Radiometer (company)

Radiometer A / S is a Danish company and provider of blood gas measuring instruments.

It was founded in 1935 by the young Danish engineers, Carl Schrøder and Børge Aagaard Nielsen for the manufacture of measuring instruments for the Danish radio industry. 1937 asked the Carlsberg laboratories to develop an analytical instrument which can measure the acidity of liquids. Two years after Arnold Orville Beckman they developed a pH meter.

When Denmark was hit in the summer of 1952 by a polio epidemic, the discovery by Dr. Poul Astrup and the anesthesiologist Bjørn Ibsen, that could be avoided by measuring the pH in the blood Shortness of breath. Within days, the engineers of radiometer had created a device that would go down as the first blood gas analyzer in the story.

1984, the company was listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. In 1996, a subsidiary in Thalwil, Switzerland was founded. The headquarters of the radiometer Group is located in Copenhagen.