{{Short description|British botanist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Christopher David Kentish Cook | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1933}} | birth_place = | citizenship = | fields = Botany, Aquatic ecology | known_for = Taxonomy and biology of aquatic plants | awards = David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration (2001) | author_abbrev_bot = C.D.K.Cook }} '''Christopher David Kentish Cook''' (born 1933<ref name="Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries - Index of Botanists - Cook, Christopher David Kentish">{{cite web |title=Index of Botanists - Cook, Christopher David Kentish |url=https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=70700 |website=Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=2 July 2023}}</ref>) was a British botanist.
Publications included work in aquatic plants. He worked in Italy,<ref>{{cite journal |title=New and noteworthy plants from the northern Italian ricefields |journal=Mitteilungen aus dem Botanischen Museum der Universität Zürich |number=267 Wetzikon : Rotach |OCLC=637777593}}</ref> in general aquatic ecology,<ref>{{cite book |author=Christopher D. K. Cook |publisher=SPB Academic Pub. |date=1996 |title=Aquatic ecology |pages=228 |ISBN=90-5103-132-7}}</ref> and India.<ref>{{cite book |author=Cook, C.D.K. |date=1989 |chapter=A Revision of the Genus Monochoria |editor1=Tan, K. |editor2=Mill, R.R. |editor3=Elias, T.S. |title=Plant Taxonomy, Phytogeography and Related Subjects, the Davis and Hedge Festschrift |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |place=Edinburgh |pp=149-184}}</ref> He was awarded the David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration in 2001, recognising his "research on biology and classification of aquatic plants".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fairchild Medal |url=https://ntbg.org/the-david-fairchild-medal-for-plant-exploration/ |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=National Tropical Botanical Garden |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Authority abbreviation== {{botanist|C.D.K.Cook}}
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{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Christopher David Kentish}} Category:1933 births Category:British botanists Category:20th-century British scientists