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	Arnold Orville Beckman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist who founded Beckman Instruments based on his invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity, in 1934.
		He is the namesake of The Beckman Institute and the Beckman Quadrangle at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
		Beckman's history and the unique Heritage Center is located at the Beckman Coulter headquarters in Fullerton, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arnold_O._Beckman (303 words)

	Pepperdine University - Public Relations & News - Press Releases - Pepperdine Remembers Arnold Beckman
		Beckman's love of science and spirit of invention lives on in Beckman Instruments, a company with modest beginnings that today is one of the world's leading manufacturers of instruments and suppliers to the clinical diagnostics and life sciences markets.
		Beckman was a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of California at Irvine, the President's Club of the University of Illinois and the Rockefeller University Council.
		Beckman was a member of the Board of Overseers of the House Ear Institute, a director of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian and the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation.
	www.pepperdine.edu /pr/releases/2005/may/beckman.htm (1692 words)

	Beckman Coulter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Founded by Caltech professor Arnold O. Beckman in 1935 as National Technical Laboratories to commercialize a pH meter that he had invented, the company eventually grew to employ over 10,000 people, with $2.4 billion in annual sales by 2004.
		In 1955, Beckman established the seminal Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory as a division of Beckman Instruments to begin commercializing the semiconductor transistor technology invented by Caltech alumnus William Shockley.
		Because Shockley's aging mother lived in Palo Alto, California, the Shockley Laboratory was established in nearby Mountain View, California, and thus, "Silicon Valley" was born.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beckman_Coulter (257 words)

	The Seattle Times: Obituaries: Arnold Beckman, inventor of pH meter, dies at 104 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The founder of Beckman Instruments and a major benefactor of the California Institute of Technology — whose accomplishments ranged from perfecting measuring devices capable of unlocking the secrets of life to sniffing out the ingredients of smog — died at Scripps Green Hospital in San Diego.
		Beckman earned 14 patents, including those for the potentiometer, a variable electrical resistor similar to the volume knob on a radio; and the spectrophotometer, which allowed scientists to quickly determine the chemical makeup of a compound by measuring the intensity of various wavelengths in a spectrum of light.
		Beckman is survived by his daughter, Patricia, and son, Arnold; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/obituaries/2001936292_beckmanobit23.html (729 words)

	Arnold O. Beckman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Beckman realized that an amplifier would allow a small, stout glass electrode, which would give out an extremely tiny signal, to be hooked to a rugged but insensitive ammeter, and that the vacuum tubes he had worked with at Bell Labs were just the ticket.
		Beckman retained close ties to Caltech, being elected to the Board of Trustees in 1953, and becoming its chair in 1964—the first alumnus to hold that position, which he did until 1974, when he was voted a Life Trustee.
		He stepped down as president of Beckman Instruments at 65, “the age of statutory senility,” staying on as chairman of the board while he and Mabel embarked on an ambitious campaign to give away their entire fortune to causes they believed in—in particular, basic scientific research.
	pr.caltech.edu /periodicals/eands/articles/LXVII2/beckman.html (2311 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Beckman was born in 1900 in the farm town of Cullom, Illinois.
		Beckman's original pH meter was the industry standard for measuring acidity and alkalinity until the invention of electrochemical pH meters.
		Beckman's spectrophotometer was also superseded in time, by new devices produced by his own company and others; even so, thousands of the original model are still in use around the world today.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/beckman.html (611 words)

	Arnold Beckman, 104, philanthropist - The Boston Globe
		Beckman, who honed his skills as a young chemist in the labs at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, donated $40 million to the school in the 1980s.
		Beckman was a visionary who promoted interdisciplinary research before the practice became popular.
		Beckman invented a simple method to measure the acidity of lemons.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/05/19/arnold_beckman_104_philanthropist (255 words)

	The Scripps Research Institute - News and Views
		The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, which issues grants on the behalf of Beckman and his wife, provided major funding toward the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Chemical Sciences, a building that opened in 1996 on the Scripps Research campus.
		Born in Cullom, Illinois, on April 10, 1900, Beckman graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and master's degree in physical chemistry.
		Beckman Instruments grew to become one of the world's leading suppliers of instruments and related products for health care and life sciences.
	www.scripps.edu /newsandviews/e_20040524/beckman.html (530 words)

	About White Instruments Div. C Van R, Inc.
		White Instruments, Inc. was founded in 1953 by Gifford White to specialize in the design and manufacture of precision filters and networks.
		White Instruments has built and continues to build filter comb sets for high resolution sonar, infrasonic filters for seismic and ocean wave studies, and filters for scientific and industrial purposes such as those used in spectrometers and engine balancing equipment.
		White Instruments responded with the ParaMedics 22, 24, 26, and in 2003, the ParaMedic 48.
	www.whiteinstruments.com /aboutus.htm (1274 words)

