Clinical Chemistry 50: 1486-1487, 2004;
10.1373/clinchem.2004.037861
(Clinical Chemistry. 2004;50:1486-1487.)
© 2004 American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Inc.
Arnold O. Beckman, PhD (1900–2004)
Nathan Gochman
Anaheim, CA
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Arnold Orville Beckman died in his sleep May 18, 2004, at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, CA, at the age of 104. His remarkable life spanned the twentieth century and the dawning of the twenty-first century, and his genius created or inspired many of the innovations of the period. From humble beginnings he rose to be a world-renowned scientist, educator, inventor, industrialist, and philanthropist in a trajectory that could require books to recount.
Arnold Beckman was born April 10, 1900, in Cullom, IL, the son of a blacksmith. After serving in the Marine Corps (1918–1919) he earned a Bachelor’s degree (1922) in chemical engineering and a Master’s degree (1923) in physical chemistry from the University of Illinois. He started a PhD program at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in 1924, but interrupted it to go to New York to be close to Mabel Meinzer. They married in 1925 and returned in Beckman’s Model T to California, where Beckman earned his PhD in photochemistry from Caltech in 1928. While on the faculty of Caltech as assistant professor of chemistry, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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