| 1896 |
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen orders X-ray tubes from Siemens |
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| 1925 |
Discovery of the chemical element Rhenium with X-ray spectroscopy at Siemens & Halske labs |
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| 1927 |
First generation of analytical X-ray instruments by Siemens & Halske |
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| 1935 |
KRISTALLOFLEX I - portable X-ray generator diffraction setups |
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| 1955 |
KRISTALLOFLEX III and IV for diffractometers and spectrometers with X-ray counters |
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| 1964 |
MRS 1 - multichannel X-ray spectrometer for process control |
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| 1965 |
SRS 1 – the first X-ray spectrometer with full radiation protection |
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| 1965 |
Type F - X-ray diffractometer with tube housing attached directly to the goniometer |
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| 1969 |
P1 four-circle diffractometer controlled by minicomputer introduced by Syntex |
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| 1970 |
First autoindexing of single crystal unit cells |
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| 1972 |
XTL - the first minicomputer-based structure solution & refinement package |
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| 1976 |
D500 – the first X-ray diffractometer with full radiation protection |
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| 1977 |
KRISTALLOFLEX K 720 - first compact medium frequency X-ray generator |
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| 1979 |
SHELXTL – the first proprietary release for single crystal structures |
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| 1982 |
First scanning linear PSD for X-ray diffraction |
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| 1983 |
SRS 300 – sequential X-ray spectrometer with end-window tube |
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| 1984 |
X 100 – multiwire 2-dimensional detector for biological crystallography |
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| 1984 |
Nicolet acquires Syntex single crystal diffraction activities |
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| 1985 |
DIFFRAC AT – the first PC software for X-ray analysis |
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| 1989 |
Siemens acquires Nicolet X-ray division |
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| 1990 |
D5000 – the first X-ray diffractometer with fully automated beam path |
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| 1991 |
GADDS - the first general diffraction system with 2-dimensional detector (winner of R&D 100 Award, 1992) |
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| 1992 |
SRS 3000 – the first X-ray spectrometer with XY sample changer |
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| 1992 |
WIN-HRXRD and WIN-REFSIM - first Windows software for evaluation of thin film X-ray data |
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| 1993 |
SMART – the first CCD detector system for chemical crystallography (winner of R&D 100 Award, 1994) |
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| 1994 |
DIFFRACplus – the first 32-bit Windows NT software for X-ray analysis |
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| 1994 |
GADDS - the first X-ray diffraction microprobe with 2-dimensional detector |
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| 1994 |
The first X-ray reflectometer with Knife Edge Collimator (KEC) |
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| 1995 |
Göbel Mirrors – introduction of graded multilayers for parallel and focussed X-ray beam (winner of R&D 100 Award, 1996) |
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| 1996 |
AXS GmbH is founded |
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| 1997 |
Bruker acquires the analytical X-ray business from Siemens - the new company is called Bruker AXS |
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| 1998 |
D8 DISCOVER – the first completely modular X-ray diffractometer |
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| 1998 |
D8 DISCOVER with GADDS - the first X-ray diffraction system with 2D texture and stress measurement and evaluation |
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| 1998 |
SMART 6000 - large CCD for biological crystallography |
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| 1998 |
SPECTRAplus - the first XRF software with seamless integration of qualitative, quantitative, and standardless analysis |
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| 1999 |
S4 EXPLORER - the first plug-and-analyze wavelength-dispersive X-ray spectrometer |
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| 1999 |
SMART APEX – the first direct imaging (1:1) CCD detector system |
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| 2000 |
D8 DISCOVER with GADDS for high-throughput COMBINATORIAL SCREENING - First XRD system for combinatorial screening introduced at Pittcon 2000 |
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| 2001 |
Bruker AXS acquires the analytical x-ray business of Nonius, The Netherlands. |
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| 2001 |
D4 ENDEAVOR: the first high-end X-ray diffractometer with large and versatile sample magazine and integrated web-cam. |
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| 2001 |
R & D 100 awards 2001 have been given for the D8 DISCOVER with GADDS for Combinatorial Screening, and the PROTEUM 300 Lens Coupled CCD. |
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| 2001 |
S4 PIONEER the most compact, high performance 4 kW sequential X-ray spectrometer with smallest footprint |
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| 2001 |
Initial Public Offering of Bruker AXS Inc. at the NASDAQ (Symbol: BAXS) |
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| 2002 |
S2 RANGER the first "plug'n analyze", all-in-one EDX spectrometer with intuitive touch-screen operation. |
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| 2002 |
Bruker AXS acquires MAC Science, Japan |
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| 2002 |
The D8 DISCOVER Series 2 launched at the X-TOP conference, Grenoble, France |
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| 2003 |
As per June 30, 2003 Bruker AXS and Bruker Daltonics merged to form the new Bruker Biosciences company (NASDAQ: BRKR). |
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| 2003 |
The new D8 FOCUS introduced at the Denver X-ray Conference 2003 |
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| 2003 |
Bruker AXS presents the new NanoSTAR |
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| 2004 |
Bruker AXS launches New SUPER SPEED SOLUTIONS(TM) |
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| 2004 |
Bruker presents the new 1-dimensional VÅNTEC-1 detector |
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| 2005 |
Bruker AXS launches LynxEyeTM, the 1-dimensional detector for X-ray powder diffraction, based on Bruker AXS’ compound silicon strip technology |
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| 2005 |
Bruker AXS presents the Auto Changer with a large storage capacity of up to 90 preloaded samples. |
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| 2005 |
Bruker AXS presents the UMC stages (universal motion concept) |
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| 2005 |
Bruker AXS presents the VANTEC-2000 detector which received already an R&D 100 award |
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| 2005 |
Bruker AXS launches the high-throughput systems D8 DISCOVER with GADDS HTS/D8 ADVANCE HTS |
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| 2005 |
Bruker AXS receives the Frost & Sullivan award |