	The Beckman G pH Meter
		The lid protected the instrument from dust, gave the model G a compact, clean appearance, and cleverly switched off power and sealed the sample door as the lid was closed via metal levers in the casing.
		Beckman described the news of the depth error as "devastating to us; we finally looked into it and found out that, sure enough, it was true," but he was determined to find a solution (Sturchio and Thackray, 1985).
		The instrument shown does not have a zero adjuster in the top left of the control panel, but does have a metal guide on the bottom of the sample door and a lever of unknown purpose connecting the sample door to something inside not found on later models.
	www.wooster.edu /chemistry/is/brubaker/ph/ph_landmark.html (1977 words)

	Caltech Archives: The Beckman Room
		Arnold Orville Beckman came to Caltech in 1923, at a time when both he and the Institute were young, little known, and had unlimited potential.
		In many ways, the Beckman Institute celebrates nearly a century of Dr. Beckman's remarkable life, and Caltech's equally illustrious history, by creating a new laboratory dedicated to pushing back the frontiers of chemistry and biology.
		The Beckman Instruments display, beginning with the pH meter of 1934, highlights the development of the company that became Beckman Instruments and started a revolution in scientific instrumentation.
	archives.caltech.edu /beckman_room.cfm (401 words)

	Arnold L. Beckman
		This year, each Beckman Scholar will receive $19,300 over three years and is required to work with a faculty mentor and perform 10 hours of research activities each week during the academic year and full-time research activities over 10 weeks for two summers.
		Beckman was presented by President Reagan with the 1989 Presidential Citizens Medal, and the 1988 National Medal of Technology for outstanding contributions to the United States through technology.
		In l940, he introduced the Beckman DU Spectrophotometer, which revolutionized chemical analysis by improving the time and accuracy of biological assays to minutes with 99.9 percent precision, from weeks it took before with only 25 percent accuracy.
	www.colostate.edu /depts/NatSci/html/beckman.html (717 words)

	Invent Now \| Hall of Fame \| Search \| Inventor Profile
		Born in Cullom, Illinois, Beckman received his B.S. in 1922 and M.S. in 1923 from the University of Illinois.
		He founded Beckman Instruments Inc. in 1935 with the development of the first Beckman instrument, the pH meter.
		Today the Beckman Instrument Company is a leading manufacturer of instrumentation and related scientific products used widely in medicine, science, industry, environmental pollution control, education, space exploration, and many other fields.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/9.html (224 words)

	Arnold O. Beckman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Arnold O. Beckman is the founder of Beckman Instruments, Inc., a subsidiary of SmithKline Beckman Corp. known for scientific innovation and one of the world's leading suppliers of instruments and related products for the health care and life sciences industries.
		Examples of Dr. Beckman's innovations include the 1935 introduction of the pH meter and the 1940 introductions of both the Beckman DU Spectrophotometer, which revolutionized chemical analysis by simplifying laboratory procedures, and the Beckman Helipot, which became an essential component of RADAR systems in World War II.
		Among Dr. Beckman's many awards are the 1989 Charles Lathrop Parsons Award from the American Chemical Society, the first Vermilye Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1987, and induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1987.
	www.iit.edu /departments/pr/awards/beckman.html (297 words)

	Potentiometric titrators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The theory, early applications and respective instrumentation of the potentiometric titration were reviewed in papers written by H.N. Furman in 1930, 1942 and 1950 [1-3].
		The instrument was assembled as a portable unit in a radio-type cabinet (Figure 3).
		Subsequently [16] this basic instrument was incorporated in a dual titration instrument (Figure 7) with provision for two sets of electrodes.
	chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/instruments/electrochemical/potentiometric_titrators.htm (1039 words)

	BECKMAN INSTRUMENTS (PORTERVILLE PLANT)
		Beckman installed groundwater monitoring wells and provided alternate water supplies to about 300 residences affected by the contamination.
		In 1985, Beckman installed a groundwater pump and treat system to stop the westward spread of contaminants in the upper aquifer and to begin cleaning the groundwater.
		Cleanup of the lower aquifer at the Beckman Instruments (Porterville Plant) is underway and will continue until established cleanup standards are achieved.
	yosemite.epa.gov /r9/sfund/overview.nsf/ef81e03b0f6bcdb28825650f005dc4c1/f4e63e5fe024ce088825660b007ee63d?OpenDocument (666 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Arnold Beckman, inventor-philanthropist, dies at 104
		Beckman, who died Tuesday, was remembered as an inventor, businessman, and supporter of other scientists.
		Besides providing funding for Caltech's Beckman Institute and Beckman Auditorium, Beckman gave $40 million to fund an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Illinois, $20 million for a conference center for the National Academy of Sciences, and $14.5 million to improve elementary school science education in Orange County, according to Caltech.
		Beckman also supported early efforts to identify the chemical processes that form smog, which was already a problem in Los Angeles by the early 1950s.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20040519-0014-ca-obit-beckman.html (566 words)

