The École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris (also known as École des Mines de Paris, ENSMP, les Mines, Mines Paris) is one of the The French Republic or France ( French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. France is a democracy organised as a... French generalist and most prominent engineering The grandes écoles (French for great schools) of France are higher education establishments outside of the mainstream framework of the public universities. They are generally focused on a single more or less broad topic, have a moderate size, and often are quite selective on the selection of their students. They... Grandes Ecoles.

Despite its small size (120 students in a year), it is very famous in French industry.

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Its former vocation to train mining engineers evolved in the course of time, because of technological progress and transformations of society. ENSMP has become nowadays a "generalist" school, with a broad variety of disciplines. Its students are for the most part supposed to have management position in industrial companies and receive a good training not only in technical fields but also in economics and social sciences. (e.g. a Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. It concerns itself with the social rules and processes that bind and separate people not only as individuals, but as members of associations, groups, and institutions. Sociology is interested in our behavior as social beings; thus the... sociology course by Bruno Latour (born 1947, Beaune, France) is a French sociologist of science best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, describing the process of scientific research from the perspective of social construction based on field observations of working scientists. As a student... Bruno Latour)

It is an application school of The cadets of Polytechnique rushed to the defense of Paris against the foreign armies in 1814. A statue set in the honor courtyard of the school commemorates this deed. The École polytechnique (the Polytechnic School), often nicknamed X, is the foremost of the French Grandes écoles of engineering... École Polytechnique, and provides education for the The Corps of Mines is the foremost of the great technical corps of the French state. It is formed of the State Engineers of the Mines. The Corps is attached to the French ministry in charge of industry. People entering the Corps are educated at the École nationale supérieure... Corps of Mines.

Two of its alumni have got a The Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell) are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. It is generally regarded as the supreme commendation in the world today. The prizes were instituted by the final will... Nobel Prize :

• Maurice Allais (born May 31, 1911) was the 1988 winner of The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources. He was born in Paris, France. Also first noted the Allais effect... Maurice Allais, The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (Swe. Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), often colloquially called The Nobel Prize in Economics or The Nobel Prize for Economics, is different from the rest of prizes awarded at the Nobel Prize ceremony in that it is... Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
• Georges Charpak (born August 1, 1924) is a noted physicist. Born in Dubrovytsia, Volyn (Ukraine), he was active in France. Charpaks family moved from Ukraine to Paris when he was seven years old. During World War II Charpak served in the resistance and was imprisoned by Vichy authorities in... Georges Charpak, List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. See also List of Nobel laureates 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s External links Nobel Foundation - Official site (source for all... Nobel Prize in physics

Other écoles des Mines include:

• École nationale supérieure des Mines de Nancy;
• École nationale supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne.

External link

• Site of the École nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris (http://www.ensmp.fr)