Industrial Hygienist

After a long and highly productive career in the field of industrial hygiene and engineering research, Warren A. Cook '23 has accepted a teaching post at the University of Michigan as Associate Professor of Industrial Health and Hygiene in the School of Public Health and as a research associate in the University's Institute of Industrial Health. He will continue as a consultant for the Zurich-American insurance companies in Chicago.

For his outstanding achievements and published contributions, which have resulted in improving industrial hygiene as an applied science, Mr. Cook was presented with the Donald E. Cummings Memorial Award of the American Industrial Hygiene Association for 1953. His report on "Maximum Allowable Concentrations of Industrial Atmospheric Contaminants" is used extensively as a reference work, and he is the author of numerous treatises and articles on health hazards resulting from atmospheric and other environmental conditions in factories and cities.

After completing graduate work at Yale University in the Department of Chemistry, Mr. Cook served as chief industrial hygienist, Bureau of Industrial Hygiene, in the Connecticut Department of Health for three years, and later went into insurance work in Hartford. In 1937 he joined the Chicago staff of the Zurich General Accident and Liability Insurance Co., Ltd., to organize and direct the division of industrial hygiene and engineering research.

Among many other offices, Mr. Cook has served as president of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, associate editor of the Journal of IndustrialHygiene and Toxicology and as editor of the American Industrial Hygiene Association Quarterly. He is chairman or a member of numerous scientific committees concerned with health problems in industry.