	Beckman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Beckman was a founder of the megacorporation Beckman Instruments.
		The military needed an instrument for measuring the amount of oxygen in a sample of mixed gases; this device was needed on submarines and high-flying aircraft to ensure the safety of the servicemen.
		Beckman Instruments was thus present at the very birth of Silicon Valley, and was perhaps the earliest victim of the legendary entrepreneurial inclination of its technological innovators.
	chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/history/beckman.htm (13585 words)

	Beckman Institute: Page Not Found (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Beckman Institute web site has been redesigned and the page you were looking for has moved or no longer exists.
		Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
		Copyright © 1997-2006 Beckman Institute and the Board of Trustees, University of Illinois
	www.beckman.uiuc.edu /inside/beckmans.html (97 words)

	CSHL - Arnold Beckman
		Arnold Orville Beckman, Ph.D. was born in 1900 in Cullom, Illinois.
		The son of a flsmith, Dr. Beckman went on to found Beckman Instruments, Inc. (today known as Beckman Coulter, Inc.), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of scientific equipment.
		The recipient of numerous awards, Dr. Beckman is best known for his 1935 invention of the pH meter, an instrument which changed an industry and served as the base for his immense corporation.
	www.cshl.edu /public/releases/beckman_memorial.html (279 words)

	Chapman University
		The generosity of Dr. Beckman and his wife, Mabel, had a huge influence at Chapman, in Southern California and across the nation — indeed, they were numbered among the top philanthropists in the United States.
		Arnold Orville Beckman was born April 10, 1900 in tiny Cullom, Ill., the son of a flsmith.
		Beckman and his wife devoted themselves to philanthropy in their later years, with a plan to give away their entire fortune within their lifetime.
	www.chapman.edu /admission/news/news_story.asp?iNewsID=276&strBack=/admission/news/news_archive.asp (518 words)

	The Tech \| Visit \| The National Medal of Technology \| Laureate Profile for Arnold O. Beckman
		In 1935, Arnold Beckman invented the electronic pH meter to measure the acidity of lemon juice at a citrus-processing plant.
		Beckman’s meter soon became an indispensable tool for chemists in medicine, agriculture, science, and industry.
		Beckman Instruments grew to be the world’s largest and leading developer of instruments for chemical analysis.
	www.thetech.org /nmot/detail.cfm?id=57&st=awardDate&qt=1988&kiosk=Off (145 words)

	Arnold O. Beckman: Beckman the Philanthropist
		The Beckmans established the Beckman Foundation in September 1977 in order to support basic scientific research, with a special emphasis on chemistry.
		The first such center was the Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California.
		Following their generous gift to the University of Illinois in support of research, the Beckmans decided to build a Beckman Institute at Urbana-Champaign.
	www.chemheritage.org /explore/Beckman/chptr10.htm (1233 words)

	Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
		Arnold O. Beckman, founder-chairman emeritus of Beckman Instruments, Inc., represents nearly a century of outstanding scientific achievements.
		Dr. Beckman continued to develop and manufacture scientific instruments, leading to the release of the Beckman DU Spectrophotometer in 1940.
		These extraordinary contributions led President Bush to award Dr. Beckman the National Medal of Science in 1989 for his leadership in analytical instrumentation development and for his deep concern for the vitality of the nation's scientific enterprises.
	www.beckman-foundation.com /beckman.html (602 words)

	Biology and Chemistry Awarded Beckman Scholars Program Renewal - Boston College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The renewal of the Beckman Scholars Program at BC will fund five additional Scholars at a level of $17,600 each, enabling them to conduct research in the laboratory of a faculty mentor for two summers and one academic year.
		BC students interested in becoming Beckman Scholars will be able to learn about the application process, and the activities of Scholars, at a spring undergraduate research workshop conducted by existing Beckman Scholars.
		As Professor Thomas Chiles of Biology, co-author of the successful first BC Beckman Program proposal, comments: “Research adds meaning to what is established as knowledge in class.” Furthermore, the earlier that students become involved in research, the more rewarding their research experiences will be.
	www.bc.edu /schools/cas/biology/news/beckman (955 words)

	ARNOLD O. BECKMAN, Ph.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		rnold O. Beckman, founder-chairman emeritus of Beckman Instruments, Inc., is recognized worldwide as a scientist, an inventor and an educator, a philanthropist, and a business and civic leader.
		In recognition for exemplary deeds of service to fellow citizens, Dr. Beckman wa s presented by President Reagan with the 1989 Presidential Citizens Medal, and the 1988 National Medal of Technology for outstanding contributions to the United States through technology.
		Beckman founded Beckman Instruments in 1935 with the production of a pH meter he invented.
	www.beckman-foundation.com /aobbio.html (418 words)

	2004 Visionary of the Year: Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Beckman, founder and chairman emeritus of Beckman Instruments, Inc., is recognized worldwide as a scientist, inventor, educator, philanthropist, and a business and civic leader.
		Beckman, who passed away on May 18, 2004, will be represented by a family member or foundation representative at the Visionary of the Year Awards Dinner.
		A forerunner of modern electrochemical instrumentation, the meter simplified and expedited acidity and alkalinity measurements.
	coastline.cccd.edu /page.asp?LinkID=529 (298 words)

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