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Paris Diderot University

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Short description: former university in Paris

[ ⚑ ] 48°49′47″N 2°22′51″E / 48.82972°N 2.38083°E / 48.82972; 2.38083

University of Paris 7
Université Paris 7
Logo of Paris Diderot University.jpg
TypePublic
Active1970–2019
ChancellorMaurice Quénet
Chancellor of the Universities of Paris
PresidentChristine Clerici
Students26,000
Location
Paris
,
France

[ ⚑ ] 48°49′47″N 2°22′51″E / 48.829722°N 2.380833°E / 48.829722; 2.380833
AffiliationsUniversity of Paris
Websitewww.univ-paris-diderot.fr

Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (French: Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7)), was a French university[1] located in Paris, France . It was one of the seven universities of the Paris public higher education academy. The university became a member of the Sorbonne Paris University Group on March 31, 2010. It merged with the Paris Descartes University in 2019, gaining its new appellation, the University of Paris.

It was one of the heirs of the old University of Paris, which ceased to exist in 1970. Professors from the faculties of Science, of Medicine and of Humanities chose then to create a new multidisciplinary university. It adopted its current name in 1994 after the 18th-century French philosopher, art critic and writer Denis Diderot.

With two Nobel Prize laureates, two Fields Medal winners and two former French Ministers of Education among its faculty or former faculty, the university is famous for its teaching in science, especially in mathematics.[2] Indeed, many fundamental results of the theory of probability[3] have been discovered at one of its research centres, the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires (Laboratory of Probability and Random Models). The university is also known for its teaching in psychology, which adopts a specific approach that draws from both psychopathology and psychoanalysis.

The university also hosts many other disciplines: currently, with 2,300 educators and researchers, 1,100 administrative personnel and 26,000 students studying humanities, science or medicine.[4]

Paris Diderot University is a founding member of the higher education and research alliance Sorbonne Paris Cité, a public institution for scientific co-operation, bringing together four renowned Parisian universities and four higher education and research institutes.[5]

Formerly based at the Jussieu Campus, in the 5th arrondissement, the university moved to a new campus in the 13th arrondissement, in the Paris Rive Gauche neighbourhood. The first buildings were brought into use in 2006. The university has many facilities in Paris and two in other places of the general area. In 2012, the university completed its move in its new ultramodern campus.

List of facilities in Paris

"Grands Moulins de Paris" in PRG
Condorcet building, headquarters of the Department of Physics

There are:[6]

UFR (Unité de Formation et de Recherche)

Paris Diderot University offers courses in many fields, each taught in a different sections of the university called UFR - Unité de Formation et de Recherche (Unity of Teaching and Research).[7]

  • UFR of Life Sciences
  • UFR of Chemistry
  • UFR of Computer Sciences
  • UFR of Mathematics
  • UFR of Physics
  • UFR of Science of the Earth, Environment and Planets
  • UFR of English studies
  • UFR of Cross-cultural and Applied Languages studies
  • UFR of Geography, History and Social sciences
  • UFR of Languages and Cultures in East Asia studies (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese)
  • UFR of Letters, Art and Cinema
  • UFR of Linguistics
  • UFR of Psychoanalytical Studies (formerly Human clinical sciences)
  • UFR of Social Sciences
  • UFR of Medicine
  • UFR of Odontology

Academic degrees

There are:

  • 1 Diplôme universitaire de technologie (called DUT)
  • 27 Different bachelor's degrees (Licence)
  • 32 Different master's degrees (116 specialities)
  • 1 Engineering school
  • 24 different Ph.Ds (Doctorat)

Teachers and former teachers

Nobel Laureate George Fitzgerald Smoot, professor of the university
  • Jaak Aaviksoo,[8] Estonian Minister of Defense
  • Claude Allègre, Minister of National Education (France) from 1997 to 2000 and member of the Académie des sciences (France)[9]
  • Artur Avila, 2014 Fields Medal
  • Jean-Luc Bennahmias, French Member of the European Parliament[10]
  • Bernard Cerquiglini, rector of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie[11]
  • Michel Ciment, French journalist, writer and president of FIPRESCI[12]
  • Vincent Courtillot, geophysicist, member of the Académie des sciences (France)[13]
  • Jean Dausset, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1980[14]
  • Luc Ferry, French Minister of National Education from 2002 to 2004[15]
  • Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst, sociologist and feminist[16]
  • Robert Mallet, writer
  • Thierry Morand, French biocontainment expert and entrepreneur.
  • Élisabeth Roudinesco, French historian and psychoanalyst[17]
  • Jean-Michel Savéant, member of the Académie des sciences (France)[18]
  • Laurent Schwartz, 1950 Fields Medal,[19]
  • Justin E. H. Smith, Author and professor of history and philosophy of science
  • George Fitzgerald Smoot,[20][21] Nobel Prize in Physics 2006[22] for the discovery of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation
  • Stefano Zacchiroli, Former Debian Project Leader.
  • Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French Mathematician

References

  1. ↑ "University Ranking by Academic Academic Performance". http://www.urapcenter.org/2010/university.php?q=University%20of%20Paris%20Diderot%20%28Paris%207%29. 
  2. ↑ The university is ranked 47th in the world in mathematics by the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2010.
  3. ↑ Brief history of the Laboratory of Probabilites and Random Models
  4. ↑ University education in Paris Diderot figures
  5. ↑ Presentation of the Sorbonne Paris Cité alliance
  6. ↑ Detail of all facilities
  7. ↑ List of the Fields and departments
  8. ↑ [1][|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
  9. ↑ Claude Allègre's resume (in French)
  10. ↑ resume[|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
  11. ↑ Agence universitaire de la Francophonie(in French)
  12. ↑ International Federation of Film Critics
  13. ↑ Vincent Courtillot CV (in French)
  14. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980". 2021-02-01. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1980/summary/. 
  15. ↑ Luc Ferry's CV(in French)
  16. ↑ "Julia Kristeva" (in fr). http://www.kristeva.fr/parcours.html. 
  17. ↑ "Élisabeth Roudinesco - Université Paris Diderot" (in sw). https://univ-paris-diderot.academia.edu/ElisabethRoudinesco. 
  18. ↑ Jean-Michel Savéant CV (in French)
  19. ↑ [2]
  20. ↑ Press release of the University Paris-Diderot (in French)
  21. ↑ "Les leçons du recrutement d'un Prix Nobel américain à Paris-Diderot, par Vincent Berger" (in fr). 2010-02-15. https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2010/02/15/les-lecons-du-recrutement-d-un-prix-nobel-americain-a-paris-diderot-par-vincent-berger_1306317_3232.html. 
  22. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006". 2021-02-01. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2006/summary/. 

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