Roche
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, commonly known as Roche, is a Swiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, Roche Holding AG, has shares listed on the SIX ...
(F. Hoffmann–La Roche) is a Swiss healthcare company.
Roche may also refer to:
Companies
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Roche Diagnostics
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, commonly known as Roche, is a Swiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, Roche Holding AG, has shares listed on the SIX S ...
, a division of F. Hoffmann–La Roche
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Roche Applied Science
Roche Applied Science was a global business entity in the biotechnology sector that produces reagents and systems for life sciences research, with an emphasis on molecular genetics and cell biology research needs.
Scope of business
Roche Applied ...
, a business group of Roche Diagnostics
Places
France
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Roche, Isère, in the Isère department
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Roche, Loire, in the Loire department
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Roches, Creuse, in the Creuse department
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Roches, Loir-et-Cher, in the Loir-et-Cher department
Switzerland
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Roche, Vaud
Roche is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle.
History
Roche is first mentioned in 1177 as ''Rochi''.
Geography
Roche has an area, , of . Of this area, or 50.9% is used for agricultural purpo ...
, in the Aigle district, canton of Vaud
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Roches, Switzerland, a village in the canton of Bern
United Kingdom
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Roche, Cornwall
Roche (, "roach"; kw, Tregarrek, meaning ''homestead of the rock'') is a civil parish and village in mid-Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village gets its name from the high Roche Rock, a quartz-schorl outcrop east of the village. Roche is the No ...
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Roche Abbey
Roche Abbey is a now-ruined abbey in the civil parish of Maltby, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It is in the valley of Maltby Dyke, known locally as Maltby Beck, and is administered by English Heritage. It is a scheduled monument and Gr ...
, South Yorkshire, England
United States
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Roche de Bout, a rock formation in the Maumee River near the town of Waterville, Ohio, in Farnsworth Metropark
Further afield
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Roche (crater), a crater on the Moon
People
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Roche (surname)
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Roche baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Roche, once in the baronetage of Ireland and once in the baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2010.
The Roche Baronetcy, of Fermoy in the County of C ...
, baronetcy of Great Britain
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Roche Braziliano, Dutch buccaneer
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The Roches
The Roches were an American vocal trio of sisters Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche, from Park Ridge, New Jersey.
Career
In the late 1960s, eldest sister Maggie (October 26, 1951 – January 21, 2017) and middle sister Terre (pronounced "Terry" ...
, Irish-American singer-songwriter group of siblings
Science and mathematics
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Roche limit
In celestial mechanics, the Roche limit, also called Roche radius, is the distance from a celestial body within which a second celestial body, held together only by its own force of gravity, will disintegrate because the first body's tidal forc ...
(also known as the "Roche radius"), a concept in celestial mechanics
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Roche lobe
In astronomy, the Roche lobe is the region around a star in a binary system within which orbiting material is gravitationally bound to that star. It is an approximately teardrop-shaped region bounded by a critical gravitational equipotential ...
, a concept in celestial mechanics
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''Roche'' (spider), a spider genus in the family Ochyroceratidae
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Rouché's theorem
Rouché's theorem, named after Eugène Rouché, states that for any two complex-valued functions and holomorphic inside some region K with closed contour \partial K, if on \partial K, then and have the same number of zeros inside K, wher ...
Other uses
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Roch (disambiguation)
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Rivière des Roches (disambiguation)
* Roche convention, a
defense against a one notrump (1NT) opening in contract bridge
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Ruché, an Italian wine grape
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