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Melvin Alonzo Cook

  • Creationist
  • Physical Chemist
  • Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Yale University (1937)
  • M.A. University of Utah (1934)
  • Nobel Prize nominee (Nitro Nobel Gold Medalist, Swedish Academy, Stockholm (1969)
  • Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Utah (1947-70)
  • Explosives expert and Director of the Explosives Research Institute at the University of Utah
  • Founder (1958) and President (1962-72) and Chairman (1962-1974) of IRECO Chemicals in Salt Lake City
  • Chairman of Cook Slurry Company
  • Resident chemist at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (1937-47)
  • Chairman of Cook Associates, Inc. (1973-?)
  • Chemistry Pioneer Award, American Institute of Chemists (1973)
  • E.V. Murphree Gold Medalist Award, American Chemical Society (1968)
  • Loomis Award from Yale University (1937)
Dr. Cook was a Mormon, a member of the LDS church.