Institut industriel du Nord

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The Institute industriel du Nord de la France, shortly Institut industriel du Nord was from 1872 to 1991, the Institute of Engineering at the École Centrale de Lille in Lille, France.

The institute was founded in 1872 by Frédéric Kuhlmann and Henri Masquelez. The Institute is the successor to the École des arts Industrial and Mines (1854 based).

Famous people

• Bernard Brunhes, electrical engineering physicist, known for paleomagnetism discovery
• Valentin Joseph Boussinesq, fluid dynamics physicist, known for Boussinesq approximation
• Albert Châtelet, a mathematician and politician, known as a presidential candidate against Charles de Gaulle
• Cyril Collard, film director, known for wild nights feature film ( Cesar Film Awards 1993)
• Benjamin Core Winder, chemist, known for phosphoric acid in plant discovery
• Louis Dollo, mining engineer and palaeontologist, known for Iguanodon in the coal mine of Bernissart
• Jean Pierre Louis Girardin, agricultural chemist
• Jules Gosselet, geologist
• Jean Hélion, painter
• Frédéric Kuhlmann, chemist and industrialist ( Pechiney Ugine Kuhlmann Industry Group )
• Claude Auguste Lamy, chemist known for discovering thallium
• Henri Padé, mathematician, known for the Padé approximant sequence transformation
• Paul Pascal, metallurgist, known for Pascal's constants in the diamagnetism
• Louis Pasteur, microbiologist