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Bruker
Bruker Corporation is an American manufacturer of scientific
instruments for molecular and materials research, as well as for industrial Bruker Corporation
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 Type Public company
contains three former Varian product lines: ICPMS systems, laboratory gas Traded as Nasdaq: BRKR (https://www.
chromatography (GC), and GC-triple quadrupole mass spectrometer nasdaq.com/market-activit
(originally designed by Bear Instruments and acquired by Varian in 2001). y/stocks/brkr)
S&P 400 component
In 2012, it sponsored the Fritz Feigl Prize,[2] and since 1999 the company
has also sponsored the Günther Laukien Prize.[3] Industry Scientific test equipment
Founded 1960 in Germany
History Founder Günther Laukien
Emil Bruker
The company was founded on September 7, 1960, in Karlsruhe, Germany[4]
Headquarters Billerica, Massachusetts, U.S.
as Bruker-Physik AG[3] by five people, one of them being Günther Laukien,
who was a professor at the University of Karlsruhe at the time. The name Key people Frank Laukien, President &
Bruker originates from co-founder Emil Bruker, as Günther Laukien CEO; William Knight, COO
himself was formally not allowed to commercialize his research whilst Revenue US$1.77 billion (2017)[1]
being a professor.[4] Bruker produced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Number of 7,400 (2020)
Spectroscopy (NMR) and EMR spectroscopy equipment then. employees

In the early 1960s, the company had around 60 employees and was Website bruker.com (http://bruker.co
m)
growing rapidly.[5] One of the early success products was the HFX 90 NMR
spectroscopy system, with three independent channels and which was also
the first NMR system using only semiconductor transistors.[6]

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.[7]

In 1968, Bruker shipped NMR systems to Yale University in Connecticut. After that, demand from the US grew, so Bruker
opened an office in Elmsford, New York which marked the start of their US activities.[4] In 2008 after a corporate
reorganization lasting 8 years, all divisions were merged in a unified Bruker Corporation.[4]

Günther Laukien died in 1997; one of his four sons Frank Laukien, is currently the CEO of Bruker.[7] Another son, Jörg C.
Laukien, also works for the company.[8] Another son, Dirk D. Laukien, is a former company executive.[9]

Acquisitions
Bruker acquisitions include GE NMR Instruments (1992), Siemens AXS (1997),[10] Nonius (2001),[11] MacScience
(2002),[12] Vacuumschmelze Hanau (2003),[13] Röntec (2005),[14] SOCABIM (2005),[15] PGT (2005),[16] Keymaster
(2006),[17] Quantron (2006),[18] JuWe (2008),[19] SIS (2008),[20] ACCEL (2009),[21] Michrom Bioresources (2011),[22]
Skyscan (2012),[23] Prairie Technologies (2013),[24] Oncovision (Preclinical PET imaging business, 2016),[25] Oxford
Instruments Superconducting Technology (2016),[26] Hysitron Inc. (2017),[27] XGLab (2017),[28] Luxendo (2017),[29]
Alicona (2018),[30] PMOD Technologies LLC (2019),[31] Optimal Group (2022),[32] and Neurescence Inc (2022).[33]

Other

In 1964, the company bought the NMR division of the Swiss Trüb-Täuber.[3]

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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.[34]

In 1997, the analytical X-ray division of Siemens was acquired by Bruker.[35]

In 2010, Bruker bought 3 product lines from Agilent, which Agilent had acquired from Varian.[36] These included mass
spectrometry and gas chromatography instruments. They have since divested these products to Scion Instruments with
the exception of the triple quadrupole

In 2012, Bruker bought parts of Carestream Health, including their in-vivo imaging portfolio and related aspects.[37]

In 2019, Bruker bought Alicona, known for production of metrology equipment based on focus variation, to extend its
analytics business in the industrial market.[38]

In November 2022, it was announced Bruker had acquired the Mountain View-headquartered miniaturized microscope /
miniscope company, Inscopix, Inc.[39]

Products
Bruker develops and delivers a wide variety of professional and scientific analysis
devices including mass spectrometers, single-Crystal and powder X-ray
diffractometers, X-ray tomography devices, NMR spectroscopy devices, fluorescence
microscopes, raman spectroscopes, atomic-force microscopes, and profilometers

Notable product use

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.[40]

The Total Carbon Column Observing Network uses high resolution FT-IR
spectrometers made by Bruker to measure various greenhouse gases across the
globe.[41]

Awards
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.[42]

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