In 2005, the company acquired Diagnostic Systems Laboratories (DSL) based in Webster, Texas. Beckman, thereafter, changed its name to Beckman Coulter.īy 2003, the company has more than 200,000 systems operating in laboratories around the world. Coulter, the inventor of the Coulter counter. In 1998, the company acquired Coulter Corporation, a company founded by Wallace H. In 1996, the company acquired the Sanofi portion of Sanofi Pasteur Diagnostics. In 1995, the company acquired Hybritech, Inc. In 1982, the company merged into SmithKline to form SmithKline Beckman, with Arnold Beckman as vice chairman, but regained its independence in 1989 after SmithKline merged with Beecham Group to form SmithKline Beecham (now part of GlaxoSmithKline). In 1961, Beckman acquired Offner Electronics, a company founded by inventor Franklin F. Because Shockley's aging mother lived in Palo Alto, California, the Shockley Laboratory was established in nearby Mountain View, California, and thus, ' Silicon Valley' was born. In 1955, Beckman established the seminal Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory as a division of Beckman Instruments to begin commercializing the semiconductor transistor technology invented by Caltech alumnus William Shockley.

The Spinco division went on to design and manufacture a broad range of laboratory centrifuges. In 1954, Beckman Instruments acquired ultracentrifuge maker Spinco (Specialized Instruments Corp.). In the 1950s, the company name changed to Beckman Instruments, Inc. to sell oxygen analyzers, the Helipot precision potentiometer, and spectrophotometers. In the 1940s, Beckman changed the name to Arnold O. Beckman in 1935 as National Technical Laboratories to commercialize a pH meter that he had invented.

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