Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,364 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Amersham International

From Graces Guide

of Amersham

1982 The Radiochemical Centre was privatised as Amersham International. Amersham used 2 nuclear reactors at Harwell to make most of the isotopes it sold; the rest were made in a cyclotron. [1]

1997 The life sciences division was merged with Pharmacia Biotech of Sweden, becoming Amersham Biosciences; soon after Amersham International merged with Nycomed, a Norwegian diagnostics company, to became Nycomed Amersham plc[2]

2001 Became Amersham plc

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Feb 26, 1982
  2. The Times Oct. 9, 2003