Background
Augustus Trowbridge was born on Jan. 2, 1870 in New York City. He was the son of George Alfred and Cornelia Polhemus (Robertson) Trowbridge, and a descendant of Thomas Trowbridge who came to Dorchester, Massachussets, about 1636.
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Augustus Trowbridge was born on Jan. 2, 1870 in New York City. He was the son of George Alfred and Cornelia Polhemus (Robertson) Trowbridge, and a descendant of Thomas Trowbridge who came to Dorchester, Massachussets, about 1636.
Augustus entered Columbia University in 1890, but left in 1893 to take a position with the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago.
After finishing his work at the Fair, he went to Germany, where he studied physics at the University of Berlin, receiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1898.
Returning to the United States soon thereafter, he became instructor in physics at the University of Michigan, leaving there in 1900 to accept the position of assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin; three years later he was promoted to a full professorship.
In 1906 he accepted a similar position at Princeton, which he held until his resignation shortly before his death.
In 1928 he became dean of the graduate school and fulfilled the duties of that office with notable success from that time until June 1932, when failing health compelled him to relinquish it.
During his lifetime he carried on important research work and published between twenty and thirty articles, some of them in collaboration with other scholars, which appeared in various scientific publications. His studies were chiefly in the field of radiations, including the theory and behavior of the coherer.
In 1903 as a member of the International Congress of Applied Chemistry in Berlin, he began that phase of his activities for which his career was chiefly noted, those of an able administrator and director of organizations for the advancement of science.
He was secretary of the physics section of the International Congress of Arts and Sciences, St. Louis, in 1904; a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1921 chairman of its division of physics; and chairman of the division of physical sciences and member of the research fellowship board of the National Research Council, 1920-21.
In 1925 he obtained leave from Princeton in order to go to Paris as the director for science of the International Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, in which connection he was charged with the distribution of many millions of dollars, designed to restore the scientific institutions of Europe and to revive scientific work.
During the World War he was attached, 1918, to the staff of General Pershing as a member of the intelligence department, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. His principal work was with the flash and sound ranging service of the army, the function of which was to locate the position of enemy guns either from the flash when fired, if that could be seen, or from the report. The French had devised a method of such location which the British had developed, and all the information acquired was put at Trowbridge's disposal. With the aid of this, American officers, through the incorporation of automatic devices, were able to develop, in the Palmer Physical Laboratory, equipment by which an enemy's gun at its normal range could be located within forty to forty-five seconds after it was fired.
Trowbridge combined an unusual knowledge of the world and its peoples with a gift for languages. The combination made it possible for him to carry on readily the conferences required by the negotiations of the International Education Board, and while in the military service, to act as a liaison officer for the staffs of the allied armies.
After resigning his professorship at Princeton in June 1933, he went to Europe, hoping to benefit his health, but died in Taormina the following March.
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On Septemper 20, 1893 he married Sarah Esther Fulton of New York. They had two sons.