Pierre and Marie Curie University

Pierre and Marie Curie University (French: Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie; abbreviated UPMC), also familiar as University of Paris VI, is a public research university and was established in 1971 following the division of the University of Paris (Sorbonne), and is a principal heir to school of Sciences of the Sorbonne (French: Faculté Delawares sciences de Paris), although it will trace its roots back to 1109 and the Abbey of St Victor.The university is located on the plant scientist field within the neck of the woods of the fifth arrondissement of Paris, France. The French cultural revolution of 1968, commonly familiar as "the French May", resulted in the division of the world's second oldest academic establishment, the University of Paris, into thirteen autonomous universities.

UPMC is the largest scientific and medical complex in France, active in many fields of analysis with scope and achievements at the highest level, as demonstrated by the several awards frequently won by UPMC researchers, and the many international partnerships it maintains across all 5 continents. Several university rankings have frequently place UPMC at the first place in France, and it has been ranked jointly of the highest universities within the world. The ARWU (2014) has ranked UPMC as the first in France, 6th in Europe and thirty fifth in the world and conjointly fourth in field of arithmetic, 25th in field of physics, 14th in field of natural sciences and thirty second in field of engineering, technology and computer science.
It has quite 125 laboratories, most of them in association with the Centre national de la elegant scientifique (CNRS). Some of its most notable institutes and laboratories include the Institut Henri Poincaré, Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris half dozen (LIP6), Institut Delaware mathématiques de plant scientist (shared with University Paris-Diderot) and the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel (shared with École Normale Supérieure).

The University's Faculty of medication capital of South Dakota and Marya Sklodowska is found within the teaching hospitals Pitié-Salpêtrière and Saint-Antoine (the latter itself being the successor to Saint-Antoine-des-Champs Abbey).
UPMC delivers a diploma in physics in English, since September 2013 for Université Paris-Sorbonne Abou Dhabi.
The historic University of Paris (French: Université de Paris) 1st appeared in the half of the twelfth century, but was re organised in 1970 as thirteen autonomous universities when the student protests of the French might.
Following months of conflict between students and authorities at the University of Paris at Nanterre, the administration shut down that university on 2 might 1968.
Students of the Sorbonne protested the closure and the vulnerable expulsion of many students at Nanterre on three might 1968. More than twenty,000 students, teachers and supporters marched towards the University of Paris, still sealed off by the police, who charged, wielding their batons, as soon as the marchers approached. While the crowd spread, some began to create barricades out of no matter was at hand, while others threw paving stones, forcing the police to retreat for a time. The police then responded with tear gas and charged the crowd again