Donald Cooksey

Donald Cooksey (May 15, 1892 – August 19, 1977), was an American physicist who was associate director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley.

After completely high school at the Thacher School in California, Donald followed his brother Charlton Cooksey, a physics professor at Yale University.

[1] At Yale, he became a physicist specializing in designing and building scientific instruments, especially detectors for measuring sub-atomic particles such as neutrons.

In 1932, Lawrence moved to Berkeley, California to set up the Radiation Laboratory.

Cooksey continued to be a close associate of Lawrence and became associate director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley.