Edwin Fitch Northrup

Edwin Fitch Northrup ( born February 23, 1866 in Syracuse, New York, † May 13, 1940 ) was American physicist. He was a professor at Princeton University.

Northrup studied at Amherst College and at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned his doctorate in physics in 1895. He was then an assistant of Prof. Henry Augustus Rowland († 1901) in the development of telegraph systems and became chief engineer at the newly formed Rowland Printing Telegraph Company. In 1903 he founded together with s: Morris E. Leeds Leeds & Northrup the Company.

From 1910 to 1920 he was professor of physics at Princeton University.

In 1916 he founded in Trenton (New Jersey) the pyro -electric Instrument Company.

He developed the Ajax- Northrup - inductive furnace.

In 1937 he published under the pseudonym of Akkad Pseudoman the science fiction novel Zero to Eighty.