Dr. F. Hadley Cocks
Duke University
Box 90300
Durham, NC
27708-0300
(919) 660-5310
(919) 660-8963 (Fax)
f.h.cocks@duke.edu

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science,
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0300

Professor Cocks is the holder of a NASA Technical Achievement Award for his Development of single crystal beta-alumina membranes for sodium-sulfur battery systems, given in 1974, and he launched a successful GAS payload aboard the Shuttle Columbia in 1991.  Of his 135 technical papers, some of those most relevant to NASA and the NCSGC are listed below:

Hypervelocity Launching And Frozen Fuels As A Major Contribution To Spaceflight, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, (with C. M Harman, Paul. A. Klenk and W. N. Simmons), vol. 58, pp. 2-8, 2005.

“ Lunar Ice: Adsorbed Water on subsurface Polar Dust” (with P. A. Klenk, W. N. Simmons, J. C. Cocks, E. E. Cocks, and J. C. Sussingham) Icarus, 160,(2) 2002, pp.386-397.

 “A High Resolution Solar Telescope using Dark-lens Diffractive Optics” (with S. A. Watkins, M. J. Walker, T. A. Lutz and J. C. Sussingham), to be published in Solar Physics

“A Dark Lens Diffracting Telescope: Novel Concept for Direct Extrasolar Planet Imaging, (with E. E. Cocks), Optical Engineering, 36, (1997), pp. 2921-2924.

“Forty Years of Development of Active Systems for Radiation Protection of  Spacecraft” (with J. Sussingham and S. Watkins),  The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, 47, (1999), pp. 165-175.

“Applications for Deployed High Temperature Superconducting Coils in Spacecraft Engineering:  A Review and Analysis” (with J. C. Cocks, S. A. Watkins and C. Sussingham), Journal of The British Interplanetary Society, 50, (1997), pp. 479-484.

"Extrasolar Planetary Detection Via Stellar Occultation" (with J. E. Bischoff, S. A. Watkins, K. Higuchi and P. Y. Bely), in Space Telescopes and Instruments, Proceedings of the Society for Photo-optical and Instrument Engineers, 2807, (1996), pp. 34-86.