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Conservatoire national des arts et métiers

Type	Public, Graduate engineering school
Established	1794
Students	90.000
Location	Paris , France 48°52′0.975″N 2°21′16.802″E / 48.86693750°N 2.35466722°E / 48.86693750; 2.35466722
Affiliations	héSam université Conférence des Grandes Écoles
Website	http://www.cnam.fr

The Conservatoire national des arts et métiers is a graduate engineering school in Paris, France. It was created in 1794.

Its different programs lead to the following French and European degrees:

Ingénieur CNAM (CNAM Graduate engineer Masters level program)
Master of Science & PhD doctorate studies
Mastères Spécialisés (MS)
Massive Online Open Courses

Classes and research are performed mainly in French and English languages. Students from a dozen nationalities participate in the different programs at CNAM.

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CNAM campus in Reims.
Helium–neon laser used at the LNE-CNAM: the National Laboratory of Experimental Metrology, under the aegis of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM), based in Paris and of EURAMET, which conduct research projects in cooperation with the Kastler–Brossel Laboratory, the latter being a shared laboratory of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Grande Ecole École normale supérieure, the Sorbonne University and the Grand Etablissement Collège de France. Specializing in fundamental physics of quantum systems, it was named after Alfred Kastler French physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate and Jean Brossel, French physicist known for his work on quantum optics and Holweck Prize Laureate.
Commemorative plaque of Gaston Planté on the Parisian Campus of CNAM, inventor of the first lead-acid accumulator and first reusable lead-acid battery.
Main entrance of the Parisian Campus of the CNAM, on Rue Saint Martin - picture taken from Square Emile Chautemps.
Parisian underground station of Arts & Métiers, founded in 1904, which is served by Line 3 and Line 11. For its renovation in 1988, the Ouï-dire style was applied to Line 3, whilst on Line 11, for bicentenary anniversary of CNAM in 1994, the platforms were redesigned by Belgian comics cartoonist François Schuiten in a steampunk style reminiscent of the science fiction works of Jules Verne.
The Court of Honour of the CNAM.
Library of the CNAM on the Parisian campus, in the former refectory of the Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs.
Statue of the French physicist and Huguenot: Denis Papin (1647 – 1713), inventor of the Steam Engine, on the Parisian campus of CNAM.
Statue of Nicolas Leblanc (1742 – 1806). French chemist and surgeon he invented artificial soda ash.
View of the CNAM Parisian campus from Rue Réaumur, a French entomologist who introduced the Réaumur Temperature scale in 1730.
Parvis of the Museum of Arts and Crafts and Industrial Design, on the Parisian Campus of CNAM.
The Avion III of Clément Ader (1841 - 1926) autodidact French inventor and engineer) at the Musée des Arts et Métiers on the Parisian campus of CNAM.
Parisian campus of CNAM, adjacent to the main Parisian campus, on the former campus of École Centrale, located on rue Montgolfier (3rd arrondissement).
Main Entrance of the parisian campus of CNAM, adjacent to the main Parisian campus of CNAM, located on the former campus of École Centrale, situated on rue Montgolfier (3rd arrondissement).
Fontaine du Vert Bois at one of the corner of the Parisian campus of CNAM, at the intersection between rue Saint Martin and rue du Vertbois.
Léon Vaudoyer (1803 – 1872) Architect of the CNAM Parisian Campus. He designed and conducted some of the CNAM buildings of the Parisian campus, along with the Institut de France building, during the nineteenth century.
Guillaume Postel, one of the first professor of the Collège de France (another higher education institution categorised as Grand Etablissement, just like CNAM), is buried in the former priory on the Parisian Campus of CNAM.
Louis de Broglie (academic staff). Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics in 1929, member of the governance committee of the CNAM in 1945 and member of the technical committee of the test laboratory of the CNAM in 1945.
Louis Pasteur (alumnus). Pasteur studied at the École Normale Supérieure and at the CNAM, chemist and biologist. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern bacteriology and has been honoured as the "father of bacteriology" and as the "father of microbiology".
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (alumnus). Carnot graduated from the École Polytechnique and from the CNAM, physicist, father of modern Thermodynamics and of the Carnot-Process.
Geneviève Meurgues (alumnus). French explorer, museologist, curator, conservator, chemical engineer and lecturer. As a professor at the National Museum of Natural History, she specialised in the conservation of natural history specimens. The Relictocarabus meurguesianus, a ground beetle discovered in Morocco was named in her honour.
