Chimie ParisTech (officially École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris (''National Chemical Engineering Institute in Paris''), also known as ENSCP or Chimie Paris), founded in 1896 within the

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, is an engineering school and a constituent college of PSL Research University specialised in chemical science. It is located in the 5th arrondissement of

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. Most of the students enter the school after highly competitive exams known as the ''

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'', following at least two years of ''

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''. There is also a small number of excellent students from French universities admitted to the school. Chimie ParisTech is known as France's most selective chemical engineering college The school is a research center hosting ten laboratories which conduct high level research in various fields of chemistry.

History

The École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris was founded in 1896 by Charles Friedel, a chemist and mineralogist who headed the school until 1899. At the time, the school was called the Laboratoire de chimie pratique et industrielle. It was located in the 6th arrondissement (rue Michelet), where it stayed until 1923. After the death of Friedel,

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took the reins of the school. He was awarded the

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for chemistry in 1906, while he was director. Moissan made student admission subject to competitive exams and renamed the school Institut de chimie appliquée (Institute of Applied Chemistry). In 1907, the school began delivering a prestigious masters of engineering. In the same year, Moissan died and a transitional directorate was created. Soon thereafter, Camille Chabrié was named director. The school closed when

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started and reopened in 1916. This was also the first year a female student was admitted; the ENSCP was one of the first engineering schools in France to do so. In 1923, the school moved to its current location, on the rue Pierre et Marie Curie (in the 5th arrondissement). The buildings were designed and built by Henri-Paul Nénot, architect of the Sorbonne. In 1932, the school became l'Institut de Chimie de Paris (Paris Institute of Chemistry). Finally, in 1948, it became the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris (ENSCP).

ENSCP directors

*1896 - 1899 : Charles Friedel *1899 - 1907 :

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) *1907 - 1908 : collective direction *1908 - 1928 :

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*1928 - 1938 : Georges Urbain (member of the

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) *1938 - 1950 : Louis Hackspill *1950 - 1961 : Georges Chaudron (member of the

) *1961 - 1976 : Jacques Bénard *1976 - 1985 : Fernand Coussemant *1985 - 1987 : Jean Talbot *1987 - 1992 : Claude Quivoron *1992 - 1996 : Bernard Trémillon *1996 - 2005 : Danièle Olivier *2006 - 2010 : Alain Fuchs *2010 - 2015 : Valérie Cabuil *2015–present : Christian Lerminiaux

Research units

Notable research units includes: * Photovoltaic Energy Development and Research Institute, École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris in association with the

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. Director Olivier Kerrec and research director

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Notable alumni

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* Eugène Schueller, founder of L'Oréal * Jacques Bergier *

Olivier Kahn Olivier Kahn (13 September 1942 – 8 December 1999) was a French chemist. He was the brother of the geneticist Axel Kahn and the journalist Jean-François Kahn. Kahn studied at Chimie ParisTech in Paris and received his PhD for work on met ...

Jacques Livage Jacques Livage (born 26 October 1938 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French chemist holding the chair of condensed matter chemistry at the Collège de France and a member of the Académie des sciences. Biography In 1960, he obtained an engineering d ...

Henri B. Kagan Henri Boris Kagan (born 15 December 1930) is currently an emeritus professor at the Université Paris-Sud in France. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of asymmetric catalysis. His discoveries have had far-reaching impacts on the p ...

References

External links

Official site of ENSCPENSCP Alumni associationParisTech website
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