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Oxford Instruments company history timeline

1959

Oxford Instruments began in 1959 as a husband and wife partnership.

1961

Martin (right) and Audrey Wood, the founders of Oxford Instruments, discussing magnet design with staff at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, in November 1961.

The first complete magnet made by Oxford Instruments, for the Royal Radar Establishment at Malvern in 1961.

2000

A diagram drawn up in the year 2000 to show 40 years of the growth of the business and its many individual companies.

2001

Oxford University Press, 2001), who was the co-founder with her husband Martin.

2014

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 was jointly awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy” using Oxford Instruments tools.

2019

Sir Martin Wood at the opening of the Oxford Instruments display in October 2019.

2021

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