Oxford Instruments
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Oxford Instruments plc is a United Kingdom manufacturing and research company operating in the fields of instrumentation, analysis, plasma processing cryogenics and superconductivity.
The company was founded by Sir Martin Wood in Oxford, England to manufacture large superconducting magnets for use in Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines, originally starting in his garden shed in Northmoor Road, North Oxford. It was one of the first spin-out companies from the University of Oxford and still one of the most successful.
The company is headquartered in Abingdon, Oxfordshire and supplies its products worldwide for applications in scientific research, industrial analysis and healthcare.
Its large magnet manufacturing factories, at Eynsham in Oxfordshire, were sold to Siemens AG in 2004.
[edit] Further reading
- Audrey Wood — Magnetic Venture: The Story of Oxford Instruments (Oxford University Press, 2001) ISBN 0-19-924108-2
[edit] External links
- Oxford Instruments plc
- Oxford Instruments EBSD (Electron Backscatter Diffraction) Web Site
- Oxford Instruments X-ray Microanalysis Web Site
