George William Cooke CBE FRS[1] (6 January 1916 – 10 February 1992) was a British chemist.
He was the deputy director of Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1962 until 1975, and Chief Scientific Officer of the Agricultural Research Council from 1975 until his retirement in 1981.
He stayed on for another year, working with J M Gulland before starting research in the chemistry department at Rothamsted in 1938.
After completing his thesis in 1940, Cooke moved from Laboratory life to field trials, examining the use of fertilizers and the profitable management of soils.
[1] His main focus throughout his career was on obtaining the maximum productivity of various soils with minimum addition of fertilizer.