User:Mary Mark Ockerbloom/sandbox/Beckman Connections

Lists of possible Beckman connections

These are rough notes, which are intended to stay in this sandbox, identifying places, people and things which relate in some way to Arnold Orville Beckman and the Beckman Archive at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. These and other pages are possible targets for improvement.

Beckman-related resources


A number of Beckman Young Investigators have been named by the Technology Review 100 (TR100)

Beckman Foundation and Institutes
In the 1980s, through the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the Beckmans funded five major research centers:
 * Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University, Stanford, California
 * Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
 * Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 * Beckman Laser Institute, University of California, Irvine, in Irvine, California
 * Beckman Research Institute (BRI) at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California, United States.

The Beckmans also gave to:
 * The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Science and Engineering, in Irvine, CA (1988)

People at the Beckman Institutes

 * Jiri Jonas
 * Arthur F. Kramer
 * Nancy Sottos
 * Bruce J. Tromberg
 * David A. Horne
 * Arthur Riggs and Keiichi Itakura
 * Steven T. Rosen, City of Hope
 * Richard Jove
 * John Rossi, BRI at City of Hope
 * Hua Eleanor Yu

Instruments and inventions

 * see also: Scientific Instruments list at Chemheritage
 * Beckman Model E analytical ultracentrifuge
 * Beckman IR-1 Spectrophotometer ca. 1941
 * Beckman Paragon CZE 2000 Serum Protein Analyzer
 * Beckman Astra-8 multiple-channel chemistry analyzer
 * Beckman Model G pH Meter, first pH meter or acidimeter (1934)
 * Beckman Model DU Spectrophotometer: used by Bruce Merrifield (Nobel laureatea); Carl Djerassi at Syntex (birth control); Erwin Chargaff, DNA research, which influenced Crick and James Watson
 * Liston-Becker Model 28 Exhaust Gas Analyzer  smog analyzer
 * Beckman Biomek 1000 Laboratory Automation Workstation
 * programmable speed warning buzzer for cars (1927, first patent of Arnold Beckman)
 * quartz-fiber manometer first publication of Arnold Beckman
 * reworking of the periodic table with A. A. Noyes
 * film-coating machine (patented) for Lee de Forest
 * non-clogging ink, re-inking typewriter ribbon, ink-loaded ribbon bobbins, ink-loaded sponge
 * microammeter
 * helipot (helical potentiometer)
 * liquid crystal displays
 * analog and digital computers

Companies

 * Bell Labs (worked there)
 * National Postal Meter Company
 * National Inking Applicance Company (created by Beckman)
 * Arthur H. Thomas, instrument supply company
 * National Technical Laboratories (created by Beckman)
 * Arnold O. Beckman, Inc. (created by Beckman)
 * Helipot Corporation (created by Beckman)
 * Bell Labs --> Shockley Semiconductor (financed by Beckman) --> Fairchild -->Intel --> Silicon Valley
 * Illinois Chemist, Beckman edited the journal

People

 * Max D. Liston, smog analysis
 * William F. Ballhaus, Sr., engineer, president at Beckman Instruments, 1965-
 * Stephen Allen Boppart, Bioimaging Science and Technology
 * Erwin Chargaff, biochemist, Columbia University, DNA researcher
 * Lee de Forest, metal-coated films for movies, Beckman developed a film-coating machine
 * W. Edwards Deming, engineer, statistician and business, quality control; also worked for Shewhart at Bell Labs
 * Roscoe G. Dickinson, doctoral advisor of Arnold Beckman, for work on phytochemistry of hydrogen azide
 * Kara D. Federmeier, Psychology
 * Robert E. Gaensslen, criminology, forensic science
 * Leroy Hood, chemist, DNA sequencing, Applied Biosystems
 * Glen Joseph, chemist, request resulted in development of pH meter
 * Gabrielle G. Long, x-ray scattering and materials; Argonne National Laboratory synchrotron
 * Curt Miller, engineer and doctor
 * Chad Mirkin, nanotechnology
 * Gordon Moore, worked at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory division of Beckman Instruments
 * Arthur Amos Noyes, chemist, Caltech,, doctoral advisor of Roscoe G. Dickinson; Beckman worked with him on a new periodic table
 * John D. Roberts, chemist, Caltech, friend and colleague of Arnold Beckman
 * Michael Roukes, nanoscale science and engineering
 * Susan Schantz, Neuroscience
 * T. Vincent Shankey, clinical medicine
 * Walter A. Shewhart, physicist, engineer and statistician, University of California, Berkeley; Arnold Beckman worked for Shewhart at Bell Labs
 * Earl Warren, jurist and politician; Arnold Beckman was an expert witness in a case he tried early in both their careers

