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Université Pierre et Marie Curie – UPMC (Paris 6) | |
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| Type | Public |
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| Active | 1 January 1971 (1971-01-01)–31 December 2017 (2017-12-31) |
| Budget | 400 million euros (2013)[1] |
| President | Jean Chambaz |
Academic staff | 7,000 |
Administrative staff | 10,640 |
| Students | 32,000 |
| Location | Paris ,France 48°50′50″N2°21′23″E / 48.847222°N 2.356389°E /48.847222; 2.356389 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Nickname | Paris VI |
| Affiliations | Sorbonne University,[2]CNRS,[1]LERU,EUA |
| Website | www.upmc.fr |
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Merged withParis-Sorbonne University in 2018 to becomeSorbonne University | |
Pierre and Marie Curie University (French:Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie[ynivɛʁsitepjɛʁemaʁikyʁi],UPMC), also known asParis VI, was apublicresearch university inParis, France, from 1971 to 2017.[3][4] The university was located on theJussieu Campus in theLatin Quarter of the5th arrondissement of Paris, France. UPMC merged withParis-Sorbonne University into a new combinedSorbonne University.
Paris VI was one of the inheritors of the faculty of Sciences of theUniversity of Paris, which was divided into several universities in 1970 after the student protests ofMay 1968. In 1971, the five faculties of the former University of Paris (Paris VI as the Faculty of Sciences) were split and then re-formed into thirteen universities by theFaure Law.The campus of Paris VI was built in the 1950s and 1960s, on a site previously occupied by wine storehouses. The Dean, Marc Zamanski, saw the Jussieu campus standing as a tangible symbol of scientific thought in the heart of Paris, with the Faculty of Science, set in the Latin Quarter, as part of an intellectual and spiritual continuum linked to the university history of Paris.[citation needed] Paris 6 shared the Jussieu campus with the University of Paris 7 (Paris Diderot University) and the Paris Geophysical Institute (Institut de Physique du Globe).
In 1974, the University of Paris VI adopted the name Université Pierre et Marie Curie, after physicistsPierre andMarie Curie. In 2006, Pierre and Marie Curie University entered into a partnership with the government of theUnited Arab Emirates to createParis-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, a spinoff inAbu Dhabi. In 2007, the university shortened its name to UPMC.[3] In 2008 the university joined the associationParis Universitas changing its logo accordingly and adding the name of the association after its own.[5]
UPMC was a large scientific and medical complex in France, active in many fields of research with scope and achievements at a high level.[6] Severaluniversity rankings regularly put UPMC at the 1st place in France, and it had been ranked as one of the top universities in the world. TheARWU in 2014 ranked UPMC as the 1st in France, 6th in Europe and 35th in the world and also 4th in field of mathematics, 25th in field of physics, 14th in field of natural sciences and 32nd in field of engineering, technology and computer science.[7]
UPMC had more than 125 laboratories, most of them in association with theCentre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Some of its most notable institutes and laboratories include theInstitut Henri Poincaré,Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu (shared withUniversity Paris-Diderot) and theLaboratoire Kastler-Brossel (shared withÉcole Normale Supérieure).
The university's Faculty of Medicine Pierre and Marie Curie is located in twoteaching hospitals,Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital and Hôpital Saint-Antoine (the latter itself being the successor toSaint-Antoine-des-Champs Abbey).
In 2010, theSorbonne University group was created, including thePantheon-Assas University, theParis-Sorbonne University, theMuséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, theINSEAD, and theUniversity of Technology of Compiègne; for this occasion the UPMC logo were changed again.[8]
UPMC merged withParis-Sorbonne University into a combinedSorbonne University on 1 January 2018.[9][10][11]
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