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Paul M. Cook (April 25, 1924 – December 14, 2020) was an American businessman who was the founder and CEO of Raychem, a chemical manufacturing company that reached $2 billion in annual revenue.
- December 14, 2020 (aged 96)
- April 25, 1924, Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S.
In 1957, Cook founded Raychem Corporation to develop commercial applications for an entirely new field – radiation chemistry – and served as Chief Executive of the company until 1990. Some 200,000 products were created at Raychem under Paul Cook’s leadership.
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Paul Cook, an early researcher and founder of one of SRI International’s first spin-outs, Raychem, has died at 96. He was a renowned Silicon Valley leader. Among Mr. Cook’s many achievements was the founding of Raychem Corporation (now part of TE Connectivity), which pioneered an industry that today serves a multi-billion-dollar market.
In 1957, starting from a tiny building in Redwood City, he founded Raychem Corporation to develop commercial applications for an entirely new field – radiation chemistry. With offices in more than 40 countries and thousands of employees, Paul served as CEO of this Fortune 500 company until 1990, inspiring a new generation of innovators ...
In 1991 he was the first inductee into the Raychem P.M. Cook Technical Hall of Fame. He was named to the San Francisco Bay Area Business Hall of Fame in 1999 and won the 2008 Weldon B. “Hoot” Gibson Award from SRI. A loyal son of MIT, Paul was appointed to the MIT Corporation in 1971.
The Raychem Corporation was founded and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, in 1957 by Paul M. Cook, James B. Meikle, and Richard W. Muchmore. Led by Cook and second-in-command Robert M. Halperin, Raychem became a pioneer of commercial products realized through radiation chemistry.
Apr 9, 1997 · The purpose of the study, supervised by 25-year-old chemical engineer Paul Cook, was to determine the potential industrial uses of waste fission products — alpha emitters, beta emitters, and gamma ray producers. The study concluded that there were limited industrial uses for waste fission products.
