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Bruker
Type
Founded	1960
Headquarters	Billerica, Massachusetts, Germany
Website	http://www.bruker.com

Bruker originally started as a German company specialized in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and has evolved into a worldwide company with an extensive portfolio of products for the biological, chemical, industrial, and medical fields. Until February 2008, there were two parent companies carrying the Bruker brand. This Bruker Group is now the Bruker Corporation. The Bruker companies were founded by Prof. dr. Guenther Laukien whose family still owns major chunks of Bruker Corporation:

Bruker BioSciences Corporation, which comprised three companies until recently, has specialized in different but often synergistic fields: Bruker AXS (X-ray and Spark-OES), Bruker Daltonics (mass spectrometry) and Bruker Optics (molecular spectroscopy). Bruker BioSciences was publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol BRKR until February 2008 when it became Bruker Corporation. Bruker AXS, Bruker Daltonics, and Bruker BioSpin are now three of the four integral subsidiaries of the new Bruker Corporation which still trades on NASDAQ with the BRKR symbol.

Bruker Biospin, the company that carries on Bruker's tradition in NMR, provides superconducting magnets, low temperature and high temperature superconducting wire, NMR spectrometers, MRI and EPR. This non-public company became part of the new public Bruker Corporation in February 2008, with Bruker Corporation maintaining the NASDAQ BRKR symbol.

The companies are, and always have been, managed partly by the same management team, including three Laukien sons in top management positions. Bruker Biosciences and Bruker Biospin became Bruker Corporation in February 2008, after approval by the BRKR stockholders. Bruker Corporation currently operates in two segments, BioSciences and BioSpin.