1960 in germany founder professor g nther laukien headquarters billerica massachusetts 1 usa key people dr. frank laukien president & ceo ; william knight coo revenue us 1.62 billion 2015 1 number of employees 6000 2 website www.bruker.com bruker corporation is a manufacturer of scientific instruments for molecular and materials research as well as for industrial and applied analysis . it is headquartered in billerica massachusetts and is the publicly traded parent company of bruker scientific instruments bruker axs bruker biospin bruker daltonics and bruker optics and bruker energy & supercon technologies best divisions . in april 2010 bruker created a chemical analysis division headquartered in fremont ca under the bruker daltonics subsidiary . this division contains three former varian product lines icpms systems laboratory gas chromatography gc and gc triple quadrupole mass spectrometer originally designed by bear instruments and acquired by varian in 2001 . in 2012 it sponsored the fritz feigl prize 3 and since 1999 the company has also sponsored the g nther laukien prize . 4 contents 1 history 2 acquisitions 2.1 other 3 notable product use 4 awards 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit the company was founded on september 7 1960 in karlsruhe germany 5 as bruker physik ag 4 by five people one of them being g nther laukien who was a professor at the university of karlsruhe at the time . the name bruker originates from co founder emil bruker as g nther laukien himself was formally not allowed to commercialize his research whilst being a professor . 5 bruker produced nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy nmr and emr spectroscopy equipment then . in the early 1960s the company had around 60 employees and was growing rapidly . 6 one of the early success products was the hfx 90 nmr spectroscopy system with three independent channels and which was also the first nrm system using only semiconductor transistors . 7 in 1969 bruker launched the first commercial fourier transform nmr spectroscopy system ft nmr and in the 1970s the company was the first to commercialize a superconducting ft nmr . later the company would expand their product range with mri ftir and ft raman spectrometers and with mass spectrometers . 8 in 1968 bruker shipped nmr systems to yale university in connecticut . after that demand from the united states grew so bruker opened an office in elmsford new york which marked the start of their us activities . 5 in 2008 after a corporate reorganization lasting 8 years all divisions were merged in a unified bruker corporation . 5 g nther laukien died in 1997 his son frank d. laukien is currently the ceo of bruker . 8 his son j rg c. laukien also works for the company . 9 his son dirk d. laukien is a former company executive . 10 acquisitions edit siemens axs 1997 11 nonius 2001 12 macscience 2002 13 vacuumschmelze hanau 2003 14 r ntec 2005 15 socabim 2005 16 pgt 2005 17 keymaster 2006 18 quantron 2006 19 juwe 2008 20 sis 2008 21 accel 2009 22 michrom bioresources 2011 23 skyscan 2012 24 prairie technologies 2013 25 other edit in 1964 the company bought the nmr division of the swiss tr b t uber . 4 bruker made several offers to take over its supplier oxford instruments during the 1970s but after almost a decade of negotiations an acquisition was eventually rejected by oxford instruments . 26 in 1997 the analytical x ray division of siemens was acquired by bruker . 27 in 2010 bruker bought 3 product lines from agilent which agilent had acquired from varian . 28 these included mass spectrometry and gas chromatography instruments . they have since divested these products to scion instruments with the exception of the triple quadrupole citation needed in 2012 bruker bought parts of carestream health including their in vivo imaging portfolio and related aspects . 29 notable product use edit bruker products are used globally in a variety of situations . the national high magnetic field laboratory at florida state university selected bruker to build the world s first 21.0 tesla ft icr ms. 30 the total carbon column observing network uses high resolution ft spectrometers made by bruker to measure various greenhouse gases across the globe . 31 awards edit in may 2004 frost & sullivan selected the company s bruker daltonics subsidiary for their 2004 product line innovation award for the life sciences . bruker daltonics received this award for its innovative development of sophisticated mass spectrometers . 