Cécile DeWitt-Morette Scientist

Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette (born December 21, 1922) is a French mathematician and physicist. She founded a summer school at Les Houches in the French Alps. For this and her publications, she was awarded the American Society of the French Legion of Honor 2007 Medal for Distinguished Achievement. 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 assisting in their success.

Personal facts

Cécile DeWitt-Morette
Birth dateDecember 21, 1922
Birth place
Paris , France
Residence
United States
Spouse
Known for
École de physique des Houches

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Scientist

awards
Marcel Grossmann Award
Field of study
Functional integration
Theoretical physics

Cécile DeWitt-Morette on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.seniorwomen.com/articles/articlesIntCecile.html