Charles Jacob Cook October 2, 1923 – January 20, 2021 Physicist, educator, WWII B-17 pilot, musician, artist, optimist, devoted husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, Charles Jacob Cook, died Wednesday, January 20th at age 97. Born in 1923 in West Point, Nebraska, Charles (also known as C.J. by friends and colleagues) moved to Lincoln Nebraska at age 14. Charles graduated from Lincoln High School and went on to earn his Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Nebraska while studying under theoretical physicist, Professor Ted Jorgensen . A veteran, Charles served in the United States Army Air Corp. 94th bomb group at Bury St. Edmonds from October 1944 to March 1945. As 1st Lt. combat pilot, he and his crew were assigned 35 missions in their “Lady Luck” B17 Flying Fortress over Germany.
Edl Schamiloglu was born in The Bronx, NY. He received the B.S. degree from the Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Department at Columbia University, NY, in 1979; he received the M.S. degree in Plasma Physics from Columbia University in 1981; he received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering (minor in Mathematics) from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1988. He joined the University of New Mexico (UNM) as Assistant Professor in 1988 and he is currently Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the School of Engineering. He is also the Special Assistant to the Provost for Laboratory Relations. He lectured at the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (Harvard University in 1990 and at MIT in 1997). He coedited Advances in High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies (IEEE Press/Wiley, New York, NY, 2001) (with R.J. Barker), he has coauthored High Power Microwaves, 3rd Ed. (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2016) (with J. Benford and J. Swegle), and he is coediting Advances in High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies using Metamaterials (with J.W. Luginsland, J.A. Marshall, and A. Nachman) (IEEE Press/Wiley, New York, NY, 2021). He has coauthored over 165 refereed journal papers, over 265 reviewed conference papers, and 8 patents. His publications have been cited over 7500 times. His h-index is 37 and his i10-index is 134. He has been PI on over $50M of contracts and grants at UNM.