École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris | |
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| Type | Grandes Écoles |
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| Established | 1896 |
| Director | Christian Lerminiaux |
| Location | , France 48°50′38″N2°20′37″E / 48.84389°N 2.34361°E /48.84389; 2.34361 |
| Campus | 5th arrondissement of Paris |
| Affiliations | ParisTech (Paris Institute of Technology), IDEA League, Université PSL |
| Website | www |
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Chimie ParisTech, officiallyÉcole nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris (French pronunciation:[ekɔlnɑsjɔnalsypeʁjœʁdəʃimidəpaʁi]; "National High School of Chemistry of Paris") and also known asENSCP orChimie Paris, is a prestigiousgrande école and a constituent college ofPSL Research University specialised inchemical science. It was founded in 1896 within theUniversity of Paris and is located in the5th arrondissement ofParis.
Most of the students enter the school after highly competitive exams known as theConcours commun Mines-Ponts, following at least two years ofclasses préparatoires. There is also a small number of excellent students from French universities admitted to the school. Chimie ParisTech is known as France's most selective chemical engineering college[1]
The school is a research center hosting ten laboratories which conduct high level research in various fields of chemistry.
TheÉcole nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris was founded in 1896 byCharles Friedel, a chemist and mineralogist who headed the school until 1899. At the time, the school was called theLaboratoire de chimie pratique et industrielle. It was located in the6th arrondissement (rue Michelet), where it stayed until 1923.
After the death of Friedel,Henri Moissan took the reins of the school. He was awarded theNobel Prize for chemistry in 1906, while he was director. Moissan made student admission subject to competitive exams and renamed the schoolInstitut de chimie appliquée (Institute of Applied Chemistry).
In 1907, the school began delivering a prestigious masters of engineering. In the same year, Moissan died and a transitional directorate was created. Soon thereafter, Camille Chabrié was named director. The school closed whenWorld War I started and reopened in 1916. This was also the first year a female student was admitted; the ENSCP was one of the first engineering schools in France to do so.
In 1923, the school moved to its current location, on the rue Pierre et Marie Curie (in the5th arrondissement). The buildings were designed and built byHenri-Paul Nénot, architect of theSorbonne. In 1932, the school becamel'Institut de Chimie de Paris (Paris Institute of Chemistry). Finally, in 1948, it became theÉcole nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris (ENSCP).
Notable research units includes:
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