Bridging divides : the origins of the Beckman Institute at Illinois
• Jacob A. Abraham, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Daniel Alpert, Daniel Alpert, Professor of Physics (1957-1987) and Director of the Center for Advanced Study (1972-1987, retired university vice chancellor for research

• Mark W. Arends, Head of the Industrial Design department at UIUC

• Richard C. Atkinson, psychologist at University of California; External Advisory Committee (1986-1993)

• John Bardeen, physicist and electrical engineer

• James R. Barrett, history

• Lewis Wright Barron, executive director of the University of Illinois Foundation

• Robert Berdahl, vice chancellor for academic affairs

• Paul Berg, Beckman foundation Grants Advisory Council

• Michael Berns, Michael W. Berns Co-Founder, Beckman Laser Institute

• Roger Blakeley, sculptor, professor of art

• J. Philip Bloomer, reporter for Champaign-Urbana News Gazette

• Gordon Bower, Psychology, Stanford; Board of Directors, The Beckman Center for Cognitive Science, The University of Illinois, 1986- 1991

• Lewis M. Branscomb, physicist

• William F. Brewer, Psychology

• Audrey C. Brown, Religious studies

• Theodore L. Brown, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and Founding Director Emeritus of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Institute

• Terry L. Bruce, U.S. Representative from Illinois

• Donald Burkholder, mathematician

• Charles Capwell, Professor of Music and an Affiliate of the Anthropology Department

• William Carlson, Professor of Art and head of the Crafts and Sculpture programs

• B. T. Chao, professor of mechanical engineering

• James H. Clark, Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape, Healtheon

• Brent Collins, sculptor

• Elaine Johnson Copeland, psychologist, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

• Donna Cox, artist and scientist

• John E. Cribbet, legal scholar

• Julie Crispin, administrative staff

• Anthony Crofts, Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry

• John Cronan, Microbiology

• Joseph Cruz, Electrical engineering

• Edward S. Davidson

• Gerald Francis DeJong, computer science

• Daniel Dennett, Philosophy

• Paul Dixon, architect

• Emanuel Donchin, Psychology

• Daniel C. Drucker, Engineering

• Gerald M. Edelman, Nobel Prize, Physiology & Medicine, Rockefeller University

• Thomas E. Everhart, physicist, Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984 to 1987

• Peter Fagan, sculptor

• Noel Fagerland, architect

• Larry Faulkner, chemistry; provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Illinois

• Albert S. Feng, Molecular and integrative physiology

• George M. C. Fisher, Engineering; Chairman of the Board, University of Illinois Foundation from 1997-1999

• John Flynn, architect

• Kenneth D. Forbus, Computer Science and Professor of Education at Northwestern University

• Hans Frauenfelder, physicist and biophysicist

• John Block Friedman, English medievalist

• Al Fritchie, Bacon and Van Buskirk glass installation

• Nancy Gardner, Art & Design

• Chester S. Gardner, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Vice President for Academic Affairs

• Charles William Gear, Engineering & computer science,

• Dedre Gentner, Psychology & computer science

• Edwin L. Goldwasser, Physics, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

• Harry B. Gray, chemist, Princeton & Caltech; Founding Director of the Beckman Institute at Caltech; Grants Advisory Council for Beckman Illinois

• J. Frederick Green, University Director for Capital Programs

• William T. Greenough, Psychology

• Peter Fahrid Haddawy,  Ph.D. student, Computer science

• Heini Halberstam, mathematician

• Margarita Ham, Beckman institute staff

• Gerald Harms, Farmer

• Marian Harms, Farmer, Cullom Community Library organizer

• Gavin S. Herbert, Allergan, Inc., friends of Arnold Beckman

• Ninetta Herbert, friends of Arnold Beckman

• Richard Herman, Chancellor of the University of Illinois, 2005-2009

• Karl Hess, Physics, Electrical and computer engineering; co-founder of Beckman Institute at UIUC; see German Wikipedia

• Joseph T. Holden, Biochemist; Emeritus Senior Scientist, and Director Emeritus of the Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope National Medical Center

• Nick Holonyak, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics

• Stanley O. Ikenberry, former president of the University of Illinois and of the American Council of Education

• Seely Johnston, junior fraternity brother of Arnold Beckman, Champaign City Council member

