École polytechnique (lit. 'Polytechnic School'; also known as Polytechnique or l'X [liks]) is a grande école located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes...
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50472°N 73.61278°W / 45.50472; -73.61278 The École Polytechnique massacre (French: tuerie de l'École polytechnique), also known as the Montreal massacre, was...
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The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland. Founded in 1969 with the mission to "train...
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Polytechnique Montréal (French pronunciation: [pɔlitɛknik mɔ̃ʁeal]; previously École polytechnique de Montréal; French pronunciation: [ekɔl pɔlitɛknik...
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later to form the teaching corps of École Polytechnique during the Napoleonic era). In 1802, Napoleon created the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr,...
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Sebastien Huberdeau, and Karine Vanasse, the film is based on the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre (also known as the "Montreal Massacre") and re-enacts the...
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The École Polytechnique d'Ingénieurs de l'Université de Savoie is a French engineering College created in 2006. It has been created from the merger of...
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Polytechnic Institute of Paris (redirect from Institut polytechnique de Paris)
Institut polytechnique de Paris) is a public technological university located in Palaiseau, France. It consists of six engineering grandes écoles: École polytechnique...
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is a list of notable people affiliated with the École Polytechnique. Alumni of the École Polytechnique are traditionally referred to as "X", or "Xnnnn"...
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The École Polytechnique is a French grande école founded in 1794 to train students in sciences and technology. École Polytechnique may also refer to the...
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Jean-Philippe Bouchaud maintains a position as Professor of Physics at École Polytechnique and is a member of the French Academy of Sciences. The CFM-Imperial...
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Marc Lépine (category École Polytechnique massacre)
women and four men in what is known as the École Polytechnique massacre. It took place at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, an engineering school affiliated...
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange (section École Polytechnique)
Revolutionary France, became the first professor of analysis at the École Polytechnique upon its opening in 1794, was a founding member of the Bureau des...
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member of IP Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris). ENSAE Paris is known as the specialization school of École polytechnique for economics, finance, applied...
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ETH Zurich (redirect from École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich)
ETH Zurich (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; English: Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is a public research university in Zurich...
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Nathalie Provost (category École Polytechnique massacre)
gun control advocate since surviving being shot during the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre. She and other survivors founded the PolySeSouvient gun-control...
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy (category École Polytechnique alumni)
career, and prepared himself for the entrance examination to the École Polytechnique. In 1805, he placed second of 293 applicants on this exam and was...
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Bernard Arnault (category École Polytechnique alumni)
raised in a devoutly Catholic household. He pursued Engineering at École polytechnique, graduating in 1971. He began his career in his father's company...
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(Télécom Paris - ENST) École Polytechnique (École Polytechnique - EP or l'X) École Supérieure d’Electricité (Supélec - ESE) École Supérieure de Physique...
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Lyon (France) The École normale supérieure de Lyon (also known as ENS de Lyon, ENSL or Normale Sup' Lyon) is a French grande école located in the city...
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the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Faculté polytechnique de Mons in Belgium, as well as other member schools of the Ecole Centrales...
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Sophie Germain (section École Polytechnique)
mother even secretly supported her. In 1794, when Germain was 18, the École Polytechnique opened. As a woman, Germain was barred from attending, but the new...
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Laurent Schwartz (category École Normale Supérieure alumni)
became a teacher at the École polytechnique after having at first refused this position. From 1961 to 1963 the École polytechnique suspended his right to...
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Jean-Victor Poncelet (category École Polytechnique alumni)
mathematician who served most notably as the Commanding General of the École Polytechnique. He is considered a reviver of projective geometry, and his work...
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ESCP Business School (redirect from École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris)
education in the 1820s. It was modelled on the first grande école, the École Polytechnique, founded by Lazare Carnot and Gaspard Monge, but was initially...
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Alain Finkielkraut (category Academic staff of École Polytechnique)
1976 and the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the École Polytechnique as a professor in 1989. At the end of the 1990s, Finkielkraut founded...
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Université de Montréal (redirect from Université de Montréal École d'optométrie)
first was the École Polytechnique, a school of engineering, which was founded in 1873 and became affiliated in 1887. The second was the École des Hautes...
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École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon or CPE Lyon is a French grande école located in Villeurbanne, near Lyon. CPE Lyon offers two...
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Siméon Denis Poisson (category École Polytechnique alumni)
Poisson, an officer in the French army. In 1798, he entered the École Polytechnique in Paris as first in his year, and immediately began to attract the...
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Hervé Faye (category École Polytechnique alumni)
astronomer, born at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre) and educated at the École Polytechnique, which he left in 1834, before completing his course, to accept a...
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