Edwin Fitch Northrup
Edwin Fitch Northrup (born February 23, 1866 in Syracuse , New York , † May 13, 1940 ) was an American physicist . He was a professor at Princeton University .
Northrup studied at Amherst College and Johns Hopkins University , where he earned his doctorate in physics in 1895. He was then assistant to Prof. Henry Augustus Rowland († 1901) in the development of telegraph systems and became chief engineer at the newly founded Rowland Printing Telegraph Company . In 1903 he founded the Leeds & Northrup Company with Morris E. Leeds .
From 1910 to 1920 he was Professor of Physics at Princeton University .
In 1916 he founded the Pyro-electric Instrument Company in Trenton, New Jersey .
He developed the Ajax Northrup high frequency ovens.
In 1937 he published the science fiction novel Zero to Eighty under the pseudonym Akkad Pseudoman .
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| SURNAME | Northrup, Edwin Fitch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pseudoman, Akkad (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Syracuse , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1940 |