Spectrum camera
 
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Native name
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株式会社 島津製作所 |
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| Public KK | |
| Traded as | : OSE: 7701 |
| Industry | Precision Instruments |
| Founded | Kyoto, Japan (1875) |
| Founder | Genzo Shimadzu |
| Headquarters | 1, Nishinokyo-Kuwabara-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8511, Japan |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Akira Nakamoto, (CEO and President) |
| Products | Scientific, medical , aircraft and industrial instruments |
| Revenue | (¥ 264.048 billion) (FY 2012) |
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$ 80.6 million (FY 2012) (¥ 7.578 billion) (FY 2012) |
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Number of employees
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10,395 (as of March 31, 2013) |
| Website | Official website |
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Footnotes / references |
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$ 80.6 million (FY 2012)
Shimadzu Corporation (株式会社 島津製作所 Kabushiki-gaisha Shimadzu Seisakusho?) is a Japanese public KK company, manufacturing precision instruments, measuring instruments and medical equipment, based in Kyoto, Japan. It was established in 1875. The American arm of the company, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, was founded in 1975.
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. The American arm of the company, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, was founded in 1975.
In 2002, Koichi Tanaka, a longstanding employee, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a method of mass spectrometric analysis of biological macromolecules.
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