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Arnold Orville Beckman

1900 - 2004

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Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) 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 (and alkalinity), 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arnold Orville Beckman has received more than 147,579 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Arnold Orville Beckman is the 369th most popular inventor (down from 335th in 2019), the 10,387th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,164th in 2019) and the 107th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 2.80

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Arnold Orville Beckman ranks 369 out of 354. Before him are Frank J. Sprague, Roger C. Field, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Charles Ammi Cutter, Peter Cooper, and Mohamed M. Atalla. After him are Richard Pearse, Arthur Fry, Walter Frederick Morrison, John F. Seitz, Lawrence Hargrave, and Charles F. Kettering.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Arnold Orville Beckman ranks 281. Before him are Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Malvina Reynolds, Giuseppe Crivelli, Gladys Egan, John T. Scopes, and Charles Farrell. After him are Roberto Grau, Andy Auld, Renata Viganò, Mark Sandrich, Valerian Gracias, and Preston Foster. Among people deceased in 2004, Arnold Orville Beckman ranks 267. Before him are Ol' Dirty Bastard, Beyers Naudé, Fred Ebb, Richard Dembo, Emlyn Hughes, and Ugo Ferrante. After him are Coxsone Dodd, Paul Nitze, Paul Klebnikov, Charles Dumas, Robert Merrill, and Mehmood.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Arnold Orville Beckman ranks 10,387 out of 18,182. Before him are Mona Freeman (1926), Jerry Rice (1962), Cornel West (1953), Charlie Dominici (1951), George Karl (1951), and Keiko Agena (1973). After him are Andrew Wood (1966), Charles Dierkop (1936), Ashley Scott (1977), Pete Wilson (1933), Michael W. Smith (1957), and Brian Geraghty (1975).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Arnold Orville Beckman ranks 107. Before him are Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), Bette Nesmith Graham (1924), Frank J. Sprague (1857), Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), Charles Ammi Cutter (1837), and Peter Cooper (1791). After him are Arthur Fry (1931), Walter Frederick Morrison (1920), John F. Seitz (1892), Charles F. Kettering (1958), Marc Andreessen (1971), and Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922).

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