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Arnold O. Beckman

Age: 104

scientist who invented several user-friendly scientific devices, including a tool to measure acidity and alkalinity and the quartz spectrophotometer, an instrument that pioneered automatic chemical analysis.

Died: San Diego, Calif., May 18, 2004

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