Josiah Parsons Cooke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Harvard mineralogist and chemist
Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1827
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 03-Sep-1894
Profession: chemist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Josiah Parsons Cooke
- Josiah Parsons Cooke (October 12, 1827 – September 3, 1894) was an American scientist who worked at Harvard University and was instrumental in the measurement of atomic weights, inspiring America's first Nobel laureate in chemistry, Theodore Richards, to pursue similar research.
- Cooke's 1854 paper on atomic weights has been said to foreshadow the periodic law developed later by Mendeleev and others.
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- Bernard Cohen described Cooke "as the first university chemist to do truly distinguished work in the field of chemistry" in the United States.
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