Dr. Robert B. Northrop (late) was an Emeritus Professor at the University of Connecticut (U Conn). Earning his BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1956, he came to the University of Connecticut at Storrs to continue his education. He was the original founding chairman of the department of biomedical engineering at U Conn. Dr. Northrop had been an active researcher and instructor in medical instrumentation for over 30 years. He has authored more than 10 textbooks and reference works related to instrumentation, signal processing, biomedical electronics, and genomics for biomedical engineers. He passed away in 2019