Dr. Arthur V. Cooke, founder of Active Signals Technology who enjoyed outdoor activities, died Monday of liver cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 59.
The son of Hedley Cooke, a U.S. Foreign Service Consulate General, and Edit Cooke, a homemaker, Arthur Vicars Cooke was born in Tel Aviv and moved in 1958 with his family to Tunbridge Wells, England.
After graduating in 1974 from Tonbridge Judd School for Boys in Tonbridge, Kent, England, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1977 from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, where he graduated summa cum laude.
After earning a Ph.D. in metallurgy from Cambridge University in 1981, he moved to Baltimore and took a job as a research engineer with Martin Marietta.
In 1995, he founded Active Signals Technology in Linthicum Heights, a research company that specializes in innovative medical and military technology. He was not retired at his death.
Dr. Cooke, a Guilford resident, was "much admired by friends and colleagues for his vitality, generosity, loyalty, precision and irrepressible humor," family members said.
He enjoyed physical activity and liked mountain climbing, bicycling, running and rowing, and had served as president of the Baltimore Rowing Club for five years.
A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1316 Park Ave., Bolton Hill.
Dr. Cooke is survived by his wife of 25 years, the former Linda K. Stickel, a Calvert School French teacher; a son, Peter V. Cooke of Guilford; two daughters, Katherine E. "Katie" Cooke and Isabel M. Cooke, both of Guilford; and a sister, miriam cooke of Hillsborough, N.C.