Bruker Announces Avance 1000, the World`s First 1 Gigahertz NMR Spectrometer

Unique 23.5 Tesla Standard-Bore, Persistent Superconducting Magnet Sets New
World Record
LES HOUCHES, France--(Business Wire)--
At the beginning of the `International Workshop on High Field Solution and Solid
State Biomolecular NMR`, Bruker BioSpin announced today the launch of a
breakthrough one Gigahertz (1 GHz = 1,000 MHz) ultra-high field Avance 1000NMR
spectrometer. It incorporates the world`s first 23.5 Tesla standard-bore (54 mm)
superconducting NMR magnet. For further information on the Les Houches
high-field NMR workshop, please visit:
www.ibs.fr/content/ibs_eng/information/congress/

For decades, the scientific community has had a vision to eventually perform
ultra-high field (UHF) NMR at 1 GHz, but until now major technical barriers had
prevented the realization of this dream. Several weeks ago, after many years of
development, Bruker BioSpin has successfully energized and brought to its full
magnetic field of 23.5 Tesla the world`s first, standard-bore, high homogeneity
1 GHz NMR persistent magnet at its UHF magnet factory in Karlsruhe, Germany. In
the meantime, this unique GHz magnet has stabilized at field and first 1 GHz NMR
spectra were recorded with a Bruker 5mm triple-resonance Cryoprobe. The GHz NMR
spectra demonstrate the enormous capabilities of this new high-end Avance 1000
instrument, which can be beneficial for all UHF high-resolution and solid-state
NMR experiments.

This achievement highlights the continuous progress in UHF 2 Kelvin
UltraStabilized magnet technology, which was pioneered at Bruker BioSpin in
conjunction with the Research Center in Karlsruhe (FZK), and which previously
already had resulted in numerous UHF `first in the world` magnets that have
enabled many researchers to perform the most demanding NMR experiments.

The first Avance 1000 system will be delivered to the new `Centre de RMN à Très
Hauts Champs` in Lyon, France in July 2009. Dr. Gilberte Chambaud, National
Director of the Institute of Chemistry of the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, stated: "We are very pleased and enthusiastic
about this remarkable technical achievement. This 1 GHz NMR spectrometer will
crown the other NMR research equipment of our Ultra-High Field European NMR
Center in Lyon. It will put the French research in biomolecular liquid and solid
state chemistry at the very forefront of the international development, and it
opens the way for pioneering research projects."

"This highest field strength 23.5 Tesla NMR magnet highlights a series of our
new technology developments," added Dr. Gerhard Roth, Managing Director of
Bruker BioSpin GmbH in Karlsruhe, Germany. "Bruker is proud to be able to
provide such an outstanding instrument to NMR researchers who wish to push the
frontiers in biochemistry, structural biology and other molecular research."

Bruker BioSpin is now accepting orders for its new Avance 1000 system with
delivery in 18-24 months after order, depending on the sequence of orders
received. The Avance 1000 complete system is priced at € 11.7 million (EUR), or
approximately $16 million (USD).

For further information on Avance 1000, please visit
www.bruker-biospin.com/avance1000

For information about Bruker BioSpin and Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR),
visit www.bruker.com

Bruker BioSpin
Dr. Thorsten Thiel
Director of Marketing Communications
Tel: +49 (721) 5161 - 6517
thorsten.thiel@bruker.de

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