August 1, 2013
Blog Science
The Beckman Institute at the Uinversity of Illinois was named after Arnold Beckman, so that was a false alarm.Petr Beckmann was quite a character though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Beckmann"He defected to the United States in 1963 and became a Professor (later, Emeritus) of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado. In the United States, he became acquainted with novelist Ayn Rand, a contributing editor to a publication devoted to her ideas, The Intellectual Activist, and a speaker at The Thomas Jefferson School, an intellectual conference of similar purpose."" He wrote more than 60 scientific papers and eight technical books. Dr
