The Hubert Curien Pluridisciplinary Institute (IPHC—) is a joint research unit (UMR—french: Unité mixte de recherche) of the French
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science
Basic research, also called pure research o ...
(CNRS) and of the
University of Strasbourg
The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers.
The French university traces its history to the ea ...
. It was formed by the voluntary association of three research laboratories at the University of Strasbourg.
The Institute in brief
consulted 25 April 2011
History
The following were the laboratories that joined together to form the IPHC on January 1, 2006:
* ''Institut de Recherches Subatomiques'' (IReS)
* ''Centre d'Écologie et Physiologie Énergétiques'' (CEPE)
* ''Laboratoire des Sciences Analytiques et Interactions Ioniques Moléculaires et Biomoléculaires''
The institute is named after Hubert Curien
Hubert Curien (30 October 1924 – 6 February 2005) was a French physicist and a key figure in European science politics, as the President of CERN Council (1994–1996), the first chairman of the European Space Agency (ESA) (1981–1984), and s ...
.
See also
*Institute for Physics and Chemistry of Materials in Strasbourg
The Strasbourg Institute of Material Physics and Chemistry (IPCMS—french: Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg) is a joint research unit between the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University ...
*Institut Charles Sadron
Institut Charles Sadron is a research center of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (National Centre of Scientific Research), associated with the University of Strasbourg, which was created in 1954 to answer the demand for fundamental ...
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