page_title: École nationale de chimie physique et biologie de Paris
section_title: History and courses
hierarchical_section_title: École nationale de chimie physique et biologie de Paris / History and courses
caption_attribution_description: English: Distant view, from rue Claude-Bernard, of the École nationale de physique, chimie et biologie de Paris (ENCPB)
context_page_description: The École nationale de chimie physique et biologie de Paris, renamed in 2009 "lycée Pierre-Gilles-de-Gennes - ENCPB" after physician Pierre-Gilles de Gennes died in 2007, is a public secondary and higher school specialising in technical and scientific subjects and preparatory classes to the grandes écoles. It is located at 11 rue Pirandello in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.
context_section_description: With a desire to create a public institution for the training of lab technicians at baccalauréat level and higher technicians following the growth in sciences in the post-war period, the stated created the ENCPB in 1953. The school took its first 50 students in 1955 at a site on rue Corvisart in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The first move for the school was to rue du Banquier in 1958. From 1961 to 1971, the ENCPB joined with a number of technician training institutions, including the Institut d'Arsonval (8, rue Rollin in Paris 5th), the research centre for l'Oréal (Avenue Gabriel Péri at La Courneuve) and a school in Dijon.
  With the construction from 1970 to 1973 of a new location on rue Pirandello on the former site of the Delahaye automobiles factory (1898–1954), the ENCPB diversified its courses with the creation of classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles in the sections of MP, PC, BCPST and TB.
caption: Distant view of the main building from rue Claude-Bernard.
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