Joseph Fourier University (UJF, , also known as Grenoble I) was a French university situated in the city of

Grenoble Grenoble ( ; ; or ; or ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Isère Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region ...

and focused on the fields of sciences, technologies and health. It is now part of the Université Grenoble Alpes.

Importance

According to the 2009

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, Joseph Fourier University is the sixth best university in France. Joseph Fourier University is also the fourth best university in Engineering & IT nationally and 115th globally in

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. The origins of this scientific university can be traced all the way back to 1811 when the scientist

Joseph Fourier Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (; ; 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre, Burgundy and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analys ...

established a faculty of science in Grenoble. Part of the university is the Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), a leading institution in the field of earth, space and environmental sciences. The university was at the origin of the Joint Universities Accelerator School (JUAS), together with

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and ESRF, in the early 1990s.

Facilities

The main facilities are located on a vast campus east of Grenoble, on the commune of Saint-Martin d'Hères (and partially on that of

Gières Gières (; ) is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. It is part of the Grenoble urban unit (agglomeration). The archaeologist Joseph Chamonard (1866–1936) died in Gières. Grenoble-Universités-Gières station has ra ...

). This campus is shared with other higher education organizations, see

University of Grenoble The (, ''Grenoble Alps University'', abbr. UGA) is a Grands établissements, ''grand établissement'' in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 researchers. Es ...

. The university also has teaching and research installations in the city of Grenoble proper. The university runs many laboratories, many in association with

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, Grenoble-INP and other major institutions. UJF also maintains the

Jardin botanique alpin du Lautaret The Lautaret Alpine Garden (Jardin botanique alpin du Lautaret) (2 hectares) is an alpine botanical garden located at 2100 metres altitude in the Col du Lautaret of the Dauphiné Alps, near Villar-d'Arêne, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Az ...

alpine garden on the Lautaret pass, in association with

Notable alumni

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, ''Breakthrough prize,'' Life Science (2015) * Yves Bréchet, Material Science * Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli, physicist, member of the "Académie Hassan II des Sciences et Techniques"2015 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
, Arnold Nou, 2 April 2015, WomenOfChina.cn, retrieved 4 April 2015 * Hélène Courtois, astrophysicist *

Charles Elachi Charles Elachi (born April 18, 1947
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, director of the Jet Propulsion Lab (NASA) *

Park Geun-hye Park Geun-hye (; ; born 2 February 1952) is a South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 until Impeachment of Park Geun-hye, she was removed from office in 2017. Park was the first and to date only woman ...

, former president of South Korea * Ariane Mézard, mathematician * Vera Lúcia de Miranda Guarda, human rights activist and Brazilian UNESCO chairperson * Sakura Pascarelli, physicist * Rammal Rammal, a Lebanese condensed matter physicist * Francisco Santos, mathematician * Joseph Sifakis, computer scientist and

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recipient (2007)

References

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