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