32 see also edit g nther laukien references edit directions to north american headquarters . bruker corp brkr nasdaq gs last update february 29 2012 . bloomsberg businessweek . archived from the original on november 4 2012 . retrieved july 29 2012 . fritz feigl preis a b c ernst richard r. 2005 . the g nther laukien prize . journal of magnetic resonance . 173 2 188 191 . doi 10.1016 j.jmr .2005.02.006 . issn 1090 7807 . a b c d burg zy frank 21 september 2010 . 17th bruker users group meeting 2010 single crystal x ray diffraction . bruker axs . archived from the original pdf on 9 march 2016 . gareth r eaton ; sandra s eaton ; kev m salikhov 8 may 1998 . foundations of modern epr . world scientific . p. 718 . isbn 978 981 4496 81 0 . longo michelle . the 1960s . laboratory equipment . bruker ultimately introduced the first fully transistorized nmr instrument the hfx 90 the first of which was delivered to the technical univ. of berlin . a b bruker s founder g nther laukien honored at pittcon 2013 . 22 may 2013 . corporate governance . bruker . joerg c. laukien . bruker . history of bruker . bruker . archived from the original on 7 march 2016 . retrieved 7 march 2016 . bruker axs and nonius unite . international union of crystallography . bruker axs acquires mac science to further penetrate japanese life science and materials research markets . . n.d. the free library . 2014 . retrieved mar 08 2016 from http www.thefreelibrary.com bruker axs acquires mac science to further penetrate japanese life ... a084889567 bruker biospin announces agreement to acquire superconductor business . businesswire . 21 may 2003 . bruker axs enters x ray microanalysis market . instrument business outlook . strategic directions international inc. sdi . 2005 . retrieved march 08 2016 from highbeam research https www.highbeam.com doc 1g1 138313230.html bruker axs to acquire x ray analysis software company socabim . businesswire . 16 august 2005 . bruker axs announces agreement to acquire the princeton gamma tech pgt x ray microanalysis business . businesswire . 26 october 2005 . bruker axs announces acquisition of hand held xrf company . businesswire . 20 june 2006 . bruker axs acquires metals analysis company . photonics.com . 8 september 2006 . bruker axs announces agreement to acquire elemental analysis company juwe laborgeraete gmbh . businesswire . 3 january 2008 . wilkinson matt 22 august 2008 . bruker axs announces acquisition of hand held xrf company . bruker advanced supercon inc. acquires accel research instruments business from varian medical systems . 3 april 2009 . dunlap lloyd april 2011 . bruker acquires michrom bioresources . ddn news . retrieved 12 march 2014 . bruker acquires skyscan microct . bruker announces acquisition of prairie technologies . september 12 2013 . retrieved 12 march 2014 . audrey wood 25 january 2001 . magnetic venture the story of oxford instruments . oup oxford . pp. 94 95 . isbn 978 0 19 924108 8 . business bruker acquires siemens . analytical chemistry . 69 23 715a 715a . 1997 . doi 10.1021 ac9718612 . issn 0003 2700 . bruker and agilent technologies announce agreement for bruker to acquire certain varian inc. product lines . march 9 2010 . retrieved 12 march 2014 . bruker to acquire carestream s preclinical in vivo imaging business . september 21 2012 . retrieved 12 march 2014 . bruker daltonics chosen to build world s first 21.0 tesla ft icr magnet . genetic engineering and biotechnology news . october 29 2010 . retrieved 12 march 2014 . toon geoffrey ; blavier jean francois ; washenfelder rebecca ; wunch debra ; keppel aleks gretchen ; wennberg paul ; connor brian ; sherlock vanessa ; griffith david ; deutscher nick ; nothold justus march 23 2009 . total column carbon observing network tccon pdf . retrieved 12 march 2014 . frost & sullivan presents 2004 product line innovation award to bruker . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bruker & oldid 738542477 categories companies based in billerica massachusettscompanies established in 1960companies listed on nasdaqinstrument making corporationslaboratory equipment manufacturersresearch support companies1960 establishments in germanylife science companies based in massachusettshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from november 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article 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