École normale supérieure de Lyon

The University École Normale Supérieure de Lyon ( ENS Lyon short ) is a French Grande École, which belongs to the network of normal supérieures Écoles. It is valid according to the older École normale supérieure in Paris considered the most prestigious institution of higher education in France.

History

The ENS Lyon is the successor to the ENS Fontenay and Saint- Cloud. These universities were founded in 1880 or 1882 by the French educational reformer Jules Ferry, in order to guarantee a high-quality teacher education. With the aim of decentralization and reorganization of technical ENS ENS Lyon was founded in 1987 and located in the district Gerland in Lyon. It included then the entire scientific branch of the predecessor colleges. The humanities part initially formed the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay / Saint -Cloud, from the year 2000, the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines (ENS LSH) and was finally on January 1, 2010, the ENS new established and based in Lyon Lyon connected.

Study

Admission to the program is carried out through a nationwide admissions process after the visit of two years of preparatory classes. The students then adopted by the notation élève normalien and included with salary for the period of 10 years in government service. In addition, students who come from universities, to apply for each subsequent year of study and then study as a free handset, or as international fellows at the ENS Lyon.

At the moment, five courses are offered in the scientific branch: mathematics, physics / chemistry, geology, biology and computer science. After the first year, students will receive the license ( bachelor ) and after two more years to master ( magister ). After the first master year there is the possibility for a year the Agrégation an exam for teachers at secondary schools prepare. The preparation for the Agrégation is offered in the four subjects mathematics, physics, chemistry, and life and earth sciences.

After the merger with the ENS LSH January 1, 2010 corresponding level courses in literature and the arts, languages, humanities and social sciences were added.

Research

The university is home to a large number of research laboratories, particularly in the fields of biology ( in collaboration with the Science Park Gerland ), theoretical physics and nonlinear, and computer science.

Famous graduates

( Graduates of the ENS Lyon and its predecessors. In brackets the year of recording.)

  • Jean AUBOUIN (1958), geologist, member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • Pierre -Marc de Biasi, literary scholar and sculptor
  • Pierre Bergounioux (1969 ), writer
  • René Blanchet (1960), geologist, member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • Catherine Bréchignac (1967 ), physicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences, President of the CNRS
  • Jean -Claude Carrière (1953), writer, screenwriter and actor
  • Roger Chartier (1964 ), historian, professor at the Collège de France
  • Michel Davier (1961 ), physicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • Philippe Descola (1970), anthropologist, professor at the Collège de France
  • Alain Devaquet (1962), chemist, former Prime
  • Jacques Dupaquier (1942 ), founder of the Institute for Historical Demography, member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
  • Alain Finkielkraut (1969 ), philosopher
  • Jean -Michel Gaillard (1966 ), high-level officials
  • Etienne Ghys (1974 ), mathematician, member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • André Glucksmann (1957 ), philosopher
  • Maurice Godelier (1955), anthropologist
  • Pierre Goubert (1935 ), historian
  • Claude Hélène (1958), a biophysicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • Georges Hyvernaud (1919), writer
  • Jean Jacquart (1947 ), historian
  • Josèphe Noël (1951 ), politicians
  • Marc Kravetz (1961)
  • Pascal Lainé (1962), writer ( Prix Goncourt )
  • Georges Lemoine (1956 ), German scholar, former Prime
  • Yves Le Pestipon, literary scholar and writer
  • Gérard Miller ( 1968), a political scientist and psychoanalyst
  • Jean -François Muracciole, historians
  • Maurice Nadeau (1931 ), literary critic, writer and publisher
  • Mazarine Pingeot (1994 ), journalist and writer
  • Marceau Pivert (1919), trade unionists
  • Christian Renoux, historians
  • Michèle Rivasi (1973 ), biologist, former MP
  • Daniel Roche ( 1956), historian, former professor at the Collège de France
  • Henry Rousso (1974 ), historian
  • Jean -Pierre Sueur (1966 ), linguist, Senator
  • René Taton, mathematics and science historian
  • Michel Vovelle (1953), historian

Famous professors

  • Christian Dumas ( since 1984), biologist, member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • Etienne Ghys (since 1988), mathematician, member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • Bernard Castaing (since 1999), physicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • Cédric Villani (since 2001), mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal 2010
  • Golo Mann (1933-1935) ( editor ), German historian, writer and philosopher
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