Harold Marion Crothers
Harold Marion Crothers (December 9, 1887, in Hetland, South Dakota))[1] was an American professor of electrical engineering at South Dakota State University where he also served as president for three periods (1946, 1951, 1957–58).[2] 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 Edward Bennett (physicist) (1920). He joined the faculty there and wrote a book on Introductory Electrodynamics, jointly with Bennett (1926).
References
[edit]- ^ CROTHERS, Harold Marion, in Who's Who in America (14th edition, 1926); p. 537
- ^ Past presidents of South Dakota State University Archived 2008-07-05 at the Wayback Machine includes a picture of H. M. Crothers