Mabel Beckman

Mabel Beckman, wife of Arnold O. Beckman, an inventor and entrepreneur who made a fortune developing and marketing scientific instruments, died early Thursday at her home in Corona del Mar. She was 88. She had been repeatedly hospitalized for cancer at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach over the past two weeks, according to friends and hospital officials. During 64 years of marriage, the Beckmans were nearly inseparable. About 10 years ago they formed a foundation to direct their philanthropy in support of scientific and medical research at hospitals and universities.

Elizabeth Warner has won Caltech's $3,000 Mabel Beckman Prize, presented each year to a Caltech woman who has achieved academic excellence and demonstrated outstanding leadership skills. Warner, a geochemistry major, was captain of the 1989 cross-country team and the 1990 and 1991 track and field teams. She will attend graduate school at Stanford this fall. Caltech established the award in 1986 to honor the wife of Arnold O. Beckman, chairman emeritus of Caltech's board of trustees.

Mabel Beckman, wife of Arnold O. Beckman, an inventor and entrepreneur who made a fortune developing and marketing scientific instruments, died early Thursday at her home in Corona del Mar. She was 88. She had been repeatedly hospitalized for cancer at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach over the last two weeks, according to friends and hospital officials. During 64 years of marriage, the Beckmans were nearly inseparable. About 10 years ago, they formed a foundation to direct their philanthropy in support of scientific and medical research at hospitals and universities.

Mabel Beckman, wife of Arnold O. Beckman, an inventor and entrepreneur who made a fortune developing and marketing scientific instruments, died early Thursday at her home in Corona del Mar. She was 88. She had been repeatedly hospitalized for cancer at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach over the past two weeks, according to friends and hospital officials. During 64 years of marriage, the Beckmans were nearly inseparable. About 10 years ago they formed a foundation to direct their philanthropy in support of scientific and medical research at hospitals and universities.

Elizabeth Warner has won Caltech's $3,000 Mabel Beckman Prize, presented each year to a Caltech woman who has achieved academic excellence and demonstrated outstanding leadership skills. Warner, a geochemistry major, was captain of the 1989 cross-country team and the 1990 and 1991 track and field teams. She will attend graduate school at Stanford this fall. Caltech established the award in 1986 to honor the wife of Arnold O. Beckman, chairman emeritus of Caltech's board of trustees.

Experts on laser technology will honor Orange County industrialist Arnold Beckman and his wife, Mabel, with a program of lectures today at the UC Irvine Nelson Research Auditorium. The free event begins at 1:30 p.m. with a discussion of the history and future of laser technology by Arthur L. Schawlow, a Stanford University physics professor and 1981 Nobel Laureate. At 2:20 p.m.

Golda Bernstein, a junior majoring in applied mathematics at Caltech, has been awarded the $3,000 Mabel Beckman Prize for 1990. The prize is presented to a junior or senior Caltech woman who "has achieved academic excellence and demonstrated outstanding leadership skills, a commitment to personal excellence, good character and a strong interest in the Caltech community."

Neuroscientists' latest research on how the brain responds to injury is the topic of a free March 18 symposium at UC Irvine. The third annual Brain Awareness Week Symposium will be from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, adjacent to UCI. Information: (714) 824-6246.

Chapman University has received a $300,000 grant from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, which in turn will prompt the release of funds from a $150,000 challenge grant awarded in 1991 by the James Irvine Foundation. The grants will be used primarily for undergraduate science education. The university also recently received a $100,000 grant from an anonymous donor for science education.

Mabel Beckman, wife of Arnold O. Beckman, an inventor and entrepreneur who made a fortune developing and marketing scientific instruments, died early Thursday at her home in Corona del Mar. She was 88. She had been repeatedly hospitalized for cancer at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach over the last two weeks, according to friends and hospital officials. During 64 years of marriage, the Beckmans were nearly inseparable. About 10 years ago, they formed a foundation to direct their philanthropy in support of scientific and medical research at hospitals and universities.

Experts on laser technology will honor Orange County industrialist Arnold Beckman and his wife, Mabel, with a program of lectures today at the UC Irvine Nelson Research Auditorium. The free event begins at 1:30 p.m. with a discussion of the history and future of laser technology by Arthur L. Schawlow, a Stanford University physics professor and 1981 Nobel Laureate. At 2:20 p.m.

Chapman University has received a $3-million gift from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation for construction of a campus business and technology center. The 112,000-square-foot classroom and computer lab facility, being built at Glassell and Sycamore streets, will be named in honor of the philanthropists, Chapman officials said Monday. The gift brings the total money raised for the Beckman Business & Information Technology Building to $23.3 million.

Gifts of $12 million from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation and $17 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute have cleared the way for construction of Stanford University's new Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, university President Donald Kennedy announced. The center, in the planning stage for two years, will be involved in development of vaccines for a variety of diseases, cancer research and bone marrow transplantation.