Radiometer (company)

Radiometer is a company founded in 1935 with headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.[1] They have 2,200 employees worldwide and had sales of USD 496 million in 2010. The first pH meters specialized for medical use were marketed around 1936 by Radiometer in Denmark.[2] Arnold Orville Beckman started selling the first pH meters for industrial use in the United States in 1935.[3] Radiometer was acquired by Danaher in 2004[4] and Beckman Coulter - the company founded by Arnold O. Beckman - was also acquired by Danaher in 2011.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.radiometer.com/en/about-us
  2. ↑ Travis, Anthony S.; Schröter, H.G.; Homburg, E.; Morris, P.J.T. (1998). Determinants in the evolution of the European chemical industry : 1900-1939 : new technologies, political frameworks, markets and companies. Dordrecht: Kluwer Acad. Publ. p. 332. ISBN 978-0-7923-4890-0. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  3. ↑ Arnold Thackray and Minor Myers, Jr. ; foreword by James D. Watson. (2000). Arnold O. Beckman : one hundred years of excellence. Philadelphia, Pa.: Chemical Heritage Foundation. ISBN 978-0-941901-23-9.
  4. ↑ http://sis.windhover.com/buy/abstract.php?id=200310236

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