Beckman Coulter

Jennifer Honeycutt (Life Sciences )

Beckman Coulter is a US-based biotechnology and medical technology company that manufactures laboratory and measuring equipment for chemical laboratories and the medical sector. It was founded in 1935 by Arnold Orville Beckman under the name National Technical Laboratories for the purpose of production and marketing of the pH meter, Beckman then newly developed.

In the 1940s the company in Arnold O. Beckman, Inc. was changed to components and devices for laboratory use as Precision, spectrophotometer and measuring equipment manufacture for oxygen measurement. In the 1950s the company in Beckman Instruments, Inc. was again changed. 1955 supported the physicist William B. Shockley Beckman in the establishment of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, at that time a subsidiary of Beckman Instruments. Those subsidiary was the first semiconductor company in the following years and is considered the founding companies of Silicon Valley. The company's headquarters in Germany is located in Krefeld.

1997, the company Coulter Corporation was acquired and the name changed to Beckman Coulter in 1998.

2009 Beckman Coulter bought the diagnostic range of Olympus on.

On 30 June 2011, the acquisition of Beckman Coulter by Danaher Corporation, was completed.