Arnold Heyworth Beckett (12 February 1920 – 25 January 2010) was a British pharmacist, academic, and expert on doping in sport.
[3] He studied at the School of Pharmacy and Birkbeck College, both part of the University of London.
[4] Beckett rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s when steroid use amongst athletes was banned from certain competitions.
He participated in several high-profile investigations such as Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson who was ultimately stripped of his Olympic gold medal for testing positive for the drugs in 1988.
[5] After controversial rulings were delivered following the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Beckett resigned from the medical commission and ultimately became an advocate for athletes accused of doping.