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Press Release Summary: 56TH ASMS CONFERENCE ON MASS SPECTROMETRY AND ALLIED TOPICS,
DENVER (June 2,
2008) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving
science, today announced that Dr. Alexander Makarov, the company\'s director of
global research for Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, has received the 2008
Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry Award from the American Society for
Mass Spectrometry. The award was presented here today at the 56th ASMS Conference on
Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics.

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Dr. Alexander Makarov Receives 2008 ASMS Distinguished Contribution in Mass
Spectrometry Award

56TH ASMS CONFERENCE ON MASS SPECTROMETRY AND ALLIED TOPICS, DENVER (June 2,
2008) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving
science, today announced that Dr. Alexander Makarov, the company\'s director of
global research for Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, has received the 2008
Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry Award from the American Society for
Mass Spectrometry. The award was presented here today at the 56th ASMS Conference on
Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics.

The award for a Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry recognizes a
focused, singular achievement in, or contribution to, fundamental or applied mass
spectrometry. The recipient needs to have made a significant impact on the
fundamental understanding and/or practice of mass spectrometry.

Dr. Makarov, who has authored more than 30 papers and holds four patents, received
the award for his pioneering development of the Orbitrap. The Orbitrap dramatically
reduced the size of high-performance mass spectrometers, providing more scientists
access to advanced instrumentation and enabling more research into areas including
proteomics, life sciences and drug discovery. Mass spectrometry is a technology that
allows scientists to separate, identify, and quantify specific substances within a
chemical or biological sample.

Dr. Makarov is the second Thermo Fisher Scientific researcher to receive the award
in the past decade. Dr. George C. Stafford, Jr. received the award in 2001.

\"I am honored to be recognized with the Distinguished Contribution Award and to
stand in the company of such remarkable previous recipients,\" said Dr.
Makarov. \"As with most scientific advances, this was a team effort and would have
been impossible without the creativity and dedication of the Thermo Fisher
Scientific R&D teams in both Bremen, Germany and San Jose, California. I gratefully
accept this award on behalf of all the scientists who helped make this technology a
reality.\"

\"We are very pleased that Dr. Makarov has been honored with this award and we
congratulate him and the entire R&D team on the achievement,\" said Ian Jardine, vice
president of global research and development at Thermo Fisher Scientific. \"Orbitrap
technology has been a tremendous scientific success; it led to the introduction of
the hybrid LTQ Orbitrap three years ago and the ExactiveT benchtop LC-MS today, and
it will certainly be a key part of future scientific and industry breakthroughs.\"

Dr. Makarov received his M.S. in molecular physics and his Ph. D. in physics and
mathematics from the Moscow Physics-Engineering Institute in Russia in
1989 and 1993, respectively. After that he was a research fellow at the University
of Warwick, Coventry, in the United Kingdom, as well as a senior scientific
researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He began his career with
Thermo Fisher Scientific as a research scientist with HD Technologies in 1998, which
was later acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
During this time, Dr. Makarov led the research and development team for the LTQ
Orbitrap mass spectrometer, which was launched in 2005.

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