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Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist.
ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW. When a friend asked Arnold Beckman to engineer a better device for measuring acidity in citrus fruit, Beckman came up with the first commercially successful electronic pH meter.
Arnold O. Beckman, founder and chairman emeritus of Beckman Instruments, Inc. (now known as Beckman Coulter, Inc.), represents nearly a century of outstanding scientific achievements.
Dr. Arnold O. Beckman, founder of Beckman Instruments, Inc., created devices that revolutionized the study and understanding of chemistry and human biology. Beckman often said, "There is no satisfactory substitute for excellence."
When Arnold Beckman, a professor of analytical chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, was asked to devise a way to measure acidity in citrus fruit, the resulting “acidometer” revolutionized chemical instrumentation.
Over 60 years ago, Arnold O. Beckman invented the world’s first pH meter, initiating a long and distinguished career as a businessman, philanthropist, and inventor of scientific instruments. Beckman was born on April 10, 1900 in the farm town of Cullom, Illinois.
May 20, 2004 · Arnold O. Beckman, a chemist whose invention in 1934 of a device to measure the sourness of lemons led to a lucrative career developing accurate and easy-to-use scientific instruments, died...
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