00:00:00 Our first laureate tonight has been instrumental in improving the quality of life for millions,

00:00:21 possibly billions, of people around the world today.

00:00:26 With these words, Dr. Arnold Beckman, founder of Beckman Instruments and vice chairman

00:00:30 SmithKline Beckman Corporation, was placed in the company of such business giants as

00:00:34 Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie as he was elected into the National Business Hall of Fame.

00:00:41 Since 1975, junior achievement has inducted 89 distinguished business people into the

00:00:47 Hall of Fame.

00:00:49 People who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and entrepreneurial gifts.

00:00:55 As luminaries of the business world, they have shaped our nation's history.

00:01:00 Tonight, we honor the accomplishments of six individuals selected by the board of editors

00:01:07 of Fortune Magazine to join the distinguished group of junior achievement Business Hall

00:01:13 of Fame laureates.

00:01:15 Well, to say I'm happy is certainly an understatement.

00:01:21 I am indeed very proud to be a recipient, to join the ranks of those distinguished persons

00:01:28 whom you saw on the screen earlier during the dinner.

00:01:32 A few days later, Dr. Beckman was in New York as guest of honor at Rockefeller University.

00:01:37 This very happy occasion commemorates Dr. Beckman's 85th birthday.

00:01:43 It coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Beckman Instrument Company, and it's part

00:01:49 of a series of celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the Rockefeller University

00:01:54 Hospital.

00:01:55 We have had, for a lot of years, quite a relationship with the faculty of Rockefeller University.

00:02:04 It's just been marvelous because the people here are exceedingly bright, and they've been

00:02:11 a fantastic help to us in the development and construction of instruments that would

00:02:19 help them and other scientists throughout the world.

00:02:22 The company's been built by thousands of people, which I can put into two categories.

00:02:27 First is the Beckman employees.

00:02:29 They're the ones who have built the company, designed and developed the new instruments,

00:02:33 made them, sold them, serviced them, and so on.

00:02:36 Also there's another group we don't often think of, and that is the users.

00:02:39 At the reception, Arnold and Mabel Beckman, through their foundation, endowed a professorial

00:02:44 chair in molecular biology.

00:02:47 The next day, the Beckman Symposium on Biomedical Instrumentation was held.

00:02:52 Every working chemist and biochemist is familiar with the fruits of Arnold Beckman's genius.

00:03:00 The modern lab is richly furnished with evidence of his contributions to analytical instrumentation.

00:03:07 I think all of us are very grateful when a company undertakes the investment risk, puts

00:03:14 together the engineering group, and goes ahead and produces instruments of the superb

00:03:19 quality and reliability that Beckman is very famous for, and they greatly simplify life

00:03:25 in the laboratory.

00:03:28 Participants in the Beckman Symposium just might be using equipment manufactured here

00:03:31 at Beckman's Glenrothes plant, where precision work is followed by precision play in Scotland's

00:03:37 version of billiards, known as snooker.

00:04:03 The object of the game is to pot a red with the white, and then take a color.

00:04:09 You choose your own color after you've potted the red, but having done so, you sometimes

00:04:14 pot to miss the red, but tuck your white ball behind a color so that your opponent cannot

00:04:20 hit a red.

00:04:21 That is an actual snooker, tucking the white ball behind a color so that your opponent

00:04:27 cannot get touching a red.

00:04:30 Two years ago, employees at the plant formed a snooker league, which plays once a week.

00:04:35 To me, it's just a good game, you know, to be enjoyed by everybody in the league.