Jeol
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Native name
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日本電子株式会社 |
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| Traded as | : |
| ISIN | JP3735000006 |
| Industry | Precision instrument |
| Founded | (May 30, 1949) |
| Founders | Kenji Kazato Kazuo Ito |
| Headquarters | Akishima, Tokyo 196-8558, Japan |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Gon-emon Kurihara (President) |
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| Revenue | (US$ 952 million) (FY 2015) |
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Number of employees
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2,963 (consolidated as of March 31, 2016) |
| Website | Official website |
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Footnotes / references |
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JPY 4 billion (FY 2015)
JEOL, Ltd. (日本電子 Nihon Denshi Kabushiki-gaisha?, Nihon meaning Japan and Denshi meaning electron) is a major developer and manufacturer of electron microscopes and other scientific instruments, industrial equipment and medical equipment.
Its headquarters are in Tokyo, Japan, with 25 domestic and foreign subsidiaries and associated companies as of 2014. It is listed in the top ten businesses world-wide for analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing. JEOL's instruments are used by researchers around the world, including the University of Cambridge,University of Oxford, and MIT.
It has been included in the Activest Lux Nanotech Mutual Fund and the WestLB Nanotech Fund.
Scientists in Japan began to collaborate as early as 1939 on the development of an electron microscope. Kenji Kazato and Kazuo Ito met while working at the Naval Central Institute in Tokyo during World War II. After the war, Kazato attracted Ito and a group of others to Mobara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. This initial group developed a prototype magnetic field–type electron microscope called the DA-1, which was sold to Mitsubishi in 1947. Because of differences over the direction of this early company, Kazato and Ito chose to found a new organization.
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