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Beckman 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. The 120C was marketed as a "classic" instrument, referred to often in…
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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…
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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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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…
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Beckman Model 121 Amino Acid Analyzer and a lab coat draped over an empty chair
- 1969 – 1978
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography. The Model 121, which debuted in the late 1960s, does the same process, but…
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Beckman Model 121-C Amino Acid Analyzer
- 1969 – 1978
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography. The Model 121, which debuted in the late 1960s, does the same process, but…
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Beckman/Spinco Model 121-M Amino Acid Analyzer
- 1969 – 1978
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography. The Model 121, which debuted in the late 1960s, does the same process, but…
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Beckman Model 444 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
- Circa 1969
Beckman's Model 444 Integral Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer offered a choice of single-beam or double-beam operation, digital readout, and a flame emission mode.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Woman using a Model F Coulter Counter cell counter
- 1969
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…
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Beckman HYFED Phosphorus Air Contaminant Detector
- Circa 1967
This instrument was developed by Beckman Instruments' Advanced Technology Operations (ATO) in 1967 for the United States Navy. It was designed to detect chemical warfare agents aboard a ship via air samples introduced…
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Two unidentified men using a Beckman Continuous Particle Electrophoresis System
- Circa 1967
The Beckman CPE was developed in 1967 by the Advanced Technology Operations (ATO) division for use by the United States Army in detecting particles found in bacteriologic warfare applications. In producing this system…
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Beckman O2 System for Manned Orbiting Laboratory
- Circa 1968
This oxygen partial pressure monitoring system was built in 1968 for the United States Air Force by Beckman Instruments' Advanced Technology Operations, for use in the MOL's life support system.
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Beckman NASA Spaceborne Colorimeter
- Circa 1969
This instrument was created in 1968 by Beckman Instruments' Advanced Technology Operations (ATO) specifically for measuring the effect of space flight on calcium and creatinine levels in astronauts' urine. Colorimeters…
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Gordon Research Conference on Scientific Information Problems in Research, 1969
- 1969-Jul-14 – 1969-Jul-18
Group photograph of attendees at the Gordon Research Conference on Scientific Information Problems in Research held at Colby Junior College in New London, New Hampshire in July 1969.
- Creator Of Work Gordon Research Conferences
- Subject Gordon Research Conferences, Portraits, Group, Congresses and conventions
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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.…
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Letter from Robert S. Mulliken to Harrison Shull, 1967
- 1967-Feb-14
Congratulatory note from Robert S. Mulliken to Harrison Shull, on the occasion of Mulliken being awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Addressee Shull, Harrison
- Author Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
- Subject Shull, Harrison, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Chemists, Quantum chemistry, Nobel Prize winners, Physicists
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Certificate Honoring Glenn Seaborg
- 1968
Presented for distinguished achievements, and notable service to the University of California.
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Certificate Appointing Glenn Seaborg as a Member of the Atomic Energy Commission
- 1968-Jun-29
Appointment conferred by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Contributor Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Nuclear Science Division
- Creator Of Work United States. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Subject Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994, Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973, Nobel Prize winners
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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,…
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Beckman Glucose Analyzer
- Circa 1969
The Glucose Analyzer was developed by James Sternberg in 1969 and was one of several very successful medical testing and analysis instruments that Beckman Instruments produced in the 1970s. Its size, speed, and price…