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The Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine is an interdisciplinary center, part of Stanford School of Medicine at Stanford University, Stanford, California. Considered a "unique facility", it was one of the first research centers to take a translational medicine approach to molecular and medical genetics.
Beckman had a long-term relationship with Caltech as a student, teacher and trustee. After discussions with chemists Harry B. Gray and Peter Dervan , and biologists Eric H. Davidson and Leroy Hood , Beckman announced in 1986 that he would donate $50 million to establish the institute and an accompanying endowment.
The Beckman Institute at Caltech is a multi-disciplinary center for research in the chemical and biological sciences. Founding of the Beckman Institute at Caltech was supported by a major philanthropic gift from the Arnold Orville Beckman and his wife Mabel, through the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Beckman had a long-term relationship ...
Beckman Institute may refer to any of five research centers founded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation in the 1980s: Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Beckman Institute at Caltech, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
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Funds were available for buildings, equipment, and endowment, but had to support research and the advancement of knowledge related to the "causes, prevention, and cure of human disease". The Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope was the first of five Beckman research institutes to receive funding in the United States. [2]: 325–328
The company was founded by Caltech professor Arnold O. Beckman in 1935 as National Technical Laboratories to commercialize a pH meter that he had invented. In the 1940s, Beckman changed the name to Arnold O. Beckman, Inc. to sell oxygen analyzers, the Helipot precision potentiometer, and spectrophotometers.
The native Tennessean has now moved East, closer to the mountains he loves to hike. Beckman, 61, was born in Lawrenceburg, south of Nashville near the Alabama state line.