Arthur Hafford Cooke

Arthur Hafford Cooke, MBE (13 December 1912 – 31 July 1987) was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford.^[1]

Cooke was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford He became a research lecturer at Christ Church in 1939. During World War Two he conducted radar research for the Admiralty. He was a fellow of New College, Oxford, from 1946 to 1976; university lecturer in physics from 1944 to 1971; reader in physics from 1971 to 1976;^[2] and warden of New College from 1976 to 1985.^[3]