Augustus Trowbridge (January 2, 1870 – March 14, 1934) was a physics professor and dean at Princeton University.
[2] He withdrew from Columbia and accepted a temporary position as a civil engineer at the Chicago World's Fair.
In 1900, he accepted an invitation to become an assistant professor of mathematical physics at the University of Wisconsin, following his friend Robert W. Wood.
Prior to the start of World War I, Trowbridge was elected to the National Research Council.
Trowbridge went to France in September 1917 and studied flash and sound ranging operations on the French and British fronts.
[1][7] He left Princeton to serve as an executive director in Paris of the International Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1925 to 1928.