Merck refers primarily to the German
Merck family and three companies founded by the family, including:
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Merck Group
The Merck Group, branded and commonly known as Merck, is a German Multinational corporation, multinational science and technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, with about 60,000 employees and a presence in 66 countries. The group include ...
, a German chemical, pharmaceutical and life sciences company founded in 1668
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Merck Serono (known as EMD Serono in the United States and Canada), a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, and a brand and division of Merck focused on biopharmaceuticals
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Merck & Co., Inc. (known as MSD (''Merck Sharp & Dohme'') outside North America), an American pharmaceutical company and a former subsidiary of the German Merck company, as founded in 1891/1917
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H. J. Merck & Co., a German bank founded in 1799
Merck may also refer to:
People
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Carl Merck (1809–1880), Syndicus (foreign affairs head) of the Free City of Hamburg
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Ernst Merck (1811–1863), German businessman and politician
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George W. Merck (1894–1957), American president of Merck & Co.
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Heinrich Emanuel Merck (1794–1855), German apothecary whose descendants were the founders of Merck chemical companies
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Johann Heinrich Merck (1741–1791), German author and critic
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William Merck (1852–1925), British commissioner in India
Publications
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Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy'', a medical textbook first published in 1899 by Merck & Co.
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Merck Index
''The Merck Index'' is an encyclopedia of chemical substance, chemicals, pharmaceutical drug, drugs and biomolecule, biologicals with over 10,000 monographs on single substances or groups of related chemical compound, compounds published online ...
'', a 1968 encyclopedia of chemistry, formerly published by Merck & Co. and now by the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Merck Veterinary Manual
The ''Merck Veterinary Manual'' is a reference manual of animal health care. It was first published by Merck & Co., Inc. in 1955. It contains concise, thorough information on the diagnosis and treatment of disease in a wide variety of species. T ...
'', a reference manual of animal health care published by Merck & Co. and Merial Limited
Other
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Merck Finck & Co., a German private bank
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Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Preis, a literary prize of Hesse, Germany
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Merck Records, an IDM and experimental hip hop record label based in Miami, Florida, USA
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Merck-Saint-Liévin, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department, France
See also
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mIRC
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Merc (disambiguation)
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Merk (disambiguation)
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