Louis Pasteur University (''Université Louis-Pasteur''), also known as Strasbourg I or ULP was a large university in
Strasbourg
Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...
, Alsace, France. As of 15 January 2007, there were 18,847 students enrolled at the university, including around 3,000 foreign students. Research and teaching at ULP concentrated on the
natural sciences, technology and medicine. On 1 January 2009, Louis Pasteur University became part of the refounded
University of Strasbourg and lost its status as an independent university.
The university was a member of the
LERU
The League of European Research Universities (LERU) is a consortium of European research universities.
History and overview
The League of European Research Universities (LERU) is an association of research-intensive universities. Founded in 2002 ...
(League of European Research Universities). It was named after the famous 19th-century French scientist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named afte ...
. Nineteen Nobel laureates and two laureates of the Fields Medal have studied, taught or conducted research at Louis Pasteur University, underlining the excellent reputation of the university.
Notable staff and students
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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named afte ...
(1822–1895), professor of chemistry
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Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917), professor of chemistry, Nobel Prize in 1905
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (18 June 1845 – 18 May 1922) was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria ...
(1845–1922), medical student, Nobel Prize in 1907
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Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923), lecturer in physics, Nobel Prize in 1901
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Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), professor of physics, Nobel Prize in 1909
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Hermann Emil Fischer (1851–1919), graduate student in chemistry, Nobel Prize in 1902
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Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927), physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize in 1910
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Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), medical student, Nobel Prize in 1908
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Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943), postdoctoral fellow, Nobel Prize in 1902
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Otto Loewi (1873–1961), medical student, Nobel Prize in 1936
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Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician, Nobel Prize in 1952
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Max von Laue
Max Theodor Felix von Laue (; 9 October 1879 – 24 April 1960) was a German physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.
In addition to his scientific endeavors with cont ...
(1879–1960), undergraduate student in mathematics and physics, Nobel Prize in 1914
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Hermann Staudinger
Hermann Staudinger (; 23 March 1881 – 8 September 1965) was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
He is also ...
(1881–1965), professor of chemistry, Nobel Prize in 1953
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Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884–1951), medical student, Nobel Prize in 1922
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Alfred Kastler
Alfred Kastler (; 3 May 1902 – 7 January 1984) was a French physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate.
Biography
Kastler was born in Guebwiller (Alsace, German Empire) and later attended the Lycée Bartholdi in Colmar, Alsace, and École Normale Sup ...
(1902–1984), graduate student in physics, Nobel Prize in 1966
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Louis Néel (1904–2000), graduate student in physics, Nobel Prize in 1970
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Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002), graduate student in mathematics,
Fields Medal
The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award ho ...
in 1950
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René Thom
René Frédéric Thom (; 2 September 1923 – 25 October 2002) was a French mathematician, who received the Fields Medal in 1958.
He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he became w ...
(1923–2002), professor of mathematics,
Fields Medal
The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award ho ...
in 1958
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Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus (born March 15, 1930) is an Austrian and American theoretical chemist. He is the Director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, a joint laboratory between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of St ...
(1930–), professor of chemistry, Nobel Prize in 2013
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Pierre Chambon
Pierre Chambon (born 7 February 1931 in Mulhouse, France) was the founder of the in Strasbourg, France. He was one of the leading molecular biologists who utilized gene cloning and sequencing technology to first decipher the structure of eukaryot ...
(1931–), professor of biology, Lasker Award in 2004, Gairdner Award in 2010
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Jean-Marie Lehn (1939–), professor of chemistry, Nobel Prize in 1987
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Yves Meyer (1940–), graduate student in mathematics,
Abel Prize
The Abel Prize ( ; no, Abelprisen ) is awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. It is named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) and directly modeled after the Nobel Prizes. ...
in 2017
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Jules Hoffmann
Jules A. Hoffmann (; born 2 August 1941) is a Luxembourg-born French biologist. During his youth, growing up in Luxembourg, he developed a strong interest in insects under the influence of his father, Jos Hoffmann. This eventually resulted in the y ...
(1941–), professor of biology, Nobel Prize in 2011
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Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Jean-Pierre Sauvage (; born 21 October 1944) is a French coordination chemist working at Strasbourg University. He graduated from the National School of Chemistry of Strasbourg (now known as ECPM Strasbourg), in 1967. He has specialized in s ...
(1944–), professor of chemistry, Nobel Prize in 2016
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Pascal Mayer (1963–), undergraduate and graduate student in biophysics,
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2022
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Philippe Horvath (1970–), undergraduate and graduate student in biology, Gairdner Award in 2016
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Yvonne Libona Bonzi Coulibaly
Yvonne Libona Bonzi Coulibaly is the first female doctor in chemistry in Burkina Faso, a full professor at the University of Ouagadougou, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Burkina Faso, the Director-General of the Institute of Sciences of Burk ...
, professor of chemistry, African Union
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah (born 21 September 190927 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957. An in ...
Prize in 2013
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Mounir Majidi
Points of interest
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Jardin botanique de l'Université de Strasbourg
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Musée zoologique de l'ULP et de la ville de Strasbourg
Notes and references
See also
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University of Strasbourg
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École européenne de chimie, polymères et matériaux
The ''École européenne de chimie, polymères et matériaux'' (ECPM; European School of Chemistry, Polymers and Materials Science) of Strasbourg is a public engineering school in the city of Strasbourg, in Alsace, France. It was founded in 1948 ...
, the European school of chemistry
External links
Official university website
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1567 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire
University of Strasbourg
Defunct universities and colleges in France
Educational institutions established in 1970