Papers and correspondence of Eric Mitchell Crook 1934-1982

University College, London

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Crook Eric Mitchell 1914-1993

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Crook, Eric Mitchell

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Eric Mitchell Crook was born on 3 November 1914 in Sydney, Australia, the family moving to Melbourne when Crook was three. Here he received his education, graduating from the University of Melbourne with first class honours in Physics and Chemistry in 1937. After graduation he won a Commonwealth of Australia Travelling Scholarship to come to England to study at Cambridge for his Ph.D. under F.G. Hopkins. He was Hopkins's last Ph.D student and worked on the isolation and characterisa...