Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH is the microscopy wing of Carl Zeiss. It has come a long way from the company’s early beginnings as a workshop by Carl Zeiss in 1846. The development of microscopes at Carl Zeiss began with the fabrication of simple but precise monocular light microscopes and evolved into more complex forms such as compound microscopes. The work of Ernst Abbe, Otto Schott and August Köhler was vital to this evolution.

The ongoing development and production of microscopes in the 20th century was heavily affected by World War II and the following division of Germany. In 1947, the biggest part of the subsidiary in Jena was dismantled and shortly thereafter re-established in Oberkochen. The two Carl Zeiss companies, suddenly divided by the iron curtain, operated independently of each other until 1991. In 2006, the different divisions producing ZEISS light microscopes were officially merged to create Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH and, after the successful merger with the electron microscopy division in 2011, today form the Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, which is again headquartered in Jena where it all began.

In addition to Jena, Göttingen and Munich offer perfect solutions for biological research, the public health sector and industry. The company’s range of products includes light microscopes, confocal systems for laser scanning microscopy, a full portfolio of electron and ion beam microscopes, and perfectly-tailored software solutions for image processing and image documentation. Together with our sites manufacturing electron microscopes in Oberkochen, Peabody and Cambridge, all of these instruments make Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH today one of the world’s leading manufacturers of microscope systems.

Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
Carl Zeiss Promenade 10
07745 Jena
Germany

+49 180 3 336334 

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