Cook contributes to encyclopedia

Dr. Robert L. Cook, deputy director of the Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory, is a contributing author to the recently published "Encyclopedia of Chemistry."

Cook, also a professor of physics and chemistry, contributed an article on microwave spectroscopy to the four-volume work. His is one of 750 articles in the compendium of knowledge about general chemistry. It is published by MacMillan Publishing.

Cook's expertise deals with the absorption of microwave radiation by gas-phase molecules.