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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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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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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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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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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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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Nathalie Provost (category École Polytechnique massacre)
1966) is a Canadian gun control advocate who was shot in the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre. She became a spokesperson for the PolySeSouvient gun-control...
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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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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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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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Marc Lépine (category École Polytechnique massacre)
men at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal, in the École Polytechnique massacre. Lépine...
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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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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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HEC Paris (redirect from École des Hautes Études Commerciales)
(French: École des hautes études commerciales de Paris, lit. 'Paris School of Advanced Business Studies') is a business school and grande école located...
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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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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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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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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 Zürich...
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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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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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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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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (category École Polytechnique alumni)
was a French military engineer and physicist. A graduate of the École polytechnique, Carnot served as an officer in the Engineering Arm (le génie) of...
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Camille Jordan (category École Polytechnique alumni)
Lyon and educated at the École polytechnique. He was an engineer by profession; later in life he taught at the École polytechnique and the Collège de France...
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Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (category Grandes écoles)
CNAM is one of the founding Schools of the Grande école system, with École polytechnique and Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1794, in the wake of the French...
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Joseph Liouville (category École Polytechnique alumni)
to the École Polytechnique in 1825 and graduated in 1827. Just like Augustin-Louis Cauchy before him, Liouville studied engineering at École des Ponts...
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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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