bibcode:1987IJMSI..75..345L. doi:10.1016/0168-1176(87)83045-8.
  14. ^ Grade, H.; Winograd, N.; Cooks, R.G. (1977). "Cationization of Organic Molecules in Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 99 (23): 7725–7726. doi:10.1021/ja00465a062.
  15. ^ Zakett, D.; Schoen, A.E.; Cooks, R.G.; Hemberger, P.H. (1981). "Laser-Desorption Mass Spectrometry/Mass Spectrometry and the Mechanism of Desorption Ionization". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 103 (5): 1295–1297. doi:10.1021/ja00395a086.
  16. ^ Costa, Anthony B.; Cooks, R. Graham (2007). "Simulation of Atmospheric Transport and Droplet Thin-Film Collisions in Desorption Electrospray Ionization". Chemical Communications. 2007 (38): 3915–3917. doi:10.1039/b710511h. PMID 17896031.
  17. ^ Louris, J.N.; Amy, J.W.; Ridley, T.Y.; Cooks, R.G. (1989). "Injection of Ions Into a Quadrupole Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer". International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Processes. 88 (2–3): 97–111. Bibcode:1989IJMSI..88...97L. doi:10.1016/0168-1176(89)85010-4.
  18. ^ Yang, Pengxiang; Xu, Ruifeng; Nanita, Sergio C.; Cooks, R. Graham (2006). "Thermal Formation of Homochiral Serine Clusters and Implications for the Origin of Homochirality". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 128 (51): 17074–17086. doi:10.1021/ja064617d. PMID 17177460.
  19. ^ Glish G (2008). "Focus Honoring R. Graham Cooks, Recipient of the 2006 ASMS Award for Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry". Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 19 (2): 159–60. Bibcode:2008JASMS..19..159G. doi:10.1016/j.jasms.2007.11.011. PMID 18160305.
  20. ^ "Purdue professor and former student win Nobel Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry - Purdue University". www.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
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