Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (french: link=no, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, UCBL) is one of the three

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Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...

, France. It is named after the French physiologist

Claude Bernard Claude Bernard (; 12 July 1813 – 10 February 1878) was a French physiologist. Historian I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science". He originated the term '' milieu intérieur'', and the ...

and specialises in science and technology, medicine, and sports science. It was established in 1971 by the merger of the 'faculté des sciences de Lyon' with the 'faculté de médecine'. The main administrative, teaching and research facilities are located in

Villeurbanne Villeurbanne (; frp, Velorbana) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. It is situated northeast of Lyon, with which it forms the heart of the second-largest metropolitan area in France after ...

, with other campuses located in Gerland, Rockefeller, and Laennec in the 8th arrondissement of Lyon. Attached to the University are the Hospices Civils de Lyon, including the 'Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud', which is the largest

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in the

Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes () was an administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the river Rhône ...

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and the second-largest in France. The university has been independent since January 2009. In 2020 it managed an annual budget of over €420 million and had 2857 faculty.

History

On 17 March 1808,

Napoleon I Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

founded the

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, a national organisation with responsibility for

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from primary through to

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level. This decree created the Academy of Lyon within the University and established the Lyon Faculty of Science. The Lyon Faculty of Medicine was founded on 8 November 1874 and was later merged with the Faculty of Science on 8 December 1970 to create Claude Bernard University.

Locations and buildings

Main sites

The university is not located on a single campus but has departments and other facilities distributed across several key sites throughout

and the wider region. The LyonTech-la Doua campus located north of

and east of Lyon's

Parc de la Tête d'Or The Parc de la Tête d'or (English: "Park of the Golden Head") is a large urban park in Lyon, France, with an area of approximately . Located in the northern part of the 6th arrondissement, it features the Jardin botanique de Lyon, as well as a ...

hosts the administrative headquarters of the university as well as its Faculties of Science and Technology and of Sport Sciences. A second key site, the Lyon Health East Campus, is located in the eighth

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next to the Edouard Herriot hospital and the Vinatier medical centre. It hosts the Faculty of Odontology and the Lyon East Faculty of Medicine, in addition to several research institutes dedicated to medical and biological sciences.

Areas of study

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Natural science

Biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

* Chemistry and

Biochemistry Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology and ...

* Mathematics *

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

* Earth science * Electrical engineering *

Computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

Mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, an ...

Public health

Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pr ...

* Pharmacy *

Odontology Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth. It consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, management, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions o ...

Audiology Audiology (from Latin , "to hear"; and from Greek , ''-logia'') is a branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders. Audiologists treat those with hearing loss and proactively prevent related damage. By employing vario ...

* Occupational therapy * Physiotherapy * Speech therapy *

Ophthalmology Ophthalmology ( ) is a surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of eye disorders. An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Following a medic ...

* Psychomotricity

Other

* Sport (STAPS, "''Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives''") * Observatory of Lyon * ISFA, Graduate School of Actuarial Studies (ISFA, "''Institut de Science Financière et d'Assurances''") * Engineering school École polytechnique universitaire de l'université Lyon-I

Reputation

The university was ranked 9-11 out of universities in France and in the 201-300 band of world universities by Academic Ranking of World Universities 2021.

Notable faculty

Mathematics

* Geneviève Comte-Bellot (born 1929) - physicist *

John Adrian Bondy John Adrian Bondy (born 1944 in London) is a retired English mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics and graph theory. Career Bondy received his Ph.D. in graph theory from the University of Oxford in 1969. His advisor was Dominic We ...

(born 1942) - mathematician *

Michelle Schatzman Michelle Schatzman (1949–2010) was a French mathematician, specializing in applied mathematics, who combined research as a CNRS research director and teaching as a professor at the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1. Biography Michelle Véra Scha ...

(1949-2010) - mathematician *

Jean-Louis Nicolas Jean-Louis Nicolas is a French number theorist. He is the namesake (with Paul Erdős) of the Erdős–Nicolas numbers, and was a frequent co-author of Erdős, who would take over the desk of Nicolas' wife Anne-Marie (also a mathematician) wheneve ...

