Cécile DeWitt-Morette

Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette (21 December 1922 – 8 May 2017) was a French mathematician and physicist. She founded a summer school at Les Houches in the French Alps. 

For her publications, she was awarded the American Society of the French Legion of Honour 2007 Medal for Distinguished Achievement.Cécile DeWitt-Morette profile, seniorwomen.com; accessed 18 June 2015. Attendees at the summer school included over twenty students who would go on to be Nobel Prize winners, including Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who identify the school for helping in their success.

In 1951, she married American physicist Bryce DeWitt. He died in 2004. They had four children.

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Other websites
 Interview: Cécile DeWitt-Morette, seniorwomen.com; accessed 14 July 2015.

Category:1922 births
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Category:French mathematicians
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Category:Academics of Paris universities
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