Donald Cooksey
Physicist, Deceased Person
1892 – 1977
Who was Donald Cooksey?
Donald Cooksey, was a son of George Cooksey from Birmingham, England and Linda Dows from New York.
After High School at the Thacher School in California, Donald Cooksey followed his brother Charlton Cooksey and attended Yale and where he too became a physicist specializing in designing and building scientific instruments, especially detectors for measuring sub-atomic particles such as neutrons. When Ernest O. Lawrence was at Yale during the 1920s, Cooksey and Lawrence became friends. In 1932, after Lawrence had moved to Berkeley, California to set up the Radiation Laboratory there, Lawrence asked Cooksey to come to Berkeley to make detectors for use with Lawrence's cyclotrons. Cooksey continued to be a close associate of Lawrence and became associate director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley.
Donald Cooksey and his wife Milicent Sperry had a son Donald Dows Cooksey and a daughter Helen Sperry Cooksey who became a surgeon.
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