Biography:Edwin Fitch Northrup
Edwin Fitch Northrup (born February 23, 1866 – May 13, 1940) was a professor of physics known for his contributions to the study of substances at high temperatures and electronic conductivity. He was a professor at Princeton University from 1910 to 1919, an officer and adviser of Ajax Electro-Thermic Corp for twenty years and was affiliated with Leeds & Northrup for seven years. He held 104 patents on high-temperature measurement for new methods and instruments for the production and measurement of high temperatures.[1]
Northrup was born in Syracuse to Ansel Judd Northrup and Eliza Sophia Fitch Northrup. He graduated from Amherst College in 1892 and dis some post-graduate studies at Cornell University before earning a Ph.D. in physics from Johns Hopkins University in 1895.[1] He then became assistant to Prof. Henry Augustus Rowland (died 1901) in the development of telegraph systems and became chief engineer at the newly-founded Rowland Printing Telegraph Company. In 1903 he co-founded Leeds & Northrup with Morris E. Leeds.
Northrup founded the Pyro-electric Instrument Company and served as its president from 1916 to 1920. From 1920 until his death in 1940 he served as vice president and technical adviser for Ajax Electro-Thermic Corp.[1]
Northrup invented the Ajax-Northrup high-frequency induction furnace, which in 1931 produced a temperature of 3,600 degrees.[1] That year he was awarded the Acheson Award by the Electrochemical Society.[2]
In 1937, Dr. Northrup published the science fiction novel Zero to Eighty under the pseudonym of Akkad Pseudoman.
Bibliography
- Methods of Measuring Electrical Resistance (McGraw-Hill, 1912) ISBN 9781358324970
- Laws of Physical Science (Knopf, 1917)
- Zero to Eighty (as Akkad Pseudoman) (Knopf, 1937) ISBN 9781625790248
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "DR. E.F. NORTHRUP, INVENTOR, IS DEAD". May 2, 1940. https://www.nytimes.com/1940/05/02/archives/dr-ef-northrup-inventor-is-dead-holder-of-104-patents-on.html.
- ↑ "Edward Goodrich Acheson Award Recipients". Electrochemical Society. http://www.electrochem.org/awards/ecs/recipients/acheson_recipients.htm. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
- James Farol Metcalf. "Zero to Eighty". Archived from the original on March 19, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070319092209/http://www.ioa.com/~zero/374-HistoryAjax.html.
- Northrup, Edwin Fitch (1937). Zero to Eighty: Being My Lifetime Doings, Reflections, and Inventions, Also My Journey Around the Moon. Scientific Pub. Co.. http://www.electric-history.com/~zero/ZerotoEighty.htm.
- Northrup, Edwin F. (1912). Methods of Measuring Electrical Resistance. McGraw-Hill book Company. https://archive.org/details/methodsmeasurin00nortgoog.
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