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Paris Diderot University

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Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (French: Université Paris Diderot), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Diderot merged with Paris Descartes University in 2019 to form the University of Paris, which was later renamed Paris Cité University.

48°49′47″N 2°22′51″E
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University of Paris 7
Université Paris 7
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TypePublic
Active1970; 53 years ago (1970)–2019; 4 years ago (2019)
ChancellorMaurice Quénet
Chancellor of the Universities of Paris
PresidentChristine Clerici
Students26,000
Location,
France

48°49′47″N 2°22′51″E
Websiteuniv-paris-diderot.fr
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With two Nobel Prize laureates, two Fields Medal winners and two former French Ministers of Education among its faculty or former faculty, the university was famous for its teaching in science, especially in mathematics.[1] Many fundamental results of the theory of probability were discovered at one of its research centres, the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires (Laboratory of Probability and Random Models).[2]