• Jiri Jonas, physical chemistry, CAS Professor Emeritus of Chemistry; 2nd Director Emeritus of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Institute

• Judith C. Jones, coordinator of publications and special events, Beckman Institute

• Marianne E. Kalinke, Professor Emerita of Medieval Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures

• Samuel Kaplan, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana from 1968-1989

• Jordan Konisky, biology & chemistry, Faculty member, University of Illinois, 1970-1996

• Emil Konrath, construction industry

• William Kubitz, Computer Science

• David Kuck, Computer Science

• Bill Kuhne, construction industry

• Paul Lauterbur, chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

• Anthony J. Leggett, physics

• Nelson J. Leonard, chemist

• Jennifer S. Lund, Director, Center for Neuroscience, UPitt; External Advisory Committee

• Joseph G. Malpeli, psychology, neuroscience

• Bruce Marshall, chemistry, assistant director for building operations

• Christianne T. Martens, sculptor, art faculty

• Ross J. Martin, associate dean of the College of Engineering,  director of the Engineering Experiment Station

• Joseph McCullough, construction

• James McGaugh, neurobiology and behavior research

• Steve McGaughey, psychology & neurobiology

• William L. McMillan, physics

• Douglas Medin, psychology

• William H. Mischo, Head, Grainger Engineering Library

• Peter Mitnik, construction/financial

• Frances Moreland, homeowner moved for building of Beckman Institute

• Jerry L. Morgan, Linguistics

• Richard Nixon, U.S. president

• Andrew Nobel, Statistics and Biostatistics; one of first two Beckman Fellows

• Charles C. C. O'Morchoe,  Charles Christopher Creagh O'Morchoe, Regional Dean at University of Illinois College of Medicine

• Norman Packard, computer science, chaos theory physicist, founding member of the Center for Complex Systems Research at UIUC

• David A. Payne, Emeritus Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

• Carolyn Percival, staff assistant

• David Pines, physicist, Founding Director-Emeritus of the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter

• Richard Powers, science novelist

• Franco P. Preparata, computer scientist

• William Prokasy, psychologist

• C. Ladd Prosser, physiologist

• Victor D. Ramirez, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Neuroscience

• Ann Riley, administrative secretary

• Edward J. Roy, Pathology, Molecular and cellular biology

• Russ Shermer, computer science

• Thomas Schleiss, school of music

• William R. Schoedel, professor emeritus of classics and early Christianity

• Klaus J. Schulten, computational biophysics

• Gary Schuster, Chemistry and Biochemistry

• Frederick Seitz, physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics.

• David J. Shapiro, Molecular and cellular biology

• John R. Shapley, chemist

• Nina Temple Shepherd, Board of Trustees President

• Efrat Shimshoni, physics; one of first two Beckman Fellows

• Daniel Slotnick, mathematics and computer science

• Larry L. Smarr, physics and supercomputing

• William Stallman, office of space utilization

• Harvey J. Stapleton, physics

• Gregory Eugene Stillman, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• David L. Stocum, cell and structural biology

• Michio Suzuki, mathematics and number theory

• James R. Thompson, Illinois Governor

• Timothy N. Trick, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• John Robinson Tucker, Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coordinated Sciences Lab, submillimeter astronomy

• Nicholas Turro, chemist, Columbia University; External Advisory Committee

• Mac Elwyn Van Valkenburg, electrical engineer

• Andrew Vazzano, architecture and planning

• Jim Vermette, friends of the Beckmans, president and CEO of the UI Alumni Association

• Dena Vermette, friends of the Beckmans

• David Waltz, computer science

• Sarah Wasserman, associate director for administration

• Gregorio Weber, Fluorescence Dynamics

• Morton W. Weir, Psychology

• Richard Wheeler, English, Interim Provost

• Christopher Wickens, Psychology, image processing

• Martha Williams, Library, Coordinated Science Lab

• Pierre Wiltzius, physics; 3rd Director Emeritus of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Institute; now Dean of Science at UC Santa Barbara

• Carl R. Woese, microbiologist and biophysicist

• James P. Wolfe, physics

• Ralph S. Wolfe, biochemistry

• Charles P. Wolff, University of Illinois Board of Trustees

• Peter Guy Wolynes, theoretical chemist and physicist

• Scott A. Wyatt, Professor Emeritus of Music Composition

• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, medical physicist, Nobel Prize; External Advisory Committee

• Ralph Youngren, architect