Duke Flags Lowered: Franklin Hadley Cocks, Noted Pratt Materials Scientist, Dies at Age 82

Franklin Hadley Cocks, age 82, passed away at his home on July 24, 2024. Cocks was a highly regarded professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science for nearly 50 years at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering.

He was born in Staten Island in 1941 and raised in Orono, Maine, along with his beloved half brother, Robert Hyslop. He earned a scholarship to MIT in part because of winning the State of Maine Science Fair in 1958 with a physics project on radiometers.

In 1963, Cocks