Paul Doumer (alumnus). Doumer was one of the President of the Third French Republic.
Jacques de Vaucanson (donator). Engineer who invented the first all-metal lathe (a loom for weaving wavy fabrics) in the midst of the Industrial Revolution, gave his personal collection to the CNAM as well as his name to a street adjacent to the CNAM. As a token of his work, the Vaucanson Institute was established in 2010 by the CNAM.
Jean-Baptiste Say (alumnus and faculty). Classical economist, Say was professor at the CNAM, and at the Collège de France.
Mialy Rajoelina (alumnus). First Lady of Madagascar. She is the spouse of Andry Rajoelina, the president of the High Transitional Authority of Madagascar from 2009 until 2014 and president of Madagascar since 2019.
Abbé Grégoire (founder). Later bishop, Henri Grégoire was the founder of the CNAM.
Melchior Ndadaye (alumnus). First elected president of Burundi.
Léon Bourgeois (academic staff). Nobel Peace Prize and Chairman of the board of directors of the CNAM.
Jean Prouvé (alumnus and faculty). French metal worker, self-taught architect and designer, Prouvé was Professor at the CNAM from 1957 until 1970.
Jacques-Alain Miller (faculty). Guest lecturer from 1995 to 2009, Miller is one of the founder members of the School of the Freudian Cause (French: École de la Cause freudienne) and of the World Association of Psychoanalysis which he presided from 1992 until 2002.
Marc Seguin (alumnus). French engineer, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge and the multi-tubular steam-engine boiler.
Valérie Petit (alumnus). French politician who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the 9th constituency of the department of Nord. From 2016 until 2020, she was a member of La République En Marche!. In parliament, Petit serves on the Finance Committee.
Gaston Planté (academic staff). Laboratory assistant at the CNAM and inventor in 1859 of the lead acid battery and of the first reusable battery: the lead accumulator, also called: lead-acid (storage) battery.
Robert Solow (faculty). Guest lecturer. Solow is an Economist specialised in Macroeconomics and Neo-Keynesian economics, Laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences which alma mater is: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Henri Fayol (faculty and academic staff), professor and director from 1888 until 1918. He was a French mining engineer, mining executive, author and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration that is often called Fayolism. He and his colleagues developed this theory independently of scientific management but roughly contemporaneously. Like his contemporary Frederick Winslow Taylor, he is widely acknowledged as a founder of modern management methods.
Anne-France Brunet (alumnus). French politician of La République En Marche! who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Loire-Atlantique.
Josef Rotblat (faculty). Physicist and professor at CNAM. Laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yves F. Meyer (faculty). Mathematician and professor at CNAM. Meyer is a French mathematician. He is among the progenitors of wavelet theory, having proposed the Meyer wavelet. Meyer was awarded the Abel Prize in 2017.
Alexandre Millerand (alumnus). He was Prime Minister of France from 20 January to 23 September 1920 and President of France from 23 September 1920 to 11 June 1924.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (faculty). Guest lecturer. As a French physicist, he shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms. Currently he is still an active researcher, working at the École normale supérieure.
Nicolas-Jacques Conté (founding member) was a French physicist, chemist, aerostat pilot (balloonist), portraitist, inventor of the modern pencil. He participated to the Campaign in Egypt of Napoleon. He was one of the first founding members of the original triumvirate of CNAM.
Bernard Kouchner (alumnus) at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos 2008, French doctor and politician, he was the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs from 2007 until 2010 and Minister of Health from 1992 until 1993. He is the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde. From 1999 until 2001, he was nominated as the second UN Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
Francis Mer (academic staff) at the IMF in 2003. Former French Minister of Economy from 2002 to 2004. is a French businessman, industrialist and politician. A former alumnus of the École Polytechnique, and of the Mines Paristech Grande Ecole Engineer School, he is a member of the Corps des mines. He was one of the former president of the steering committee of CNAM.
