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Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist. While a professor at California Institute of Technology, he founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity (and alkalinity), later considered to have "revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology". [1]
The new department of Beckman Instruments took the name Shockley Semi-Conductor Laboratories (the hyphen was conventional in those years). [7] During 1955, Beckman and Shockley signed the deal, [8] bought licenses on all necessary patents for $25,000, [9] and selected the location in Mountain View, near Palo Alto, California. [6]
Arnold Orville Beckman: 1900–2004: 104: American chemist and businessman who founded Beckman Instruments [16] Bei Shizhang: 1903–2009: 106: Chinese biologist and educator [17] Julia Bell: 1879–1979: 100: British human geneticist [18] Harry Benjamin: 1885–1986: 101: German sexologist [19] Leo Beranek: 1914–2016: 102: American ...
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dedicated to interdisciplinary research. A gift from scientist, businessman, and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004) and his wife Mabel (1900–1989) [1] [2] led to the building of the Institute which opened in 1989.
Tracy Beckman (born 1945) – government official, politician, business owner and manager; James Bede § (1856–1942) – member of U.S. Congress; Nicholas Joseph Begich (1932–1972) – member of U.S. Congress; James Ford Bell § (1879–1961) – business leader, philanthropist, founder of General Mills; Troy Bell (born 1980) – basketball ...
Cedarville University student Grace Maxwell was returning from her grandfather’s funeral when she was killed in the Washington, DC, plane crash.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is proving he will always be a proud dad.. The Terminator star, 77, attended the season 3 premiere of The White Lotus on Monday, Feb. 10 to support his son Patrick ...