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The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dedicated to interdisciplinary research. A gift from scientist, businessman, and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman (1900–2004) and his wife Mabel (1900–1989) [1] [2] led to the building of the Institute which opened in 1989.
Beckman Institute may refer to any of five research centers founded by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation in the 1980s: Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Beckman Institute at Caltech, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
The Beckman Institute at Caltech was chartered by Caltech in 1987. [1] Beckman Institute at Caltech. The institute building was designed by architect Albert C. Martin, Jr. in a Spanish style with a pool and a central courtyard. It was dedicated on October 26, 1989, and opened in 1990.
Beckman Graduate Fellowships are awarded to students at the University of Illinois who are working at the master's or doctorate level. [5] [6] [7] Students propose interdisciplinary research projects involving at least two University of Illinois faculty members, at least one of whom is associated with the Beckman Institute.
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". [1]
He is the founding director emeritus of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which he headed from 1987 to 1993. [7] Brown's book Bridging divides describes the development of the institute.
Stephen E. Levinson (September 27, 1944, New York City) is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), leader of the Language Acquisition and Robotics Lab at UIUC, and a full-time faculty member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at UIUC. He works on ...
Harry Gray discusses How Arnold O. Beckman's Instrumental Voice Shaped Chemistry's History, and the Beckman Institute at Caltech; Profiles in Chemistry, Chemical Heritage Foundation Harry Barkus Gray (born November 14, 1935) is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology .