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16 unusual facts about École normale supérieure


Academia Mihăileană

Like present-day graduates of the French École Normale Supérieure, students who completed courses at Academia Mihăileană only received a certificate that gave them the right to work in the service of the state, in administration, justice or education.

Bernard Chazelle

He went on to claim important research positions at institutions such as Carnegie Mellon, Brown, NEC, Xerox PARC, and the Paris institutions École Normale Supérieure, École Polytechnique, and INRIA.

Bernardo Huberman

He was also a Visiting Professor at the University of Paris, the École Normale Supérieure, in Paris, France, the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the European School of Business, INSEAD in France.

Caml

Caml (originally an acronym for Categorical Abstract Machine Language) is a dialect of the ML programming language family, developed at INRIA and formerly at ENS.

Christopher Krebs

While Assistant Professor at Harvard, he was Professeur Invité at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2007 and the APA fellow at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich in 2008/09.

David Naccache

David Naccache is a cryptographer, currently a professor at Panthéon-Assas University and member of the École normale supérieure's Computer Laboratory.

École Normale Supérieure

The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa was founded in 1810 as a branch of the École normale supérieure and later gained independence.

Jacques Stern

Jacques Stern (born 1949) is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École Normale Supérieure, where he is Director of the Computer Science Laboratory.

Michael de Larrabeiti

Between 1961 and 1965 he read French and English at Trinity College Dublin, from where he won a scholarship to the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he studied in 1965-66; he later began a DPhil at Keble College, Oxford which he later abandoned to take up full-time writing.

Nicolas Princen

From 2003 to 2006, he pursued a Masters in political philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm).

Parity of zero

In one of their experiments, students in the École Normale Supérieure were divided into two groups: those in literary studies and those studying mathematics, physics, or biology.

Paul Souriau

He studied at the École normale supérieure where he wrote a doctoral thesis entitled Théorie de l'invention published in 1881.

Pritam Panda

He has been awarded for an honorary master degree for his work from École Normale Supérieure, France.

Richard I. Morimoto

In addition to giving frequent talks at universities and scientific symposia throughout the world, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Technion University in Israel, Osaka University, Kyoto University, University of Rome, Beijing University, Åbo Akademi University in Finland, and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Scott Atran

He is currently a research director in anthropology at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and member of the Jean Nicod Institute at the École Normale Supérieure.

Zhou Kexi

He acquired the French language and became interested in French literature while studying at École Normale Supérieure in Paris.


Barry C. Smith

He has previously been a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and at the École Normale Supérieure, and was the writer and presenter of the BBC World Service radio series, The Mysteries of the Brain.

Collegio Superiore di Bologna

It has signed exchange agreements with École Normale Supérieure in Paris, Lyon and Cachan, with the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Ghislieri College of Scuola Superiore Studi Pavia IUSS of Pavia and with the Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori di Padova.

Douglas Porch

He has been a professor of strategy at the Naval War College, a guest lecturer at the Marine Corps University, a post-doctoral research fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the Mark W. Clark Professor of History at The Citadel.

Ernest Lavisse

In 1865 he obtained a fellowship in history, and in 1875 became a doctor of letters; he was appointed maître de conférence (1876) at the École Normale Supérieure, succeeding Fustel de Coulanges, and then professor of modern history at the Sorbonne (1888), in the place of Henri Wallon.

François Zourabichvili

A year after Zourabichvili's death both Collège international de philosophie and École normale supérieure organized a colloquium upon Les physiques de la pensée selon François Zourabichvili ("The physics of the thinking according to François Zourabichvili") led by Bruno Clément and Frédéric Worms, and counted with the participation of Pierre Macherey, Pierre-François Moreau, Pierre Zaoui, Paola Marrati, Paul R. Patton, Paolo Godani and Marie-France Badie.

Guy Hocquenghem

Guy Hocquenghem was born in the suburbs of Paris and was educated at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Jean Daniélou

At that time, he was appointed chaplain to the ENSJF, the female section of the École Normale Supérieure, at Sèvres.

Jean-Pierre Serre

Born in Bages, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, to pharmacist parents, Serre was educated at the Lycée de Nîmes and then from 1945 to 1948 at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Latin Quarter, Paris

Known for its student life, lively atmosphere and bistros, the Latin Quarter is the home to a number of higher education establishments besides the university itself, such as the École Normale Supérieure, the École des Mines de Paris (a ParisTech institute), Panthéon-Assas University, the Schola Cantorum, and the Jussieu university campus.

Louis Petit de Julleville

Educated at the École Normale Supérieure, and at the French School at Athens, he received his doctorate in literature in 1868.

Lycée Hoche

Each year, scores of students coming from its preparatory classes are admitted to France's most renowned graduate schools, such as the École Polytechnique, the École Normale Supérieure and HEC Paris.

Maria Leptin

Successively, she had two more experiences abroad as a visiting Professor at École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (2001) and as visiting scientist at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK (2004-2005).

Michel Duflo

From 1962 Duflo studied at the École Normale Supérieure and received a doctorate under the supervision of Jacques Dixmier.

Monique Canto-Sperber

Paris Sciences et Lettres – Quartier latin (PSL) is a new research university, made of cooperative actions between the École normale supérieure, the Collège de France, ESPCI ParisTech, Chimie ParisTech, Paris Observatory, Paris Dauphine University and the Curie Institute.

Pierre Sabatier

Pierre Célestin Sabatier (born 1935 in Casablanca, Morocco), grand-nephew of François Nau, graduated from École Normale Supérieure, Paris in physics and mathematics in 1958 then spent a year in Princeton University where he was a pupil of Professor Eugene Wigner.

Roland Castro

By the end of 1966 he was a member of the editorial committee of Melp!, the École Normale Supérieure student association's review, along with Jacques Barda, Hubert Tonka, Pierre Granveaud and Antoine Grumbach.