Richard W. Cook

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Richard W. Cook

Richard W. Cook (b. August 8, 1907) was born in Muskegon, Michigan

Muskegon, Michigan

Muskegon is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 United States Census, the city population was 40,105. The city is the county seat of Muskegon County, Michigan....
. From 1927 to 1933, he attended Michigan State University

Michigan State University

Michigan State University is a public university research university in East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan United States. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act....
and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering

Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a Professional Engineer discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings....
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In 1940 he was ordered to active duty in the U.S. Army as a First Lieutenant and from 1940 to 1942 served as Assistant Quartermaster and Quartermaster for the Construction Division of the Quartermaster Corps. From 1942 to 1944 he was area engineer for Corps of Engineers, Washington Engineer District.

Cook was involved with U.S.

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Richard W. Cook (b. August 8, 1907) was born in Muskegon, Michigan

Muskegon, Michigan

Michigan State University

Civil engineering

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Oak Ridge is an incorporated city in Anderson County, Tennessee and Roane County, Tennessee Counties in East Tennessee Tennessee, United States, about 25 miles northwest of Knoxville, Tennessee....
, and from 1947 to 1951 he was Deputy Manager and General Manager of Oak Ridge Operations, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). In the fall of 1945, while still at Oak Ridge, Lt. Col. Richard W. Cook was awarded the Legion of Merit

Legion of Merit

The Legion of Merit is a Awards and decorations of the United States military of the United States armed forces that is awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements....
for his work on the A-Bomb Project.

From 1951 to 1958 he was employed at AEC headquarters in Washington, D.C. In he was made Director of Production and in 1954 promoted to Deputy General Manager of the AEC.

From 1958 to 1973 Cook was employed as a executive at American Machine and Foundry Company and at the Marshall Space Flight Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center , the original home of NASA, is a lead center for Spacecraft propulsion, Space Shuttle propulsion, Space Shuttle external tank, crew training and payloads, International Space Station design and construction, for computers, networks, and information management....
. He was employed at AMF while it was producing components for the Atlas and Titan missile systems and he was at Marshall Space Flight Center during the height of the Apollo Program.

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Papers of Richard W. Cook, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library