Harold Marion Crothers (born 1887) was an American professor of electrical engineering at

South Dakota State University South Dakota State University is a public land-grant research university in Brookings, South Dakota. Founded in 1881, it is the state's largest and most comprehensive university and the oldest continually-operating university in South Dakota. The ...

where he also served as president for three periods (1946, 1951, 1957–58).Past presidents of South Dakota State University
includes a picture of H. M. Crothers He was dean of Engineering 1925-55 and gave name to the ''Crothers Engineering Hall'' (1957). Earlier, he was instrumental in the establishment of the university's first radio station (1931). Crothers received a B.S. in mathematics (1910) and did a study on ''Potential Distribution on High Tension Insulators'' with advisor Jesse L. Brenneman (1913). This led to a Ph.D. at University of Wisconsin, Madison on a thesis entitled ''The Selective Properties of Coupled Radio Circuits'' advised by with

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(1920). He joined the faculty there and wrote a book on ''Introductory Electrodynamics'', jointly with Bennett (1926).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Crothers, Harold Marion American engineers 1887 births University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty South Dakota State University faculty Year of death missing