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A skilled teacher and researcher, Cook was also an able administrator, serving on many committees to help shape the College of Engineering, the Berkeley campus, and his field of study. Born in Pretoria, South Africa, on January 29, 193S, Neville Cook received his B.Sc.
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Before coming to Berkeley, Neville Cook had already received several prestigious awards: the Central Mining-Rand Mines Award of the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1966;
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~aeger) , 1969; Gold Medal of the Associated Scientific and Technical Societies of South Africa, South Africa's premier award for outstanding contributions to science and technology, 1971; Research Medal of the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1975; and the Rand Mines Award of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1975.
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He was editorial adviser, International Journal Rock Mechanics Mining Sciences and Geomechanics Abstracts, associate editor, iournal of Geophysical Research; member, editorial board, International Journal of Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, and member, advisory editorial board, International Journal of Mining and Geological Engineering. After coming to Berkeley, Cook continued to receive recognition from his peers.
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National Committee for Rock Mechanics; member, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation Earth Sciences Review Group, Battelle, Columbus, Ohio; member, Geosciences Advisory Panel, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos; member, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation, Engineering Review Group; chairman, Workshop on the Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions, Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States; member, CGER's Board on Earth Sciences and Resources; and chair, joint CGER and Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems' Committee on Advanced Drilling Technologies. Cook controlled his time well and was able to do all of this while maintain.
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In October 1998 an international conference was held in Professor Cook's honor at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the proceedings to be published as the Neville G.W. Cook Memorial in a special issue of the International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Science.
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