MEDICAL

Dr. Arnold O. Beckman, founder of Fullerton-based Beckman Instruments and a leading philanthropist, was presented with the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Henry Townley Heald Award. The award, named for IIT’s first president, is presented annually by the university to an individual for professional and personal achievements. Beckman, a native of Illinois, attended the University of Illinois and in 1928 received his doctorate in photochemistry from Caltech. In 1935, while a Caltech faculty member, he founded Beckman Instruments, a major supplier of laboratory instruments and related products for diagnostics and life sciences. Beckman lives in Corona del Mar.