Howard Cary

Howard Cary received his undergraduate degree from Caltech in 1930. For a number of years Cary was with National Technical Laboratories in Pasadena, later known as Beckman Instruments, Inc., first as a development engineer, then as vice president in charge of development.  At Beckman, he played a large part in the design of modern pH meters and of two types of manual spectrophotometers. In 1946, Cary, George Downs and William C. Miller formed the Applied Physics Corporation (renamed Cary Instruments in 1966, after becoming a Varian subsidiary), which designed and developed the first commercial ultraviolet-visible, recording spectrophotometer (Cary Model 14).  He was elected a Fellow of OSA in its inauguarl 1959 class, and received the 1969 David Richardson Medal.

Cary passed away in 1991.