Company history

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Company history

On May 11, 2000, at the historic bell-ringing ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Novartis first began the trading of its American Depositary Shares (ADSs) on the NYSE. From left to right: Thomas Ebeling, Paul Herrling, William R. Johnston (President of the NYSE), Daniel Vasella, Raymund Breu, Jörg Reinhardt and Dorothy A. Carey (Senior Vice President of the NYSE).

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Production plant

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Production plant

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Sandoz scientist Dr. Albert Hofmann

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Sandoz scientist Dr. Albert Hofmann

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Dr. Paul Müller (1899-1965), the Geigy scientist who won the 1948 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal efficacy of DDT, standing in his laboratory

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Pharmaceutical research at CIBA in Basel, Switzerland in 1914

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Pharmaceutical research

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Textile dyes laboratory at Geigy in Basel, Switzerland in 1909

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Aerial photograph of the headquarters for CIBA in Basel, Switzerland

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The Klybeck castle (1750), Basel, Switzerland. The beginnings of what today is part of the worldwide headquarters of Novartis were built in 1863 between the road to Klybeck castle and the Rhine.

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St. Alban quarter (1615), Basel, Switzerland, with the Geigy mill for wood color extraction

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Portrait of Alexander Clavel (1805 - 1873), pioneer in the production of synthetic dyes (fuchsine), Basel, Switzerland, in 1859. He founded the company that later became known as Gesellschaft fur Chemische Industrie in Basel (CIBA).

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