- Cary Instruments
Cary Instruments was founded in 1946 ref|founding by
Howard Cary ,George W. Downs and William C. Miller under the name Applied Physics Corporation. The company became well known as a supplier of high-quality optical instrumentation for scientific laboratories. The company was purchased in1966 byVarian Medical Systems , at which time it became known as the Cary Instruments division of Varian. Varian still markets a line of optical instrumentation under the Cary brandref|brand.One of the more famous instruments produced in the early days was the Cary-60 CD spectropolarimeterref|Cary-60, used to measure
circular dichroism . Some of these 40 year old instruments are still in daily use in2005 , due to their heavy-duty construction, excellent optics, and lack of any modern replacement.References
# [http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/userlab/pdf/E136uvvis.pdf NIST PDF file] about the founding.
# [http://www.varianinc.com/image/vimage/docs/products/spectr/uv/brochure/1612.pdf Varian brochure] .
# [http://www-structure.llnl.gov/cd/caryparts.htm LLNL Cary parts] .
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