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James Wilfred Cook was born on 1900, is an English chemist. Discover James Wilfred Cook's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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1900

Sir James Wilfred Cook FRS FRSE DSc LLD (1900–1975) was an English chemist, best known for his research of organic chemistry of carcinogenic compounds.

Friends knew him simply as Jim Cook.

He was born in South Kensington in London on 10 December 1900, the son of Charles William Cook, a coachman, and his wife, Frances Wall.

Using a London County Council scholarship he attended Sloane School in Chelsea, London.

Cook studied Chemistry at University College, London under Frederick G. Donnan and Norman Collie.

1920

In 1920 he began lecturing at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1923 with a thesis on the Anthracene derivative.

1928

He lectured at the Institute until 1928.

1929

In 1929 Ernest Kennaway invited him to the Royal Cancer Hospital where he remained until 1939.

Research done at the hospital suggested that tar (as found in most cigarettes) contained carcinogenic components of a similar structure to anthracene.

Cook gathered pure samples of many polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, such as 1,2,5,6-dibenzoantracene, benzofenantrene 3.4-and 3.4-benzopyrene, and was therefore able to demonstrate for the first time that even a purely chemical compound had carcinogenic properties.

1930

Firstly, in 1930 he married Elsie Winifred Griffith, with whom he had three children.

1939

In 1939 he moved to Glasgow University as Regius Professor of Chemistry and Director of their chemical laboratories.

He remained interested in carcinogenic compounds, but his focus now looked at compounds of natural origin.

Central to his research was the clarification of the structure of Alkaloid Colchicine: a compound that has anti-cancer properties, but is also highly toxic.

Searching for parallel but less toxic compounds, similar to colchicine, he synthesized and studied many artificially created compounds.

1948

He received multiple honorary doctorates: Dublin –DSc (1948) Nigeria – DSc (1961), Ulster – DSc (1970), Exeter – LLD (1967)

1954

In 1954 he was appointed head of the University College of the South West of Exeter, which in 1955 was renamed the University of Exeter, with Cook then as Vice Chancellor.

He continued to collaborate on research on polycyclic aromatic compounds with carcinogenic properties, isolated from crude oil and tobacco smoke.

Among the various honors, in 1954 he won the highly prestigious Davy Medal of the Royal Society of London.

1963

In 1963 was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.

He married twice.

1965

In 1965 he retired from the University of Exeter.

Shortly afterwards his wife died, and Cook then decided to move to East Africa.

1966

In 1966 he became Vice Chancellor of the University of East Africa, which included colleges located in Kampala, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.

Following her death in 1966 he remarried the following year, to Vera Elizabeth Ford, a biology teacher.

1970

In 1970 the University of East Africa split to create three independent universities: Makerere University in Kampala (Uganda), the University of Nairobi (Kenya) and the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania).

In 1970 he returned to England, living in Exeter.

1975

He died suddenly on 21 October 1975.

The scientific production of Cook includes about 240 articles in specialized journals.