Beckman Coulter, Inc. - Particle Characterization
250 South Kraemer Boulevard
Brea
CA, 92821-6232
United States
PH: +1 (305) 380-3907
Email: pc-sales@coulter.com
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Company Background
Introduced in the mid-1950s, the Coulter Principle became the foundation of
an industry responding to the need for automated cell-counting instruments.
The industry developed in three acts, as Wallace H. Coulter and his brother
Joseph R. Coulter, Jr., developed the simple idea of passing cells through a
sensing aperture. In Act I, Wallace's desire to automate the routine erythrocyte
count led to a simple idea, the definition of the Coulter Principle, its patenting,
its acceptance by the National Institutes of Health, and its description at
a national conference. In Act II, the Coulter brothers addressed the practicalities
of a commercial instrument and of a business organization to support its manufacture
and sale. In Act III, a broad research effort developed regarding volumetric
errors originating in functional characteristics of the sensing aperture, and
the brothers' growing organization found solutions permitting introduction of
increasingly automated hematology analyzers. Today the industry thrives, with
several participants.
Beckman
Coulter offers a range of particle characterization tools including: