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was | Scientist Demographer Geneticist | ||||
Work field | Biology Science | ||||
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Birth | 9 April 1898, Washington, D.C. | ||||
Death | 7 January 1991 (aged 92 years) | ||||
Star sign | Aries | ||||
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Robert Carter Cook (April 9, 1898 – January 7, 1991) was an American geneticist and demographer who was editor of the Journal of Heredity for 40 years, a lecturer in medical genetics and biology at George Washington University, and director, then president, of the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, D.C. He was involved with the eugenics movement of the first half of the 20th century, and an authority on population policy and the effects of population growth on the environment.