Edwin Fitch Northrup (born February 23, 1866 – May 13, 1940) was a professor of physics at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

from 1910 to 1920. He was affiliated with the

Leeds & Northrup Leeds & Northrup (L&N) was an American electric technology company founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1899. It was formed by Morris E. Leeds and Edwin Fitch Northrup. L&N merged with General Signal in 1978. General Signal divested itself ...

for about seven years. He studied at

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and the

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

, where he gained his Ph.D. in physics in 1895. He then became assistant to Prof.

Henry Augustus Rowland Henry Augustus Rowland (November 27, 1848 – April 16, 1901) was an American physicist and Johns Hopkins educator. Between 1899 and 1901 he served as the first president of the American Physical Society. He is remembered primarily for the h ...

(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 the Leeds & Northrup with

Morris E. Leeds Morris E. Leeds (March 6, 1869 in Philadelphia – February 8, 1952) was an American electrical engineer known for his many inventions in the field of electrical measuring devices and controls. Biography Leeds was born in Philadelphia in 1869 to ...

. He was awarded the Acheson Award by the

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in 1931. In 1937, Dr. Northrup published the

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'' under the pseudonym of ''Akkad Pseudoman''.

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