The University of Industrial Physics and Chemistry of the Town of Paris ( ESPCI ) is a school of Engineer S founded in 1882. It is located on the Montagne Holy-Genevieve in the Ve district of Paris. She forms each year a promotion of approximately seventy pupils after four years of preparatory studies post-classes. The outlets of this school are primarily in the Research and development.

Since 1997, the school recruits by the same contest as the polytechnic school. The formation is primarily scientist general practitioner. The first two years, the material taught are physics (optical, electromagnetism, waves and acoustics…), chemistry (analytical, organic…) and in a less importance, the Biology. In third year, the students choose a dominant matter: physics, physics-chemistry or chemistry.

The school has a space open to the public, aiming at bringing science closer to the citizens, it is the Space of Sciences of Paris, renamed " Space Pierre-Gilles de Gennes" in June 2007.

The ESPCI maintains the close relationships with industry through the many contracts of research between the laboratories of the school and the laboratories industrial and by partnership conventions with L'Oreal and Saint-Gobain for the recruitment of their frameworks. Each promotion is specifically sponsored by a company (Schlumberger, Cogema, Rhodia, L'Oreal, Thalès, Arkema, Saint-Gobain).

The ESPCI is member of ParisTech and the Fédération Gay-Lussac.

History

The school was founded in 1882, after the annexation by the German empire of Alsace-Lorraine where was established the Ecole of Chemistry of Mulhouse one of the most prestigious French schools of chemistry of the time.

It is in a modest hangar of this school that were discovered three radioactive elements : the Polonium and the Radium by Marie and Pierre Curie, the Actinium by Andre-Louis Debierne. In the court tons of Pechblende were come from the mines of Uranium of Bohemia. It is at the price of exhausting and repetitive handling that the Curie, assisted Gustave Bémont, managed to extract 0,1  from it; G of Radium in 1898. This work on the radioactivity will be worth the Nobel Prize twice to them: in 1903 (for Pierre and Marie Curie) and in 1911 (for Marie Curie).

Paul Langevin, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Pierre Biquard, Pierre-Gilles of Genoa and Georges Charpak also worked there. Pierre-Gilles of Genoa was principal of 1976 with 2003. Jacques Prost is the current director.

Principals

Professors of the school

Famous former students

Laboratories

The school lodges many laboratories:
  • Nuclear Center of Magnetic resonance
  • Team of Statistics Applied
  • Laboratory of Neurobiology and Cellular Diversity
  • Laboratory of Colloids and Divided Materials
  • Organic Chemistry laboratory
  • Laboratory of General Electricity
  • Laboratory of Electronics
  • Laboratory Environment and Analytical Chemistry
  • Hydrodynamic and Mechanical Laboratory Physical
  • Laboratory Soft Matter and Chemistry
  • Laboratory of Microfluidique, MEMs and Nanostructures
  • Laboratory of Nanobiophysique
  • Laboratory of Neurophysiology
  • Laboratory Waves and Acoustics
  • Physical Laboratory of Optics
  • Laboratory of Physicochemistry of Polymers and the Dispersed Mediums
  • Laboratory of Theoretical Physicochemistry
  • Physics laboratory quantum Solid
  • Physics laboratory
  • Thermal Physics laboratory
  • Laboratory Surfaces and Superconductors
  • Pole of Biomedical Imagery

Junior-company

Founded in 1979, Physics-Chemistry Future (PCA) is the Junior-Company of the school. She proposes her services for the realization of research tasks in many fields Scientifique S and Technologique S thanks to the multi-field teaching of the school.

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External bonds

  • ESPCI
  • BDE - Office of the Pupils
  • Official site of the Former students of the ESPCI
  • ESPCI.ORG - Pupils and Old on Internet
  • Space of Sciences of Paris
  • Resource center Histories of the ESPCI

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