Arnold Beckman
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Arnold Orville Beckman (1900 - 2004)

Arnold Orville Beckman
Born in Cullom, Livingston, Illinois, United Statesmap
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Died at age 104 in La Jolla, San Diego, San Diego, California, United Statesmap
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Arnold Beckman is Notable.

Arnold Orville Beckman 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, later considered to have "revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology". He also developed the DU spectrophotometer, "probably the most important instrument ever developed towards the advancement of bioscience".

Beckman was born in Cullom, Illinois, a village of about 500 people in a farming community. He was the youngest son of George Beckman, a blacksmith, and his second wife Elizabeth Ellen Jewkes.

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