Edwin Fitch Northrup

Edwin Fitch Northrup

Edwin Fitch Northrup (* 23. Februar 1866 in Syracuse, New York; † 13. Mai 1940) war ein Professor der Physik an der Princeton University.

Er studierte am Amherst College und an der Johns Hopkins University, wo er 1895 seinen Doktor der Physik erwarb. Er war dann Assistent von Prof. Henry Augustus Rowland († 1901) bei der Entwicklung von Telegrafensystemen und wurde Chefingenieur bei der neugegründeten Rowland Printing Telegraph Company. 1903 gründete er zusammen mit en:Morris E. Leeds die Leeds & Northrup Company.

1910 bis 1920 war er Professor der Physik an der Princeton University.

1916 hatt er in Trenton (New Jersey) die Pyro-electric Instrument Company gegründet.

Er entwickelte die Ajax-Northrup-Hochfrequenzöfen.

1937 veröffentlichte er unter dem Pseudonym Akkad Pseudoman den Science-Fiction-Roman Zero to Eighty.


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