Research Catalog

Title

Arnold O. Beckman : one hundred years of excellence / Arnold Thackray and Minor Myers, Jr. ; foreword by James D. Watson.

Author

Thackray, Arnold, 1939-

Publication

Philadelphia : Chemical Heritage Foundation, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Myers, Minor, 1942-

Description

xvii, 379 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm. +

Series Statement

Chemical Heritage Foundation series in innovation and entrepreneurship

Uniform Title

Chemical Heritage Foundation series in innovation and entrepreneurship.

Subjects

• Instrument manufacture
• Scientific apparatus and instruments
• 1900-1999
• Beckman, Arnold O
• History
• Biographies
• United States
• Instrumenten
• Natuurwetenschappen
• Instrument manufacture > United States > Biography
• Instrument manufacture > United States > History > 20th century
• Scientific apparatus and instruments > United States > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Note

• "Special folio volume in the Chemical Heritage Foundations Series in Innovation and Entrepreneurship"--t.p. verso.
• "A video in CD-ROM format is attached to the page facing the inside back cover of this volume. This video portrait allows the reader to see and hear Arnold O. Beckman talk about his early life ..., his sixty-four-year partnership with his wife Mabel, and his philosophies ... The video is narrated by Dr. Beckman's grandson Arne Beckman ..."--p. 373.
• "Both MPEG-1 and Quick Time digital video formats are included on this CD"--pocket of computer optical disc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-372) and index.

System Details (note)

• System requirements: PC: Windows 95 or later; Pentium 1, 200 MHz; 16 MB RAM; 16-bit display. Mac: Power PC.

ISBN

• 0941901238
• 9780941901239

LCCN

00027014

OCLC

• on1311962796
• 1311962796
• SCSB-1254543

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library