--- title: "National Center for Scientific Research: AI company profile, people and coverage" description: "The French National Centre for Scientific Research is the French state research organisation and is the largest public research body in Europe and the second largest research organisation in the world." canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-national-center-for-scientific-research type: Organization wikidata: Q280413 wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_National_Centre_for_Scientific_Research website: https://www.cnrs.fr/ source: AI News Monitor publisher: Paciva license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0) --- # National Center for Scientific Research > The French National Centre for Scientific Research is the French state research organisation and is the largest public research body in Europe and the second largest research organisation in the world. Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-national-center-for-scientific-research ## Facts - Category: Research lab - Country: France - Founded: 1939-10-19 - Headquarters: Paris - Status: private - Website: https://www.cnrs.fr/ - Employees: 31,970 (as of 2019-01-01) - Also known as: CNRS, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, French National Centre for Scientific Research, National Center for Scientific Research, France, Scientific Research National Center - Industries: research, research and development in other physical and natural sciences ## Accounts - x: https://x.com/CNRS - linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cnrs - youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRHBpvcASQs852H0t4mt1zA - facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnrs.fr - instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cnrs ## Key people - Francis Perrin, founder (French physicist (1901–1992)) - Thierry Dauxois, chair, since 2026-06-10 - Gilles Deleuze (French philosopher (1925–1995)) - Roland Barthes (French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)) - Benoit Mandelbrot (Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)) - Georges Charpak (French physicist (1924-2010)) - Luc Montagnier (French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)) - Louis Néel (French physicist (1904-2000)) - Alain Aspect (French physicist) - Alexander Grothendieck (French mathematician (1928–2014)) - Jean-Pierre Sauvage (French nanotechnologist) - Derek Barton (English organic chemist (1918–1998)) - Thomas Piketty (French economist (born 1971)) - Jacques Le Goff (French historian (1924-2014)) ## Ownership Subsidiaries: SOLEIL, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules, Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales, centre André-Chastel, Centre d'études alexandrines, Centre for Breton and Celtic Research, CRIL, CEVIPOF, Centre pour l'édition électronique ouverte, Centre pour la communication scientifique directe, Fluids, Automatic and Thermal Systems (FAST) Laboratory, Marcel Mauss Institute, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Centre de nanosciences et de nanotechnologies, Paris Brain Institute, Institut de chimie, INSU, European Institute for Marine Studies, Triangle. 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Political and Economic Thought, Computer Science Department, LIRIS, LMT-CACHAN, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, CEA Paris-Saclay, Laboratory of Plasma Physics, Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes, Institute of Analytical Sciences, CNRS Ecology and Environment, Institute of Biological Sciences, [Institute of Engineering and Systems Science](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-institute-of-engineering-and-systems-science.md), [Institute of Information Sciences and their Interactions](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-institute-of-information-sciences-and-their-interactions.md), Institute of Human and Social Sciences, National Institute of Mathematical Sciences and their Interactions, Institute of Physics, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Observatory, Direction Générale Déléguée aux Ressources, Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé, Rétrovirus Endogènes et Eléments Rétroides des Eucaryotes Supérieurs, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme, Laboratoire de Chimie, Lasers, Interactions and Dynamics Laboratory, Laboratory of Systems & Applications of Information & Energy Technologies, Centre de Compétences NanoSciences Ile-de-France, Cancer Research Center of Toulouse, Direction Générale Déléguée à la Science, Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire, Centre de Recherches Critiques sur le Droit, Centre Max Weber, Diplomatique, Fédération Informatique de Lyon, Institut de Linguistique Française, Institut de Recherche sur l'Architecture Antique, Maison des sciences de l'homme Lyon St-Etienne, Institut d'Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités, Institut supérieur d'étude des religions et de la laïcité, Laboratoire Aménagement Economie Transports, Sciences et Technologies des Cultures et Sociétés Numériques, TULDM, Institut Clément Ader, Délégation Bretagne et Pays de la Loire, Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Economie et de la Société, Institut Lavoisier de Versailles, Laboratoire analyse et modélisation pour la biologie et l'environnement, Fédération et Ressources sur l'Antiquité, Laboratoire Takuvik, House of Simulation, UMS IOGS-CNRS, Laboratoire de mathématiques et modélisation d'Evry, Institut photonique d'analyse non-destructive européen des matériaux anciens, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay, Chemistry and modeling for cancer biology, Metabolic and systemic aspects of oncogenesis for new therapeutic approaches, UMR TREE, Institut Français de Bioinformatique, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, Centre Borelli, Multimodal imaging center, Ingénierie et plateformes au service de l'innovation thérapeutique, Laboratoire Alexander Grothendieck, Laboratoire d'imagerie biomédicale multimodale Paris-Saclay, MSH Paris-Saclay, Indo-French Research Lab in Computer Science, Centre méditerranéen de sociologie, de science politique et d’histoire ## Coverage on the Monitor Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on National Center for Scientific Research, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-national-center-for-scientific-research#connections ## Sources - Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q280413, read 2026-11-11 - Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_National_Centre_for_Scientific_Research Part of [AI Companies](https://monitor.paciva.ai/companies.md), the Monitor's directory of every AI company on file.