LEICA MICROSYSTEMS
History
| Year | Detail |
|---|---|
| 1849 | A family business for optics was founded in Wetzlar, Germany. |
| 1853 | Foundation of the Bausch & Lomb Instruments Division in USA. |
| 1869 | Ernst Leitz takes over "Optical Institute" and changes the company name into “Ernst Leitz”. |
| 1872 | Precision Engineering company R. Jung founded in Heidelberg. |
| 1921 | Foundation of the optical company Wild Heerbrugg in Switzerland. |
| 1925 | First Polarizing Microscope introduced. |
| 1932 | Incident Light Fluorescence Microscopy introduced. |
| 1981 | Foundation of the Wild Leitz group. |
| 1986 | Merger of Ernst Leitz and Wild Heerbrugg to form the Wild Leitz Group. |
| 1990 | Merger of Wild Leitz, Cambridge Instruments, Reichert & Jung and Bausch & Lomb to form the Leica Group. |
| 1993 | 1st Joint Venture Opening of the Leica group in China for specimen preparation. |
| 1998 | The Business Divisions of the Leica Group, Leica Camera, Leica Microsystems and Leica Geosystems become three independent companies. |
| 2004 | First Super-Resolution Confocal (4Pi) Microscope. |
| 2007 | The Leica Biosystems division was formed. |
| 2008 | Leica Microsystems becomes a founder partner of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Advanced Training Centre in Heidelberg Germany. |
| 2010 | Kavo Dental and Leica Microsystems partnered for dental microscopes. |
| 2017 | Launched new SP8 DIVE system. |
| 2018 | Launched the PROvido multidisciplinary microscope. |
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