Who is arnold o. beckman? why is he important? why do you supose that a school w

Question: Who is arnold o!. beckman!? why is he important!? why do you supose that a school was named after him!?
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Invented the pH meter and the silicon transistor (the latter eventually developed to the point of making possible our computers), "father of silicon valley", very clever man and all around good fella!.

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