| Founded | 1875 |
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| Headquarters | Kyoto,  Japan |
| Products | Scientific instruments |
| Website | http://www.shimadzu.com/ |
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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]
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
See also
External links
- (English) Shimadzu Corporation Global
References
- ^ A page about HyperVision HPV-1 on official site
- ^ Engadget article about camera
- ^ Shimadzu Data Glass 3/A
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