Just three of the many books Cook wrote, found in the Rayleigh Library

Sir Alan Hugh Cook FRS 1922-2004

During his time at the Cavendish Laboratory , Sir Alan Cook focused on the fields of gravity, masers (microwave radiation equivalent of lasers) and their application in Geophysics and Astronomy.
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Image 1: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. From Cavendish archive

Image 2: Dorothy Hodgin Crowfoot’s molecular model of Penicillin. © Wikimedia commons

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964, the third woman to do so, and remains the only British woman to have won a Nobel in science. 💫🧑‍🔬
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1) Elisabeth Kara-Michailov at her desk in Vienna credit: Rincón Educativo (Foro Nuclear)

2) Elisabeth Kara-Michailova appears in Cavendish Research student photos (1936-1938.) She can be seen on the far right in the second row, sat behind Ann Horton, and surrounded by other distinguished scientists. She is the only woman to be referred to by the title ‘Dr’ in research student photos.

Professor Elisabeth Kara-Michailova became the first Bulgarian woman to hold the title of professor. Her pioneering efforts laid the foundation for the development of atomic physics in Bulgaria. buff.ly/s94ZEf4
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1️⃣Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898 – 1979) demonstrating equipment in the laboratory © Wikimedia commons

2️⃣The Cavendish staff-Graduate student annual photograph from 1926. Katharine Blodgett is third from the left in the front row, sitting among many other distinguished scientists; from left to right, Kapitsa, Chadwick, KBB, Taylor, Thomson, Rutherford, Wilson, Aston, Blackett and Chamberlain. [Cavendish Laboratory archive]

Katharine Burr Blodgett matriculated at Newnham College in 1924, and under the supervision of Ernest Rutherford she earned her PhD in 1926, only 6 years after the degree was established. 🎓buff.ly/4bk90t0 #150CavendishStories

1️⃣Mrs. Horton demonstrating to A.B. Pippard in a Part II practical class (c.1940) [Cavendish Laboratory archive]

2️⃣Ann Davies appears in the Cavendish Research student photos from 1931. She can be seen here in 1933 on the far right in the front row, surrounded by other distinguished scientists including Blackett, Kapitza, Rutherford,JJ. Thomson,Chadwick, Oliphant to point out a few!

3️⃣Mrs Horton demonstrating a Part II experiment. [Cavendish Laboratory archive]

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Spotlight: Ann Horton (née Davies) [1894-1967]🌠
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