SOLEIL
SOLEIL is a synchrotron facility near Paris, France. It performed its first acceleration of electrons on May 14, 2006. The name SOLEIL is a backronym for Source Optimisée de Lumière d’Énergie Intermédiaire du LURE, LURE meaning Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Électromagnétique.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Industrial building
- Description: synchrotron research facility in Saint-Aubin, France
- Address: Départementale 128, Saint-Aubin, 91190
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gif-sur-Yvette station and War memorial of Saint-Aubin.
Gif-sur-Yvette station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Gif-sur-Yvette station is an RER B station in Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris, France. It is one of two stations in Gif-sur-Yvette, the other is Courcelle-sur-Yvette. Gif-sur-Yvette station is situated 1¼ km southwest of SOLEIL.
War memorial of Saint-Aubin
Memorial
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
War memorial of Saint-Aubin is situated 500 metres north of SOLEIL.
Château de Button
Castle
Photo: Lionel Allorge, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Château de Button is a castle, which is situated 1 km southwest of SOLEIL.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gif-sur-Yvette and Bures-sur-Yvette.
Gif-sur-Yvette
Town
Photo: Cyrilb1881, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gif-sur-Yvette is a commune in southwestern Île-de-France, France. It is located in the Vallée de Chevreuse, 22.9 km from the centre of Paris, in the Essonne department on the departmental border with Yvelines.
Bures-sur-Yvette
Village
Photo: Véronique PAGNIER, Public domain.
Bures-sur-Yvette is a commune in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. It is a southern Parisian outer suburb in the Vallée de Chevreuse.
Paris-Saclay
Suburb
Photo: Cinerama14, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Paris-Saclay is a research-intensive and business cluster currently under construction in the south of Paris, France. It encompasses research facilities, two French major universities with higher education institutions and also research centers of private companies.
SOLEIL
- Categories: research unit, synchrotron, building, and industry
- Location: Saint-Aubin, Arrondissement of Palaiseau, Essonne, Île-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.70921° or 48° 42′ 33″ northLongitude
2.145° or 2° 8′ 42″ eastLevels
2Height
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
8FW4P45V+MXOpenStreetMap ID
way 68436461OpenStreetMap feature
building=industrialWikidata ID
Q112513
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“SOLEIL” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “法国SOLEIL同步辐射加速器”
- Dutch: “SOLEIL”
- French: “SOLEIL”
- French: “Synchrotron Soleil”
- French: “Unité de Recherche Soleil”
- German: “Synchrotron SOLEIL”
- Italian: “SOLEIL”
- Japanese: “SOLEIL”
- Japanese: “ソレイユ”
- Russian: “SOLEIL”
- Spanish: “SOLEIL”
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