Claude Pouillet (academic staff) was a French physicist and a professor of physics at the Sorbonne, professor and third director of CNAM as well as member of the French Academy of Sciences. Pouillet developed the Pouillet effect. He corrected Joseph Fourier's work on the surface temperature of the earth, developing the first real mathematical treatment of the greenhouse effect. He speculated that water vapour and carbon dioxide might trap infrared radiation in the atmosphere, warming the earth enough to support plant and animal life.
Alain Bauer (faculty). French criminologist, professor of criminology since 2009. He is also a senior research fellow at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (New York) and the China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing), and Associate Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai, PRC).
Pierre Athanase Larousse (alumnus) was a French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist. He published many of the outstanding educational and reference works of 19th-century France, including the 15 volume Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle.
Pierre-Louis Lions (faculty). Lions is a French mathematician. He is known for a number of contributions to the fields of partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. He was a recipient of the 1994 Fields Medal and guest lecturer at CNAM.
Thibault Damour (faculty). Professor of theoretical physics at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) since 1989 and at CNAM. e contributed greatly to the understanding of gravitational waves from compact binary systems. He invented the "effective one-body" approach to solving the orbital trajectories of binary black holes. He is also a specialist in string theory. In 2021 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for Gravitation: physical and astrophysical aspects (shared with Alessandra Buonanno).
Serge Haroche (faculty) is a French physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems", a study of the particle of light, the photon. He was guest lecturer at CNAM.
Marc Fumaroli (faculty) was a member of the Académie française of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Guest lecturer at CNAM, was a French historian and essayist who was widely respected as an advocate for French literature and culture.
Gilles Gaston Granger (faculty). Professor at CNAM, epistemologist of the School of Analytic philosophy. His works discuss the philosophy of logic, mathematics, human and social sciences, Aristotle, Jean Cavaillès (French Philosopher and mathematician), and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Stéphane Le Foll (alumnus). French politician serving as Mayor of Le Mans since 2018. A member of the Socialist Party, he was Minister of Agriculture under President François Hollande from 2012 to 2017.
Michel Cantal-Dupart (faculty). Architect and urbanist, he held the research chair for urban planning from 1998 until 2010. He was professor emeritus until 2014 and became honorary professor since then. He contributed with Jean-Marie Duthilleul et Jean Nouvel to the reflection on the Grand Paris in 2010, in a report he submitted to President François Hollande in 2013.
Baron Charles Dupin (faculty). French mathematician, engineer, economist and politician, particularly known for work in the field of mathematics, where the Dupin cyclide and Dupin indicatrix are named after him; and for his work in the field of statistical and thematic mapping. In 1826 he created the earliest known choropleth map. He was one of the founding members of the first three research chairs of CNAM.
Ferdinand Arnodin (alumnus). French engineer and industrialist, specialising in cableway transporters, he is regarded as the inventor of the transporter bridge, having been the first to patent the idea in 1887.
Gaston Tissandier (alumnus). French chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor. Adventurer, he managed to escape besieged Paris by balloon in September 1870. Founder and editor of the scientific magazine La Nature.
Eric Girardin (alumnus). French politician of La République En Marche! who has been serving as a member of the French National Assembly since the 2017 elections, representing the department of Marne.
Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba (alumnus). Burkinabé military officer who heads the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration, having overthrown President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré on 24 January 2022 in the 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état. He graduated with a Master's in criminology and followed classes of criminologist Alain Bauer. He views himself as an anti-Jihadi terrorism strategist and published the book:"Armées ouest-africaines et terrorisme : réponses incertaines ?".
Louis de Broglie (1892 – 1987) Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics.
Louis Néel (1904– 2000) Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics.
René Thom (1923 – 2002) Fields medallist.

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