 Jean-Baptiste Soleil established (1819)
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|  Fresnel echelon lens (1819)
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|  Babinet’s goniometer (1839)
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|  Silbermann’s heliostat (1843)
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Saccharimeter (1848) |
 Henri Soleil (1849)
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Léon Laurent (1872) | |  Laurent polarimeter (1874)
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 Amédée Jobin appointed CEO (1892)
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|  Fabry-Perot interferometer (1898)
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|  Macé de Lépinay’s half-shadow analyser (1900)
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 Gustave Yvon appointed CEO (1911)
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| G. Yvon Spectrophotometer G.Yvon spectrophotometer (1922)  |
 JOBIN YVON established (1923)
| |  Vernes-Bricq-Yvon absorption and diffusion photometer (1923)
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 Move to Arcueil (1930)
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|  Lecomte du Noüy tensiometer (1930)
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| |  Jobin Yvon precision polarimeter with Bruhat monochromator (1932)
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 Incorporation as Jobin Yvon (1942)
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|  Meunier electrophotometer (1945)
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Jacques Millot (1946) | | |
Jules-Jean Chauvin (1955) | 
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Plant moved to Longjumeau (1962) | 
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Rulled Diffraction grating (1960) |
| |  Perot-Fabry interferential spectrometer (1961)
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Atago Bussan appointed as agent in Japan (1967) | | 
Holographic Diffraction grating (1967) |
 Acquisition of the Société Générale d’Optique (1969)
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Acquisition by Roussel-UCLAF via Jouan-Quétin (1972) | 
|  Girard infrared grid spectrometer (1970)
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Subsidiary in America established (1973) | |  UV-Visible Spectrophotometer (1972)
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| | Dichrograph (1972) |
| |  Spectrofluorometer (1972)
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 Michel Baudron & Gilbert Hayat (1974)
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Raman Spectro photometer (1974) |
| |  Inductively coupled plasma spectrometer (1977)
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| |  Raman microprobe (1977)
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|  Wavelength division multiplexer (1980)
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| | Raman Spectrophotometer (1981) |
| |  Glow Discharge optical emission spectrometer (1984)
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Acquisition of SPEX, Edison,USA (1988) | | 
Spectroscopic ellipsometer (1989)
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CCD detector (1990) |
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Raman Spectro photometer (1990)
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Spectro fluorometer (1990) |
| |  Forensic systems (1993)
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| |  Spectrofluorometer (1994)
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Acquisition of DILOR (Raman Spectrometry), Villeneuve d’Ascq, France (1995) | | 
Raman Spectro photometer (1995) |
Acquisition of SOFIE (process control), Arpajon, France (1996) | | 
Forensic systems (1996) |
 JOBIN YVON merged into HORIBA Group (1997)
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 Atago Bussan purchased (1998)
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Forensic systems (1998) |
NASA award received (2000) | 
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Gold medal received at Pittcon 2002 |
 New facility in Chilly-Mazarin,France (2001)
| |  Raman-infrared microspectrophotometer (2002)
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IBH purchased (2003) | | |
 Jobin Yvon becomes HORIBA Jobin Yvon (2004)
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NASA award received (2006) | |  Frequency-domain spectrofluorometer (2007)
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 Purchase of Genoptics (Biology), Orsay, France (2009)
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Bronze Award at Pittcon (2007) |
 HORIBA Jobin Yvon joins HORIBA Scientific (2009)
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R&D 100 Award (2007) |
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|  Hyperspectral Camera (2011)
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 New Paris-Saclay Campus facility (2012)
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