Nancy
:This article is about the city in France. There is also Nancy, Kentucky and Nancy (comic strip). Nancy is also a proper name of many people and places, Nancy (disambiguation).
Miscellaneous
The N ray, which turned out to be a figment of local physicist René-Prosper Blondlot's imagination, was named for Nancy.
Related Topics:
N ray - René-Prosper Blondlot's
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Nancy's archaic German name is Nanzig, although that name can still be found in the Luxembourgish adaptation Nantzeg.
Related Topics:
Archaic - German - Luxembourgish
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Colleges and Universities
- Université Henri Poincaré (Nancy 1) http://www.uhp-nancy.fr
- Université de Nancy 2 http://www.univ-nancy2.fr
- Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine
- École des Beaux-Arts de Nancy
- École nationale supérieure des Mines de Nancy
- École Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies de l'Ingénieur de Nancy ou ESSTIN
- École Supérieure d'Informatique et Applications de Lorraine ou ESIAL
- Institut commercial de Nancy (ICN Nancy)
Births
Nancy was the birthplace of:
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- Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1565-1637)
- Jacques Callot (c.1592-1635), baroque graphics artist, draftsman and printmaker
- Louis Maimbourg (1610-1686), Jesuit and historian
- Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708-1765), duke of Lorraine and later Holy Roman Emperor
- Jean François de Saint-Lambert (1716-1803), poet
- Antoine Drouot (1774-1847), one of Napoleon's generals
- Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896), author, critic, publisher, founder of the Académie Goncourt
- Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville (1827-1910), historian and philologist
- Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Art Nouveau artist
- René-Prosper Blondlot (1849-1930), physicist, best remembered for his mistaken identification of N rays
- Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), mathematician, theoretical scientist and philosopher of science
- Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (1854-1934), marshal of France
- Henri Cartan (b. 1904), mathematician
- Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995), noted as the inventor of musique concrète
- François Jacob (b. 1920), biologist
- Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955), composer
Twins towns
- Newcastle upon Tyne (England), since 1954
- Liège (Belgium), since 1954
- Karlsruhe (Germany), since 1955
- Padua (Italy), since 1964
- Kanazawa (Japan), since 1973
- Qiryat Shemona (Israel), since 1984
- Lublin (Poland), since 1988
- Cincinnati, Ohio (United States), since 1991
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| ► | Miscellaneous |
| ► | See also |
| ► | External links |
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