He defected to the United States in 1963 and became a Professor (later, Emeritus) of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado.
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Dr. Beckmann spoke at ISIL's San Francisco Conference in 1990 where he received a standing ovation for his speech in which he attacked "sham environmentalists".
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The award is named for Petr Beckmann, an electrical engineer and libertarian who claimed to have debunked Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.