Add a new organization to ROR: Whitehead Scientific

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Summary of request: Add a new organization to ROR

Name of organization: Whitehead Scientific (South Africa) Website: https://www.whitesci.co.za Link to publications: https://www.whitesci.co.za Organization type: Company (A private for-profit corporate entity involved in conducting or sponsoring research) Wikipedia page: Wikidata ID: Q122293217 ISNI ID: GRID ID: Crossref Funder ID: Aliases: Whitehead Scientific; WhiteSci Labels: Acronym/abbreviation: Related organizations: City: Cape Town Country: South Africa Geonames ID: 3369157 Year established: 1988 How will a ROR ID for this organization be used? To acknowledge a research facility

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Wikidata Name: Whitehead Scientific Wikidata ID: Q122293217 Wikidata name match ratio: 100 Established: 1988 Admin territory name: South Africa Admin territory Geonames ID: 953987 Country: South Africa links: https://www.whitesci.co.za ORCID affiliation usage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5374-487X; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-7921; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8700-0059 Summary: Whitehead Scientific is an organization that specializes in providing laboratory supplies and equipment, with a focus on research areas such as biobanking, cell culture, electrophoresis, immunoassays, liquid handling, molecular diagnostics, and next generation sequencing. Geonames match: Cape Town | Geonames ID: 3369157

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Laboratory supplies and equipment company in South Africa. No affiliation usage I can find, but myriad secondary references to their supplies and equipment in published research, so this can be added.

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Assigned ROR ID https://ror.org/015h57w45 in release v1.32.