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  Photographs

  Double flask for demonstrating anaerobic fermentation

  • 1939 – 1967 (Date span attributed to photograph)

  Photograph of a double flask used by French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) to demonstrate anaerobic fermentation, as displayed at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Per notations…

  • Creator Of Work Fisher Scientific (Firm), Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895
  • Subject Fermentation--Research, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895, Fermentation, Institut Pasteur (Paris, France), Glassware
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  Photographs

  Beckman Model 762 Oxygen Analyzer

  • 1954 – 1969

  Developed from a Linus Pauling design during WWII, the technology behind Beckman Instruments’ oxygen analyzers ended up doing such diverse jobs as monitoring astronauts’ respiration, maintaining packaged food safety,…

  • Photographer Hesketh, Dean D.
  • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Oxygen--Measurement, Oxygen--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs

  Beckman Model IR-315 Infrared Analyzer and Amplifier

  • 1960s

  The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an infrared spectrophotometer that they could use to create rubber. Under this…

  • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Infrared spectroscopy, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs

  Spinco Model 120B Amino Acid Analyzer

  • 1960s

  First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography.

  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs

  Spinco Model 120C Amino Acid Analyzer

  • 1960s

  First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography.

  • Photographer Illig, Russell
  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs

  Spinco Model 116 Amino Acid Analyzer

  • 1960s

  First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer allowed users to quickly perform amino acid chromatography. The Model 116 was a more modular instrument, marketed to customers with lighter…

  • Photographer Illig, Russell
  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs

  Spinco Model 119 Amino Acid Analyzer

  • 1960s

  First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer allowed users to quickly perform amino acid chromatography. This is a related, contemporary model.

  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs

  Two women using a Model F Coulter Counter

  • 1960s

  Based on the Coulter principle, the Coulter Counter quantifies and sizes particles suspended in a fluid, like blood cells, bacteria, and a wide variety of other substances. The instrument works by drawing liquid…

  • Subject Women in science, Medical laboratory technology, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Blood cell count--Equipment and supplies, Women in medicine, Flow cytometry
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  Photographs

  Beckman Instruments Patent Office Show

  • 1960

  Unidentified men at the Beckman Instruments booth at the Patent Office Show.

  • Photographer Vanguard Photography
  • Subject United States. Patent and Trademark Office, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs, Portraits

  Portrait of Henry Bohn Haas (1902-1987)

  • 1960s – circa

  Portrait of Henry Bohn Haas (1902-1987), a specialist in organic chemistry who is credited with the discovery of gas chromatography. Haas was born in Huntington, Ohio and received his doctorate from Ohio State in 1925.…

  • Subject Chemical engineering, Haas, Henry Bohn, 1902-1987, Chemists, Chemistry, Organic, Portraits, Gas chromatography
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Robert S. Mulliken to Harrison Shull, 1960

  • 1960-Oct-05

  Letter between Robert S. Mulliken and Harrison Shull, American quantum chemists.

  • Addressee Shull, Harrison
  • Author Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
  • Subject Shull, Harrison, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Chemists, Nobel Prize winners, Physicists
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Robert S. Mulliken to Harrison Shull, 1960

  • 1960-Apr-15

  Letter between Robert S. Mulliken and Harrison Shull, American quantum chemists.

  • Addressee Shull, Harrison
  • Author Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
  • Subject Shull, Harrison, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Chemists, Parr, Robert G., 1921-, Nobel Prize winners, Physicists
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Harrison Shull to Robert S. Mulliken, 1960

  • 1960-Mar-25

  Letter between Harrison Shull and Robert S. Mulliken, American quantum chemists, concerning several lectures given and planned by Mulliken, including the G. N. Lewis Medal address and the Baker lecture.

  • Addressee Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
  • Author Shull, Harrison
  • Subject Shull, Harrison, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Nobel Prize winners
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Harrison Shull to Robert S. Mulliken, 1960

  • 1960-Mar-08

  Letter between Harrison Shull and Robert S. Mulliken, American quantum chemists, concerning flight and hotel reservations.

