John Trowbridge

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John Trowbridge

John Trowbridge (born August 5, 1843 in Boston , Massachusetts , † February 18, 1923 ) was an American physicist at Harvard University .

John Trowbridge, son of a doctor, attended the Boston Latin School and the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University , where he graduated as Scientiae Baccalaureus in 1866 . At the Lawrence Scientific School , he first worked as a tutor for mathematics , before he received a first professorship (assistant professor) for physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1868 . In 1870 he moved back to Harvard University as an assistant professor , where he set up a laboratory (from which the Jefferson Physical Laboratory emerged ) and in 1873 obtained a Doctor of Science degree. In 1879 he was given a full professorship, and from 1888 he was succeeding Oliver Wolcott Gibbs Rumford Professor of the application of science to the useful arts .

Trowbridge dealt theoretically and experimentally with various aspects of fluid mechanics , electromagnetic spectra , electricity and electrophysiology, and telegraphy and telephony . Among other things, he developed novel galvanometers and a spark inductor . Trowbridge made a contribution to educating students through physical experimentation . William Duane , Charles Bingham Penrose , George W. Pierce and Benjamin Osgood Peirce were among his students. Trowbridge also worked with Wallace Clement Sabine , Samuel Sheldon , Theodore William Richards and Charles C. Hutchins . Trowbridge was a co-editor of the American Journal of Science .

Since 1871 Trowbridge was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , whose secretary he was from 1879 to 1884 and whose president he was from 1908 to 1915. Since 1876 he was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1878 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , in 1896 to the American Philosophical Society .

Trowbridge was married to Mary Louise Gray († 1907) since 1875, who brought a daughter into the marriage. Trowbridge himself had no biological children.

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