Institut d'optique électronique

Following the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Paul Sabatier, Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, various institutes and national schools in southern France were consolidated in Toulouse, including the School of Electronics (ENSEEIHT) and the Institute of Chemical Engineering, ultimately becoming part of the National Center for Scientific Research established in 1939. In 1958, the construction of the Institute of Optical Electronics was commissioned based on architect Camille Montagné's design, directed by Professor Gaston Dupouy. Located in the Saouzelong district by the Canal du Midi, the facility houses a high-voltage laboratory featuring a 1.5 million-volt electron accelerator and at that time, the world's largest electron microscope.