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Ecole Polytechnique

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Ecole Polytechnique is a French engineering and scientific institution in Paris, founded in 1794. Sadi Carnot trained there before his career as a military engineer and his 1824 memoir founding the science of thermodynamics.

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Founded Year
1794 1
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Gaspard Monge, Lazare Carnot and Jacques-Elie Lamblardie 2
Seat
Paris, France 1
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1. Sadi Carnot (Britannica)
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  • Founded Year: 1794
  • Seat: Paris, France
2. Ecole Polytechnique (Wikipedia)
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  • Foundation and early years section
    Jacques-Elie Lamblardie, Gaspard Monge and Lazare Carnot, the founding fathers of the School, were charged with organizing a new 'Ecole centrale des travaux publics' which was officially created on 7 Vendemiaire, Year III (28 September 1794).
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    is a grande école located in Palaiseau, France
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he also was appointed to a chair at the École Polytechnique
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Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrenoy, Wikipedia
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After leaving the Imperial Lyceum in 1811, he studied until 1813 at the École Polytechnique, and then entered the Corps des mines.
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Charles Fabry (Wikipedia)
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In 1927, he was appointed professor at the École Polytechnique
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Joseph Liouville (Wikipedia)
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Liouville gained admission to the École Polytechnique in 1825 and graduated in 1827.
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Victor Regnault (Wikipedia)
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In 1840, he was appointed the chair of chemistry of the École Polytechnique
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Jean Stas (Wikipedia)
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worked at the École Polytechnique in Paris under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Dumas
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Auguste Bravais (Wikipedia)
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He succeeded Victor Le Chevalier in the Chair of Physics at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1845 until 1856
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Jules Jamin (Wikipedia)
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He was professor of physics at École polytechnique from 1852 to 1881
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Yves Meyer (Wikipedia)
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a professor at École Polytechnique
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Alfred Cornu (Wikipedia)
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He was educated at the École polytechnique and the École des mines
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Biography, Ecole Polytechnique
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In 1804 he was appointed répétiteur (demonstrator) to Antoine François Fourcroy at the École Polytechnique
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Alain Aspect (Wikipedia)
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Infobox workplaces: Institut d'Optique (Paris-Saclay University); École polytechnique (Polytechnic Institute of Paris); Centre national de la recherche scientifique; Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (City University of Hong Kong)
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Henry Louis Le Chatelier (Wikipedia)
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Infobox workplaces: École Polytechnique; Sorbonne
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy (Wikipedia)
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Infobox workplaces: École Centrale du Panthéon ; École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées ; École Polytechnique
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WikipediaHas Member: Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Infobox, workplaces
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Infobox workplaces: École Normale; École Polytechnique
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Adrien-Marie Legendre (Wikipedia)
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Infobox workplaces: École Militaire; École Normale; École Polytechnique
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Laurent Schwartz (Wikipedia)
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Infobox workplaces: University of Strasbourg; University of Nancy; University of Grenoble; École Polytechnique; Université de Paris VII
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Wikipedia: Alessio Figalli
WikipediaHas Member: Alessio Figalli, Infobox, workplaces
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Infobox workplaces: ETH Zurich; University of Texas at Austin; École Polytechnique; University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
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Pierre-Louis Lions (Wikipedia)
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Infobox workplaces: Collège de France; École Polytechnique; University of Paris-Dauphine
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Henri Becquerel (Wikipedia)
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Infobox workplaces: National Museum of Natural History École polytechnique
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Gerard Mourou (Wikipedia)
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École polytechnique ENSTA ParisTech University of Rochester University of Michigan N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod Peking University
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André-Marie Ampère (Wikipedia)
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École polytechnique Collège de France
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