Spectrophotometer
date: label: date made
content: 1967
name: label: maker
content: Beckman Instruments
notes: label: Description
content: Leslie Jakab was a pharmacist in Hungary who, with his wife and elder son, fled to the United States during the uprising of 1956. In 1961, after a stint with Vail Chemical in Allentown, Pa., Jakab landed a job at the Johnson & Johnson laboratories in New Jersey. There he worked on such things as lotions and sunscreens until his retirement in 1979.
label: Description
content: Johnson & Johnson had a policy that when new equipment came on board, research scientists could take older equipment home for use in their personal laboratories. This Beckman model DB-G spectrophotometer is one of those instruments. It is a small and versatile ultra-violet instrument, introduced in 1960.
label: Description
content: Ref: Leslie Jakab, “Petroleum Product Containing a Uniformly Dispersed Gas,” U.S. Patent 3,342,722 (Sept. 19, 1967), assigned to Johnson & Johnson.
label: Description
content: Beckman ad in <i>Analytical Chemistry</i> 39 (1967): 119A.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0130.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0130
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0130.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: spectrophotometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 23 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in; 23.495 cm x 59.69 cm x 36.83 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/16 in x 23 3/8 in x 14 3/8 in; 23.33625 cm x 59.3725 cm x 36.5125 cm