The Polygone Scientifique (en: Scientific Polygon), nowadays known as Presqu'Île (peninsula) is a neighborhood of the city of

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. It includes a significant number of research centers in a peninsula between

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and Drac.

History

The area was formerly a ''polygone d'artillerie'' or artillery range, with

ammunition Ammunition, also known as ammo, is the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon or weapon system. The term includes both expendable weapons (e.g., bombs, missiles, grenades, land mines), and the component parts of oth ...

depots, thus the name. Polygon hosts in 1956 the first French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) outside Paris and created by Professor Louis Néel. In 1962, it hosts a campus CNRS. In 1967, the Laboratoire d'électronique et de technologie de l'information was founded by CEA and became one of the world’s largest organizations for applied research in

microelectronics Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture (or microfabrication) of very small electronic designs and components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre ...

and

nanotechnology Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm). At this scale, commonly known as the nanoscale, surface area and quantum mechanical effects become important in describing propertie ...

. Three international organizations are implanted between 1973 and 1988 with the Institut Laue–Langevin, the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and one of the five branches of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. In 2006, the complex Minatec specializing in

opens on the Polygon and in 2007, the Institut Néel, specializing in

condensed matter physics Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid State of matter, phases, that arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms and elec ...

, is founded. National Laboratory for Intense Magnetic Fields has also numerous collaborations in terms of technical and technological innovations with these institutions. In 2008, the new innovation campus is called GIANT (Grenoble Innovation for Advanced New Technologies). In 2012, Clinatec is founded on Polygone Scientifique by Professor Alim-Louis Benabid.

Transportation

The Polygon is served by Grenoble tramway.

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External links

Official website of GIANT

Project GIANT in 2007.
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