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Authors
Robert B. Northrop, PhD, was born in White Plains, NY, in 1935. After
graduating from Staples High School in Westport, CT, he majored in elec-
trical engineering (EE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1956. At the University of Connecticut
(UCONN), he received a master’s degree in systems engineering in 1958. As
the result of a long-standing interest in physiology, he entered a PhD pro-
gram at UCONN in physiology, doing research on the neuromuscular physi-
ology of molluscan catch muscles. He received his PhD in 1964.
In 1963, he rejoined the UCONN EE Department as ...