Shimadzu Corp.

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Shimadzu Corp.
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Founded	1875
Headquarters	Kyoto, Japan
Products	Scientific instruments
Website	http://www.shimadzu.com/
Headquarters of Shimadzu Corporation in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Shimadzu Corporation (株式会社島津製作所, Kabushiki-gaisha Shimazu Seisakusho^?) (TYO: 7701) is a manufacturer of precision instruments, measuring instruments and medical equipment, based in Kyoto, Japan.

The company was established by Genzo Shimadzu (島津源蔵 Shimazu Genzō) in 1875. X-ray devices, the spectrum camera, the electron microscope, and the gas chromatograph were developed and commercialized in advance of other Japanese companies. In 2002, Koichi Tanaka, a longstanding employee, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a method of mass spectrometric analysis of biological macromolecules. The company also developed an ultra-high speed video camera, HyperVision HPV-1, which is capable of recording at 1,000,000 FPS.^[1]^[2]

Shimadzu also launched the Prominence UFLC liquid chromatograph in 2005. This ultra fast liquid chromatograph can do fast chromatography without high pressure compromise. Its unmatched pumping precision (3nL/step) coupled with a 10 seconds total cycle injector capability makes it the fastest instrument on the market.

Other products developed by Shimadzu include head-mounted displays ^[3].

Shimadzu is the worlds only producer of a "Direct-Conversion" Flat Panel Detector for Cardiac, Angiography and General Radiography examinations. Safire FPD technology