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Alcon offices in Johns Creek, Georgia. Alcon Inc. (German: Alcon AG) is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It has a paper headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but its operational headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people. [2]
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. [1] The word technology can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, [2][3] including both tangible tools such as utensils or machines, and intangible ones such as software.
The Gran Telescopio Canarias at sunset.. Science and technology in Spain relates to the set of policies, plans and programs carried out by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [1] and other organizations aimed at research, development and innovation (R&D&I), as well as the reinforcement Spanish scientific and technological infrastructures and facilities such as universities and ...
Wifredo Ricart (1897–1974), engineer, designer and executive manager in the automotive industry. [51] Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849), geologist and chemist, discovered vanadium (as vanadinite) in 1801. [52] Pío del Río Hortega (1882–1945), neuroscientist, discoverer of the microglia or Hortega cell.
2023 Fortune list. This list displays all 8 Spanish companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in millions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2022. [1] Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector ...
Eye glasses, first invented by Ibn Firnas in the 9th century. Inheritance of traits first proposed by Abu Al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD) more than 800 years before Austrian monk, Mendel. Al-Zahrawi was first to record and suggest that hemophilia was an inherited disease. Inhalation anesthesia, invented by al-Zahrawi and Ibn Zuhr.
Amadeus IT Group, S.A. (/ ˌ æ m ə ˈ d eɪ ə s aɪ ˈ t iː /) is a major Spanish multinational technology company that provides software for the global travel and tourism industry. It is the world's leading provider of travel technology that focus on developing software for airlines, hotels, travel agencies, and other travel-related businesses.
A technology company (or tech company) is a company that focuses primarily on the manufacturing, support, research and development of — most commonly computing, telecommunication and consumer electronics-based — technology-intensive products and services, [1] [2] which include businesses relating to digital electronics, software, optics, new energy and internet-related services such as ...