2009

GIANT is set up as part of Grenoble Innovation University, one of the 21st century campuses founded under the French government’s economic stimulus plan.

GIANT is set up as part of Grenoble Innovation University, one of the 21st century campuses founded under the French government’s economic stimulus plan.

1962

CNRS breaks ground in Grenoble on several new physics labs, the Ultra-low Temperature Group (CRTBT), and the Metal Physics and Electrostatics Research Centre (LEPM). The Subatomic Physics and Cosmology Laboratory […]

CNRS breaks ground in Grenoble on several new physics labs, the Ultra-low Temperature Group (CRTBT), and the Metal Physics and Electrostatics Research Centre (LEPM).
The Subatomic Physics and Cosmology Laboratory (LPSC, then called the ISN), run jointly by CNRS, Université Joseph Fourier (today Grenoble University), and Grenoble Institute of Technology, opens in Grenoble.

1967

France and Germany join forces to found the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), which is today the world’s leading research institute for neutron science and technology. Grenoble’s scientific research community is now […]

France and Germany join forces to found the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), which is today the world’s leading research institute for neutron science and technology. Grenoble’s scientific research community is now international in scope.

1970

Louis Néel, Director of the LEPM, wins the Nobel Prize in Physics. During his acceptance speech he states: Only the properties of the oldest-known magnetic substancemagnetiteremain unknown. I was lucky […]

Louis Néel, Director of the LEPM, wins the Nobel Prize in Physics. During his acceptance speech he states: Only the properties of the oldest-known magnetic substancemagnetiteremain unknown. I was lucky enough to unlock the mystery of a stone that has puzzled scientists for four thousand years […]