Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison.
University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He was dean of Engineering 1925-1955 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 Bachelor of Surgery in mathematics (1910) and did a study on Potential Distribution on High Tension Insulators with advisor Jesse L. Brenneman (1913).
This led to a Doctor of Philosophy 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).