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ARNOLD O. BECKMAN
ARNOLD O. BECKMAN
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He mastered chemistry quickly, and when he graduated as valedictorian had completed 2½ years of college chemistry at Illinois State Normal University. He joined the Marines and, while 13
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The pH meter was developed into a portable device that was first shown at the American Chemical Society annual meeting in San Francisco in 1935. After it evoked much interest there, he was able to market it, and started what later became the very successful Beckman Instruments Company.
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Arnold Beckman believed in science and engineering education and research, and through the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation the Beckmans gave more than $400 million to philanthropy, primarily toward scientific endeavors in higher education -- more than 200 young investigators and 400 young scholars have been funded. In addition to their gifts to Caltech, they provided funds for the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope, the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic
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Of the many other awards he received, the following stand out: • Life Achievement Award of the Instrument Society of America, 1981 • Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement, 1982 • Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technology, 1984 • National Inventors Hall of Fame, 1987 • National Medal of Technology, 1988 • Presidential Citizens Medal, 1989 • National Medal of Science, 1989 • Bower Award for Business Leadership, Franklin Institute, 1992 • Hall of Fame, Alpha Chi Sigma, 1996 • Public Welfare Medal, National Academy of Sciences, 1999 • Othmer Gold Medal (Special Millennium Edition) , Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2000 • Lifetime Achievement Award, National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2004 Arnold Beckman was a leader in many areas of life, from science and engineering to creative invention, service to education, and philanthropy.
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He lived by these rules his entire life, which spanned the twentieth century. He saw science and technology develop to its present-day state, and his contributions enabled much of that development.
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