Talk:Eppendorf (company)

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Reads like a corporate brochure.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.231.55 (talk)

This page is an advertisement & should be edited or removed.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Gmcampisano (talk • contribs)

This is a description of topic-related microarrays on a technical level, it is far away from product advertisement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.243.248.8 (talk) 11:29, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Overuse of first person perspective not suitable for encyclopedic style, would strongly suggest review under alternate perspective. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.152.27.166 (talk) 16:44, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

WP:COI, WP:OWN violation

Most of the editing on this page is apparently being done by an Eppendorf employee from Hamburg, and a violation of WP:COI, if nothing else - also, this edit history [[1]] sure as heck looks like the kind of thing WP:OWN warns against. Wikipedia is not a place to advertise your products - the article can describe the company and its corporate history, but unless you intend to go through the articles of every other biotech company and list all of THEIR products, this "list of products" is unacceptable. I'm going to move ahead and delete the product placement, and am politely requesting that it NOT be re-added. It would not be the first time a company shill encountered resistance from WP editors who understand WP policy. Dyanega (talk) 22:53, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Company history

Sorry for any trouble we caused about our product listing. We would like to add our company history. This has been deleted by a editor as it was taken from a pdf - the text was written for us and is used in our annuale report. The history is well explained within that text and isn't advertising or promotion but just facts. Please advice how to include the following text:

Hamburg, 1945. The Second World War is finally over. Two gentlemen in their mid-thirties pay a visit to Eppendorf University Hospital, where they introduce themselves and their twenty employees as physicists and engineers eager to do what the country needs most: assist in the reconstruction process and help improve people’s living conditions.

The hospital management assigns Dr. Hans Hinz and Dr. Heinrich Netheler and their employees a shed on the grounds. The team repairs broken instruments and develops trailblazing new devices at the doctors’ request. This was the start of the corporate history of today’s global market leader Eppendorf.

Dr. Netheler and Dr. Hinz. Heinrich Netheler was born on a farm in northern Germany on May 27, 1909. The oldest son, he was actually supposed to take over the farm, but he discovered his love of technology and studied engineering in Brunswick. In Berlin, the keen aviator obtained his doctorate with a thesis on ways of optimizing rod antennas in aircraft. Hans Hinz, by contrast, was a true native of Hamburg. Born in the city’s Eimsbüttel district on August 19, 1909, he studied physics in his home town and obtained his doctorate with a thesis on elastic deformations in Seignette’s salt. The two men met in 1939 at the “German Experimental Institute for Aviation”. In 1943, they switched to the newly established “National High-Frequency Research Authority” in Travemünde.

After the end of war, Dr. Netheler and Dr. Hinz moved their measuring instruments and research documentation to the shed on the site of Eppendorf University Hospital and founded the “Dr. Netheler Work Group,” the nucleus of Eppendorf AG. At the doctors’ request, they developed the “Stimulator” (a stimulation current device), the “Thermorapid” (the first electric fever thermometer), the Eppendorf photometer, and a number of other pioneering devices of modern medical technology.

By 1954, the workshop had already become too small. The company, meanwhile renamed “Netheler & Hinz GmbH”, moved to new premises outside the hospital grounds. Four years later, its workforce had grown to more than 100 employees. The foundation stone for today’s extensive corporate headquarters in Barkhausenweg was laid in 1965. After a quarter century of setup work, the founders passed the reins on to younger hands at the start of 1971. At that time, the company already had 400 employees.

In the year 2000 Eppendorf converted to a corporation, gaining far-reaching control functions as a holding company with around 2,500 employees worldwide in 2010.

Noehrens (talk) 09:27, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

All I can recommend here is to attempt to rewrite the information to be encyclopedic and neutral. If you are having trouble doing so, I'll take another look at this later and give it a go myself. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 10:14, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

It would be really helpful if you could help me out on this one. Thank you very, very much in advance! Noehrens (talk) 10:17, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

I've got things to do in real life right now, but I'll see if I can adapt the information and include it later on. In the meantime it's possible someone else will beat me to it. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 10:23, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

... tried to adapt corp. given information to wiki-style —Preceding User: Cellfan comment added by Cellfan (talk • contribs) 19:04, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Lack of references

It has been five years since this article was created, and no one, not even a paid employee of the company, has been able to come up with a single source indicating (proving) that this company is infact notable? I am willing to do a brief search on Google Books and then may very well nominate this article at WP:AfD. Unless someone can come up with some sources for all this company data and provide at least minimal proof of notability... Anyone? KDS4444^Talk 23:11, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Five years later, and all but one of the "references" are to the company website. Is this a 'stealth' company which exists in a publication vacuum? Surely, there must be articles about Eppendorf. David notMD (talk) 12:26, 17 July 2018 (UTC)