Arthur Hafford Cooke


Arthur Hafford Cooke, MBE was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford.
Cooke was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School and Christ [Church, Oxford]. He became a research lecturer at Christ Church in 1939. During World War Two he conducted radar research for the Admiralty. He was a fellow of New [College, Oxford], from 1946 to 1976; university lecturer in physics from 1944 to 1971; reader in physics from 1971 to 1976; and warden of New College from 1976 to 1985.