Instrumentation for a Better Tomorrow : Proceedings of a Symposium in Honor of Arnold Beckman /

Instrumentation for a Better Tomorrow : Proceedings of a Symposium in Honor of Arnold Beckman /

On November 15, 2004, the National Academies sponsored a symposium at the Beckman Center in honor of Arnold O. Beckman. The symposium concentrated on the wide-ranging practical applications of scientific instrumentation as was the focus of much of Arnold Beckman's career. The report begins with...

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Corporate Authors: National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Physics and Astronomy, National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Scientists > Biography.
Scientific apparatus and instruments.
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • FrontMatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Acknowledgment of Reviewers
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • PART I
  • A Daughterâ€?s Remembrances
  • Pat Beckman
  • Finding the Sweet Spot of Opportunity
  • Arnold Thackray
  • PART II
  • A Lifetime of Experience in the Growth of Modern Instrumentation for Organic Chemistry
  • John D. Roberts
  • Molecular and Systems Biology
  • Leroy Hood
  • Compelling Science and Synchrotron X-ray Sources
  • Gabrielle G. Long
  • Chemistry at the Nanoscale Frontier
  • Chad Mirkin
  • Nanoscale Science and Engineering
  • Michael L. Roukes
  • Forensic Science and Technology
  • Robert E. GaensslenClinical Medicine
  • T. Vincent Shankey
  • PART III
  • The Evolving Relationship Between Instrumentation and Research
  • A Panel Discussion
  • The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies

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