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COMPANY HISTORY

Amersham Biosciences is now part of GE Healthcare. For corporate information, please refer to http://www.gehealthcare.com

Key Dates

2004GE completes the acquisition of Amersham Plc. Amersham Biosciences becomes part of GE Healthcare
2002Amersham plc purchases Motorola Life Science's CodeLink™ pre-arrayed slides business
2002 Acquisition of Cimarron
2002 Amersham plc acquires Pharmacia Corporation's 45 percent share of Amersham Biosciences, taking Amersham ownership to 100 percent
2002 Acquisition of AG Technology and InnovaSep Technology
2001Amersham Pharmacia Biotech becomes Amersham Biosciences
2001Nycomed Amersham plc becomes Amersham plc
2001Acquisition of Dan-Process A/S
2000Acquisition of Praelux
1997Merger of Amersham International plc and Nycomed creates Nycomed Amersham plc
1997Merger of Amersham Life Science and Pharmacia Biotech creates Amersham Pharmacia Biotech
1998Acquisition of Molecular Dynamics, Inc.
1995Acquisition of Hoefer Scientific Instruments
1993Acquisition of United States Biochemical
1986Acquisition of LKB-Produkter AB
1982Amersham International becomes first company to be privatized under Thatcher government
1967Pharmacia Fine Chemicals established
1946Amersham becomes a national center for the development and manufacture of radioactive materials for peacetime uses in medicine, scientific research and industry
1939Amersham facility founded to extract radium used to produce luminous paint for the dials of warships and planes
1911Pharmacia founded in Stockholm, Sweden