  • Addressee Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
  • Author Shull, Harrison
  • Subject Shull, Harrison, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Chemists, Nobel Prize winners, Physicists
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Robert S. Mulliken to Harrison Shull, 1960

  • 1960-Mar-23

  Letter between Robert S. Mulliken and Harrison Shull, American quantum chemists, concerning upcoming speaking engagements by Mulliken.

  • Addressee Shull, Harrison
  • Author Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
  • Subject Shull, Harrison, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Chemists, Cornell University, Quantum chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Nobel Prize winners, Physicists, Harvard University
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Robert S. Mulliken to Harrison Shull, 1960

  • 1960-Mar-02

  Letter between Robert S. Mulliken and Harrison Shull, American quantum chemists, concerning an upcoming seminar on "Theoretical Calculations on the Electronic Structures of Atoms and Molecules."

  • Addressee Shull, Harrison
  • Author Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
  • Subject Molecules, Shull, Harrison, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Chemists, Atoms, Quantum chemistry, Nobel Prizes, Electronic structure, Physicists, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Robert S. Mulliken to Harrison Shull, 1960

  • 1960-Feb-23

  Letter between Robert S. Mulliken and Harrison Shull, American quantum chemists, concerning proposed dates for an upcoming seminar.

  • Addressee Shull, Harrison
  • Author Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
  • Subject Shull, Harrison, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Chemists, Nobel Prize winners, Physicists
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Harrison Shull to Robert S. Mulliken, 1960

  • 1960-Feb-03

  Congratulatory note from Harrison Shull to Robert S. Mulliken, on the occasion of Mulliken being awarded the Gilbert N. Lewis Medal.

  • Addressee Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
  • Author Shull, Harrison
  • Subject Shull, Harrison, Lewis, Gilbert Newton, 1875-1946, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Chemists, Nobel Prize winners, Physicists
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  Business correspondence

  Letter from Robert S. Mulliken to Harrison Shull, 1960

  • 1960-Jan-29

  Letter between Robert S. Mulliken and Harrison Shull, American quantum chemists, concerning proposed plans for an upcoming seminar.

  • Addressee Shull, Harrison
  • Author Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
  • Subject Shull, Harrison, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Chemists, Nobel Prize winners, Physicists
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  Scientific apparatus and instruments, Electronics

  Galvanometer

  • 1960

  Six volt galvanometer in a rectangular wooden case with rubber feet. A brass lever at the top of the case provides coarse zero adjustment; two black plastic and metal knobs on the right side of the case provide fine…

  • Manufacturer Rubicon Instruments, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company
  • Subject Galvanometer, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, Electricity, Magnetism, Electric machines
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  Photographs

  Beckman Instruments, Inc.: International Group

  • 1960

  A group of men only identified as an "international group" standing with a Beckman Instruments pH meter.

  • Subject Hydrogen-ion concentration--Measurement--Instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Scientific apparatus and instruments, Electronics

  Portable Hydrogen Ion Potentiometer

  • Circa 1960

  Potentiometers are used to measure electromotive force (emf) by balancing it with a known emf. The concept was first developed in 1841 by J. C. Poggendorff and improved throughout the 19th century by Latimer Clark and…

  • Manufacturer Leeds and Northrup Company
  • Subject Potentiometer, Leeds and Northrup Company
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  Photographs

  Ed Cherniss, R. Erickson, Joe Lewis, and R. Dozier

  • Circa 1960 – 1963

  The photograph shows Ed Cherniss at a podium, with Erickson, Lewis, and Dozier seated at a table, with a second table evident in the foreground. Arnold O. Beckman: One Hundred Years of Excellence identifies the venue as…

  • Subject Sales meetings, Executives, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs, Portraits

  Portrait of Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004) holding a pH meter

  • 1960s

  Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004) invented the first commercially successful electric pH meter in 1934 and thus began a long career manufacturing scientific and medical instruments with National Technical Laboratories,…

  • Subject Scientists--Portraits, Beckman, Arnold O., Hydrogen-ion concentration--Measurement--Instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs

  Unidentified man using a Beckman GC-2 Gas Chromatograph

  • 1960s

  Beckman Instruments entered the gas chromatograph business in 1956 with the acquisition of the successful Watts Manufacturing Company. Later that year, Beckman Instruments produced its first gas chromatograph, the GC-1,…

  • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Gas chromatography, Gas chromatography--Instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.