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The Molecular Activation Laboratory was officially created on 1 st January 2025. It is supervised by the Collège de France, the CNRS and Sorbonne University. The scientific objectives of the Laboratoire d'Activation Moléculaire are part of a fundamental …
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The Institut des hautes études japonaises (IHEJ), which became the Centre d'études japonaises in 2022, was founded in 1959 at what was then the University of Paris (Sorbonne) by Charles Haguenauer (1896-1976), the father of French Japonology, to provide a …
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The Centre d'études coréennes (formerly " Institut d'études coréennes ") was created in 1973 on the initiative of Prof. Li Ogg and the Chairman of the Collège de France, to take over part of the Sorbonne's old Korean collection accumulated by …
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The Centre d'études chinoises (Institut des civilisations du Collège de France - pôle Mondes asiatiques), historically known as the Institut des hautes études chinoises (IHEC), was founded under this name in 1920 with the ambition of creating a place for …
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Founded in 1974 by Rolf Alfred Stein (1911-1999), Tibetologist and Sinologist, Professor at the Collège de France from 1965 to 1981, the Centre d'études tibétaines (formerly the Institut d'études tibétaines) is part of the Pôle Mondes asiatiques of the …
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The Center for Indian and Central Asian Studies was originally named the Institute of Indian Civilization (ICI) when it was founded in 1927 at the University of Paris by orientalists Émile Senart, Alfred Foucher and Sylvain Lévi. Its primary role was to …
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Presentation The Société Asiatique was founded in Paris in 1822, at a time when Oriental studies were arousing a general sense of curiosity and expectation in the intellectual world. The first learned society of its kind in Europe, it served as a model …
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Presentation The Collège de France houses collections of objects of all kinds (paintings, scientific instruments, archaeological furniture, etc.) under the responsibility of the Museum Collections department and the heads of the libraries and archives …
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Presentation The library of the Institut d'études indiennes - founded in 1927 on the initiative of Émile Senart, Alfred Foucher and Sylvain Lévi - houses a collection of over 70 000 volumes of printed works, including 600 journal titles (40 in progress) …
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Presentation Founded in 1959, the Japanese Studies Library offers around 45,000 volumes and is open to all researchers for loan and consultation: its holdings include works on Japanese history, religion and literature from Antiquity to the end of the Edo …
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Presentation The Chinese Studies Library was created in 1927 as part of the Institut des hautes études chinoises (IHEC), founded in 1920. It grew rapidly thanks to generous funding from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the advice of scholars …
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Presentation Founded in 1959 at the Sorbonne by Professor Charles Haguenauer (1896-1976), a Japanese and Korean scholar, and attached to the Collège de France in 1973, over 70% of the Korean Studies Library is in Korean and classical Chinese. It includes …
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Presentation The Claude-Lévi-Strauss Library is a research library under the auspices of the Collège de France, CNRS and EHESS. Specializing in ethnology and social anthropology, it was founded in 1960 by Claude Lévi-Strauss, ethnologist and professor at …
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Presentation The Egyptology Library holds a specialized collection of 39,000 books and 342 printed journal titles, as well as online books and databases on Pharaonic Egypt from the Predynastic period to Roman times. Its holdings cover hieroglyphic, …
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Presentation Founded in Paris in 1929, jointly by the American scholar Thomas Whittemore and the Byzantine Institute of Boston (Massachusetts), the Byzantine Library has a collection of almost 50 000 works on Byzantine civilization, with particular …
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Presentation Since 1 st January 2020, the Assyriology and West Semitic holdings have been grouped together in a single library, the Ancient Near East Library, which offers 37,000 printed works, 411 journal titles, complemented by online ebooks and …
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Within the Collège de France, the "Solid state chemistry-Energy" group, which reunites 14 people, 4 permanent staff and the rest being PhD's and Post-docs, focuses on the fundamental science of materials for energy storage and conversion devices. Today's …
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An incubator for young teams, the fruit of a partnership between CNRS and Collège de France The Institut de Physique du Collège de France offers a particularly favorable scientific and technical environment for the incubator of young teams, the fruit of a …
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CIRB activities Access the CIRB seminar calendar CNRS/UMR 7241 - INSERM U1050 The Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en biologie (CIRB), created in 2009 on the initiative of Alain Prochiantz, is located on the Marcelin Berthelot site of the Collège de …
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The Chemistry of Biological Processes Laboratory develops research at the interface of chemistry and biology. More specifically, it studies complex enzymatic systems involved in metabolic and biosynthetic pathways, such as RNA modification or ubiquinone …
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Laboratory of inorganic and isotopic organic geochemistry CEREGE, UMR Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, Collège de France The Climate and Ocean Evolution Chair at the Collège de France is integrated into the UMR CEREGE, both administratively …
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The research carried out by the PROCLAC laboratory (Near East - Caucasus : languages, archaeology, cultures), UMR 7192 of the CNRS, covers a vast territory stretching from the Mediterranean to the Caucasus. In chronological terms, our research takes a …
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The Kastler Brossel Laboratory A joint research unit of the École normale supérieure, Sorbonne University, Collège de France and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), the Kastler Brossel Laboratory (LKB) is a major player in the field …
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Research in our team focuses on " quantum matter with strong correlations ". The electrons in a molecule or solid, or the quantum fluids in ultra-cold atoms are all examples of quantum systems made up of a very large number of interacting particles. We …
