R.
Graham Cooks
Robert Graham Cooks is the Henry Bohn Hass
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the Aston Robert Graham Cooks
Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry at Purdue Born Benoni, South Africa
University. He is an ISI Highly Cited Chemist,[1] with Nationality American
over 1,000 publications and an H-index of 150.[2][3] Alma mater University of Natal
Cambridge University
Known for Mass Spectrometry
Education
Scientific career
Cooks received a bachelor of science and master of Fields Chemistry, Mass
science degrees from the University of Natal in South spectrometry
Africa in 1961 and 1963, respectively. He received a Institutions Purdue University
Ph.D. from the University of Natal in 1965 and a
Doctoral advisor Frank L. Warren
second Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1967,
Peter Sykes
where he worked with Peter Sykes. He then did post-
Doctoral Jennifer S. Brodbelt
doctoral work at Cambridge with Dudley Williams.[4]
students Gary Glish
Livia S. Eberlin
Scott A. McLuckey
Career Vicki Wysocki
Cooks became an Assistant Professor at Kansas State Abraham Badu-Tawiah
University from 1968 to 1971. In 1971, he took a Notes
position at Purdue University. He became a Professor Boyle Medal; Member, National Academy of
of Chemistry in 1980 and was appointed the Henry Sciences; Aston Medal
Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor in 1990.[4] Cooks
was co-editor of the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry from 2013-2017.[5][6]
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,[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
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[19]
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[20]
2015 Member, National Academy of Sciences
2017 Aston Medal, British Mass Spectrometry Society
See also
Desorption electrospray ionization
MIKES
Orbitrap
References
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2. "Web of Science" ([Link]
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OMB&colName=WOS&&page=2) (PDF). December 2011. Retrieved 2015-03-27.
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Google Scholar. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
4. "R. Graham Cooks" ([Link]
National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
5. "Co-editors of the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry - Volume 6, 2013" ([Link]
[Link]/db/directory?2013,anchem). Annual Reviews Directory. Retrieved
8 September 2021.
6. "Co-editors of the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry - Volume 10, 2017" ([Link]
[Link]/db/directory?2017,anchem). 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 ([Link]
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 ([Link]
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 ([Link]
doi:10.1016/0020-7381(79)80071-6 ([Link]
1-6).
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 ([Link]
doi:10.1016/0020-7381(82)80026-0 ([Link]
6-0).
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 ([Link]
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 ([Link]
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 ([Link]
[Link]/abs/1987IJMSI..75..345L). doi:10.1016/0168-1176(87)83045-8 (https://
[Link]/10.1016%2F0168-1176%2887%2983045-8).
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 ([Link]
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 ([Link]
rg/10.1021%2Fja00395a086).
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 ([Link]
Fb710511h). PMID 17896031 ([Link]
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 ([Link]
bs/1989IJMSI..88...97L). doi:10.1016/0168-1176(89)85010-4 ([Link]
68-1176%2889%2985010-4).
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" (h
ttps://[Link]/articles/journal_contribution/3037768). Journal of the American Chemical
Society. 128 (51): 17074–17086. doi:10.1021/ja064617d ([Link]
17d). PMID 17177460 ([Link]
19. Glish G (2008). "Focus Honoring R. Graham Cooks, Recipient of the 2006 ASMS Award for
Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry" ([Link]
11.011). Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 19 (2): 159–60.
Bibcode:2008JASMS..19..159G ([Link]
doi:10.1016/[Link].2007.11.011 ([Link]
PMID 18160305 ([Link]
20. "Purdue professor and former student win Nobel Signature Award for Graduate Education in
Chemistry - Purdue University" ([Link]
e-professor-and-former-student-win-nobel-signature-award-for-graduate-education-in-chemi
[Link]). [Link]. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
External links
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Aston Labs ([Link]
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