Frank H Laukien has bought BRKR on 13 days since Jun 2016

Frank H. Laukien is a German-American billionaire businessman and scientist, born in 1960 in Stuttgart, Germany, to Günther Laukien, founder of Bruker Corporation in 1960, and a high school teacher mother.( He earned a BS in physics from MIT in 1984 and a PhD in chemical physics from Harvard University in 1988, sparking his passion for scientific instrumentation through his undergraduate thesis on cryogenic NMR probes, which he later commercialized at Bruker.(

Laukien joined the family business, rising to Chairman, President, and CEO of Bruker Corporation in February 1991, taking it public in 2000, and serving as its largest stockholder with approximately 24% ownership.( Under his leadership, Bruker has grown into a global leader in life sciences and analytical instrumentation with a market capitalization exceeding $10 billion.( He has held academic roles, including part-time professor at the University of Amsterdam, lecturer at the University of Bremen, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard, and serves on boards like FREOPP and acatech.( Laukien is also an angel investor, executive chairman of Gauss Fusion GmbH, and co-chair of the AACR Cancer Evolution Working Group.(

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