- number theorist * Pierre Auger (born 1953) - bio-mathematician * Fokko du Cloux (1954-2006) - Dutch mathematician and computer scientist * Christian Krattenthaler (born 1958) - mathematician * Marta Macho Stadler (born 1962) - Basque mathematician * Marie-France Sagot - computational biologist * Isabelle Daniel - mineralogist * Marivi Fernández-Serra - physicist * Tuna Altınel (born 1966) - mathematician * Sylvie Benzoni (born 1967) - mathematician * Vincent Calvez (born 1981) - mathematician

Medicine

* Antonin Poncet (1849-1913) - surgeon * Jean-Louis Touraine (born 1945) - professor of medicine * Gilles Salles - haematologist * Véronique Trillet-Lenoir (born 1957) - oncologist and politician * Patrick Froehlich (born 1961) - physician and novelist * David Servan-Schreiber (1961-2011) - physician and neuroscientist

Notable alumni

Academic

Cécile Mourer-Chauviré Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (born 1939) is a French paleontologist specializing in birds of the Eocene and the Oligocene. In her early career, she discovered with her husband the Laang Spean cave site of prehistoric humans in Cambodia. Career Cé ...

(born 1939) - paleontologist * Christian Dumas (born 1943) - biologist * Jean Bellissard (born 1946) - mathematical physicist *

Francis Clarke Francis Clarke may refer to: * Francis Clarke (politician) (1857–1939), Australian politician * Francis Clarke (mathematician) (born 1948), Canadian and French mathematician * Francis Clarke (priest) (died 1910), Irish Anglican clergyman * Fra ...

(born 1948) - mathematician * Rabesa Zafera Antoine (born 1950) - plant biologist, university president *

Muhammad Baydoun Muhammad Baydoun ( ar, محمد بيضون; 5 February 1952 – 17 May 2022) was a moderate Lebanese politician and served as a member of the Lebanese parliament from 1992 until 2005. He also served as minister of power and energy as recently as ...

(1952-2022) - Lebanese mathematician and politician *

Jean Decety Jean Decety is an American-French neuroscientist specializing in developmental neuroscience, affective neuroscience, and social neuroscience. His research focuses on the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms underpinning social cognition ...

(born 1960) - neuroscientist *

Uwe Rau Uwe Rau is a German physicist who made important contributions to the physics of the photovoltaic device, notably on explaining energy losses in thin-film solar cells and on the use of the reciprocity principle to characterize solar cells by ele ...

- German physicist * Teresa Torres - Chilean paleontologist *

Raphaèle Herbin Raphaèle Herbin is a French applied mathematician; she is known for her work on the finite volume method. Herbin has been a professor at Aix-Marseille University since 1995, and directs the Institut de Mathématiques de Marseille. She earned her ...

- mathematician *

Nouria Salehi Nouria Sultana Salehi is an Afghan-Australian nuclear physicist, biophysicist and humanitarian. She is the founder of the Afghan Australian Development Organisation. Early life and education Salehi was born in Afghanistan and was educated a ...

- Afghan-Australian nuclear physicist, biophysicist and humanitarian * Patrick Mehlen (born 1968) - biologist * Hélène Courtois (born 1970) - astrophysicist * Catherine Tallon-Baudry - electrophysiologist * Theodora Hatziioannou - virologist

Sports

* Ahmad Ahmad (born 1959) - Malagasy football manager and politician * Louisa Cadamuro (born 1967) - professional footballer *

Gwendal Peizerat Gwendal Peizerat (born 21 April 1972) is a French former competitive ice dancer. With Marina Anissina, he is the 2002 Olympic champion, the 1998 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2000 World champion, and a six-time French national champion. Per ...

(born 1972) - ice dancer * Romain Haguenauer (born 1976) - ice dancing coach * Assile Toufaily (born 1996) - footballer

Other

* André Vansteenberghe (1906-1984) - physician and member of French resistance *

Alice Vansteenberghe Alice Vansteenberghe (née Joly; 18 February 1908 - 9 February 1991) was a medical practitioner and a member of the French Resistance in World War II. In 1944, she was captured and tortured by the so-called "Butcher of Lyon", Klaus Barbie. She ...

(1908-1991) - physician and member of French resistance *

Sami Khiyami Sami Khiyami ( ar, سامي خيامي) is a Syrian diplomat, former Syrian ambassador to London. Background Born on 28 August 1948, Khiyami studied Electrical Engineering at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, and Claude Bernard Unive ...

(born 1948) - Syrian engineer and diplomat * Yasmine Motarjemi (born 1955) - food safety specialist * Marine Lorphelin (born 1993) - model and beauty pageant title holder

References

* Nataly Mermet, ''Équation : 40 ans d'innovation à l'Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1'', Glénat, 2011.

External links

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History

Locations and buildings

Main sites

Areas of study

Natural science

Public health

Other

Reputation

Notable faculty

Mathematics

Medicine

Notable alumni

Academic

Sports

Other

See also

References

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