Fisher Scientific International, Inc was a laboratory supply and biotechnology company that provided products and services to the global scientific research and clinical laboratory markets until its merger with Thermo Electron in 2006, after which it became Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Fisher Scientific offered products and services to over 350,000 customers located in approximately 150 countries including pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, secondary and higher education institutions, hospitals and medical research institutions, and quality control, process control and research and development laboratories.
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Fisher Scientific manufactured an electric-combustion furnace and combustion train for analyzing carbon levels in steel, and an electrically heated and thermostatically controlled bacteriological incubator.
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In 1955, Fisher Scientific established a chemical manufacturing facility in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.
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Fisher Scientific's sons maintained leadership of the company, with Aiken becoming Chairman and Benjamin becoming president.
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Fisher Scientific Company issued its first public stock in 1965, and that year the company had $58 million in sales and close to a million customer transactions.
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Fisher Scientific released the Photometric Titralyzer that year, and a Hem-alyzer in 1968.
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Fisher Scientific was acquired by Morristown, New Jersey-based Allied Corporation in 1981 for $330 million.
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Fisher Scientific Company remained in Pittsburgh as an operating subsidiary.
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Fisher Scientific acquired Eastman Kodak Company's organic-chemicals business and Janssen Chimica, forming Acros Organics.
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