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Finding the Sweet Spot of Opportunity--Arnold Thackray
Finding the Sweet Spot of Opportunity--Arnold Thackray
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The Intel inside was put there by chemist Gordon Moore, who achieved what he did because of the knowledge and experience gained while in Beckman's employ. But when you think of Intel inside, you don't think of chemistry.
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Think of Fritz Haber at the start of the twenanother tieth century, who personified German high-tech, professional expertise. Haber is the man who keeps half the world alive through his discovery of ammonia synthesis, which individual is fundamental to our ability to feed the world using modern fertilizers.
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For example, after World War I cut off the supply of organic chemicals from Germany, students worked in the summer making organic chemicals for sale, and Beckman participated in this activity. It helped to finance the chemistry department and gave the students practical experience -- a powerful combination.
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As his busi ness grew, so did the responsi bility of being a local, national, and global citizen. He partici pated in charity campaigns and was a key player in the smog understanding and elim ination program.
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Chrysler was interested enough in it to talk with him about a license, though the talks didn't go anywhere. Other potentially patentable ideas from his graduate school journal were an alarm for a typewriter to signal when it is nearing the bottom of a piece of paper, the use of electron beams to record sound on motion picture film, an electronic organ, a system for maintaining butter at optimal spreading temperature, whitening toothpaste that uses dyes instead of bleaches, and a self-sharpening pencil.
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And speaking of the sweet spot of opportu nity, one of the most important cases he worked on was brought by a young district attorney named Earl Warren, later chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, involving an outrageous scam in the oil industry.
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an invention is This was just as the storm clouds of World War II were gathering. During the war his firm an idea, whereas developed the first spectrophotometer produced in large quantities, the DU spectrometer.
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In the 1960s, Arnold Beckman led the charge for his firm's entry into clinical instrumental markets, where laboratory scientists used instruments to put modern medical information into the hands of clinical practi 14 INSTRUMENTATION FOR A BETTER TOMORROW
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Beckman had a patent. During World War II, engineers developing radar discovered that the available variable potentiometers were not accurate enough.
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" Another company acquired by Dr. Beckman, the centrifuge manufacturer Spinco, was already in Palo Alto, so Dr.
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