Bio-Rad co-founder Alice Schwartz dies at 99

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Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Co-Founder and Director Emeritus Alice Schwartz Passes Away

September 29, 2025 8:00 PM UTC

HERCULES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIO.B), a global leader in life science research and clinical diagnostics products, today announced that Alice N. Schwartz, Bio-Rads co-founder and Director Emeritus, passed away on September 25, 2025, at the age of 99.

Mrs. Schwartz co-founded Bio-Rad in 1952 in Berkeley, California, together with her husband David Schwartz, shortly after graduating with a biochemistry degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

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