FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- Foreword -- PART I -- A Daughter�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
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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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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 two presentations: a remembrance by Arnold Beckman's daughter, Pat, and an overview of his life and accomplishments by Arnold Thackray, President of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. The next section contains presentations on the application of instrumentation in seven, diverse areas: organic chemistry, molecular and systems biology, synchrotron x-ray sources, nanoscale chemistry, forensics, and clinical medicine. Finally, there is a summary of a panel discussion on the evolving relationship between instrumentation and research.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Instrumentation for a better tomorrow.
International Standard Book Number
0309101166
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Scientific apparatus and instruments.
Scientists, Biography.
Scientific apparatus and instruments.
Scientists.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Nanotechnology & MEMS.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
KFC, KJG,
TEC-- 027000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
620/
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5
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
Q185
Book number
.
I67
2006eb
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
National Research Council (U.S.)., Board on Physics and Astronomy.
National Research Council (U.S.)., Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.