Beckman Instruments,now known as Beckman Coulter Inc., is a company that makes scientific measuring instruments. Founded by Caltech professor Arnold O. Beckman in 1935 to commercialize a pH meter that he had invented, the company eventually grew to employ over 3500 people, with $2.3 billion in annual sales by 2003. Its current headquarters are in Fullerton, California.
The company merged into SmithKline to form SmithKline Beckman,with Arnold Beckman as vice chairman,but regained its independence when SmithKline merged with Beecham Group to form SmithKline Beecham (now part of GlaxoSmithKline).The current name dates from after the acquisition of Coulter Laboratories.
Arnold Orville Beckman (April 10, 1900 – May 18, 2004) was an American chemist who founded BeckmanInstruments based on his invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity, in 1934.
He is the namesake of The Beckman Institute and the Beckman Quadrangle at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Beckman's history and the unique Heritage Center is located at the Beckman Coulter headquarters in Fullerton, California.
Beckman's love of science and spirit of invention lives on in BeckmanInstruments, a company with modest beginnings that today is one of the world's leading manufacturers of instruments and suppliers to the clinical diagnostics and life sciences markets.
Beckman was a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of California at Irvine, the President's Club of the University of Illinois and the Rockefeller University Council.
Beckman was a member of the Board of Overseers of the House Ear Institute, a director of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian and the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation.
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