Paris-Saclay Faculty of Sciences

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Paris-Saclay Faculty of Sciences
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Former name
Paris Faculty of Sciences (branch)
TypePublic
Established1808 Faculté des sciences de Paris
1956 Orsay campus
DeanChristine Paulin-Mohring
FoundersIrène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Academic staff
800 faculty
1000 researchers
Undergraduates5400
Postgraduates4200
Location
Paris-Saclay Campus, Orsay
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Île-de-France
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France
CampusUrban
Websitesciences.universite-paris-saclay.fr

The Paris-Saclay Faculty of Sciences or Orsay Faculty of Sciences, in French : Faculté des sciences d'Orsay, is the mathematics and physics school within Paris-Saclay University, founded in 1956. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics, physics and chemistry (though its undergraduates are officially enrolled in Paris-Saclay Undergraduate School).

Previously the Paris-Sud Faculty of Sciences, the School assumed its current structure in 2019. Christine Paulin-Mohring has been the School's dean since 2016.[1]

Recent investments as part of the Paris-Saclay cluster have enlarged the School's faculty and upgraded its facilities.[2] In July 2020, Paris-Saclay was ranked first worldwide for Mathematics by Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) and 9th worldwide for Physics (1st in Europe).[3] The Faculty has produced numerous research discoveries and many distinguished alumni and professors.

History

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Established in 1956, the Paris-Saclay Faculty of Sciences was originally part of the University of Paris (founded in c. 1150), which was subsequently split into several universities.

After World War II, the rapid growth of nuclear physics and chemistry meant that research needed more and more powerful accelerators, which required large areas. The University of Paris, the École Normale Supérieure and the Collège de France looked for space in the south of Paris near Orsay. Later some of the teaching activity of the Faculty of Sciences in Paris was transferred to Orsay in 1956 at the request of Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. The rapid increase of students led to the independence of the Orsay Center on March 1, 1965.

Now it hosts a great number of laboratories on its large (236 ha) campus in Paris-Saclay. Many of the top French laboratories are among them especially in particle physics,[4] nuclear physics,[5][6] astrophysics,[7] atomic physics and molecular physics,[8] condensed matter physics,[9] theoretical physics,[10] electronics, nanoscience and nanotechnology.[11] The faculty comprises some 40 research units.

Academic overview

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Nobel and Fields laureates

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Christine PAULIN | ENS-PARIS-SACLAY". ens-paris-saclay.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Paris-Saclay : de nouveaux locaux pour les physiciens". Les Echos (in French). 10 December 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  3. ^ Nouvelle, L'Usine (12 July 2020). "L'Université Paris-Saclay, première en maths - Technos et Innovations" (in French). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire. Lal.in2p3.fr. Retrieved on 2014-06-16.
  5. ^ Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay. ipnwww.in2p3.fr. Retrieved on 2019-11-03.
  6. ^ "French national synchrotron facility".
  7. ^ Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale. ias.u-psud.fr. Retrieved 2019-11-03
  8. ^ Laboratoire Aimé Cotton - UPR 3321. Lac.u-psud.fr. Retrieved on 2014-06-16.
  9. ^ Laboratory of Solid State Physics, http://www.lps.u-psud.fr/?lang=en
  10. ^ Laboratoire de Physique Théorique d'Orsay. Th.u-psud.fr. Retrieved on 2014-06-16.
  11. ^ Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies. c2n.universite-paris-saclay.fr. Retrieved 2019-11-03
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