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Author Brown, Theodore L. (Theodore Lawrence), 1928- author.

Title Bridging divides : the origins of the Beckman Institute at Illinois / Theodore L. Brown ; forewords by Stanley O. Ikenberry and Richard H. Herman.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois, [2009]

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Description 1 online resource
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Note Includes index.
Contents Forging the proposal -- October 5, 1985 : the Institute is born -- Building the Institute -- Choosing programs -- The Institute goes public -- Bringing the Institute to life -- The Beckman Foundation : Arnold's last years.
Summary This book offers a first-hand account of the origins of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign devoted to leading-edge research in the physical sciences, computation, engineering, biology, behavior, cognition, and neuroscience. Theodore L. Brown, the Institute's founding director, brings an insider's personal perspective on its conception and its early operations. Brown follows the progress of the Institute's creation, from the initial conceptualization of a large, multidisciplinary institute; through proposal formulation; to the architectural design and actual construction of its state-of-the-art building, completed in 1989 and made possible by the largest gift made to any public university at the time: a $40 million contribution from Illinois alumnus and founder of Beckman Instruments, Inc., Arnold O. Beckman and his wife Mabel M. Beckman.
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Subject Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology -- History.
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
History.
Beckman, Arnold O.
Beckman, Arnold O.
Research institutes -- Illinois -- History.
Research institutes.
Illinois.
Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Illinois -- History.
Science -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Technology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Illinois -- History.
Technology -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Technology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Brown, Theodore L. (Theodore Lawrence) Bridging divides Urbana : University of Illinois, [2009] 9780252034848 (DLC) 2009009424
ISBN 9780252034848 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0252034848 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780252090646 (epub)
0252090640 (electronic book)
1283059967
9780252090646
9781283059961